People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-05-05
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CHAs. f. WEIGH.
Wellington. Nov. sth. 80.
| hereby certify that Z. Z. Welch has re-
ported as official reporter OF mycUatt. nine
days in the month Of October, 1890
lsEAL.l JAMES A. RAY.
Judge, Dist. Court, 18th Dist.
Attest-ThOs. DOnOhue, Clerk.
By Chas. A. Newman, Deputy.
This account was presented to the
county clerk, who as the law directs,
issued warrant for the same. The
statute was followed till March, 1891, ,
when Mr.. Welch took his accounts
before the commissioners for APPROX
al, but still presented them to me
for my certificate, which | made sub.
Stantially as above. On November
Bird, Mr.. Welch informed me that the
county commissioners had decided to
allow him per diem for every day he
attended court, whether he did any
work or not, and | gave him this GER
tifcate:
hereby certify that Chas. f. Welch has
served as official stenOgrapher OF the district
court OF Sumner County. Kansas D days. and
attended court day, during the month of
October. JAMES A. RAY, Judge.
| continued to give this character
of certificate until April, 1892. Upon
an examination of the voucher No.
232, | find Mr.. Welch left out of the
certificate the word served" making
it read ATTENDED court only. This
change in the certificate / never OBJ
served until today. Upon this bill he
drew STA for January, February,
March and April, but as the account
Is not itemized as before, am unable
to state the amount of illegal charges,
If any, on the same.
You say Welch only drew pay upon
one voucher without my certificate.
Upon examination you will find that
he drew Sl62 upon voucher No. 81,
and STA upon voucher No. q,
neither of which | ever certified to.
Adding to these the $50 illegal fees
drawn for attending court, we have
1906 illegal fees, to say nothing of
what may be found in the S4l4 bill.
Your comments upon my want of
dignity. which is made manifest by
noticing your filings, are, must con-
less, rather appropriate, for we Re
publican judges are expected to sit
silently upon our dignity and allow
the ISLANDERS and villiticatiOnS to go un-
noticed. But since the elevation to
the bench Of Naugle, Mckay and Ba-
shore, some of whom play both Judge
and editor, and direct their legal no
tices to be published in their own pa
pers, the people have lost much of
their respect for the ermine, and do
not expect or require the decOrum,
which once characterized the judi
ciary. The thing to do these days is
to be one Of the common people, one
OF whom lam-yes, and very common.
Ne one knows better than myself how
much you dislike to see refOrmer's
fees cut, for | well remember when a
Republican senator, J. W. FOrney,
introduced bill to cut the probate
judges fees, while you was clerk and a
prospective judge, you hied off to To
peka and remained for weeks lobbying
against the bill till it was defeated,
and how bitterly you denounced the
senator on your return. | was also
In the convention hall when you were
nominated on a platform pledging
your party to enact just the law
which you defeated and so denounced
Senator FOrney for passing Oh! We
generation of hypOcrits, who have
been warned of the wrath to come.
Finally | will remark that il has
not afforded me any pleasure to ex-
pose Mr.. Welch, and it will be con-