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NIMMONS ID HAVE
(0 KLAN OPPOSITION.
IFFICULS ANNOUNCE
High officials of the Ku Klux Klan
idicated Wednesday that no legal
ction would be taken, for the pres
nt at least, against William Joseph
immons, former emperor of .the
lan, who, after severing all coll
ections with the order and renounc
ig his SI,OOO monthly annuity, for
consideration of $145,500 cash, has
ecome the head of another order
nown as the “Knights of the Flam
ig Sword.”
Coincident with the statement
rom the klan officers came one
rom H. Tom Knight, national secre
ary of the Kamelia, declaring Col
nel Simmons could not turn the
famelia or the Knights Kamelia
ver to the Ku Klux Klan, because
e was only one of several incor
orators of the Knights Kamelia,
r hile the Kamelia is an order for
romen, entirely separate and dis
nct from the klan.
rf'lf Colonel Simmons has acted in
K manner indicated by the press
■ has placed himself in position to
■erit and receive unfavorable con-
and comment from all
lansmen of whatever faction,” Mr.
might said. He also announced
hat the Knights Kamelia have
lected new officers, Colonel Sim
10ns having been president until
is transaction with the klan.
New Officers’ Slogan
“The slogan of the new officers
I, ‘One of the thorns in the flesh
as eliminated, himself; let’s elimi
ate the other,’ ” said Mr. Knight,
aving reference to Colonel Simmons
nd Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wiz
rd of the klan.
The contract under which Colonel
immons disposed of his rights and
iterests in the klan provides that
e shall not engage in, associate
imself with, or encourage any or
anization which would hinder or
iterfere with the activities of the
lan.
Dispatches from Jacksonville,
'la., are to the effect that Colonel
immons has become head of the
ew order and has issued a state
lent denying that he “sold out” to
re klan, insisting that he merely
iscouited his monthly annuity,
■hich would have been paid to him
y the klan during his own lifetime
nd that of his wife.
Klan Official Quoted
“The terms of the contract with
olonel Simmons have been made
üblic,” said a high klan official
Wednesday, “and the public can
idge for itself whether he is violat
ig its provisions by organizing an
rder such as he has announced. The
lan is content to let the situation
Land as it. is for the present. The
nperial officers feel that the klan
i better off without such persons
s may be attracted to Colonel Sim
ions" new organization after they
ave been informed of his agreement,
dth the klan under which he sold
ut all his rights, title and interest
ir $145,500.”
Colonel Simmons, in his statement
sued from Jacksonville, declared he
iceived SBO,OOO instead of $145,500,
ut klan officials here reiterated
leir first announcement that the
rice paid was $145,500. Colonel
immons was given two checks, it
as stated—one for $95,500 and
nother for $50,000. It was first
lanned to deposit the $50,000 in
scrow in a local bank, to be held
>r six months as a guarantee that
olonel Simmons would fulfill the
irms of his contract, they said.
After representations had been
lade by Colonel Simmons’ friends
nd agents that he would abide by
is agreement, the escrow proposal
'as waived,, it was declared, and
ie full amount, $145,500, paid over
» Colonel Simmons.
Simmons’ Statement
Colonel Simmons’ statement re
arding the contract with the klan
nd the formation of the new organi
ition, is given in dispatches from
acEsonville as follows:
“It has come to my attention
trough the press and otherwise
hat I have sold all my rights in con
ection with the Knights of the Ku
flux Klan. I wish to deny this ru
lor in whole and to say that press
ispatches are in error. That which
have don<S is severed all connec
ion with the Knights of the Ku
Clux Klan, both officially and as a
tember of the organization, and it
ras agreed by the organization and
y myself in order that I might
ever my relation in every manner,
iKJpe’and form, the royalty of SI,OOO
er\nAonth given me for life should
e discounted, and to this end the
rganization paid me $90,000 in cash.
am, therefore, no longer emperor
r a member of the Knights of the
lu Klux Klan.
“My resignation as above stated
oes not in any wise affect the or
anization known as the Kamelia,
s it is a separately chartered cor
oratlon for women only. The rea
on I resigned as emperor of the
lan and as a member of same was
ecause of the constant and contin
,ous turmoil and friction prevailing
a the organization. I have resorted
o every honorable means to correct
he same and find my efforts to be
ruitless.
