The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-03
IT FELL FLAT.
AND THE GOVERNOR IS STILL IN
A" "PECK" OF TROUBLE.
Mr.. dwellings Reply to Douglass
Charges the Flattest Kind
OF a Failure.
BE Follows Out the Plans of the Bald
Hornet, Dunsmore, as Predicted Yes
terday by the Eagle.
A Full Statement of the Facts Given to
the Press by ]. G. Wilson Clerk
Of the United States Court
at Topeka.

to reply to the charges made by Hon.
George L. Douglass, the crowd in atten.
dance was comparatively small. 1t is not
45O, certainly. it was not more than that.
The governor was accompanied by his
private secretary, Fred Close and Judge
Foote of Marion. At 7:3O he entered the
hall and shortly after was introduced
by Mr.. Helm, chairman of the
Popuiist county central committee.
The governor talked for an hour along
regular. genuine old fashioned calamity
ines. in which he paraded the number of
banks that have been wrecked in the state
before the people. He referred to the
country was on the edge of moral politi-
cal and material ruin," and rebuked his
hearers for partially disregarding aud feel
ing ashamed of this plank. "It is true, y
said he. with a heaving boosom, and then
he went on to demonstrate his assertion
by calling attention to the many
suicides and failures of the past year.
He paid his compliments to Joe
Hudson and Andy Felt, and got off that
ancient gag about there not being salt
enough in Kansas to save the Republican
party. With another swell of the bosom
he made the assertion that the people of
Kansas were ten times worse off than the
people Of Ireland. From Ireland he trav-
eled over to France, and made the asser-
tion that there were a million and some
odd thousand houses in that country
without pane of glass. He rather
liked France, but why he did not
clearly state, unless that the French
had less glass in their houses
than Kansans. What a field Brother Lew.
elling could have in country where the
people were too poor to have windows
What an opening he would have there to
spread the seeds of anarchy and institute
a rebelliOn!
Well, after talking, as stated, for an
hour along this line, the governor came to
the matter of his conference with Mr..
Peck, the chief solicitor of the Santa Fe.
He followed out the program announced
in yesterday mornings EAGLE. He accept
ed the advice of Mr.. Dunsmore to
the letter and tried to drag himself out OF
the "Peck of trouble" he was into by say.
ing that he recognized Mr.. Peck of the
Santa Fe railway as the head and manager
of the Republican party. The EAGLE pre-
dicted this advisedly, and it all turned out
in accordance with the prophesy. Even
Judge Babb and Helm and Kies and Cone
were there to applaud as stated in the
EAGLE.
The governor acknowledged to start
with that he had the conference with
Mr.. Peck, as Douglass stated. He
said he never denied that, and told
it to everybody around Topeka and yet,
strange as it may appear, the newspaper
men of the state capital always eager fol
news, never heard of the matter till it was
telegraphed from Wichita. The remarks
he made with reference 20 this matter are
given in full further on in this article AS
furnished by himself to an EAGLE reporter.
1t is well, however, to call attention to
some of the points he made before
that part of the article is reached
His greatest point was that the
terms of the compromise written by
George r. Peck were exactly the same as
those submitted by him to the Legislature
the previous day. II that is the case. why
did he telephone Mr.. Douglass to do him
the favor of not using his name In connec-
tion with the said terms, and why did he
beg of Mr.. Douglass at the conference the
next day to give him back the paper con-
tanning this compromise? The cunning
Mr.. Dunsmore forgot, evidently. to fill up
this gap for the governor Did
the governor deny the statement made by
Mr.. Douglass to the effect that he tele
phoned to Withhold his uame from the COM
promisea Not much. He left that state
ment go unrefuted, or rather Dunsmore
did, for the latter was probably in a hurry
to catch the train.
Tho governor says that Peck sent fol
him and this is not denied; but the gov
nor said that Peck was a stranger to him,
1t is strange that the governor of the great
state of Kansas, with civil war brewing
around him, the assassin lurking behind
every tree and his wife and daughter in
tears, should get up from his bed and
brave all these dangers to answers the
summons of a railway attorney. Ii Mr.
Lewelling was not catering to the infiu
ence of the railroad company why didn'I
he say to Mr.. Sells, as dignified and in
ueptuucut SONctEOi WOuiu nave shitAf IL
the attorney for the Santa Fe railroad
company wants conference with me lei
him come to my house and see me-" Oh
no, the general solicitor of the Santa Fs
sent word To the governor that he wanted
to see him, and at midnight
the governor left his bed, disregarded the
tears of his wife and daughter aud the
assassin's bullet and went to see Mr.
Peck. Did not this mean something?
Then this railroad attorney led the grea,
governor of Kansas through dark al
leys and gloomy stairways into somethin. .
like a court room where conference was
held. And the chief executive of great
state followed as IL a halter had
been around his neck. Just
think of this. And in this gloomy
court room the attorney for the Santa lie
made up terms of compromise, while the
governor smoked cigar. and the COVER
nor signed this compromise when the rail-
road attorney asked him to do so.
George Douglass said the governor sent
him this compromise document with q
messenger boy. The governor says tha,
there were but two copies OF the docment
signed. that be has one OF them yet and
that Peck must have sent the other one
to Douglass if it was ssnt at all. BY refer.
ence TO the back dies OF the EAGLE an As
sociated Press dispatch says: Before
the break OF day the governor ssat Il con-
mnn.cation to the Republican house oi
representatives" etc. Another report
says: After midnight messenger arriv-
ed from tie governor. etc. Il looks as Il
George Douglass is right aud Mr. L:well-