People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-04-28

In plain words, Charley would in
quire of the Judge, if this discharge
was not for political reasons, then
what was it for? This seems to have
stunned his Honor slightly and more
than week elapsed before he picked
up sufficient courage to write again.
Then, suffering apparently from
wounded dignity, he proceeds to give
the young man a curtain lecture.
RAY TO WEIGH.
WELLINGTON, Kans., Jan. 10, 1913.
Chas E. Welch, Esq, Santa Bar
bara, Cal, DEAR, SIR:-Your some
what lengthy letter of December 30.
1892, in reply to my inquiry as to how
you voted at our last election, con-
tained in my letter Of December 10,
came duly to hand.
am somewhat surprised that a
man of your intelligence, a man who
held as important, lucrative and re-
SpOnsible position, as you have held
for two years, should be so extremely
sensitive and seCretive in regard to
how he voted. OF course we have the
secret ballot, and the law was, | pre-
sumo, enacted for the protection OF
the timid voter, who desired to cast
his ballot secretly, in order that he
might not be tampered with or intim.
idated: but until about the time OF
the election and since the election,
had not supposed that you ever need
ed the assistance of the secret ballot,
but it appears from your conduct
about the time of the election, and
since, by refusing to answer a simple
question as to how you cast your vote,
that the law has proved beneficial to
you.
| do not care now to state fully las
| have never been asked befOre) why
| became dissatisfied with you as a
StenOgrapher. | will say however
that | had been dissatisfied with you
for a number of months, and will
state only a few of the reasons why
became dissatisfied with you as an as.
sOciaGe and as a stenOgrapher of my
court. You will remember that
said to you some weeks before the
election that the Republican central
committee of this county desired that
the speech which | delivered at Cor.
bin should be published, and asked
you tranScribe the speech for me.
You remember that you began tC
tranSCribe the speech, but that there
was an order given you by the Demo
cratic committee of this county tC
report and transcribe the speech OF
the Honorable John Martin, which
was delivered at the opera house in
this city. You will remember that
the speech which | delivered anC
which | was making an effort to have
published, was by you laid aside, and
not transcribed until you had com
pleted the speech for the Democratic
committee, for the simple reason
presume, that you was being paid by
the Democrats to report and tran
scribe the same, and that you were
asked to transCribe the other with
out any compensation therefor.
was not at all pleased with your con
duct in that regard, although / sale
nothing at all about it at the time.
You will remember that when ! ap
pointed you as the StenOgrapher o.
this court, that | explained to yOU
fully the view which | took Of anC
the construction which l placed upOT
the statute of the state providing fOl
the appointment of and the cOmpe1
satiOn of a court stenographer. ! eX
planned to you that the legislature
by fixing per diem, simply meant
that the pay of the stenOgrapher
should be six dollars per day for the
time he was actually employed, ant
that | would not certify. or allow vol
any per diem when you performed nc
services for the county. For some
time you acted upon that construc
tiOn of the statutes and seemed to bt
satisfied with it, but finally you in
duced the county commissioners Il
allow you Sc per day for every day
which you claimed you were entitled
to, without any evidence whether yOl
had performed any services for TIT
county or not. You know that vol
charged the county and induced tn,
commissioners to allow you s6 pc
day for every day that court wa!
in session, and for many days wheI
you performed no services whateve
for the county, but while you wert
doing private work, for which yOl
were charging individuals the regula
fees allowed stenographers.
You will remem Der that during M
absence last summer you made out ;
bill against the county and induced
the commissioners to allow it, with
/ out any examination from me at all
and without any certificate from m,
as to the number Of days you haC
, worked. The statute provides tina
the district judge shall certify to th
number of days that the stenographe
serves and the amount to which he i
entitled. This statute you have. ant
did, disregard altogether and collect
ed from the county illegal fees.
5 l was very much dissatisfied will
,, this conduct in you, but am char
) liable enough to cOncede that yOl
thought you were not violating tn
law.
Last. but not least, | was very
much dissatisfied with your cOnduct
politically. You having been recon
/ mended to me as a Republican, yOl
having always represented yourseI
: to me as being a Republican; | o
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