“After many months of careful
bought and study on the part of my
elf and my friends, the conclusion
ras reached that I should be free to
arry on my life work and to accom
ilish the great purposes to which I
taVje dedicated my life. I have not
old out; I have simply severed all
iy connection with the organization
[iscounted my royalty and sold it
lack to the corporation. I could
ave*!sold it to any one on the outside
»f the organization who cared to
urchase same, but I much preferred
hat the organization itself should
iave it even at a discount.
"A new movement not antagonist
e to the klan was launched here yes
erday by the citizens of Florida and
ilsewhere of a national scope, of
vhich I have the honor to have been
nade the head; full details covering
his new movement will be given the
iress in the next few days. In the
uture I shall follow faithfully in the
•athway of my life purpose in set-
Ing in motion various machinery for
he betterment of mankind. I shall
lursue my course with love towards
ill and malice towards none, and my
efforts in all things shall be con
tractive and not destructive.”
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THE ATLANTA TRI-WFEKLY JOURNAL
TOURING CANDIDATE WINS
FAVOR IN NORTH CAROLINA
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ROBERT R. REYNOLDS. CANDIDATE FOR THE LIETENANT
GOVERNORSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA. AND THE FLIVVER IN
WHICH HE MADE HIS CAMPAIGN THOUSANDS OF MILES FROM
HOME.
Robert T> Reynolds Mails
Letters Back Home From
Many Cities —Uses Home
on Wheels
ASHEVILLE, N. C„ Feb. 14.
Here’s a hunch for political aspi
xants the country over;
If you want to get totes for elec
tion to office, leave home and take
a trip abroad.
A hopeful politician here tried it
and found it worked fine. And now
he passes along the tip to all others
except his own opponent for office.
You see, Robert R. Reynolds,
called “Bob” in these parts, had been
a varsity football player, newspaper
reporter, broncho buster, lawyer and
prosecuting attorney. But all that
didn’t appease his-taste for excite
ment. So he decided to become a
politician anj announced his can
didacy for the lieutenant governor
ship of the state.
Then, instead of swinging around
the circuit making stump speeches
appealing for votes, he built himself
a little hoi: e on a flivver chassis and
set out for a trip around the world.
He has just come back from a five
months tour, accompanied by a
cameraman who shot about 20,000
feet of movie film, while Bob shot
back thousands of appeals for votes.
COOPER ABSOLVES
BBOffl OF BLUME
IN BANK'S FAILURE
WILMINGTON, N. C., Feb. 13.--
(By the Associated Press.) —Thomas
E. Cooper, president of the defunct
Commercial National bank, on trial
with his brother, Lieutenant Gover
nor W. B. Cooper, on charges of
conspiracy in connection with the
failure of -the bank, today took upon
himself all responsibility for trans
actions which the government al
leges were fraudulent.
Cooper denied in his testimony
that he and his brother had conspir
ed together as charged in th eindict
ment on which they are being tried
in United States district court. He
asserted that he had never attempted
to defraud the bank, misapply its
funds or make false entries with in
dent to deceive. ®
The younger Cooper took the wit
ness stand late yesterday and was
expected to be on the stand most of
the day. Lieutenant Governor Coop
er was to follow him on the stand.
Cooper today reiterated his belief
that the bank was solvent prior to
the time it was closed and that if
given time it could have been saved.
He was bitter in his references to
the Richmond Federal Reserve bank.
Cooper stated that be and other
members of his family had large de
posits in the bank at the time it was
closed. He -said he was “amply sol
vent" at the time he returned here
from Raleigh to become president, of
the local bank and estimated his as
sets at that time at $275,000 and his
liabilities at $125,000.
Testifying as the first defense wit
ness, he declared that his brother,
who was chairman of the board of
directors of the bank, had no knowl
edge of the transactions.
The government closed its case
yesterday with the completion' of
the testimony of H. R. Tull, depart
ment of justice agent, and the testi
mony of one or two depositors of
the bank, who had lost their savings,
they testified. Defense attorneys
yesterday Indicated that they would
depend entirely on the testimony of
the two defendants and a few char
acter witnesses.
