People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-23
STATE DISGRACED.
A. ]. Felt Gives His Opinion Of the Ad-
ministratiOn Up to Date.
Expressesit Vigorously.
1t Is Compound Of Iniquity, DupIicity,
Cowardlce and Naturalization.

In the Aichison Champion Of the
llth, A. J. Felt, in leading editor
ial, gives his views upon the Repub-
lican administration. He scores
Governor Morrill, in plain and vigor-
GUS language. Having Tor twenty
FIVE years or more occupied a prom
inent position in Republican politi-
cal circles his review has considera-
bic weight. Among other things he
says:
kansas has been scandalized dur
ing the past sixty days to an extent
impossible to estimate. The Lewell-
ing-Dunsmore rebellion of 1893 has
not brought greater shadow upon the
good name Of Kansas that has been
cast by the nasty, revolving ''investi-
cation" under the Morrill, admintra-
ton.
The trouble has been that the real
reason for investigation" has not
been for the good name Of Kansas,
but for the purpose Of venting per-
sonal spleens and driving one set Of
fellows out Of Office and placing
another set in. II all the facts con-
corning public appointments during
this administration were known to
the people Of Kansas there would be
a political revolution that would
sweep the state from Colorado to Mis-
souri,.
The Populist horde of hungry
Office seekers has been succeeded by
another horde equally thirsty and as
furiously hungry. Never, since Bill
Tweed reigned as a Boss in New York,
have political plums been distributed
With more significant disregard Of the
expressed wish of Republican voters.
No machine" in use by Tammany
was ever more imperial in its methods
than the one now in use at Topeka.
When political supremacy depends
upon the dexterous duplicity of the
spoils distributors in asSaillng the
private and public character Of the
other fellows and 10 providing putty,
whitewash and varnish for our OWL
partiSans, is it not time for people tC
inquire if the Republican organization
in Kansas has forgotten its pledges tC
give the people wise, prudent, bust.
ness administration and to really
redeem the commonwealth from the
stains cast upon it by the political
adventures who came to the surface
during the reign of Lewelling?
What Republican can 20 upon the
stump next year and defend an admin.
istration which, from the middle OF
January TO the 10th Of May, has COM
PEELED Its most trusted friends tc
admit that it is a compound Of
cowardice, dupliclty and maladminis.
tration, by the side OF which the
Ignorance and stupidity Of Lewelling
ism pales into insigDificance?
1t is an unfortunate thing for ar
administration to lose its head, even
when the head Is cross between the
poltroon and the semility Of dotagt
so conspicuous as to excite the pity OF
friends and the contempt of foes. In
the brief period named II has won the
open, hostile and sincere criticism of
every christian church In Kansas that
has had occasion to express its conyic.
tions upon public affairs this year
1t has betrayed the confidence of life
long friends and placed its destiny in
the hands Of those most conspicuous
for political plotting in the past and
least able to marshal victory in the
future.
1t won Its way to power upon the
Most solemn pledges of reform in the
business methods of the state, and
signalized It's first taste Of power by
brutal deception Of its most trusted
advisers and an Infamous surrender
to a Populist senate for the barter OF
official spoils. 1t lost its head when
It's craven spirit showed the tactics OF
a sutler instead Of statesman and
deliberately lost sight of its most
solemn pledge to the people that its
every act should be for the preserva-
tion and upbuilding of Kansas, rather
than for the payment of personal
political debts, or for creating cable
topush itself into higher station in
the future.