The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-08-31
SOME PULLMAN HISTORY.

since, in a studied and in
interview, expressed a deep sym
patty for the strikers contendiDg
with the Pullman Palace Car COM
pany and their sympathizers. His
purpose was doubtless to make po-
litical capital for himself. The true
character of the Governor is plainly
manifest when you compare his late
spring OF 1898 in connection with
the action of the State Board of
Railway Assessors.
After years of litigation, when the
Pullman Palace Car company,
having been defeated In the courts,
first consented to give in its proper
ty for assessment. it gave $4,000 as
the valuation OF palace car. The
State Board of Railway Assessors, In
fixing the assessed valuation, put it
at $4,000 which was probably in
about the same proportion to its cost
or value as other property in the
state is assessed. What is known
az the tourists car, which is very
plain car, and car in which the
laboring man could afford 90 take q
nights rest, the cost of a berth be-
ing at that time only fifty cents, was
assessed at 81 $50 per car. The State
Board of Railway Assessors. COM
posed of the present populist etate
officers, whose actions were passed
upon and approved by the Governor
in his capacity as member of the
State Board of Equalization, re.
duced the assessed valuation OF the
Pullman palace cars from $1,000 to
81 500, making q reduction of $500
per car, and raised the assessed val
uation of the tourist car, in which
the poor man rides, from 81 500 to
$4,000. There are many more palace
cars that run through Kansas than
touriet ctrs, so the result was that
the sum total of the assessed val
uation of Pullman's property was
reduced nearly % per cent. The
tourist car, with the plain, comfort
able bed in which the laborer'and
poor man could ride for fifty
cents, had the assessed valuation
doubled, and as result Mr.. Pull
man takes advantage Of the oppor-
tunity which the reforn admins
tration gave him, and raised the
price of a berth to one dollar,
a very short time after this re-
duction the assessed valuation of
the property of the Pullman Palace
Car Company, Mr.. Lewelling and
his state administration were given
free ride in Pullman palace train
to the Worlds Fair and return. The
train in which they left the capital
city of this state was q gorgeous one
Mr.. Lewelling was not then COM
planning of Pullman's iron heel, but
he did complain in his recent inter
view most bitterly in regard to the
porter's fees, from which we judge
that the service of the porters were
not donated.
And in the face of these facts Gov
ernor Eewelling is now posing as
the laboring mans friend and the
enemy of corporate greed"
Hon. w. F. Rightmire, who was
the candidate of the populist party
four years ago for Chief Justice, and
who is still a member of that party,
on June Sth. wrote an open letter 10
the Hutchinson News, of this state,
and over his own signature made
the following exposition of the hy-
pocrisy of the present administra-
ton in it's pretense5 of being the
peoples friend as aginst the corpor-
atoms:
RIGHTMIRE'S STATEMENT.
"After the State Board of Railway
Assessors of the state of Kansas hau
assessed the rolling stock of the
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the state of Kansas IN 1887, and had
refused 10 reconsider its action, as
the time approached when the taxes
levied upon the said assessment
were about to be collected, the Pull
man Company brought an action in
the Circuit Court of the United
Sta les in and for the first division OF
the district of Kansas against all of
the counties in the state through |
which its ears were run, and against
the county treasurers of such coun-
ties, case No. 57773, asking for an in
junction restraining the collection
of the taxes assessed against the
said company.
"The injunction was granted on
the 1st day of February, 1s8S, and on
final hearing in said court the de-
cree of the court was for a dissolu- |
ton of the injunction, and the val |
iGity of the assessment and the levy
of the taxes was affirmed by the cir 4,
cult court.
1.-THE Pullman company gave bond !
and carried the case 10 the supreme |
court of the United States. While |
this case was pending in tie SUI
preme court of the United States, in |
1883, a new case was filed by the said /
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