Senate Orders Probe
Into Heflin Charges of
Texas Land Frauds
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Inquiry
into charges of fraudulent land op
erations in Texas was ordered today
by the senate in adopting a resolu
tion offered by Senator Heflin,
Democrat. Alabama.
The inquiry, to be conducted by
the senate post office committee will
be directed especially Into opera
tions of the Alamo Land and Sugar
company, of which R. B. Creager,
Republican national committeeman
from Texas, is president.
Consideration of the resolution
was blocked by Senator Harreld, Re
publican, of Oklahoma, until he ob
tained permission to insert in the
record a number of editorials from
Texas papers, which he said were
illustrative of the other side of the
matter. _
The main idea behind the venture
was not pictorial but political.
“And it sure has worked,” says
Reynolds. “For it’s like this: If
John Smith in the hills of North
Carolina gets political propaganda
from me at Asheville, he’s likely to
toss it into the fire without even
reading it.
“But if he gets a letter postmarked
Yokohama or Paris, or some other
place away off on the other side of
the world, he’s going to open it and
read, you can bet!
“He’s also going to think that Bob
Reynolds is mighty thoughtful to
remember him and go to the trouble
of writing.
“ ‘Guess I’d better vote for Bob
when election comes around,' is the
resulting mental resolve.”
Reynolds mailed more than 5,000
letters and cards to the folks' back
in North Carolina. And, of course,
he didn’t forget to mention the lit
tle mattfer of his candidacy in any
of them.
In all the political aspirant cov
ered 30,000 miles on the trip, 8,000 of
them being made by auto.
Some of the movies that were
made will be used in commercial
news weeklies, but most of them
will be exhibited in North Carolina
schools and colleges. *
And its probable that the movje
shows will take up Reynold’s cam
paign where the foreign mail left
Qff.
CAROLINA'S WEALTH
15 NEARLY DOUBLED
IN TEN-YEAR PERIOD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14.
Wealth in South Carolina increased
94.6 per cent, while per capita values
increased in the state from $795 to
$1,385, or 74.2 per cent during the
period of ten years preceding De
cember 31, 1922, according to a state
ment issued by the department of
commerce for publication today.
In its preliminary estimate of the
value of the principal forms of
wealth, the department announced a
total amounting to $2,404,845,000. as
compared with $1,235,541,000 in 1912.
All classes of property are said by
the department to have increased in
value from 1912 to 1922. The esti
mated value of taxed real property
and improvements increased from
$456,614,000 to $1,073,758,000, or 135.2
per cent; exempt real property from
$49,993,000 to $116,186,000, or 132.4
per cent; live stock from $61,304,000
to. $61,927,000. or 1 per cent; farm
implements and machinery from
$15,605,000 to $32,945,000, or 111.1
per cent.
Manufacturing machinery, tools
and implements in the state in
creased from $98,943,000 to $132,-
579,000, or 34.0 per cent; and rail
roads and their equipment from
$130,580,000 to $160,166,000, or 22.7
per cent.
Privately owned transportation
and transmission enterprises other
than railroads, increased in value
from $55,766,000 to "^85,227,vuv, or
49.2 per cent; and stocks of goods,
vehicles other than motor, furniture
and clothingj from $366,736,000 to
$708,959,000 cr 93.3 per cent. No
comparison is possible for the value
of motor vehicles, which was esti
mated in 1922 at $35,098,000, because
no separate estimate was made in
1912.
Methods followed in 1912 were fol
lowed in general by the department
in making the 1922 estimates, it is
said, although the opinion is held
by department experts that the lat
ter estimates are more accurate, the
working having been more thorough.
Increases in money values are to a
large extent due to the rise in prices
which has taken place during recent
years, the department reminds the
public, and for that reason they do
not represent truly the correspond
ing increases in the quantity of
wealth.
Louise Lawson Buried
In Texas Beside Her
Pioneer Forefathers
ALVARADO. Texas, Feb. 13
From Broadway, where she danced
with death. Louise Lawson came
home to Main street today to be laid
to rest.
