The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-06

Champ Clark's opinion of Bryan is
OF passing interest. 1T was on the
fourteenth ballot, writes the gentle
man from Bowling Green, in his me-
nioirs. that William Jennings Bryan
violated his instructions. and by base
and false insinuations--to use no
uglier word-rebbedN me of the pomi-
nation to which 1 was entitled by all
the rules of decency, justice. honesty.
common sense and fair dealing"
However comma our curiosity in the
premises concerns itself with Mrs.
Commoner. Hell hath no fury like
unto a woman whose husband has
been scorned. A man expresses the
emotion of hate by beading a sequence
OF glittering adJectives upon the string
of his contempt. woman shoots
barbed arrow encircled by a ring of
fire.
A woman reader has taken excep-
ton to our best loved qlip-the one to
the effect that every man is u Nor
mon, either in fact or at heart, but.
so far. no man has filed an objection
| to that broad and general classified
| ton. The average man is as harmless
as sheep, but he loves and cherishes
1.-THE thought that he is a devil with
! the ladies.
| Having run a couple OF classical Sc
1ections thru the phonograph, We now
turn to the popular stuff.
! 1t IS the unimportant that intrigues
US. We note, in the connection, that
| the man and woman who responded to
! the insistent demand that somebody
walk from>A+ew York to San Francisco
have arrived at their destination.
We have no wish to dash the Leon
ard Wood presidential boom with
physiological cold water, but We are
less optimistic than his managers. We
doubt that Elsie Ferguson's indorse-
ment of the general cinches the nomi-
nation. Helen Kellar Endorsed Colonel
Roosevelt in the campaign of 1912.
but the best the colonel could do was
| finish second.
II We were deeply interested in the
! Leonard Wood boom. our first effort
would be. to save the gallant general
/ from his press agents. 1t may already
be too late to keep the ship off the
rocks. but the people could, at least,
be relieved of the necessity of buying
wadng boots.
| Mention of Miss Ferguson naturally
brings the name of her fcoadjutor.
/ Miss Pickford, to mind. We perused
the detail of Miss Pickford'S quest for
! freedom with keen interest. 1t was
! full and authentic report. But no at
tempt was made to explain the meth
cd by which Miss Pickford obtained
| a decree of divorce after residence
of thirty-six hours in the state in
which. it was issued.
! while the column deplores a certain
laxity apparent in the enforcement
/ of "sagebrush" divorce laws. it does
not wish to be placed in the position
of indorsing the rigorous code written
+. in the Pennsylvania statutes. In Penn
sylvania, as we understand it, one
cannot be remarked for a period OF
seventy-six hours after his divorce has
been granted.
! 1t may be that our information on
that point is faulty. we hope it is
We have nothing but encomiums for
law. but we doubt that it should be
made too drastic.
The more or less esteemed New
York American says South Dako' as
presidential preference primary VII be
instructive. Which. in a manner of
likely will disclose the fact that about
one voter in ten takes enough interest
in presidential primary 10 express
himself.
The primary system of making nom
Iinations, once regarded as the most
potent of the panaceas has disclosed
number of things. OF these, the most
important, perhaps, is that the candi-
date with the most money is very
likely to be nominated.
Not that one need to consider that
q drawback. In this country the OBJ
ject'is to get the money into circula-
ton.
The story of the Toledo husband
who says his wife walked him up in
order to quarrel with him lacks plausi-
bility. The type of woman who would
wake a husband to quarrel with him
never permits him to go to sleep.
Tank Beverly's idea of nothing to
see is one of these bird's-eye views.