The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-02-28

| DEMOCRATIC CMAGNANIMITY.-When were Dem.
ocrats ever known to show favors to Republi-
cans, when they had the power in their hands !
The lower House Of the present Congress is
Democratic. There were q number of contested
seats, and Of the five or six already decided, every
Democratic contestant has been seated, by q
strictly party vote, although, in every case, the
evidence clearly showed that the Republicans
were in the right.
In South Carolina and Louisiana, there were
o number of Republican officials whose title was
beyond dispute. In order to make vacancies, to
he filed by Democrats, packed grand juries were
organized, to indict the officers for trumped up
criminal offences, and they have been tried and
convicted by packed jures, and their offices
thus made vacant.
In South Carolina, recently, several offices
were made vacant by some technical trick, and
it devolved upon the Legislature to fill them.
Gov. Hampton, Democrat, recommended that
Republicans be chosen to the vacancies, as the
constituencies interested were Republican by
heavy majorities; but the Legislature filled the
places with Democrats.
In Missouri, . large number of Counties had
Republican Commissioners, or County Judges,
ture passed q law vacatng all the Offices, and
authorizing the Governor to fill them by ap-
pointment. In Democratic Counties, the Demo-
cratic officers were re-appointed, while in Re-
publican Counties, Democrats were appointed
in place of the ousted Republicans. The same
Legislature re-districted the State for Congress
men, making the Districts in all manner of out
landsh shapes, without regard to convenience
or community of interests, simply in ortler to
make them all Democratic.
When Bishop, the new Democratic Governor
Of Ohio, came into Office, he turned out every
man holding position, who had ever served in
the Union army, and filed all the places with
men who had never been in army.
Yet We find men who advocate this party, and
justify all these acts, begging Republican off,
GERS for share of the spoils, and bowling about
outrage and prescription, because Republican
officers will not give them full share of the
patronage under their control.
WHOM SHALL We TRUST lit is astonishing,
the rotten places that creep ont in mems char
acters, whom some slight circumstance breaks
the crust, and the bad begins to ooze out, as it
were. No person ever suspected what q set of
rsscals composed the County Board of this Coun-
ty, until they refused to give the Troy Bulletin
the County printing. Mr.. Leland has had the
reputation Of being . sharp politician, bot even
his bitterest political opponents never question
ed his strict business integrity. Now, however,
it is discovered that he has been, for two years,
stealing from the County to reward his friends
How many Of the burglsries and thefts in the
neighborhood he has had hand in, yet remain
to be developed. DR.. Long has always been re-
garded as ono Of the best citizens of his commu-
nifty, never guilty Of an act to harm his neigh
bors, or injure the public welfare. But now, it
10 known that he originated the small pox at
Severance; and when he thought the disease
was about to die out without spreading, he &C.
tually kidnapped . colored girl, and carried her
by force, in his buggy, to the house In Severance
where the smallpox was prevailing. Mr.. Deck
ard has always been held as strictly upright and
honest but there 10 no doubt that he has been |
guilty of many crimes. In fact, unless the print
ing order is resciDded, and the job given to the
Bsfletis, we have not the slightest doubt that |
Deckard brought the grssshoppers to Kansss, and |
was the cause Of tho bad roads during the present
Winter.
~ Aaosas man iateiy pickeo up an &C
qusintance In st. Louis, and before he got |
through with him, endorsed certified check for |
him to the amount of $50, which proved to be
forgery, and which the Kansas man had to pay.
The victim 10 said to be Major Hopkins, Warden
Of the Kansas Penitentiszy. A man whose busi-
ness, for years, has been to manage criminals,
should Be better judge Of sharpers than that
n Anderson, Of the Loaisiana Returning
Board, has been sentenced to two years in the
for making Hayes President. An
isrson no doubt thought he was doing right at
he time, bat hs has brought great calamity
aPou this country. If al Of us fellows who voted
Eor Hayes were to b sent 70 the penitentiary
or IL, We might think it hard, bat We could not
ny that it was unjust.
0 At the Pennsylyania Reuniou At Atehison |