The “Broadway butterfly,” whose
slaying still puzzles the police, was
buried simply this afternoon in the
same plot where her grandparents—
pioneer Texans—lie.
Hundreds of home folks who dis
believe the tales of her vivid career
in New York, paid reverent homage.
They remembered her only as the
plain and ambitious little girl of a
few years ago, who left horn? to
study music in New York.
Age Limit Bars Hearst
From Reserve Corps
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The
war department has rejected, be
cause of the age limit, an applica
tion from William R. Hearst for a
lieutenant 'colonel's commission in
the military intelligence branch of
the officers reserve corps.
Mississippi Senate Passes
4-Cent Gasoline Tax
JACKSON. Miss.. Feb. 11.—The
senate of the Mississippi legislature
Wednesday passed a bill increasing
the tax on gasoline from 1 cent to
4 cents a galion.
(PUBLIC WILL FORCE
CABINET CLEAN-UP,
ROBINSON ASSERTS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—A pre
diction that public opinion will force
President Coolidge to remove every
official connected with the oil re-
I serve leases was made today by Sena-
I tor Robinson, of Arkansas, the
' Democratic leader, in reply to the
; president’s refusal to accept the sen
l ate’s advice and immediately ask for
' the resignation of Secretary Denby.
Senator Robinson read this state-
I ment on the senate floor after Sena
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Re
; publican leader, had obtained per
j mission to print the president's reply
i to the senate in the Record:
i “The president was in accord with
the advice of the senate in the Walsh
substitute resolution that the depart
ment of justice be not relied upon
to protect the government’s inter
ests, but that special counsel be em
ployed to direct both the civil and
criminal litigation growing out of
the oil lease disclosures.
/‘His statement makes it clear that
he does not regard the facts and cir
cumstances established before the
senate committee sufficient, and that
he has no intention of dismissing
Secretary Denby, or anyone else re
sponsible for the transaction, until by
additional evidence or advice from
other sources, he reaches the conclu
sion that the protection of the pub
lic interest requires such action on
his part. ,
“His power to reject advice from
the senate or from any other source
is undoubted, but his responsibility
is emphasized if he retains officers
whose public declarations justify the
conclusion that they will throw ev
ery possible obstacle in the way of
the government’s success in recov
ering and safeguarding the property
which they have improvidently and
recklessly conveyed. Retention in
office of Secretary Denby means that
the president for all practical pur
poses supports the secretary’s poli
cies and approves or acquiesces in
his actions.
“The congress made Secretary
Denby its agent to administer the
naval oil reserve, and when the sen
ate unanimously found the agent
had been incompetent and derelict
in the performance of his duty, it
could not be construed as an unwar
ranted interference with the execu
tive’s prerogative to so advise the
president and to ask him to dismiss
the recalcitrant agent so as to fill
his place with another who would
respect and perform his duty.
“Mr. Denby has repeatedly de
clared that if retained in office he
will continue the same policy, and
if opportunity arises will repeat the
acts complained of regardless of the
circumstances. The senate has
unanimously condemned his action
in a resolution, and by a majority
of 47 to 34 passed another asking
the president for his removal. Is
there the slightest doubt that the
opinion of the senate reflects the
will of a large majority of the peo
ple?
“The president, of course, can
carry the issue to the country, but
will he dare do so? Notwithstanding
his defiant attitude, it is respectfully
suggested the president soon may be
forced by public opinion to turn out
of office every one, irtcluding Secre
tary Denby, who encouraged or par
ticipated in making the secret
leases.”
President Coolidge’s New York
speech, in which he referred to the
oil disclosures, led Senator McKellar
Democrat, Tennessee, to make a re
newed demand in the senate for im
mediate court action. The senator
raid Mr. Coolidge’s promise of prose
cutions would be approved by every
one and then added:
“Everybody knows that Dohcny
and Sinclair bribed Fall and that
Fall accepted the bribes, and yet no
indictment has been found against
any of tire three. Why the delay?
The district attorney should move at
once. Everyone knows there is am
ple ground for indictment.”
Bryan Praises Florida
Educator m Urging
Him for President
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 13.
