People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-18

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which, it is by many suspected, that
Others, including yourself, have re
ceiyed personal gains"
Very Respectfully,
Signed NELSON +. ACERs.
This is a pretty howl for an attor,
ney to set up after getting his clients
money. A lawyer who would thus
recklessly disburSe his clients money
without being able to show where il
went, and to whom, except his own
word for it. is as big a ScOundrel as
Kline himself. Rob a man of his
money and then howl that the other
fellow did not deliver the goods.
Bearing upon this charge of Kline
and Acers we quote from the testI-
mOny of James f. Legate. EXamina-
ton was conducted by the inyeStiga-
tiOn committee above referred to, and
can be found on page l29 of the tran
script on file in the secretary of states
offices.
Q. want to ask you whether you
paid any money at any time to Cen
eral Little within the past six months.
A. Inever paid General Little a
mill, penny, a'dime, dollar or any
other sum since he was born into the
world.
Q. will ask you the same Ques-
ton as to Mr.. Fred Close.
A. My answer is the same as to At
tOrney General Little.
Q. Or any other state officer?
A. My answer is the same as to the
others.
There is a point in all of this alleged
paying of money that the reader must
not lose sight of and that is that no
where has Kline or Legate or AcerS
claimed to have paid any money to
any state official in person, by check,
draft, express, money order or regis
tered letter.
Just when one becomes interested
in their story, thinking he is getting
to the point where the money was ac-
tually paid over to an official, 10, and
behold, it was Legate or Acers who
Kline paid the money to and they
have failed and refused to say under
oath on the witness stand what they
did with the money they got from
Kline. Legate said in his testimony
that he paid it to persons who tray
eled over the state to secure votes to
control legislation, but he could not
recOllect the name of a single indl-
vidual he paid it to nor where they
lived nor what their age was. The
fact that that AcerS had said himself
in one of his letter that none of the
deals which were arranged for were
fulfilled, is evidence conclusive that
Hines money was not paid to anyone
who had power to influence the gov
ernOr in his selection of the police
commissioners, but on the contrary
says commissioners unfriendly to
Kline were appointed. We don't won
der that Kline complains and feels
yindictiye towards the administration
for not doing what the bunco lawyers
took his money for. Kline is a victim
of misplaced confidence and if he lives
long enough he may learn that his
lawyers were the ones who robbed him
and no one else.
1t is plain why these lawyers are
bowling 50 loud about the adminiStra-
tion going back on their alleged con-
tract. Kline is demanding of them a
fultllment of the contract they got his
money to buy and as they kept the
money it naturally follows that they
have got to make this kind of a play
to satisfy Kline. Kline. in his letter
says, he sent Attorney General Little
$1,000 in crisp 500 bills at one time.
but he did not say by what means or
by whom he sent it: one of the most
important links to connect the whole
story was left out. 1t is the general
opinion that Kline said in his letter
that he gave it to Legate to bring I'D.
but Cy Leland scratched it out as he
knew that such an explanation would
be more detrimental than to leave it
in.
The letter further shows that Kline
has Oeen allowed TO run by this means
when republicans were in power and
that Legate and Acers were to go-be-
tWeenS, and he placed confidence in
them. When they could not make
the deal work with PopuliSt officials
on a fifty per cent commission as in
former years with the republicans
they resolved to keep all che money
and raise a howl that the POpulist
state officials went back on their con.
tract.
This seems to be the only plausible
solution to this dirty piece of Cam.
paign argument, and is no doubt the
Correct one, as all the evidence goes
to show that Kline's attorneys got
the money, as they admit, but cannot
show what they did with it. The
more this matter is aired the more We
are convinced that Kline's lawyer.
have robbed him as he in turn ha:
buncoed thousands of Others, and that
ne Kline has been promised the nam
ing OF police commissioners for Kan
sas City, Kansas, who will shield hi,
business in case of Morrill's election
as pay Tor his afidavits and letters
Kline says he could not make it 90
His lawyers say they could not max,
it go, and he hopes if he can defea
Lewelling, he will not be molested il
the future, as he was not in the pas
under republican rule. These letter
area compliment to Lewellings admin
lstration and furnish uncontradictOr,
evidence that Pete could not buy tn,
police board as formerly from the gov
ernOr of the state of Kansas T,
fully shcw where Pete Kline stands il
this campaign, We give here few ey
tracts from the Leavenworth Times