Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-04
MORE coFFEYvILLE REPORTS.

Alliance Memberp-Senator Carroll Also
Makes . Report.
TOPEKA, Kan, May 2s.-The repub.
ican members of the Coffeyvilie in
vesti9ation committee submitted their
report to the governor this morning,
finding verybody innocent and de-
nouncing the alliance for its sus-
ocratic member Of the commit
tee, could sign neither the report
of the alliance nor that OF the Repub-
ican members and submitted one of his
own The report of the Republican
members is brief effort, containing
between Is, 600 and GO, 600 words, while
the separate report of Senator Carroll
contains 600.
From the same evidence the alliance
and republican committeeman arrive at
exactly opposite conclusions Senator
Carroll hates the alliance more cordially
than does any republican in the state.
but could not sign the republican re-
port and do his party justice. The
partisan reports leave the entire matter
just where it stood before any investi-
CATION was ordered.
The republican members gave their
conclusions in five pages of type writ
ten matter, while forty-ive pages give
their argument and reasons for the
finding. After reviewing the steps
taken before the house of representa-
tives for ordering the investigation, the
republican report declares:
1.-The investigation, instead of being
instituted for the laudable purpose of
exposing and Furnishing crime, was
urged and advocated to crafty feelings
of personal hatred and desire for re-
venge and was taken up and forced
upon the people of this state by the
alliance party at an expense of S12, 600
or more, for political buncombe merely
for the sole purpose of endeavoring to
smirch the repu blican party and gain
some political advantage
1--WE find further that the explosion
was not the result of any conspiracy
instigated by the republican state CEN
trail committee, nor one in which any
member of that party nor any employe
of the state was implicated, as charged
| the resolutions The proof is clear and
convincing that the use or explosion of
dynamite was no part of the plan of the
republican state central committee for
conducting its campaign; that it had
| nothing whatever to do with the ex-
plosion at Coffeyville and was in no
Henry Booth, Bion S. Hutchins, E P.
Greer, c. A. Henrie and George w.
Poorman were not in any way con-
nected with the explosion nor accessory
| thereto
| The republican end Of the committee
| further declares that there is no evil
dence tending to show that the failure
| to investigate the explosion was due to
neglect of officials, and that the APP
pointment of c. A. Henrie as clerk in
the bureau of statistics was in no way
connected with service rendered by him
as dynamiter.
The republican report is signed by
Senators Kimball and Mohler and
Representative Bishop.
| CARROLLS INDIVIDUAL REPORT.
| Senator Carroll's report is bitter de-
nunciation of everything connected
with the investigation. He declares
| that he cannot subscribe to either the
| republican or alliance reports and says:
THE CoffeEvi1le explosion happened
| in the year 1883. It was charged upon
the republican party by members Oh
the union labor party and by members
of the republican party it was charged
| upon the union labor party and upon
| the national order of ''videttes,'' a
secret political organization which
then existed mostly within the union
labor party. This political party, trans
formed into the alliance party, coming
into power, this explosion and the
charges that had been made in refer.
ence to it. were considered to be OF
sufficient political Importance to war
rant preliminary investigation at an
expense of many thousands of dollars
70 ho ~ r%a%4
cation has been had No good has been
| done. No one has been shown to be
guilty and those who claimed to know
| put upon the witness stand, knew moth
! ing except what Mrs Grundy had told
| them.
THE general report states truthfully
that this was a political investigation,
| political quarrel in fact between the
| republican and the alliance parties
am in hearty sympathy
with the alliance report in its animal.
| versions upon certain unconscioRable
| disciples Of Ananias who deliberately
| invent falsehoods to deceive the public
for political effect and then 60 upon the
witness stand and unblushingly testify
| to their own shame. There should be
| no distinction between the political and
the private liar. The standard OF
morality should certainly be as high in
those matters which affect the public
| veal in those which relate to the
| private concerns of life.
/ 1.-The evidence shows that c. A. Hen
| RE was intimately associated with the
anarchist Parsons when he was in To
peka in 1885, and that he was hired to
go to Cincinnati and New York in the
interest of the republican party. 1t
| would seem that Henrie was in the bust
ness of betraying his associates for hire
and that he aided in exposing the order
of 'videttes' with which he was con-
| nected-''
Senator Carroll Is Of the opinion that
| the evidence is not sufficient to show
that Henrie was connected in any way
| with the explosion He adds that, un.
der the circumstances. Henrie should
never have been appointed to a position
| on the labor bureau.
Gen. Eggleston Dead.
| WICHITA, Kan, May sa-Brig. Gen
B. B. Eggleston died yesterday morn
ing at the ripe age of "a. The deceased