The advocate., 1890-10-08
fegoed his own defeat last MONTH

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hesitate TO aver that "MrB. Lease and
Mrs. Diggs are chasing George Wash
Ington and Abraham Lincoln with Bene-
dict Arnold" III you but knew really
we'll the farmers Of Kansas" you might
understand that newspaper that SLAM
dera philanthrophiC women receives from
them wholesale condemnation, and hence
you could help your deCaying party more
by studied avoidance Of future assaults
upon the gentler SEX
''THE ONLY THING AT STAKE Is PROHI
BTION."
What a philosophical declaration, es-
pecially from the official paper Of the
state Of Kansas, that is straining every
nerve TO secure the reelection Of Lyman
U. Humphrey TO the Office Of governor,
who personally knows but little Of total
abstinence and who Is the boss paFdoner.
Why, just think Of the matter for
minute. In the inception Of prohibition
In Kansas, under the administration OF
Governor John p. st. John, not pardon
was granted TO him who had been duly
convicted In the courts Of the state Of
violating the provisions of the prohibIto-
ry liquor law.
And In the years Of 1883 and of 1884,
while George w. Click was governor,
twenty-five persons of the class referred
to were paTdoned by him, while, with
prohibition at this time shining sue
cess" in some twenty months Of the ad-
ministratlon Of Governor Lyman U. Hum
phrey this class OF pardons and commu-
tatlons have reached 1861
Let the executive clemency shown to
Hotel-Keeper M. Conn, Of Lawrence, and
to "Master Jointist" Owen Nugent, of
Wyandotte county, by Governor Hum
phrey be presented as glorious examples
OF successful prohibition through the
chief executive
REVIVAL OF THE STRUCTURES UPON Gov
ERNoR CLICK.
BE 1t remembered, that on January 26,
1886, Governor John A. Martin trans
mitted to the Kansas Legislature a re-
port Of pardons granted by Governor
Click, prepared by him, which embraced
all OF the same during his term of Office.
And, also, that Hon. Charles E. Faulk-
ner, a Representative from Saline county,
moved that this report, messaged to the
House, be referred to the committee on
judiciary with instructions TO report
whether the legal reasons assigned by
Governor Click in the pardon cases are
such as constitute sound precedent for
the exercise of the pardoning power,
which motion prevailed and the message
was 30 referred.
Hon. j. B, Clogston, chairman of the
judiciary committee and who thisyear re-
tired from the position Of supreme court
commissioner, in his report on this report
of pardons from Ex-Governor Click, said:
Ex- Governor Click In granting the most Of
said pardOns for violation OF the prOhbtOTy law,
from the papers and records In such cases now
on ille In the executive OtllCe, abused and mis-
used the pard0nng power by exceeding the au-
thU.lty In him vested.
The Judiciary liz n coordinate and independent
branch OF our government, and In no way TespOn-
sIble TO the executive department; and executive
interference ought never tO be had for reasons
assigned In the aforementioned cases until the
remedies prescribed bylaw have been exhausted,
and such Interference Is clearly an abuse OF the
pardOnlng power.
Now, let the conscientious, dispassion-
ate and intelligent republican prohibi-