The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-17
AY COMES BACK
ecOnd Thought Editor Takes
Slant at State Politics.
lie Sees Allen With a Lily
Looking Up at "Star."
n UNTOLD STORY ON HOPKINS
nys Attorney General Went To
Gas Meet For Publicity.
'Ormer Mayor Also Gives "In-
side" on Jim Wilson's End.

mere you written me and asked What
id 1 think of the Kansas political
tuation before 1 left Topeka, but
was so busy the last two or three
avs I did not get no time to. write
nything Tor my own paper to say
othing of yours. But 1 reckon you
ant the low down on this thing and
hat l think of the Kansas political
tuation is that 1t rs "hogwash." You
Ike a state that goes out and passes
law that makes it a crime to sell
garette and anything that happens IS
RELY to be "hogwash," because If a
ate gets in the habit of pedding that
.uff 1t is pretty sure to keep II up.
hey are not no other place on the
lobe where the cigarette question is
OF as dead as old Rameses and Kan
IS has the only attorney general IN
ie world who would arrest a man for
Hing one. so what can you expect.
zone thing l think about the polltlcal
tuation in Kansas is by the time this
,ssion of the Legislature is over the
ay See Star will just about of fin
he'd running Henry By the time the
ar gets thru calling everybody in
ansas who don't agree with it a pol
Don and a standpatter and friend OF
ie interests Henry won't have a
lend left in the world except Clyde
eed. and you know what that means,
Id he will be as dead as Vic Muir
'ery time anybody thinks of Henry
ley think of Fred Trigg. And every
me they think of Fred Trigg they
ink OF the Star and nobody. 1 don't
re how smart he is or how good a
How he is, can stand up under that
ad. The Star pretty near ruined
enry last summer when it drug him
TO that fight against Dave in Chi
go and got him licked to a FRAGILE
sht at time when he didn't have
~ business Of being in fight with
jbody. / have seen a lot of political
Faegy in my time but the guy who
AIMED up that fight for Henry and
1t him into it couldn't pound sand in
rat hole for me.
Look for "Star'' Catch Now.
They was a time Dutch IN me and
III both remember it, when everybody
abbed a pitchfork and rushed out
save the boy every time the Star
)llered wolff You couldn't hold
N. But they don't grab a pitchfork
id run to the rescue when the Star
pliers wolff" now. All they do is
ticker and look around to see where
catch" is. YO open up any polit-
al grave that has been dug in Kan
in last ten years and you will find
Re of the Stars pets looking straight
} at the stars with the mark of the
ar's kisses on his forehead, and a I
Y in his hand. And if you can find
e spade they dug the grave with
tu'H see Bill Whites finger prints on
So l can't see anything for Henry
It long procession and slow music,
usually takes about three years for
Star to kill a statesman and
enry's time is up.
They may be a few bills passed, but
lining Henry is about all that will be |
ne this Legislature. They may
axe a monkey of Dick Hopkins, but |
ey are not nothing new about that |
cause Dick has been made a monkey /
i of before. That makes me think i
a story on Dick that has not never Il
en- told. When I was mayor some
dy that was looking for the adver-
ing used to call a gas meeting in i
lnsas City or some place every few /
teks. There was not nothing any
dy could do about the gas and the
flows who called the meetings
lowed it. When they first begin to /
II the meetings I didn't pay no at !
ntion to them. But after while the /
lockers got to saying l wasn't doing |
thing to protect the interests of the /
y and 1 said to myself, "All right, |
you insist on me wasting the city /
oney running around everywhere |
fool meetings and listening to the |
ndjamming OF a lot of has bens
never wassers' III do it. They
not no sense in it, but it is your
oney not mine, and l have not got
conjunction about spending the
oney of people who have not go no |
pre- sense than you are showing"
1 went to all the meetings after
at and when I would come home
NIisstIs she'd say. "Wel. what
Imam was you with this timer"
Hopkins Method Advertising.
Well, one day just before the pri-
aries in 1918 l was getting ready to
to a gas meeting in Kansas City
d Dick came into the office and said
lere was L going and said was
ing to the gas meeting and he said,
believe I'll go down, too" And
said, .'Watinhel would you be going
a gas meeting for?" And he said,
leeing I'm a candidate it would be
cd advertising" Well, heard
zen 1 was out there that Dick was a
ndidate again and I look for him to
inter-. Dick, don't sell many goods,
t they can't nobody beat him ad-
rtising.
One thing that surprised me when
Is out there was to find the Capital
rring around among the standpat-
rs. They does not seem to be any
Ing too nice for the Capital to say
out the standpatters now. Butter
1uld not hardly melt in its mouth
ien it talks about one 1t is Dave
is and "All that" and Bun the
hcr thing" But I can remember
time when the only way a stand
tier could get his name i'm the Capt.
was in connection with some crime
had committed or was about to
mmit. If a fellow was a standpat-
that settled it with the Capial that
was trying TO do the people
1t the Capial has been easing up
nsiderably in the last year or two,
ID guess I was about the last stand
tier it ever skinned, although it
ant begin hugging them till the last
" months. The way it come to skin
was when I fired Jim Wilson