The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-26
SOME POINTS FOR GOVERNOR HUM
PHREY AND HIS FRIENDS.

Best be Secured by Keeping Political
TriCksterS Out Of Office.
From the Topeka Capital CONCEAL republican
state paper April q, 1892.
The interviews offered the public yes
terdsy by Governor Humphrey, intended
TO be facetlous and unconcerned over the
articles published in the Capital, fail to
offer an answer or an apology to the peo-
pie Of Kansas for using executive patron
age and influence to secure another Office
nearly a year before the gubernAtorlal
term has closed. The governor, In order
to cover his own haste to promote him
self, calls attention to the satisfactory
appointment Of Bishop W. Perkins as
senator. The Capital has not discussed
nor referred to Senator Perkins, who, we
are pleased to say, is doing his official
work in the senate In very satisfactory
manner to the citizens Of Kansas. The
Capital and its editor have never found
fault publicly or privately with Senator
Perkins for taking what was offered him
by Governor Humphrey. We are not
discussing Senator Perkins at this time,
but Lyman U. Humphrey, who as COVER
nor of Kansas Is better known for his lack
Of courage In performing his official
duties than for any other qualification of
head or heart. We have known we'll and
personally every governor who has served
Kansas since it was admitted into the
union, and while some have not worn the
laurels OF scholarship or craftsmanship,
Governor Humphrey is the first and we
hope he will be the last to whom the hu-
initiating sneer, "he has the backbone of
the angle worm," has been applied by
men of all parties, but oftenest by repub-
licans. The governor, in all his inter
views yesterday, carefully prepared and
revised by him, did not fail to assure the
people that there was no bargain in the
appointment Of Senator Perkins. The
governor doth protest too much. The
Capital has not charged that there was
a trade, but that thought has been in
everybody's mind, and has no doubt been
expressed more frequently than any
other comment upon the governors pres
ent hunt for another office. Governor
Humphrey stated in one of his interviews
regarding the senatorial contest of last
winter that the editor of the Capital said:
"If would appoint him United States
senator he and his Capital would send
me to congress" 1--we did not know
that the governor carefully revised this
interview after 1t was written we should
certainly place the above inacuracy
against the reporter. AS it is we can
only say that the subject of congressman
of the Third district was never mentioned
by either Of US at either Of the interviews
during that week. While all were puz-
zled over the "playing" Of three or four
men Of fully the Cslibre and standing Of
the governor, we are sure at that time no
one conceived it possible for Governor
Humphrey to have the gall to run for
congress year before his term expired.
That our readers may see the character
Of the governors reply, we give herewith
from the Kansas City Journal, the gem,
the particularly brilliant and dlgniied
gubernRtorial effort:
For man to be q party Nestor, which Hud-
son wants TO be, and for him to be eiernally
stirring up fights, eBgendering quarres and
practieng political barratTy. II inconsistent And
it 10 particularly inconsistent for him to brew
these quarTels Ouf Of his own disappointed pO-
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