The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-10-02


said bonds for % cents on the dollar, would
receive hts sanction and eOasent: wbereL,
said Robinson consented and agreed 20 vio
lAiion Of the lzw Of the state and YES thereby
suiHy ~ high tntSfe meattnr IN ofsicc.
An 4 That the ale Charles Rollins n, ~
SOveFnOr Aforesaid, did officially consent 20
and approve OF the said afsrsSsaid sale of the
eonds Of the state Of Kansas v hereby the laid
state ~ slixed the said sum OF % per cent on
the dollar, whereby said Robinson became
guilty Of high mls.lemeanor In once.
And the house OF representatives Of said
themselves the Liberty az exhibItIng n any
time hereafter. and further articles or stheT
accusation OF Impeachment against Charles
Robinson, and also OF rrply ing to his answers
herr a., and ofofieTing prof 10 ali ard every
Ofthe aforesaid articles uf Impeachment or
sc-uS4iirn which shall hs ~ hiblt-,i by them
a. the cave NAV require. aud demand that
tue said charles Robinson may be Pot TO an
| sSer the uisd-tneanors herein charged. aud
that the such proceedings. examinations,
tTiais AMI judgments NAV be thefeupOu hal
ani given - are agreeable to juaiice.
SANCEL 4. STISsoS,
Attorney GENERAL.
y. d. Plumb, Ay-l spanldlhK. p. ". Potter.
". r. Nsg-lsn, Dayie- Wilson. managers on
tie part OF the house of Representatives.
The senate sitting rs = high court
OF Impeachment, convened ut the
capital on June ., 1852, aud after
hearing all the evidence In each Of
the three cases, found Secretary Of
state Robinson and Auditor OF state
Hillyer guilty n charged. In the
ease OF Charles Robinson, however,
the high court Of impeaehmentfo found
thst, although lie had violated the
law In signing the bonds contracting
Tor sixty cents on the dollar, when the
law expressly provided sixty cents
on the dollar, yet as he had not been
\ party to any real fraud so far As
the direct testimony went to show,
the court found him not guilty, there
being two dissenting votes on the
iirSt article. And thus 70 happened
thst Charles Robinson escaped I'm
parchment only because Of the fact
that IL was not shown that he had
shared in the profits Of the steal.
The committee, or managers on
the part nf the house, that returned
the articles of Impeachment, was
made up of Republicans and Demo.
crsts. The house, composed of such
well.knOwn gentlemen a. p. b.
Plumb, Ex-Governor Carney, Esk-
ridge Of Emporia, Judge Valentine
81 the supreme court, p. 3. Maxsou,
the great Farmers Alliance gsnsr-
alissimO, eX-LieutsnRnt Governor
oNuENnV thC
number Of OF iiGty-three out Of a to-
tai Of sixty voted Charles Robinson
guilty Of high misdemeanor In Of
flee. And notwithstanding his ac-
IuitIal the rank and file Of the Re
publican party In Kansas, IL not the
whole people, looked upon him ~
equally guilty with Hlllyer aud J.
W. Robinson. Az sn evidence of
this, the Republican state conyen-
ton met on the 18th Of September
following RObinson's whitswssh.
That convention neither endorsed
Charles RObinson's administration,
nor was lie in any way mentioned NJ
a candidate for denomination or any
thug else. On the contrary Thomas
carney, who had steadily voted for
the Impeachment proceedings and
for the adoption Of the articles Of i'm
parchment, was nominated for gov
eTnOr and elected by vote Of lO,00
sgninst j,I,i3 for his opponent.
After this severe chastisement at
the hands Of the Republican party.
which he so VIGOROUSLY betrayed, 70
IL not To be wondered at that Charles
Robinson should go into the cave OF
gloom. and ever alter have his hand
raised against the Republican party,
he has since beer anythiug-excepl
81 Republican. And now the won
derful spectacle IL presented to the
people of Eausas OF Charles Robin
son, his light having long since gone
out and his political star forever set,
endeayOTinR 10 maintain his totter-
ing frame upon platform, Que plank
81 which endorses the Republican
party and the other denounees IL,
but both united Ia favor Of the open
saloon {" bligift the happy homes OF
sunny Kansas.
hut there are more good people Ia
ksHsag than there arc bad. There
are more sGheT people ia Kansas than
there ate drunkards, and the retire
ment of Charles Robinson sgain to
his awful cave nf gloom will be the
NJ the KsptAE- In NnpaFn nor