The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-29

he seems to be striving to create that I
impression 1t Is a blGnder which may /
very well prove serious. The men will !
not vote for a candidate whose wife !
made hisn. And the women do SO !
with reluctance.
It is one element of strength in
Governor Cox's candidacy that, such as
it is, he is his own achievement
Nobody can say his wife made him.
AS we understand his attitude
by the Prohibition party, Mr.. Bryan is
not particularly averse to the ride in
the hearse. Mr.. Bryan has been the
headliner~ of more political funerals
than any other American citizen and
he has become cailous to the expert
ence. The thing to which Mr. Bryan
objects is that of being buried in-an
Fobscure cemetery.
Another custom observed by the
Prohibitionists would have been very
distasteful to Mr.. Bryan. The Prohi-
bition party always sits up with it's
dead.
( Those who fancy we have relaxed
our efforts to induce the Litry Digest
to release the joke hold the Quality Of
our persistence too cheaply. We ere
merely gathering impetus for a fresh
onslaught. We claim the witticism
which stopped the show at Keith's
Esghty-first Street theater, New York
City. should be public property. We
shall not rest until it is
I The people, we go on to say, the
| people have their rights. And they
haven't had good laugh since Wood
row Wilson kept us out of war.
An editorial coadjutor express the
thought that Mr.. Harding skittered on
the league. 1t is not ours to offer
opinion. We are but a modest toe
! dancer, and were engaged as such. But
we can conceive of no reason why a
candidate for office should bind him
self hand and foot with a thong cut
from piece of dead leather.
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If Mr.. Hardfng's approach was
short, he played good politics and dis
played good sense. There are, roughly
speaking, one hundred and fifteen mil
lions of people. in this country, of
whom one hundred and five millions
don't know what the league is and
don't care.
Haven't we. read the speech? We
have not. Why should we read a
speech when there are, within easy
fcalh. fifteen or twenty able gentlemen
who are willing and anxious to do 1t
for us?-
It is. we fancy, high time to stress
the personal note. Two invitations te
play golf yesterday were declined on
4 The sense that we were guilty of du-
plicity and deception weighs upon us
and induces frank confession. We
should have no reluctance IN barring
fhe past or REVEALING to those unfamil-
lar with 1t the devious adventures of a
misspent life. We might even enjoy
the relation. But no stranger to it is
going to see our golf game unless he
sneaks up on 1t.
i've should not object to discussing
! with any chance acquaintance the in
. innate details of the fourteen months
we spent in Jail. But we wouldn't at
, tempt a full mashie shot in the pres
ence of a gallery for a million dollars
A few win distinction thru undergo
: ing surgical operation, but Pau
: Sleide, late of Sing Sing prison, had
;. to have sleeping sickness to achieve it
Our own attitude toward the mattel
is that if Sir Thomas Upton is Willing
to consider a yacht race sufficien
] compensation for a life spent in al
; effort to induce people to drink tea
awarded to him without furthel
bother
4 AS we have hitherto indicated, W.
f approach the matter without heat
The Shamrock Nv didn't cost us any
thing.
= Mr.. Harding wants a small army
r but the best in the world. Is this, vi
r wish to ask, tacit admission there eve
WAS a time when the American arm!
wasn't the best in the world? fit is
Mr.. Harding's frankness terrifies us
!. AS we understand the duty Of al
:, American citizen, it is that he shall
l. steadfastly claim superiority for hi
s country. no matter what the facts il
;. the case may be. And we know tina
. has been the custom.
Meanwhile we offer another sug
. gestion to the Republican press Blu
reau. Let It start the story that tn
Goxess keep a butler. The America
people are willing that their heroe
shall live in comfort A candidate 70
an important office may even keep
Chauffeur and appear occasionally II
evening clothes. But they simply will
not stand for a butler.
= az course. II the desire were to in
furiate the people. a story to the eff
IS feet that Governor Cox is served by
valet would stir the nation NOR
e quickly and to a higher pitch. Blu
II that would be a dirty trick and on
NOT in accord with the best ethics o
II politics.
j George Mdtthelo Adams
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