The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-07-27

committee Of investigation repeatedly asked Mr.
Carnege's Mr.. Frlck, and which Mr.. Carnegle's
Mr.. Frick as frequently gtubbOrnly refused to
answer. AS matter Of news, the answer In de-
tail, to such question, was Of the highest In
terest.
The Journal wholly ignored the dispatch in
question. While such o policy is consistent, the
Times dOubtslf 1t is effective. A newspaper can't
fool all Of It's subscribers all the time When they
learn that party organs cease at times TO be news
papers they bestOw their patronage elsewhere
If our friend In Raymore desires to read the
news, he will scarcely cOnfne his attention to
Republican organs In this state during the cam
palgn. Most of them are 80 buslly engaged In
standing up for Missouri, In their own peculiar
way, that they have no time to tell the truth re-
garding the baleful workings Of protection in the
great protected state. When fact Is revealed
which they deem hurtful, they guppresslt It. They
impose upon the intelligence of their patrons.
The Journal is not alone. They all dOit
The most important testimony Civ
en- before the congressional committee
was entirely suppressed by the Jour-
nal. Why? Because it revealed a
conspiracy to reduce the wages Of
employees and implicated congress in
that conspiracy.
But we have another instance of the
suppression of news on the 10Th in
slant. On the 18th Jerry Simpson
offered a resolution in the house di-
recting a day to be fixed to discuss
and vote upon the Peel bill opening
the Cherokee strip. In the course of
his remarks upon the resolution Mr..
Simpson charged that Republican
officials high in authority had re-
ceived bribes for the privilege of pas
turing cattle upon the strip and for
delay in opening it for settlement.
He had a letter read from Henry s.
Landis, clerk of the district court of
KlowR county, as follow:
Last fall when the department was crowding
the cattlemen, they made up $4,000 or $4,000 for
the purpose Of getting immunity from disturb
ance and stopping all Interference. They sue
ceeded, and this spring when the pressure be-
came too heavy again. the department went In to
drive out the csttlemen and they sent the troops
to clear the strip. The troops started in good
faith to do their duty. The cattle men were
alarmed and had been bled by the powers that
be for the past ten years, and wanted nothing
but little time to get their cattle fat so they
might get them out.
About this time one Guthrie arrived at KlOwa
and proposed to give the cattlemen protection
for 70 cents head, and to assure them that they
would not be mOlested before December /. They
doubted his authority, and had been bled so
freely in the past, and recently had paid some
one nearer home, whose name have not been
able to get, $1,000 for protection that did not
protect, that they at first refused to deal with
him. He then produced letters from officers
high in position, aud think among others from
Gen. Noble, convinced them that he had the
requisite power to protect and then they began
to dicker with him, and finally settled the matter
on their basis:
PAID FIFTY CENTS HEAD.
They paid him % cents per head cash down
and gave their note for % cents per head, pay
able on December1. 1. The notes being at Klowa
bank, this cash, 25 cents per head, was paid d.
rect to Guthrie and the notes were made pay
able to him.
No cattle were counted and send you the
a..
taken at their own figures, and showing the ma
ture Of the skin game. All this was gone through
with, and the notes are now at the bank at
KloWa.
GUTHRIE ORDERS THE TROOPS.
While the troops under Captain Paddock were
trying to get the cattle out this man Guthrie In
terfered so that Captain Paddock telegraphed
the department about his (Guthrie'S) claims Of
authority and his interference, and received a
telegram In reply telling him Captain Paddock