People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-31
WELLINGTON KANSAS. FRIDAY AUGUSTa1 1894

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, / to your statement, l wish TO say that
, il is wholly and entirely untrue.
have not received one dollar from the
sources such as you mention for cam
paign purposes, or for any other pur'
poses. nor will receive 1t under any
consideration. as my sworn statement
after election will show. AS you
know, the new election law, passed in
1893, requires me to make a sworn
statement within thirty days after
the next election, stating specifically
all monies received by me for cam
paign purposes, from whom received
and or what expended.
1t is commonly understood that
former republican administrations
have Systematically collected sluSh
campaign funds from this source, and
| have very strong suspicious that
there are certain persons presumably
republicans representing themselves
as POpuliSts authorized to represent
the state administration and whom
telieve are taking advantage Of the
established custom and arc heeclng
these institutions, stating they are
collecting campaign funds for the
Peoples party. But if such is the
case, the funds so collected must
either 20 into their own pockets or
else into the republican campaign
fund. All such persons are obtaining
money under false pretenseS, as no
one is authorized to collect said funds.
either by the state administration or
Peoples party state central commit
tee, or any other person or committee
for the benefit Of the Peoples party,
and any lottery man or other per-
son violating the state law of Kansas,
is either a knave or a fool for paying
such tribute to any person suppOsing
that it will be used in the interests
of the Peoples party, in any man Ter,
as such tributes are not exacted and
will not be accepted by me if paid.
And further, all such statements as
you are represented as having made,
are unQualihedly false, and made for
political purposes only.
AN not surprised that you, with
your long training with former repub-
lican administrations in such meth.
ods, should presume that the same
things exist in the POpulist party,
but such is not the case, Mr.. Trout
man. And beside, you know, as
member Of the last legislature, that
the anti-lOttery bill passed by the
POpulist senate, was mesSaged to the
republican house March 3rd, and was
not called up until March |, when it
was amended too late for the senate
to take action thereon before adjourn
ment. 1t was largely through the in-
huence of Representative ]. X. Cub
bison, of WyandOtte county, that this
bill was amended, delayed and there
by defeated. Mr.. Cubbison was re-
nominated, no doubt, on account of
plst services in assisting republican
lOtterymen in Kansas City, Kansas.
James f. Legate says Mr.. CubbiSon
received $1,000 for his help in defeat
ing this anti-lottery bill, (Legate, you
know, is considered good authority by
republicans, nOwadays.l Cubbison
was renominated on ananti-lottery
platform. 1t is the same cid thing
over again, the people have the plat
form and the lotterymen have the
candidate.
Now, Mr.. Troutman, don't you
know TINT the republicans have the
mayor and the council of Kansas City,
Kansas, that make the ordinances
under which the metropolitan police
system is governed? Don't you know
that the republicans also have the
county attorney, sheriff, probate
judge, district judge court of common
pleas and finally the supreme court
Of the state? Don't you know that
on the application Of 6fty citizens Of
WyandOtte county they can have a
grand jury to investigate these lot
teries, joints and gambling dens said
to exist there, if they wish to do so?
And don't you know the republicans
can have everything all their own
way if they wish to close these insti-
tutiOns? And don't you know that
when POpulist attorney general un-
dertOOk to close them, aud arrested a
prominent lottery man, that a repub-
lican judge released him on writ Of
habeas corpus? And finally, don't
you know that the republicans do not
1 want to raid these institutions be-
cause it will expose prominent repub.
licans? And don't you know that
almost the entire influence Of the re-
publican party (which is in the ma
jOrity there is thrown against the
power of the police commissioners?
Then Mr.. Tr0utman, why are not
you and other republicans honest.