The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-25
AN EXACT ILLUSTRATION.

\ What President Cleveland Has No Right
to Do Gov. Leweiling Has No Right to
| DO.
| Any man in Kansas who wants to
know the right of the case between the
governor and Col. Hughes has only to
take an impartial glance at perfectly
| fair illustration a little removed from
| the home circle The constitution of
the United States provides that no con-
| gresham shall be interfered with in
| the discharge of his duty from certain
| time before session of congress be-
| gins, during that session, and to GER
tain time after. 1t defines what the
duties of congressman are and says
| that nobody shall interfere with the
discharge of those duties in any way or
manner. Now, suppose when congress
assembled recently the lower house had
been closely divided, and in the midst
| of hot blood some foolish minority (say
| ten men or a hundred men, or any
number) had taken possession of the
| house, locked the doors on the inside,
and denied admission to the majority.
| The majority on the outside of the
doors come up and consider what
are their rights. Turning to the
constitution they find that no one has
any authority to interfere with them in
their work of making the laws of the
United States. The rights which all
| have any one has. 1t will be viola
| ton of the constitution and statutes for
| the people inside of the door to prevent
| either one or all of those outside from
entering the hall The hall belongs to
one legally elected member as much as
to another and no power, except a rule
! of the house, could by any right what
ever prevent any one or all of those ex-
cluded members from going into the
house. Now, suppose this conclusion is
reached by those who are being exclud-
ed from the house, and either a single
mers Der or all the members, so exclud-
ed, acting concertedly, proceed to
enter the hall. from which they are
thus unlawfully shut out, by any means
in their power; suppose that after
they have entered the hall and taken
their seats, those who have attempted
to exclude them send over to Grover
| Cleveland and ask for troops to come
and drive out those whom they at
tempted to exclude by locking the
doors Then suppose the president
orders regiment of troops to go to
the capitol and expel every man from
| the house. dead or alive, except such
! as those who are allowed to remain by
the faction attempting to do the eX-
Guiding, does any sane man suppose
that any commander in the army of
the United States would consent to
obey that order? Most assuredly he
would not. Any commander of troops
in the United States Knows of the con-
stitutional provision relating to non-in-
reference with the lawmakers in either
branch of congress and would fatty
decline to shoot or otherwise interfere
with any such members holding prima
facie evidence of their election ac-
cording to law. ANY such commander
would know that if he refused to obey
and was tried by court martial, those
sitting in Judgment on him would de-
eide in his favor, not only because all
decisions have always been that way,
| but because no army officer would for
| a moment consent to decide that he
could be put in a position where he
could be forced to obey an illegal order.
The commander-in-chief of the army
chat is, the presiden0 is bound by law
Just as much as the humblest soldier,
and it is Just as much wrong for him TO
violate the law as for any underling to
do so. ANY court martial ever convened
in the regular army would acquit any
officer who declined to obey the presi-
dents order to eject legally elected
members from the house. Indeed, if
anybody would be convicted by such
court it would be those who violated
the constitution by locking the doors
in the face of one or more of those
legally entitled to enter the hall.
This case is absolutely parallel to
the one of Gov. Lewelling and Col.
| Hughes Our own constitution con-
tains the provision that no member of
either branch of the legislature shall
be interfered with from certain time
before any session, during the session,
and to certain time after the session.
| A majority of the members of the lower
! house were interfered with by being
shut out of the hall which is under
their jurisdiction and under no other
/ hc tACluuCl
opened the door, as they had right to
do, and went in. Gov. Lewelling or
dered troops to drag them out again.
This was clearly violation of the con-
stitution, clearly an illegal order,
clearly an outrageous proceeding, and
Col. Hughes properly declined to obey
the order. There is not cleverness
enough in the entire populist party to
be able to get any officer in the regu-
lar army, to say that Col Hughes did
wrong. On the contrary every man IA
miliar with military law bears willing
testimony that he did right. 1t is n
simple matter of a chump governor
acting under the advice of hair
Drained demagogues against a level
headed military commander who has
made military law and military usage
study and knew what he was doing
when he declined to kill the men who
had been chosen by the people to come
to the capital and make their laws.
ANARCHIST SNOW.
Red-Roaring Guns Are Entirely Out of
| His Line.
The most culpable of all the advo-
Gates of violence and lawlessness in
Kansas is the present state printer, Mr..
| E. H. Snow, of Ottawa He is the most
culpa BILE because he is among the most
intelligent. He is purely an actor on
the editorial stage. He is publishing