Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-28
sNUBBED By THE GoHERN0R

Friday, May 23rd, was set apart as
the day the re-submission republicans
of Kansas would meet at Topeka and
submit reasons to Governor Humphrey
why he should call the legislature to-
gether in special session to legislate on
the prohibition question. The gov
ernor had stated that he would give the
re-submlsslOnists hearing on that day
at O'Clock
Several hundred re-submission re-
publlcans met at Topeka last Friday
They were representatives selected by
the various towns and counties of Kan
sas. An organization was perfected in
representatives hall and a committee
appointed to wait on the governor and
inform him that the re-submis-
sionists were on hand and would expect
him before them in the afternoon. The
committee reported that the governor
would be on hand. AT 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, the convention appointed u
committee of five, composed of Col.
Murdoch, of Wichita, and four others,
| W WoAO vi OAO AONCInOI buu COCOIO uILl
to the hall to meet his republican re-
submission constituents. The COM
mIttee went to the executive office
when they were informed by Governor
Humphrey that he would not go to the
hall but that he would receive any COM
municatiOn the convention might desire
to make in writing and he would an
swer it the same way. No amount of
persuasion by the committee could in
duce the governor to bulge from his
position, and he did not go the conven-
! ton.
When this was reported to the con-
| ventiOn OF re-submission business men
republicans they were the maddest lot
of men ever assembled IN the state.
They had been promised hearing and
now their governor had plainly refused
to associate with them.
Then the fur began to fly. Every
man i'll the convention who could talk
proceeded to express his opinion of the
chief executive of Kansas, A few ex-
tracts from the speeches as reported by
the Topeka Capital will be of interest
here.
Lucien Baker, of Leavenworth, a
leading republican, said:
ut seems to me that the governor of Kansas
has gone mad; he lie no longer ft to be the
representative or the executive of the people
| of Kansas prolonged cheers. BY the ac-
| ton of the governor to-day we, representing a
majority Of the republicans of Kansas, are I'M
| der no obligations to Lyman U. Humphrey.
We can expect nothing further from him In
this direction. The time has come when the
| people must arise above mere party lines and
| assert their rights. The time has come when
we must organize a state central committee
and put ourselves in fighting position, so that
| we can show on next November that we are
worthy of the august presence of l.. U. Hum-
| phrey. Who is Lyman U. Humphrey, that he
shall say II will not appear before you? Has
1t come to this, that we are so base 80 low.-such
| hellions-such yawpers-that we are not en-
| titled to the respect of the governor of Kan
sas? Can we, the people who elected him, not
| even receive his personal presence-we who
| rolled up this 1900 majority. Our duty is
plain; it is the duty of every republican who
loves his home and his state to buckle on the
armor and go forward to fight for the princi-
| pie which we cherish
Mayor Clement, of Wichita, another
leading and consistent republican had
his say:
1.-The intolerance, the arrogance, the bigotry
of the prohibition party has to-day eliminated
in such an affront and an insult offered by the
chief executive to the representatives of the
people that has never before been equaled in
the political history of this country. 1 have
| never in my twenty-five years experience in
| politics heard of such an affront. The spade
| that is to dig the governors grave next fall,
he himself has to-day put in the ground,
| and next fall you will hear the clods fall upon
that grave in cold aud sullen silence. Repub-
| hcanism in Kansas enrobed Lyman U. Hum
| phrey with the dignity of state which he wears
| to-day, and republicanism will disrobe him in
| November next. The executive of Kansas
| must be man who will hear the requests of
| the people. We came not as ruffians or
| helliOns, but the gentlemen here to-day are
| capitalists, business men. This work must be
done within the republican ranks. Whatever
favor or aid prohibition has ever had came
from the republican party by grace and not by
compulsion.' Concluding Mr.. Clements said:
| II presume there is not democrat within the
sound of my voice; we are acting as repub-
AOoho POACAJ dhu hu thoroughly
in favor of at once proceeding to make a new
state organization of the republican party in
| Kansas"
w. R. Payne, of Wichita, another re-
publican leader and re-submlssionist
said:
You can ransack the history of this coun-
| try from the day of George Washington and
| you cannot ind an instance where the execu-
| tive officer ever failed to meet the people over
whom he presided. If the right Of petition is
taken away from us there is nothing left"
Emmett Callahan, of Wichita, said
that the action of Gov. Humphrey was
1.-The damnedest, most Indifferent, out
rageOus act that any executive had ever
been guilty Of"
The convention then proceeded to
| organize state central committee for
the new republican party of Kansas.
In the evening there was mass
meeting of republicans in the same
hall the object being to still further ex-
press disgust at the action of Governor
Humphrey in refusing to meet the re-
submissionists. The speeches were
very bitter. Uttered by democrats they
would have been hooted and Kissed in
any town in Kansas and the speakers
| would have honn ooIlod roholO oOd