The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-04-01
:. E. FRIZELL FOR SENATOR
Announces His Candidacy for 3sth
Senatorial District.

Senatorial District.
E. E. Frizell of Larned has defin-
itely decided to become a candidate
for the Republican nomination as
senator from the 38th senatorial dis
trict of Kansas. This decision was
arrived at the past week, after a
careful survey of the situation and a
consideration of the needs of this
district.
Mr. Frizell as an active member of
the last legislature, and as farm labor
agent for Kansas, has had great OPP
portunity to understand the needs of
thewest ern third of the state in a
Legislative way. He found one-thrd
of tn estate being represented in the
senate by two senators, the western
half of the state being represented
by eight senators, while the eastern
half had thirty-two. To be sure,
eastern Kansas has the larger popu-
lation, but not in any such proper
ton as that.
Our own senatorial district, the
18th, has eighteen counties, with a
total taxable valuation of $188,678,-
1873 and population of 1850.
There are sixteen senatorial districts
in eastern Kansas having from 49,
900 to 35,700 population, and taxa
BILE valuation of from $33,000,000 to
$3.50, 100000. By any fair apportion-
ment either of population or wealth,
the people of the present 3Sth dis
trict are entitled to at least two
senators. The same thing is true of
the 39th district, just north of US,
which has thirteen counties with a
population of 1924 and taxable
valuation of $167,413, 1926.
Naturally, the eastern half of the
state being represented by thirty
two senators and the western half by
only eight, the eastern part of the
state has things pretty much its own
way, and of course uses its power to
the disadvantage of the western half
of the state.
In the lower house of the legisla-
ture, where each county has its rep
resentative, the western counties
can take care of their own interests
to better advantage, and the past
winter they were we'll organized and
were able to get about what they
wanted thru the house, but when the
legislation was sent up to the senate
they got lietle consideration.
The McIvOr senatorial district re-
appointment bill, which was strongly
supported by Mr.. Frizell and western
representatives, giving the western
half of the state three more sem
atOrs, passed the house without diff
ficulty, but got nowhere in the SEN
ate. This reappointment bill would
make two senatorial districts each of
the present 38th and seth districts.
With the present friendly, COM
munity-of-interest spirit among the
representatives in the house from
western Kansas, the interests of this
section are being we'll looked after
in the lower house. The good work
of the representatives in the house,
however, accomplishes nothing when
it is turned down by the senate.
Mr.. Frizell feels that the big OPP
portunity to serve western Kansas at
this time is in the senate, and for
this reason, after careful considera-
ton and consultation with men over
the district, he has decided to be a
candidate for senator, tho his NOM
nation for representative from
Pawnee county without opposition
and his election to the lower house,
were he to again be candidate, are
practically assured.
Mr.. Frizell is peculiarly fitted to
represent the large 38th district. He
has lived here for over forty yaers
and has known western Kansas from
its first settlement. He has seen the
country develop from the wilderness,
and has had an active part in that
development.
He is one of the pioneers in irriga-
ton in this section of the state, being
in on the ground floor when windmill
irrigation first started here twenty
five years ago, and he has been at it
ever since, now operating one of the
most successful irrigation plants at
his Fort Larned Ranch, which is one