Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-20
What Bill Hackney Said to the Gov.
ernOr.

ported as his verbatim talk:
Mr.. Walker, Mr.. Hanley, Mr.. Fin
ley and myself, came here for the pur-
pose of entering our protest against the
appointment of Mr.. Perkins. We, with
Rev. Kelly, took up your cause for the
Office of governor at a time when there
was apparently little hope of success.
We did this because we were your
friends, and believed that you were the
best man for governor of this state, and
believing this we were willing to go
down with you if we failed to nominate
you. No personal motives actuated US,
and there was no position at your com
mand that any of US would have We
came here and put in our time, and 1
came very near killing myself in the eff
fort, and l want to say to you as your
friend that you can not afford to appoint
B. w. Perkins, as it would be the polit-
ical mistake of your life. He has been
in congress from your district for eight
years. When he first went to congress
the republican majority in that district
was IN the thousands, and from that
time it dwindled until his final defeat.
The crowd that came here from that
district to help him was composed of
Office holders and men whose friends
through him had been appointed to Of
fee. Yet, Notwithstanding that fact,
they were actuated far.more by person
al friendship for you in getting him out
of what they thought was your way,
than by any desire to elevate him. But
the thousands of men in that district
good and true republicans who don't
want him-are not here.
Il was in Washington last winter for
nearly one month for the purpose of Sc
curing the passage of the bills opening
the Iowa and Sac and Fox Indian lands
for settlement. The administration was
favorable to the bills and the Indian
commission and Keokuk and other In
dian representative were there for the
same purpose, and there was not llv-
ing soul in opposition thereto, either IN
congress or out. He had been ordered
by the Indian committee, of which he
was chairman, TO report these bills, Tut
would not, and was sent there because
had been resident of his district and
had always stood by him; because it was
thought that he would report the bills
for me, when the Indian committee and
nobody else could get him to do it. He
had been notified before of my coming
and the object, and when met him he
received me in surly manner, and 1
was informed by him to 90 home; that
he would report them when, in his
judgment, the time came; that he had
served the people faithfully and well,
and they had gone back on him, and,
Cd d-m them, he did not care wheth-
er he did anything more for them or not.
1 had not been in the city twenty-four
hours until my rooms were thronged
with leading western Lobbyists who
were familiar with my rel with
him, who informed me III le had cut
loose and was bound tt mako all the
money he could during that, his last
session; that there was bill pending
before his committee, appropriating
some $4,000, 600 to the chickasaws and
Choctaws for claims for lands that they
had long heretofore been paid in full
for by the government; that there was
$500 600 in Doodle in that bill tor It's
passage, and that he was into the steal
to the tune of $75, 900; and demanding
that go to him as a friend, and make
him promise them portion thereof, or
they would publish the facts to the
world and smash the passage of the
bill, and that they would fight the pass
age of the bills wanted passed unless
l did it. did not want them to fight
the bills l represented, and in order to
prevent it 1 told them that I would
speak to him about it, but not wanting
to be a party to the scheme l never
did it.
~ was told by congressman when
urging their influence upon him to
make him report the bill, that he was
an Infamous scoundrel and was holding
my bills back, because there was no op-
position to them, in order to put his
steal through along with my bills,
which were respectable. and that his
name was as familiar with congress
men and lobbyists and every one else
with whom ! talked as boodler and
thief as the name of any harlot in To-
peka is familiar as such to the dudes of
this town. He afterwards secured the
passage of that So, 0OO, 600 steal. and the
facts coming out has caused this admin
Istratlon to refuse to pay out the ap-
preparation and the money has not been
paid to this day.
II am going to move back to Cowley
county, and If this appointments is made
l will take the stump next year and pro-
mulgate these facts and denounce him
from one end of this state to the other
as thief and boodler.
"Your administration has been clean
and able. | am your friend, and there
is nothing in your gift or that of the
party in this safe or elsewhere that /
would have, and would be false to you
as such friend did fail to make these
facts known to you at this time.
I'm addition to this. you know, and
know. if reputable mems words are al
all to be relied on, that he has denounc-
ed you as wishy-washy. namby-pam-
by ignoramus, a disgrace TO the state
and party, and that through your imbe
cility republican majority of 82,O0a
has melted to nothing. My experience
and others In his DISTRICT as well, have
demonstrated that he is political in
CRATE and Ishmaeiite. His promises
are worthless: his sense of obligation il
dead, and would not believe him on
oath.
II renamed in Washington twenty