The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-31


In your issue OF Angus goth there are
some resolutions denouncing me for my
actions as a member of the state board OF
health passed by the state board of health
meeting of August 29th. 1 wish TO state
that / did oppose last years appropri-
atoms of $4,000, as letter in DR.. Dykes
Office will show If he has filed it away.
Last year, before the appropriation was
asked for, DR.. Dykes wrote a personal
letter to each member Of the board
stating thar his correspondence was
SO extensive and that cholera was IN
EurOpel and that it was liable to get TO
Kansas in a very short time and he
wanted 5000 to hire a clerk with. (but
did not state that there was already $500
appropriated for that purpOse.l L wrote
him that l thought he WAS amply paid
for all the work there was to do and that
I was not in favor OF using any Of the
money for that purpose. " hen the board
met after he CDR. Dykes had sent out
these letters he told me that DIR. T.
Swarts and myself were the only ones
opposing and the rest Of the members
we're in favor of the appropriation. So I
thought | would not say anything as the
appropriation might be a benefit to Kan
sas, and, as the resolutions say. may
have seconded the motion. I visited my
district and made my report as any one
can see by getting the ninth annual re-
port, state board of health, page 206. and
when I made my report 1 urew the 500
which was appropriated to pay car fare.
hotel bills, and for my time spent IN Wis
iting the v--ious counties in the SIh dis
trict
received no notice Of the June meet
ing of this year. DR.. Dykes says he
mailed me proper notice; be that it
may, the notice never reached me and
when l saw report of the meeting IN
your JOURNAL l wrote Governor Level
ling and asked him if my appointment
had been revoked. as had not been no
titled Of the June meeting and It might
be posi- BILE I had been dismissed. He
wrote me I had not been dismissed and
that there were no charges against me
and | was still member ID good stand
ing and he could not understand my let
ter. | wrote him on June 9th, and ia ihs
letter l said:
ssAs you are one Of the executive com
mittee 70 guard the special appropria
ton Of ten thousand dollars cholera
fund, advise you 10 keep 4 hand on the
purse string. Privately there is, 1 think,
ON hand "a move 10 get another slice from
the s., 200 loaf that is IN the states treasury
Of the chOler.s fund.
Now. governor, there IS q niger in
the wood pile and If you keep your ewes
on the $4,000 money pile you viii see
the coiOred gentleman. / wish you TO
watch as well as pray and keep things
quiet and see what viii develop"
On June 20. 1884. when tbs governor
saw the coIoreI gentleman he wrote me
as follows:
TOPEKA, jane 26th. 1891.
DEAR SIR have on-y tl's 1a5insns been
10 reach your ie.ter Of tn 5th MSS 1 UNI
eiersJand from you write yOa
ton 5000 nlaOe fot tne Of ne BOARD
Of health. 1 am AtIormsd tiial tne board Of
prOpr .atOns. think yOu should advise The lne-il-
Ders OF Inc eN -cutYe couAcii " yoar pos isI H.
vii he better Ss.rVssl merely V.ry frtly yolr
L. -. l-EWrLLISG. Governor
In answer to the above L wrote the
governor letter stating the facts [
saw them and filed my objection to the
appropriation Of the chOlera fund as fol-
lows:
II object First-Because it is a use
less xpsnditure Of the peoples money.
Second Because the legislature di1
not SET apart ten thousand dollars to bs
used by the state board Of health on jun
keting trips over the state.
Third That there is no cholera or
any scourge in our land needing special
attention.
-Fourth-That the health officers Of
each county are doing ali thai IS neces-
sary for the preservation Of the health Of
the state.
"F4fth-That where there is a special
visitation Of disease that demands tho
and taking care of scourge1 districts.
then and not until then am 4 ia favor or
a special appropriation OF the ten thOus-
and dollar cholera fund
"Respectfully submitted,
Il. NJ. Hoover. N. D.
/ am sorry and panied 10 Un-nK thO5e
resolutions denouucIng should be
presented TO the board by one whom 1
thought WIS my friend, and 1, like CLeser
of old, when he saw the senators one by
one, draw their daggers he looked at
Brutus and thought sBrutus will be 10y
al to me- yet Brutus drew the dagger to
kill his friend: SO like Caesar I must ex-
claim, you. too, SwArts-
On the 3rd Of June 1894 [ wrote DR.. E.
Swarts a letter asking hlm If he had
been notified Of the une meeting and
received the following letter:
KANSAS CITY Kans., June 4. 1894.
Z. NJ Hoover. Haistead, Kansas.
DEAR DOCrOR--I reserved YOURS of the 3rd
ed while there The lOmoeopatls and a4IofA1ns
cOnsu ted and left me Outs even our eclectic
was called IN and Was Win them The bills
were not read and passed upon. but left with the
secretary and president. SO you see how the
thing Is manipulated. Dykes told me he had
there Between you and me there is dot
lars In IT, and when I get Ilat am agoing 10
resign There IS a mig GER in the WOOGpile.
Keep mum. and we viii gsl UP d sensation when
get all Gus Ut lt we CAN Yours.
f. SWAKIZ. NJ ID.
Citizens of Kansas Read Dr.. Swarts'
letter carefully, aud see if 1 am a fAbri-
Gator and maIigner of my professional
assOciatesS
Which one of the two has been true
to the trust imposed on usY
If preventing "a misrepresentation Of
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