The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-31

clear, emphatic terms: "The military
shall be In strict subOrdinatlon 70 the
civil power" The militia officer, though
he be the very commander-ln-chief him
self, shall act under the sberif's orders
So says our bill of rights adopted by mer
who had but recently experienced, In the
dispersion of a constitutional convention
by military force, the evil against which
they thus sought to protect the people Of
the new state. Geo. T. Anthony was that
day guilty Of the highest crime the chiel
magistrate Of free people can commit
1t was the identical crime for which the
people of England beheaded the naughty
Charles /, tore the crown from the AFRO
CANT brow of James II, and drove him
from the throne into banlshment. This
brazen, despotic lackey of a railroads
general manager should have been al
once ce-impeached? No. Tyrants are moi
successfully destroyed that way. Ac-
cording to precedent, he should have
been hanged. Yet, spared by too In
dulgent people, too suplnely careless ol
their dearly bought liberties, this pOmp.
ous, despotic piece Of clay, who dreams
himself god, has the insulting audacity
to ask the same people upon whose con.
stItutlon he so insolently tramplsd, aye
has the effrontery to ask that people In
these days, when they have at last be-
gun to
Rise like lions after slumber
and make determined effort to recover
their rights; worse still, dsres ask the
very worklngmen'S organizations which
he then declared conspiracies against
the public peace" and to crush which he
trod the sacred rights Of freemen be-
meath his tYrant feet, this same traitor to
Kansas liberty, this would-be hssty
shedder of Kansas blood, having been
too mercifully spared the doom Of ty'
rants before him, asks the people he &c
grossly affronted to place him, by theiI
voter, in another position where he may
once more thrust his ferocious claws into
the vltals Of their libertyI Aye, more
dsmnable yet his brazen impudence
This man who sought to make the civil
power of Kansas cover before the
bsyonet's threat; who, defying her bill oi
rightF, sought to set Kansas back among
the despotic monarchles of the middle
ages; this man who would have made II
treason for lRborer to complain toe
loudly Of railroad company's injustice
this cold blooded would-be assassin oi
the common people of Kansas, daref
come before the people he so outraged
and lnsolently urge that to vote for him
is to "Stand up for Kansasp But let ul
proceed. He wrote for himself blackel
record than any one can write for him.
"The troops" for which the sheriff had
not asked, and of whose coming he was
not apprised until they had left Topeka
arrived at Emporls, as the following tele-
gram, received that afternoon by the gov.
ernor, will show:
EMPoRIA, KAs., April 8, 1S78.- GOu. Geo. T.
| Anthony: We have now In our midst band O
fifty armed men who profess to come here undel
your orders for the protection OF the property o.
the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. We
simply consider this an insult to our civil officers
and citizens. We have been, and are still able
and willing to protect all the property OF the
road, and all the employees who are willing Il
work. We can't make men work but there hal
not been q time since this strike commenced
that 1t required more than six men TO do all the
police duty that was necessary. We hope tha
you will at once recall these troops, and we viii