The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-08
WHY SO KIND?
A Warm Feeling Between the Admins
tration and the Pullman Company.

A Warm Feeling Between the Admins
tration and the Pullman Company.
Mr.. w. f. Rightmire says from what he
knows about affairs of state, the pre-
sent executive council must be owned BY
the Pullman palace car company.
In speaking of the Pullman Company's
relation to the administration today, Mr..
Rightmire said:
In 1898. in February, called the at
tention of the governor and attorn ey
general, personally to this matter at diff
ferent times and informed them that the
Pullman company was taking advantage
of the state of affairs in the circuit court,
and compromising the claims of the
counties in which its taxes were large
amounts, and escaping the legal penal
ties for nOn-payment. and asked that such
action be taken would save to the
counties the penalties and the full
amounts of the taxes, and was promised
by both that action would be taken at
once.
1.-TWO months afterwards on inquiring
of Clerk Sharitt 1 learned that nothing
had been done, and at once went to the
capitol to see the governor and attorney
general, to learn why nothing had be en-
done, and / was plainly told that it was
none of my business; that they were
running the state, and would run it in
their own way. 1 returned to my office
with a determination to watch for the
results, and what were they? First-A
reduction of the assessment of Pullman
cars $500 per car in the assessment of
1898 by the board of railway assessors;
second-a free Pullman train to take
state officers and their invited guests to
to Chicago and return for Kansas week
at the Worlds fair, and nothing done yet
in the matter in court.
son the calling of the docket of the
United States circuit court for the pres
ent June term at Leavenworth, while
John IT, Little attorney GENERAL of X an
saS, was present to protect the interests
of his private clients, in the case of the
Black Bob Indian lands, he sat in the
court room and looked wise, when case
No. 611S of the Pullman palace car com
pany vs. Allen county ct al, was called;
in the words of the prophet Isaiah. AS
sheep before her shearer is dumb, so he
opened not his mouth" and the case was
continued to the November term of the
court and probably by that time, the
Pullman company will have its delin-
quent taxes all settled in the different
counties, by its pretended generosity of
paying the same before the Injunction
cases are decided, if the counties will
throw off the penalties and interest.
"Great is reform as practised by the in
cumbents of the state offices. but it is not
the reform that accords with the reform
principles of the Greenback, Union-La-
Dor and Peoples party, that for SO many
years have received my support, and be-
cause l do not bow the knee and cry
sGreat is Diana of the Populist party,
the sweet smelling bouquets that are to
be found in the state house, L and all
others who preserve their independence,
and will not bend the knee to incompe-
tence or the corrupt blindness that looks
complacently upon the joint ridden me-
tropoIitan cities, like Topeka. with her
sixteen Incorporated club rooms, are
branded as kickers."