People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-16

We clip the above article from the
Oxford Register, paper independent
Of politics. 1t is a just rebuke to Judge |
Naugle, who is always preaching re-
form, economy and talking about the
old parties depressing the poor. Now
for thirty minutes labor, this apostle?
of reform, and friend ? of the poor
man charges poor widow, according
to the Register, Eighteen dollars ard
some cents" Is this carrying preach
ing into practice, reform into effect?
Rise up Brother Naugle and answer.
Tell the good people Of Sumner coun-
ty that you were elected to the Office,
that your fees are fixed by law, that
you are compelled to charge a poor
widow exhOrbitaet fees, because Re-
publicanS made the laws, ETC., etc.
Tell them as you did in your last issue
of the VOICE, that a poor man has
no place in this country except under
the sod" and this poor widow woman
will certainly believe you tell the
truth.-CaldtoeH Ne,DS.
We had not intended to make any
comment about this matter in the
VOICE, deeming it unnecessary, but
since the Sunday school poser down
on the border has seen fit to vent a
little Of his spleen on the affair, we
beg indulgence.
Will the Ne,OS publish the article
from the Oxford Register this week,
and attach the same Importance to 1T
by reason of its being an independent
paper, as it did to the Registers first
article? The editor of the Oxford
Register is a gentleman, but we shall
have to wait and see if Bro. SimOnS
develops any qualities of that sort be-
fore we pronounce on him.
We want to add further for for Bro.
SimOn'S information, that Il half
hours" consultation with the Probate
Judge frequently entails enough rec
ord work to last week. Being an at
tOrney he ought to know this. This
case was not quite so bad as that but
if the editor of the Ne,CS will call at
our Office We will show him a true fee
bill made out for this case under his
aforesaid Republican fee law which
would call for s24.3O. Our conscience
would only allow us to reach about
half way up to Republican law in this
case.
Again. we might add that while all
former Probate Judges have received
a part, and with only one exception
Judge Chapman), all Of the $500 per
year salary, which the Board OF COun-
ty Commissioners is authorized to al.
low, Notwithstanding our avariciOus
nature, we have never filed bill fol
nor received any Of it.
Again, let US remark, (beg pardon il
we impose on good nature), that we
are using all our meagre ability to Ill
the Office Of probate judge, to which
we were elected by the good people OF
Sumner county, satisfactorily. W.
+ lay no claim to superior judgment
but we cannot help but feel gratiSfet
+ that we have advanced more than {
year in our term, and as yet have haC
: not single appeal to higher cOurr
e from any decision we have made
e Whether or not we have decided righ
at all times is for Others to say, bu
certain it is, that we have satisfied
y iitigantS and saved them further ex
3 penSe. This is a record that no 9th
, er Probate Judge in Sumner count
: has ever made.
e We shall expect to continue to de
l. vote our best energy and intelligenc
: to the administration Of the duties 0
|. our Office barring an OccasiOna
necessity to administer a deserve
spanking" to such fellows as the ed
" tor of the NeoCs) and we hope to b
q able to show a clean record at tn
o close.