Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-10
TRouTMAN RouNpeo.ue AGAIN.
Continued from last week

eNAS u S1oIO uHOucy Dy GON0TIOT NUN
phrey when he was candidate fol
congress in the Third district, referred
to by the Topeka Capital of April q
1892, as follows:
For six months he has had played.
out politician, a lazy political Ioafer
acting as his personal roustabout
This barnacle is borne on the rolls OF
the adJutant general as Lewis Han
back, at 500 per month, and has not
In the past six months done an hours
work in the adjutant generals office.
BE has been kept travelling about
looking after the Governors political
fences, for which services the Cover
nor has drawn on the contingent fund
which is under his personal control.
for $3.50. These orders given by the
Governor may be examined by any
tax payer IN the state auditors office,
as they are among the public records
open to all citizens. From December
Is, 1891, to April %. 1892, Mr.. Hanback,
drew on FIVE vouchers of the Governor,
$3.50, for special SERVICES extra SER
vices" etc, to each of which vouchers
was attached the following certificate:
i do hereby certify that the within
was contracted by me for the state un-
der authority of law, and the amount
therein claimed is correct according to
such contract, and is unpaid When
Governor Humphrey signed these
vouchers he knew Lew Hanback, was
receiving 500 per month from the state
not one dollar of which he earned. He
knew also that the private political
work Lew Hanback, was dong and is
doing today for him on the $50 he drew
on Monday, April 18th, was not an ex-
penditure Of the money of the state
warranted by exigencies of the public
service or contemplated by law"
Then tell me about the everlasting
disgrace on Kansas, at the Osawato.
mic insane asylum in 1877, an account
of which you can find in the republican
House Journal of that year. About
the drunkenness, lewdness and lasciv-
iousness Of your republican superin-
| tendent and other officials and employ.
es; how the superintendent abused the
attendants; how he mistIeated the pa
tients and refused them sufficient cover
to keep warm; how the superintendent
and lady employee were caught in
compromising position, and in his con-
fusion said, They had been catching
rats" and many other things too indie
cent to mention here, and which if pub
lished in a newspaper, said paper
would be shut out of the mails.
Now, Mr.. Troutman, l would feel
that owed an apology to the readers
of your correspondence were it not that
your party Inaugurated this kind of a
campaign. And promise you now
that if you want campaign on party
record we will give it to you to your
entire satisfaction. But, Mr.. Trout.
man, how can an honest man support
your party with record, seething with
rottenneSs worse than crime? Loath-
some indeedl With almost every
House and Senate Journal since the
formation of the state containing ono
or more reports of legislative investiga-
ton committees on account of some
bribery or crime by republican officials!
A party record too indecent for publ
cation in newspaper And almost
one out of every four of your republi-
can state treasurers defaulted. Think
| of it! Tell me the record of your party
on the things above indicated, and in
return for your kindness, renew my
proposition to send to any republican
who will furnish me his address, at my
own expense, a copy of stubborn
Facts" which gives in detail the items,
taken from the official records, where
bv the peoples party has saved to the
people of Kansas 81 ,4l2 ,63623.
Now, in regard TO the joints, lotter-
les boodling said to exist in Kansas
City and other cities Of the first class
in Kansas, you deny that you said in
substance as YOU were quoted, and then
90 on to try to show that what you
were quoted as saying is true by giving
some things which certain persons are
represented as having said. These
were opinions, or beliefs, or l think
SOS, which were formed on account OF
the shrewd and ingenious schemes,
stories and newspaper talk started first
by republicans and believed by some
populists. And you know, as lawyer,
Mr.. Troutman, that you did not pre-
sent q particle of proof or evidence
such as would be received by any court
to establish the charges made by repub
licans and republican newspapers for
political effect. Let me illustrate: l
have been told by citizens of Topeka of
all political beliefs, THAT you still owe
labOring men for work done building
the house YOU live in; that you do not
pay your grocery bills or debts; that
when collector for the seventh time
presented just bill to you for payment,
you put him out of your office and
threw him down stairs" Now while
the honesty aud integrity of a candi-
date are proper subjects for discussion,
especially OF one who asplres to the
second highest position within the gift
of the people of Kansas, yet 50 far as l
know this is only hearsay and rumor,
without the proof. Neither would let
tiers written by these parties and pub
| llShed over their own signatures be
sufficient proof for the public. q: the
other hand you are evidently working
on the theory that it is the duty of pop
ulists to prove themselves innocent, or
else they should stand convicted. there
by reversing the wellknown tenet of
law that Every man is innoeent I'M
der the law until proved guilty"
! Non, Mr a l.