Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-29
CLICKS RECORD.

Governor Click has done fairly a:
Governor. but the Democrats spread il
on a little too thick in their platform
in giving him credit for everything
that has been done in the last two
years. 1t must be remembered thai
this platform is the production of Col
Thomas Moonlight, who had been 8
mighty hungry Democrat for severa
years--ever since the Republicans de-
clined to keep him in office longer, and
on the ascension of George the lst to
his throne Thomas was relieved of his
shivering position tout in the cold '
and placed in 81 800 office. Thomas
feels mighty good about it and there.
fore the Democratic platform is most.
ly devoted to singing the praises oil
the great governor. Mr.. Click was in
favor of the railroad law and the re.
storation of the unearned rail
road lands to settlement. So was
every other good citizen. He is
not entitled to any particular credit
for the contamination of either OF
these popular measures, because the
public sentiment that brought them
about was made by the Republican
party long before Click thought of be.
ing governor. Hon. S. J. Crawford is
entitled to the credit of restoring the
railroad TO settlement, and he was
made the agent of his state at Wash
ington for that purpose by the Repub-
lican legislature before Mr.. Click was
made governor. In fact some of the
lands were restored before Mr.. Clicks
term of Office began, and all the pre-
l.minary work which resulted in the
recovery of the lands was accomplish
ed before the present governor took
his seat. We have no doubt Mr.. Click
did what he could to assist Governor
Crawford. He could not have pre-
vented the restoration of these lands
if he had tried, and the credit for the
work belongs to the Republican party
and not TO George w. Click. What
we say of the restoration of the I'M
earned railroad lands we may also as
sert as true in regard to the passage
of the railroad law. Mr.. Click fell into
line with these measures when he
came into office, and deserves credit
for what assistance he rendered and
no more.
The booming Thomas also gives
Gov. Click credit for bringing immi-
grafton to the state. That's where
the laugh comes in. Did not George
Click emerge from the "cave of
gloom" when he was nominated for
governor, and was he not bewailing
from every corner where he could be
heard, that immigration had stopped
coming to Kansas because of the adop-
ton of the prohibition amendment?
We think he was. The increase in
our population is in no way to be
credited to Gov. Click. The two
things that have brought the people
to Kansas, and are bringing them here
every day, is good crops and the
adoption of the prohibition amend
ment.
Gov. Clicks action in calling a spe-
cial session of the legislature last
spring when the state was frightened
over the appearance of cattle disease,
was endorsed by this paper then, and
is just as heartily endorsed now.
That was the best act of his admins
tration. He did not want to do that
but finally yielded to the public pres
sure. No governor who had the well
fare of the state at heart would have
refused to act as he did under similar
But there is one more thing to talk
about, and that is the most serious of
all. After taking solemn oath to
support the constitution aud laws of
the state, he has deliberately trampled
under foot the prohibition amendment
and the law made to enforce it. When
persons have been convicted of vio-
lation of this law he hes carried his
partisan prejudices so far as to pardon
many of them, thus completely multi
flying the law. 1t is for this more
than anything else that he must an
swer to the people Of Kansas who will
hold him responsible for his open dis
regard for one of the most important
laws on our statue books.
In general way he has done as well
as it was expected he would do. The
tafly in Mr.. Moonlight's platform will
amount to nothing when the facts are
aid before the people as they will be
during the campaign.-Emporia News.