Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-29
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ciaIs had Governor Humphrey and Mare
tins messages printed by thousands in
combined form in German, English
and Swede at public expense and sent
out at the expense of the state as re-
publican campaign literature.
Desiring that your people be better
informed here and now propose to
you that Will furnish with pleasure,
at my own expense, to any republican
In Kansas, copy of stubborn Facts"
which as you know treats more fully of
the things mentioned in this letter, on
receipt Of postal card.
Sixteen years of my life have been
devoted TO teaching, therefore / feel
competent to give instruction in Zig
ers" as well as reading and riten,"
and in future. if can be further use to
you please command me.
But again, you have also been report
ed as saying that 1.-The present state
administration has been collecting
Doodle for campaign funds from the
lotteries, joints and gambling houses,
that this Doodle is collected in consid-
Grafton that they are not mOlested.
You doubtless know that am treasur-
or of the populist state central commit
tee, and as such receive and pay out all
money collected for campaign purposes
and as to your statement, 1 wish to say
it is wholly and entirely untrue. have
not received one dollar from the source
you mention for campaign purposes, or
for any other purpose, nor will l re-
ceive it under any consideration, as my
sworn statement after election will
show. 1t is commonly understood that
former republican administrations have
systematically collected slush campaign
funds from this source, and 1 have very
strong reasons that there are certain
persons, presumably republicans, repre-
senting themselves populists author
lied to represent the administration
and whom believe are taking advan-
tage of the established custom and are
fleeing these institutions, stating that
they are collecting funds for the peo-
pies party. But if such is the case, the
funds 80 collected must either go in the
republican campaign fund or into their
own pockets. All such persons are OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses as
no one is authorized to collect such
money.
And further, all such statements as
you are represented as saying are un-
qualifiedly false, and made for political
purposes only. am not surprised that
you, with your long training with form
er republican administrations in such
methods, should presume that the
same thing exists in the popullst party,
but such is not the case, Mr.. Troutman.
And besides, you know as mem Der of
the last legislature, that the antilotte:y
bill passed by the popullst senate, was
messaged to the republican house
March 3rd, and was not called up until
March 18th, when it was amended, too
late for the senate to take action there
on before adjournment. 1t was largely
through the influence of Representa-
tive j. K. Cubbison ofWyandotte coun-
ty, that this bill was delayed, amended
and thereby defeated. Mr.. Cubbison
was renominated no doubt, on account
of past services in assisting prominent
republican lotterymen in Kansas City,
Kansas. Jam es F. Legate says Cubbi-
son received $1,000 for his help in de-
feating this anti-lottery bill. (Legate,
you know, is considered good authority
by republicans now day. Cubbison
was renominated on an ti-lOttery
platform. 1t is the same old thing over
again, and the people have the platform
and the lotterymen have the candidate.
Now Mr.. TrOutman, don't you know
that the republicans have the mayor
and council of Kansas City, Kansas,
that make the ordinances under which
the Metropolitan police system is gov
orned? Don't you know that the re-
publicans also have the county attorn-
ey, 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 fifty
citizens of Wyandotte county, they can
have grand jury to investigate these
lotteries, joints and gambling houses
said to exist there if they wish to do SOP
And don't you know that republicans
can have everything their own way if
they wish to close these institutions?
And don't you know that when popu.
list attorney general undertook to close
them and arrested a prominent lottery
man, that republican judge released
HIM on writ of habeas corpus? And
finally don't you know that the repub-
licans don't want to raid these institu-
tions because 1t will expose prominent
republicans? And don't you know that
almost the entire influence of the re-
publican party (which is in the MAORI
ty there) is thrown against the power
Of the police commissioners
Then Mr.. Troutman, why are not
you and other republicans honest, and
tell the people the actual facts about
these matters? Why attemp: to mis-
lead the people of the state by charging
that the opulist state administration
is responsible for a condition of affairs
over which your party officials have
absolute control? Let the people be
the judges.
Very truly yours,