The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-06-03
MORE coFFEvvILLE REPORTS.


Makes . Report.
Topeka, Kan, May 2s.-The repub-
ican members of the Coffeyville in
vestigation committee submitted thei-
report to the governor this morning.
finding every body innocent and de-
nouncing the alliance for its sus-
picions Senator Carroll the dem
ocratic member of the commit
tee, could sign neither the report
of the alliance nor that of the Repub-
lican mem ers and submitted one of his
own. The report of the Republican
members is a brief effort, containing
between $1,000 and 20, 600 words, while
the separate report of Senator Carroll
contains 200.
From the same evidence the alliance
and rep blican 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-five 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 a desire for re-
venge and was taken up and forced
upon the people of this state by the
alliance party at an expense of $4,000
or more, for political buncombe merely
for the sole purpose of endeavoring to
smirch the republican 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 GEN.
trail committee. nor one in which any
member of that party nor any employee
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 nc
wise responsible therefor, and that
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 ap
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
CARROLL'S INDIVIDUAL REPORT.
senator Carroll's report Is bitter de-
nunciaticn of everything connected
with the Investigation He declares
that he cannot subscribe to either the
republican or alliance reports and says:
THE Coffeyville explosion happened
in the year 1883 It was charged upon
the republican party by members OF
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
to the people of the state. The investi.
cation has been had. No good has been
done. No one has been shown to be
guilty and those who claimed to know
SO much before the investigation, when
put upon the witness stand, knew moth.
ing except what Mrs Grundy had told
them.
1.-The general report states truthfully
that this was political investigation,
a political quarrel in fact between the
republican and the alliance parties.
am in hearty sympathy
with the alliance report in its animad
versions upon certain unconscionable
disciples of Ananias who deliberately
invent falsehoods to deceive the public
for political effect and then go 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 as in those which relate to the
private concerns Of life.
THE evidence shows that c. A. Hen
RE was intimately associated with the
anarchist Parsons when he was in TO
peka in 1SsS and that he was hired tc
go to Cincinnati and New York in the
interest Of the republican party. II
would seem that Henrie was in the bust
ness of betraying his associates for hire