STOVEPIPE HAT IN TOWN.
It Is a Gray One and Under It Came
J. West Goodwin.
Wearing the same old gray stovepipe hat, J. West Goodwin, the veteran newspaper editor from Sedalia, Mo., attracted attention and comment in the lobby of the Coates house last night. The hat worn by Mr. Goodwin has been a familiar sight at political meetings for the last twenty-five years. Between elections the editor wears a black slouch hat, but when the campaign opens the old high gray hat is brought out for use. Not being as spry in his old days as he was when younger, his friends last night insisted that Goodwin had endeavored to reach Kansas City in time to attend the banquet of the Young Men's Republican Club and was a day late.
