Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-20

additional barricading as soon as he
had withdrawn.
This was the condition of things in
Representative hall-this was the char
acter of It's occupants-when Colonel
Hughes refused to obey the order to
eject the 'insurrectionary body of mem
from the hall.
We are convinced the order was
lawful, and that Colonel Hughes dis
obedience was without any excuse a
soldier can be heard to urge"
The above statement is signed by w.
IL. Sears, brigadier general; S. A.
McGinnis, colonel; Ii. Sargent, lieuten-
ant colonel; Charles McCrum, major,
and j. S, Jacobs. first lieutenant. COM
prising the entire membership of the
court.
Following are the charges preferred
against Colonel Hughes and referred 10
in the findings OF the court:
Charge 1-Disobedience of orders of supe-
rior officer.
OpcClncaIlOU In tQAI OOl. j.. w. FL Hughes.
Third regiment Kansas national guard. hay-
ing been ordered with his command into act
Ave service, and having received from his gu
per1or and commanding officer, L. D. Lew
Cling. commander-in-chief Kansas national
guard, lawful command and order in writing
expressed in substance as follows: A copy of
which cannot be set out herein for the reason
that the same is in the possession of the said
accused.
STATE OF KANSAS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE
February Is, 1893.
Especial Order No.
To Col. J. w. +. Hughes. Commanding the
Forces In and About the State House and
You are hereby ordered and commanded to
proceed at once without delay with sufficient
force to Representative hall and clear the
same of all persons not members of the Iesis-
lature or lawful officers of the house.
l.. ID. LEwELLING,
Governor and Commander-in- Chief
The said Col. J. w. F. Hughes did neverthe-
less deliberately neglect and refuse to obey
said order.
This at Topeka on February 15 1888.
Specification Pin that Col. j. W. F, Hughes,
Third regiment Kansas national guard, having
been ordered into active service and having
received from his superior and commanding
officer, L. d. Lewelling, commander-in-chief
udtAOudi kudTu, u COulmduu anu OTQer 10 pro-
coed with armed forces at his command to
Representative hall of the capitol building of
the state of Kansas and eject therefrom an
armed and riotus and insurrectionary body of
men there assembled, did nevertheless neglect
and refuse to obey said order.
This on the 18th day of February, 1893.
Charge 2-Speaking words, inducing others
in the military service of the state to mishe-
have before the enemy.
Specification lin that Col. ]. w F. Hughes,
Third regiment, Kansas national guard having
been called into active service and having re-
ceived from the cOmmander-in-chief the ord
ers mentioned in the specifications to the fore
going charge; first. did on the evening of Feb
ruary Is, in the presence of L. d. Lewelng,
commander-in-chief; II. H. Artz, adjutant
general, and other officers of the Kansas ma
tional guard, make the following statement in
substance: THAT Gov. LeweIling was wrong
and that he would not feel bound to execute
the order to clear Representative hall" and
used other like language, and made other like
statements of a nature disparaging to such
governor and commander-in-chief.
This at Topeka on or about February Ii, 1893.
Specification 2-In that said Col. j. W. F..
Hughes. having been ordered into active SER
vice and received said orders, did, in the pres
ence of his superior officer and other gentle
men mentioned in the foregoing first specifica-
ton within the second charge. say: That he
would not guard the state house and grounds
unless the governor would abandon the idea
| of clearing the mob from Representative hall
This at Topeka on or about February 15 1898
Charge 3-Giving intelligence TO the enemy.
Specif1catiOn-In that Col. J. w. F. Hughes,
Third regiment Kansas national guard, having
been ordered into active service did go in per-
son on the evening or night of February Is,
1S93 and personally appeared among and in
the presence of an armed and riotus body of
men collected in Representative hall, and
which he had heretofore been ordered to eject
therefrom, and then and there informed them
| that he was their friend, and had comma nd of
| the forces in and about the state house. and
that he would not obey or execute any order
| to r, move or interfere with them.
This at Topeka on or about February Is, 1885,
Charge 4-Conduct to the prejudice of good
| order aud military discipline, and demeanor
unbecoming gentleman and soldier
| SpecfcatiOn-In that Col. J. w. +, Hughes,
Third regiment Kansas national guard, having
| been ordered INTO active service did, on the
| night of the 18th of February, or at a very
| early hour of the 10th of February, 1893, enter
Representative hall and take part in meeting
composed of several hundred armed men and
| others who had assembled together to resist
! the orders of the commander-in-chief and
whom he had been ordered to eject from such
| hall, and then and there did address the SAID
meeting in about the following language, to-
wit: THAT they had nothing to fear tonight:
| that he had command of the state house
grounds and arsenal and that he would not al
low anyone to enter or leave the state house, >"
and further addressed them Ito rest easy;
that he was in command and was their friend -