Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-21
THE DOODLE CHARGES.
Topeka Letter No. %

Topeka Letter NO. 2.)
a constant howl has been going up
from the Daily Capital and its echoes
ever since the last session of the legis-
lature about bOodle having been paid
to the heads of this administration to
influence the appointment of certain
men favorable to the gambling shops
OF Kansas City, Kansas, and to prevent
any legislation antagoniStic to their
interests, Notwithstanding the fact
that at the Capitals request a special
committee consisting of three popu-
lists and two republicans was appoint
ed at the time to investigate the charges
and found no trace of any money hav-
ing been received by a single official;
the report of this committee was unan
imOuS
The Capital editor knows that there
is nothing in these charges at all, bu.
that does not matter, as his purpose is
served just as we'll by repeating an old
falsehood as inventlng a new one.
Now, 1t may be possible that some
fellows in Kansas City, Kansas, who,
like great many of the ''ring leaders,
in the old parties, know no politics ex-
cept Doodle politics, are working those
gamblers for suckers by claiming that
they own this administration and can
give them just what they want if they
will only put up the money. Say the
gamblers, upon this promise, put up a
few thousand to these fellows, and
they don't get what they were promise;
what then? Why, they will squeaI just
like this Lawyer" Smith of Kansas
City, has done. That's perfectly nat
ural; If he was getting what he paid
for he would have kept quiet; certainly
there would be no cause for squealing.
Now what better evidence would any
fair minded, sane man want than this
to thoroughly convince HIM that If he
(SmIth) had any dealings with certain
alleged individuals that they did not
deliver the goods he had paid for:
1t strikes us that this Lawyer
Smith is the go-between of the gam
blers and these fellows who pretend to
own this administration, and he, no
doubt, has portion of the silver OBJ
tanned for his services jingling in his
pockets now, and proceeds to howl be-
cause the administration has not done
something he bargalned with some
tramp politician who has no more in
fluence with this administration than
j. X. Hudson, that it would be done.
If Lawyer" Smith is honest, he is
simply sucker, but we believe the gen.
eral opinion of those who read his letter
is that lie is one of the same fellows
who was being paid by the gamblers for
doing work that his gigantic brain was
not capable of encompassing, and was
deceived into believing that certain par
ties had the power Of attorney 10 make
such contracts as he claims were made.
We have a parallel case in mind. In
certain town in this'state a man was
running joint contrary to law, few
years ago, and he had certain fellow
on his pay roll who belonged to the
Temperance League, and claimed that
no prosecutions were ever instigated by
it until he had first made a personal in
vestigatlon and recommended the same
The jointist felt that he was secure and
made his regular monthly payments
promptly till one day he discovered his
mistake by being arrested. His hired
mar had no connection with the league,
only as frequenter of its meetings, he
learned after it was too late. lie run
the gauntlet and his hired fixer iran
the town.
The Kansas City case is, from the
best information attaInahle. parallel |
one, but that makes no difference to the |
fellows who are hired to mlsrepresent
the peoples chosen officials. They never
have, never will and do not intend to |
treat them fairly. If they did they |
realize that their vocations would be !
wiped out at once.
Smith has been arrested for criminal
libel, and he will probably find out !
before he gets through with the case
that he has been duped and lied to by |
the fellows who have claimed to rule /
this administration. and sell its good |
will to this or that corrupt concern, for
so many dollars in cold cash.
j. MP.
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