People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-31
Don't you know that the republi.
can boards of county commissioners
remitted 1893 railroad tax or penalty
in the following cnuntieS9

ICowley ley.....................9 9023 6,
Total 500 or II
Railroad tax was also remitted ID
several westarn counties but there /.
some excuse for that, as they are t
some extent dependent on railroad
TAX, out such is not the case in the
strong counties above mentioned.
Don't you know that the Populist
boards of county commissioners re.
fused to remit railroad tax or penalty
in the following counties? Cherokee,
Crawford, Butler, Greenwood, King.
man, Norton, Usage, Pratt, Saline.
Barton, Coffey and also AtchlSon and
NeOShO counties which had anti.re-
publican boards?
Don't you know that your aSSump-
tlon Is wrong when you suppose that
all the savings Of the POpuliSt admin
lStration is piled on heap in the
state treaSurer'S Office, because most
the entire part of it consists Of coun.
ty, school and municipal tax?
Don't you know that if you don't
know these things, that you ought to,
before you undertake to inform
Others?
Don't you know that you are either
mistaken, or else you have knowingly
and wilfully used language calculated
to deceive?
There are other smaller items to
numerous to mention here. But as
| have shown you what has become of
something like 81, 72l, 1921, doubtless
yOur mind will rest easier.
Now, Mr.. TrOutman, while you are
endeayOring to explain away these
matters, just turn the search light
on the state auditors books and ex-
plain what became of the $46, sos T. Of
balances unaccounted for under re-
publican rule, from 1871 to 1884.
And then explain how it came that
your republican secretaries of state
charged illegal fees for charters for
churches, lodges, charitable institu-
tionS and cemetery associations from
1871 to 1893, amounting to many
thousand of dollars. / mean when
they charged $500 or $3.50 when the
legal fee was Sl.O0
Then please explain how it came
that the state printing IF Kansas un-
der republican rule for ten years
prior to 1892, cost more than twice
that of Missouri under democratic
rule, altOugh Missouri had one and
one-half times the population of Kan
sas.
Then while you are in the explain
ing business. please explain how it
came that your former republican
state officials had Governor Hum
phrey's and Martins messages printed
by the thousands in combined form
in German, English and Swede at re-
publican expense, and sent out at the
expense of the state as republican
campaign literature.
] have been officially informed by
the secretary of the state of New
York, that the present old Iarty
state administration of that state,
has saved 81, 100000 over their former
administration. Yet there are re-
publicanS in Kansas who claim that
it is impossible for the Peoples party
to save sl,5OO,OOO over the extraya-
CANT, church-robbing, republican al-
ministratiOn in Kansas.
Desiring that your people should
be better informed. | here and now
propose to you, Mr.. TrOutman, 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 above mentioned in this
letter, on receipt Of postal card or let
ter giving address.
Sixteen years of my life have been
devoted to teaching, therefore | feel
competent to give instruction in
tigers, as well as ''reldin and riten"
and in future if l can be of further
use to you, please command me.
l trust that you will appreciate my
assistance in enabling you to answer
and comprehend the mOmentous
questions with whichlyou daze your
audiences.
But again you have also been re,
ported as saying that 'the present
state administration has been collect.
ing Doodle for campaign funds from
the lotteries, joints and gambling
houses, said to exist in Kansas city
and other cities of the first class in
Kansas which are under the metro
politan police system. That this
Doodle is paid in consideration that
they shall not be molested in their
Defarious business" You doubtles:
kuow that / am treasurer of the Pop