Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-09-08

on ever slnce-the gamblers paying
the state authorities for protection.
One of their own party openly made
this charge. He was arrested and
tried for criminal libel, but was de-
clared by jury to be not guilty. In
other words, the jury found that he
had told the truth.
The asylums of the state are
placed in the hands of persons
wholly ignorant of the duties of the
positions, under whose rule the in
stitutions become dens Of brutality,
or hospitals for the accommodation
for the sick, sore and weary mem
bers of the Calamity party.
The Reform school for boys is
placed under control Of superin-
tendent so brutal that the inmates
escape by wholesale.
The insane asylums, which were
intended to be quiet retreats for the
care of the most unfortunate class
of people in the state, are made reg
ular bear gardens, where quarrelling
and fighting are the rule, and where
the employees are so incompetent
that the buildings and inmates are
liable to be blown to fragments at
any moment.
The assistant in the attorney gen
erals Office is proven to have ex-
torted from a widow fee Of $500
for pretending to perform an act Of
justice that it was his duty to have
performed in good faith, free Of
charge.
The auditor of state kicks the su-
perintendent of the insane asylum
out Of his Office; and this superin-
tendent is continued in his position
in the face of fresh charges piled up
every day, of utter incompetency.
The secretary of state IS convict
ed by jury of having criminally
libelled a citizen.
The state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction attacks citizen in a
public place, using language be
meath the character Of a cowboy or
the mate Of Mississippi river steam
boat.
The state labor commissioner
makes a deadly assault upon a citi-
zen, with intent to kill him, and
pleads guilty to assault; and he re-
mains in undisturbed possession Of
his Office.
The office Of secretary of state in
serts politics for campaign purposes
in the public documents Of the
state, for which payment is made
out of the state treasury; and the
state bank commissioner fits up an
Office in the state house, to be used
as political headquarters Of his party.
The governor Of the state sympa-
thizes with and encouraging every
gang Of tramps and train stealers
that comes along, endorsing deeds
of murder and vandalism such as
characterized the strike at Chicago,
and now unblushingly procIaiming
himself as an anarchist, pardoning
murderers and other hardened crimi-
mails out of the penitentiary by
wholesale, and restoring them to
citizenship, in order to add votes to
his party.
The warden of the penitentiary
robs the state right and left, and APP
points his own relatives to as many
positions as possible, in order to
cover up populations. When charges
are preferred, the governor for
weeks refuses to take cognizance of
them; but finally, when forced to
take action, instead Of proceeding as
the law clearly provides, he places
the investigation in charge Of men
who are implicated in the charges.
When the case is called, the warden
and his gang make murderous as
sault upon the prosecution witness
and their attorney, rendering it i'm
possible to procure testimony, and
his co-plunderers acquit him of the
charges.
: It's found that liquor joints are
running In every part of Topeka,
and a raid upon them by the county
authorities discloses the fact shat
they are running under the protec-
ton of the governors police COM
missioners and policemen, who are
levying heavy tribute upon the joint
keepers for the benefit Of their own
pockets, and for the campaign fund
of their party It is the same with
the joints Of Wyandotte, Wichita,
Leavenworth and Atchison, and the
lotteries of Wyandotte. They are
protected from the state house, and
in return contribute large sums fol
the campaign fund, to enable the
same gang to perpetuate their power
This is the party in whose interest
the Prohibition party is working
Their candidate for governor two
years ago, as now, boosted that the
Prohibition vote had defeated the
Republican ticket, and had caused
the election of Lewelling.
And now. on the heels Of all the
above misdemeanors and crimes
, comes the most horrible revelation
!; of all. There is at Winfield an in
stitution for the care Of imbecile
: youth-where young people of weak
minds may, by proper treatment and
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