William Jennings Bryan said last
night that his candidate for the
Democratic nomination for president,
Dr. A. A. Murphree, “stands a much
better chance of being nominated
than I stood three months before
the 1908 convention, and a still bet
ter chance than Mr. Wilson stood
before the Baltimore convention of
I 1912."
Mr. Bryan is here to deliver a se
ries of lectures at the University of
Florida, of which Dr. Murphree is
president.
The Commoner said Dr. Murphree
is ‘‘progressive and djy," and these
attributes, he declared, have met
with enthusiasm in southern states
in which Mr. Bryan has lectured re
cently. He predicted that Dr. Mur
| phree would receive more votes in
Florida than Oscar W. Underwood, a
Democratic candidate for the pres
idency, would poll in Alabama.
Commenting on Dr. Murphree, Mr.
Bryan said that “if I can secure the
nomination of this great man, I shall
consider that a debt of gratitude that
I owe the south has been paid. The
fitness, character and honesty of Dr.
Murphree have never been ques
i tioned, and I consider him thor
i oughly qualified for the duties of
I this high office. I consider his state-
I ment that l:e is ‘dry and progressive’
I and that ‘the Democratic party is
j tue hope of the nation’ a most sub
■ stantial platform and all my efforts
j shall be expended in getting a Flo
j ridian and a southerner at the head
( of national Democratic ticket next
j November.”
Spanish Hero Shot
| MADRID.—Cant. Alfonso Meridez,
' who saved an entire battalion of
| Spanish troops in Morocco by his
individual heroism, was shot down
I on the street by a communist.
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PARTY WHIP'S JOB
PROBIBIY WOULD
MAKE JOB CUSS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 15.
As the tale is told, Senator Charles
Curtis, of Kansas, had a strange
dream one night. He dreamed that
he died and went to heaven, where
all good Republicans expect to go,
and presented his credential*? at the
pearly portal. Saint Peter took but
a glance at the great record of mun
dane affairs ere he threw wide the
gates and said:
“Enter and welcome! Your cre
dentials say, and. the record affirms,
that you were the Republican whip
of the United States senate during
the session of 1923-24. Boy! Page
Job and tell him to cheer up. Here’s
somebody who knows what trouble
really is!”
Senator Curtis may not have had
such a dream. In fact, there is rea
son to doubt he ever finds time to
sleep long enough to have any kind
of dream. And if he does sleep, and
if he does dream, he would probably
have a. nightmare in which he found
himself in purgatory with the same
kind of job he now holds. However,
the story is probably as authentic as
many of those that are retailed in
the senate cloakrooms, and it serves
to convey some idea of the present
trials and tribulations of the senator
from Kansas. ? •
The job of party whip in any leg
islative body is never listed among
the soft snaps of life. At best it is
a thankless job, which only a man
with an exalted conception of this
party duty could be persuaded to un
dertake. Briefly stated, the whip’s
task is to see that all his fellow par
tisans are present and voting, and
voting right, when measures and
questions come up that present a
political aspect.
If his party is hopelessly in the
minority, his responsibilities are not
great, because it matters compara
tively little whether the party regis
ters its full strength on a given is
sue. On the other hand, if his party
has an overwhelming majority, the
whip is not overworked, for it is fair
ly certain that his forces will al
ways have votes to spare in any or
dinary test of strength.
But when his party has only a
nominal and not a. real majority,
when there are half a dozen differ
ent blocs and coalitions, when the
balance of power is held by a small
group of members only too prone to
kick over the traces on every and
any occasion, and when the party
lash has lost its sting, then pity th<i
poor whip! And that’s <he kind of
proposition Senator Curtis is up
against.
Senators Hard to Corral
Under the most favorable condi
tions United States senators are
difficult to corral. Some of them are
absent-minded and never remember
to be on hand when they are need
ed most. Some of them are bored
to death by the tedium of senate de
bates and, if they were chained, to
their desks, would pick the padlocks.
Some of them are always having
business anywhere except on Capi
tol Hill. Some of them are always
candidates for re-election and. have
to be making frequent trips hack
home to look after their fences. Some
of them are running for president
and are often away keynote-ing in
one section of the country or an
other.
