The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
STATE PAPERS OF 9TH L
-TeDEL GOVERNOR"

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y STATE PAPERS OF 1.-THE
-reDEL GOyERNOR.'
-lr duty in two previous articles,
lie shallow pretensions OF "the
---nor Kansas ever had, by repro
lew passages from his Inaugural.
T- he'd as we copied them. We now
gas. 10 lis frst message. From its first
sl.ee TO its last it is libel on the art
a- Lg,ish composition. We quote from
r. g, v1l. Of Public Documents ,lS76. He
:
This 1.-THE Presidential) election has been
funded by circumstances, influenced
aeis, and its results L.t in condition OF
,. and uncertainty, that appeals to every
a.neilt Of ambition and revolution In the
least Of unpatriotic adventures, TO such
81 e1tent as to excite alarm, if not imperil
tie country"
The little boys will please parse results
left" and shat appeals" Also tell US what
grammatical connection the words "circum-
stances" and "acts" have with that portion
o.;he sentence which follow. Did he mean
circumstances" and "acts" that appeal?
Then he should have used the plural OF
appeals"
On page he says:
"The dividing line Of parties in this con-
test has been more nearly the same, an es-
ssnnx, that drawn in the late contest OF
arms between the defenders OF the Union
and the supporters and sympathizers in the
rebellion, than has characterized any pre-
vious political contest since the termina-
ito il that bloody conflict"
a line has length, but we did not know il
had "esscaoc" Nor did we know that "di-
yiding line" could Characterize" any pO
litical contest" however much it may sepa-
rate contestants But try and reconcile his
"more nearly the same" with his "as" and
"than" as We have emphasized them in
italics. We give it up and pass on.
Again he says:
"If these men, uhcl thus re-instated, had
by their acts INDICATED our confidence. in
their returning loyalty and love Of coun-
try, it would have been a sublime consum-
nation, for which the nations of the earth
have sighed an rain since human gouernnlents
Uere organized.
Does confidence" need such a thing az
ryf1 an IL
wrong word, Governor. loyalty and
love Of country" Tautology, Governor.
And then that the nations Of the earth
have sighed in vain since human govern
ments were organized over a consumma-
ton thai might have taken place since the
Coniederates were "re-instated." Why
hey must nave had something Of the gift of
.rophecy. They have sighed SO long ahead
over our Cancellation, but as the recon-
Citation never took place, of course they
sighed il vain" And then, as it did not
Eappen, were they false prophets. The
Governor falls to elucidate, fails to draw
his Dividing line" "in essence" between
the future md the past. He is definite in
tbs, that ley sighed" 1t was for this,
perhaps, that some OF them, by the rivers
q t..b--lcU sat down and wept. But the
Cor'-lc-ate5 didn't vindicate, and 40 all
III, .onE since Adam shove sigh"
A. :, ?. y he says:
q. rue financial condition OF the
SITE n only be known through the
sEeno. such law, and the Legislature
sI. provide remedies for wrongs in
Or n Of local Government"
The Legislature enabled'-what
doe llean? Perhaps ne meant "and
o.ho by which the Legislature may
b e. ed" &c.
H.. eemes a companion that for good
80, Ike that anecdote of the old maids
ing in the oven, by which he de-
lew on finance to the Troy Chic.
-s:
his respect, counties, towns, and
II districts are too much like boys
"ea. - mems clothing, bought on credit.
40 ,ut the clothes down to fit, and pay
Tor them, is the problem OF the hour"
And 50 our Sutor Resutus proceeds to cut
down the clolhes-to aft" He is good
OF its"
Scissors in hand, stood a tailor boy,
With his overgrown pants before him,
And his face Lit up with a smile of joy,
As he 'ft, !" and he patched where he tore
EN-"
Il comparisons were not "odorous," we
would sugges. something more economical
Tan to 'cut down TO fit" Grow up to fill
the clothes, Governor, and until then lay
thsn away and wear green goggles. Cog
s-25 are an Improvement on the Georgia
Uniform, and they suit the weather. Or,
Governor, swap with the State. Your
clothes are too small for you-to put it po-
li:ely-and the States too large for it.
Swap, why don't you?