Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-25
ToPEkALETTeR.
TOPEKA. KANs. July %

TOPEKA, KANs., July %, 1894
The republican state central com.
mittee from the best reports obtaina.
bic, is fully equipped with the best
political liars to be had and has entered
upon its work of redeeming Kansas
The State Journal of July 18th, says
the committee have $50 100000 on hand
which would incline any curious per.
son to ask where it came from in SO
short time and for what purpose 1t is
TO be applied in redeeming Kansas.
The following extract from the Tope.
ka Journal Of July 18th, Will throw a
little light upon the subject:
1.-The republican state central COM
mlttee has apparently gone back on
the Topeka Capital. The sub commit
tee of five Of the executive committee
of the state central committee this
morning made an agreement with the
editors of the Topeka Breeze McNeal
" Higgins, IT. A. McNeal and George
Higgins, brother of Ex-Secretary Will
liam Higgins by which ten thousand
extra copies of the Breeze are to be cir
culated every week during the cam
paign, and the Breeze is to be the Or
gan of the state central committee.
The Breeze is printed by Geo. w.
Crane"
Now as the Breeze has been desig-
mated as the official state organ of the
republican party, the people will no
doubt be little curious to know some
thing about it. Your correspondent
went through the plant to ascertain
its claim to such mark of distinction
before it was dry behind the ears, so to
speak. 1t is not old enough by six
months to be entitled to publish MOTTO
es of legal character, and has replac-
ed the Capital, published by an old
soldier, in the affections and conf
dence of the republican heelers. The
paraphernalia of this wonderful publi-
cation consists of three racks, an i'm
posing stone, half dozen or more cas-
es, four sticks, a mallet, shooting stick,
ETC., etc. Has two very ordinary young
squirts as editors, and two female type
settlers. 1t is located beside Cranes
printing shop, but not close enough to
interfere with Mr.. Cranes employing
union printers in his job plant and rat
printers in the Breeze office. The prin-
cipal work Of the Breeze will be to fur
nlsh lies about the populists for the 2x4
country editors to copy in their papers
Now, you have it as we'll as its object
and aim, the principal one of which is
to elect Geo. w. Crane state printer
should his Breeze blow a republican
majority into the next legislature.
The first republican shot from head
quarters is the Introductory to and the
letter of w. F. Rightmire which ap-
peared in nearly all the republican pa
pers two weeks ago. In this article
Governor Lewelling is charged with
reducing, as member of the state
board of equalization, the assessed val
uation of the Pullman palace cars in
consideration of Pullman pass. This
lie is so notorious that it hardly de-
serves reply, but for the information
of those who may not be informed up
on the subject, we will show by quot
ing the law on page 2105, section 1927,
2nd VOL, statutes of 1899, that he is
not even member of the state board
of equalization. The section referred
to reads: The state board of equall-
ization shall consist of the secretary oil
state, auditor of state, and treasurer. ,
Neither is the governor one of the state
assessors as will appear from sector
6S72 on page % of the same volume. II
reads: For the purpose of assess
ment of railroads and the property of
railroad corporations, the lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, treasurer
of state, auditor of state, and attorney
general are hereby constituted a board
of railroad assessors who are empower
ed and it being hereby made their duty
to assess all the property of the rail
roads and railroad corporations in the
state of Kansas" The following quo
tation IL the charge taken from the ar
tcle referred to.
1.-The present board of railroad as
SCISSORS composed of the present popu-
list state officers, whose actions were
passed upon and approved by the gov.
ernOr in his capacity as member Of
the state board of equalization"
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carried Pullman pass. The governor
assured us personally that he has not
and never has had Pullman pass since
elected governor of Kansas. In expla.
nation of the rest of this malicious ly'
ing article, we give below letter from
Attorney General Little which covers
a great deal of ground, yet it would
take three columns of space to take W
every charge and show wherein it is 6
malicious falsehood without a single
| fact to base it upon. This letter ex
plains itself.
DR.. Walter Crew, Mankato, Kansas
DEAR DOCTOR: Your letter of Ju
~ l4th, containing clipping WHICH first
appeared III Inc hutchinson News, q
republican newspaper of Kansas, or
June l4th, last, over the signature OF
one w. f. Rightmire of Topeka, was
| duly received.
find that the republican PARTY is
sending this letter to every republican
paper in the state and having it pub
lished. l will give you statement OF
the case. In 1886. the state board OF
railway assessors for Kansas, assessed
the coaches or rolling stock of the
Pullman Car Company, the same a:
other railway property In Kansas. The
Pullman company claimed that it was
an Illinois corporation and that the
stock of the company was assessed in
Illinois, and that the company could
not be compelled to pay taxes on its
property i'll this state. The company
therefore commenced an action in the
| L. s. court against the officers of sixty
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