Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-03-27
= =. b. AILrN. Secretary Of STATE
Gov. Click wants Der,oerst, Anaoin,sa

n special dispatch from Washington
says: This question OF patronage
from a political standpoint is being urg-
ed upon the administration by num-
her OF leading western democrats. Ex-
Governor Click of Kansas, who is here.
says he is not guing home until he finds
out vlat tic administration is going 10
do. kSns@s elected him gevernor in
lss3. The state, although it went
strong rCPub!ican in the last campaign,
IL Row doubtful, since the temperance
ISSUE becaEe 50 prominent. Tie tenn
perance fanatics have obtained such
control OF Tie legislature as 90 seriously
I impair personal freedom TN that state.
They have law there now which per-
mits 4 county attorney To hold star
chamber examination in his own Office
cf amy person that be may So Gt to call
before him from when Ec thinks he
can obtain evidence or the purchase or
sale OF fliquor. Tho witness is unre-
strained by cross examination. by the
presence Of other witnesses, or the fear
Of amy penalty by false swearing for the
reason that the law bribes in advance
county attorney 10 securea conviction,
and as n necessary consequence he is
bound TO protect the witness whose ev-
evidence enables him to secure fee
Of S25. The Law provides that the
county attorney shall have this fee for
every conviction secured 10y him. Thus
plemium is placed upon a conviction.
II county attorney is INSCRIPTIONS
all he has To do is to summon some un-
scrtpulOgs knaye To the back room of
his Office and take his testimony, un-
challenged, against the best man i'm the
town. a premium is placed upon con-
victiOns, regardless of the character of
I the testimony. IL is not q question
really whethera a man is engaged in the
I liquor traiic or not. but il is one OF. a fee
for the county attorney. Kansas. so
celebrated in its early history for its de-
clarations in favor of freedom, is to-
day surrendered TO a most disgraceful
social spy system. Even the sanctity
of home is no longer respected in this
fanatical crusade Of theI temperance
people"
Ex-Governor Click says the better
people of Kansas are raising up in re-
bellion against this extreme temper
ance spirit. III the democratic party
/ leaders receive some encouragement
the state will become democratic in the
next election. The temperance cru
SADIE has driven out of the republican
party its best people. In the last cleo
tion the temperance issue was waived
by both sides. This year it is the one
dominating Issue.
Mr.. Click desires first change in the
pOstmasters of Kansas from the top TO
the bottom. lie says that hardly with
out exception every postmaster is edi-
tor Of Some republican newspaper. The
/ postmaster places his Office in the hands
of deputy and runs his newspaper and
devotes it TO the most partisan OF uses.
The income OF the postmaster in many
cases is absolutely necessary to sustain
the newspaper itself. The pOstofices
are partisan headquarters for the dis
semination of political literature and
afford the most effective weapon that
the republican party has in that state.
lie thinks the fact that a postmaster is
publishing a partisan paper should be
evidence enough to secure his removal
under this administration.
General Weaver, Of Iowa. who is
here with Governor Click, and who has
the same mission, says the situation in
Iowa is very similar to that described
by Governor Click in Kansas.