People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11

the political shysters Of a waning DO.
litical party can descend. These same
operations complained of have been
practiced by republican officials at
the Topeka insane asylum, and at
various poor farms in the state. The
Kansas Medical Journal of Sept. s,
ledited by republicans in the course
OF a two column article on the affair
says:
1T is hardly considered the prov
lnce of a medical journal to seek OPP
pOrtunitieS to reply to campaign dOcu-
mentS, but when they involve the
honor and standing of the medical
profession, it is necessary as a matter
OF defense, and the ordinary tribute
demanded of a professional man to
his profession.
\
This political article has sought
among physicians for anathema, and
found DIR. WILDER of Kalamazoo.
Mich, who declares that such opera
tlOnS are unlawful, unjuStidable, and
physicians who counsel or practice it
should be lodged in the Denitentlary.
and who declares it most unlawful
In most states. These .OprationS are
old as the profession, are the remedy,
and only remedy, for extreme and rep
rebate cases, recognized as legitimate
in the profession, and constantly
practiced by men eminent in standing
and learning. If any state or nation
has declared it unlawful and punish
able for the physician to make such
an operation as remedy for this dew
aStating vice, and fOrbids him under
the dlSpleaSure Of its laws from so do
ing, we have not been informed of It.
There may be, but DR.. WILDER must
not cOnfOund the punishment meted
out to offenders, who, for some maley-
Oient purpose, commit this sort of
mutliatiOn on the pOSSeSSOr of a sound
mind in a sound body.
These operations are occurring con-
Stantly under the trained eve of
skilled physicians, and all honor to
the devoted man who seeks cure and
restoration, and gives back to the
state restored citizen, to society an
ornament instead of burden, and
who restores him to friends and fam
lily clothed in his right mind, robbed
only of beaStly and execrated curse.
1t is one thing to fling ordinary pO-
litical mud, and it is another thing
to denOunce proper conduct and en-
lightened methods to accomplish the
change of a few votes.
Some of the physicians of yelling
ton republicans, too have expressed
themselves publicly in a similar man.
ner and we have no doubt Others
would do so if pressed for an ex.
preston. The following from re.
publican newspapers have a bearing
on the farce, also:
The Times didn't run the Pitcher
supplement sent out by the republi.
can state central committee, and has
a mighty low opinion Of the republi.
can papers that did. There never
was so much fOulneSS dumped into
the homes of the people as was con-
tanned in it, and 1T made no converts
to republicanism.-Walnut Valley
Times.
The Times is right. The State
Journal didn't print the matter be
cause it was unfit to appear in news.
paper. Its only place was in a med.
ical work. Certain words were used
in the filthy article that never ap
peared in a newspaper before anC
never should again. Two or three
newspapers in the state exhibited
the fact that their managers don't
understand the province of true jour
nalism. We talk Of being ashamed
of Kansas. The people Of Kansas
have had reason to blush ever since
copies of these papers welt back east
Topeka State Journal rep
THE DOODLE CHARGES.
Ever since the POpulist administra
tiOn came into power republican pol.
iticians and papers have iterated and
reiterated their unfounded charges
about its receipt of Doodle from Kan
sas City gamblers and joints. The
Capital Of September IA has a rehash
of the story, and In fact the republi-
can campaign is based upon this and
other similar ISLANDERS. While no de-
Tense is necessary, we desire to refresh
the memory of our readers respecting
few facts relating to this subject.
These charges are not new; they
are merely a reiteratlOn of the scan.
dsls published in the Capital during
the session Of the state legislature
and which resulted in the appoint
meDt OF a senate committee to inves-
tigate them. The committee was
composed of two POpulists, two repub-
licans and one democrat, and it made
a unanimous report at the close of
the investigation. We clip the fol-
lowing paragraph from that report:
We beg further to report as to Governor
Lewelling, his private secretary, Fred j.
Close, and Attorney General Little, that we
find no evidence showing that they or either
Of them, received money for any official act
or influence whatever, neither did they, OF
either OF them, know OF the use Of any money
to influence their own action in any manner
whatever, or TO affect legislation or the ap-
pointment or election Of any officer what
ever.
And this report was signed by L. P.
King aud A. G. Forney. Populists: S.
0. Thatcher and ]. W. Parker, repub-
licans, and by W. P. billiard. demo-