It is the whip’s business to know
the habits and peculiarities of all the
group which he must look after. If
they are not on the floor 7>r in the
smoking room at any given moment
the whip is supposed to know where
they are to be found and to be able
to reach them with an emergency
call.
And. then there is the little matter
of lining them up to vote right. In
the not so long ago, Republican sen
ators on the floor would simply prick
up their ears to hear how Aldrich
voted and then ask to be recorded
likewise, and those who came scur
rying in answer to the bell or
the whip’s message merely inquired
if the Rhode Island senator had
voted “aye” or “no" and answered
the clerk accordingly. But those
were the good old days of party dis
cipline, and like the halycon days
they are no more. Aldrich, the great
leader, has passed away, and so has
the idea that a senator elected as
a Repul. lican or as a Democrat nec
essarily should always vote as one.
That’s one of the reasons Senator
Curtis as the present-day Repub
lican whip is busier far than the tra
ditional onea-rmed paperhanger and
would be unable to hang up a. 100
per cent efficiency record if he had
the power to issue writs of. habeas
corpus, capiasa and mandamus and
had a posse comitatus to serve and
enforce them.
Showdown on Cummins
When the session opened in De
cember it was apparent that Senator
Curtis would have his work cut out
for him, and the showdown came
promptly in the matter of Senator
Cummins and the chairmanship of
the interstate commerce committee.
The regular Republicans decreed that
the lowan should retain that chair
manship. in addition to being pres
ident pro tern, of the senate, but the
progressives balked and by throwing
their votes with the Democrats and
the farm-laborites they had the
power to defeat Cummins.
It developed upon Senator Curtis
to hold the regular forces intact and
see that they were all present on
each ballot lest the opposition slip
one over. He did this day after day.
In the end he went down with his
colors flying, for when the progres-
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By J. P. Alley
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ER A Bio ' man V7ID
MUSCLES, ALLUZ ENTER
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fiATUHDAY, FEBRUARY 1«. 1924.
Foul Play Suspicion
When X-Rays Show
Condition of Mummy
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 14.—'
A conference of doctors was called
here yesterday after it was found
that Lady Tesha, daughter of the
doorkeeper of the Golden House of
Amon, who died 3,000 years ago, had
hardly a whole bone in her body, to
determine whether she had been
done to death.
The body of Lady Tesha, wrap
ped in yards of linen, painted with
gum and then covered with a plaster
cast, gaily painted, is in the Min
neapolis Institute of Arts, where it
was brought in 1916 after having
been excavated from her tomb >at
Thebes, Egypt, several years pre
viously.
Because of the unusual beauty of
the painted panels on the mummy
case, no effort has bc«n made to
open it, and until yesterday noth
ing was known of the case’s con
tents. X-ray plates were developed
yesterday showing that Lady
Tesha’s head was severed from her
body, and that several bones ih her
arms and thorax were’misplaced aind
broken.
At first it was thought this in
dicated executoin or murder, but a
council of physicians advanced the
theory that in the collapse of tis
sues within the mummy case the
bones had fallen away from their
original positions and probably were
fractured in transit.
sives decided to vote for th e Demo
cratic candidate, Senator Smith, the
fight was over. That there was no
extreme bitterness as an aftermath
of, this unprecedented procedure
—never before has a minority senator
been made chairman of an important
committee—is credited largely to
Senator Curtis’ personality and tact
fulness.
The senator from Kansas not only
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his arduous and oftentimes disagree
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ate and has displayed qualities of
leadership that have earned him the
wholesome respect of his colleagues.
Gcssip about the capitol has it that
he is to be rewarded for his party
services ty being made the candidate
for vice president whbn the Repub
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June in Cleveland, and some of his
friends are pointing out that with
President Coolidge at the head of
the ticket it would be the best kind
of politics to put the distinguished
Kansan in second place.
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profession that lie knows now how
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It may be, too, that was where he
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1881. he was elected county attor
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elected in 1886. In 1893 he came to
congress and was a winner in every
biennial race until .1907, when he was
elected to the -senate and resigned
from the house. He was defeated
so rre-election to the senate in 1912,
but two years later he came back
again a winner of the popular ver
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some 12 wins to one defeat. That is
a record the Republican national
delegates may ponder over next June
at Cleveland.
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