Evening star., 1926-10-20

present stands six Republicans and
two Democrats. It is probable that
the delegation in the new Congress
will be seven Republicans and one
Democrat, and there is an excellent
chance that the entire delegation will
| be Republican. The Republican gov
ernor, Ben S. Paulen, will be reelected
over his Democratic opponent, former
Gov. Jonathan NJ. Davis, though prob
ABLY not by such a majority as will
De gwen Senator Curtis. An evidence
or the low ebb of Democratic fortunes
In Kansas Is found in the fact that
for five of the principal offices on the
State ticket the Democrats have
named no candidates this year. Rep
resentative Anthony in the first dis
trlct, also has no Democratic oppo-
nent.
Such q Republican sweep even in
tnls State which is strongly Repub.
mean, could scarcely be expected If
llmes We're hard and the farmers in
revolt. Kansas is essentially an agri.
cultural State. Southwestern Kansas
Is In better shape than it has been
ior years. 1t has had a record wheat
crop, and it's wheat crop a year ago
was good and brought good prices
southeastern Kansas where soft"
oAiN SOL II IdlSCu, is dDOllt
normal. In that section are located
coal. lead and zinc mines, and their
business has been good, too. The
STOCK raisers, particularly of cattle.
are not SO well off and some of them
are grumbling. In the north cen.
tral part of the State there was a
corn crop failure this year, due To
the weather. That section has had
several successive crop failures. and
condltlons are not so good.
Ihe condition of the farmers is re-
nected generally in business in this
state. The merchants in Topeka and
other cities are doing fairly well,
winch means that the farmers have
money and are buying. Kansas, in
deed, is one Of the States which has
made it possible for the Federal Re
serve Bank of Kansas City, Mo-. to
snow a more healthy report of bust
ness as reflected by financial transac-
tons. The record Of the banks in
dlcates that business moved at a
higher rate Of activity through the
third quarter Of this year and into
the fourth quarter than 1t did a year
or two years ago. The banks survey
shows that out of 23 leading crops in
the area covered by it's operations,
which includes part of Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado. Oklahoma, Nebras aska,
wyoming and number of other
States. IA have been larger this year
than last and not so large. Both
Hood and drought conditions have
been responsible for farm losses in
some sections. An indication of the
Improvement Of business in Kansas is
found In report on the sales in four
department stores in Wichita during
the month Of September. These sales
aggregated $450,000, as compared with
sales totaling $4,000 in September
of last year. In Kansas City, Mo-, the
sales In four large department stores
aggregated just about the same, no
less, in September this year, as they
did in September last year. This in
spite of the fact that two large mail
order houses have this year opened up
big retail establishments in Kansas
City.
Capper Lauds Administration.
Senator Curtis and Senator Capper
are both strong supporters of Presi-
dent Coolidge, although they differed
with him in regard to the McNary-
Haugen bill Senator Capper in his
speeches and his newspapers gives
praise to the President for his ad-
ministration of the Government. He
is preaching better cooperation be-
tween business and agriculture. At
the same time. Senator Capper insists
that the farmer has not been given
a square deal. But he expresses a
belief that the farmer will yet get
a better deal.
"The outlook for the immediate