The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-03-29

the oldest printers in the house. and
though there is hardly newspaper man
in the state who wouldn't be glad to get
the legal printing in his county at the
rate provided in the house bill.
Sol of course knows what legislator
ought to do and what he can do He
has been member of various bodies of
law givers and it is really surprising
that he hasn't inaugurated some of the
reforms he now clamors for. 1t has
only been a few years since he was a
member of the senate and one of the
best known members Of that astute
body. He knew then that the state was
paying too much for its printing but he
didn't during the whole four years ever
introduced bill to cut down the fees
cent. He knew that there was waste
oflmOney in the way bills were enrolled
but he never tried to remedy the evil.
During the greater part of his last
term he was engaged in a laborious
effort to change the name of st. John
county. In addition to this, his crown
pieces of legislature, he managed to get
a bill through for the relief of some
school district in his bailiwick.
We DO not know what was the matter
with the district. 1t may have been
troubled with something like Sol has
now for all we know.
We believe he also managed to get
place made for new judge and tried to
get another justice of the peace for
Brown county. If he ever did anything
to reduce taxation the record doesn't
seem to show it. With an exhibition of
virtue which frequently comes to men
in the declining years of life, he criti-
cises the members of this legislature for
securing places on the enrolling force
for favOrite concubines. How does Sol
ONION know this? He was not here to
Judge for himself and would probably
have found out nothing if he had been
here. This same kind of talk about con-
cubinage however existed when Solo.
mon sat in the Kansas house of lords, but
or protest against it. He talks about
extravaganza yet he belonged to a legis-
lature that voted away more of the peo-
pies money by nearly quarter of a
million than this one has done.
He complains about the legislature
wasting time in adjOurnments, but he
belonged to body that wasted more
time than the present legislature in ad-
journments.
And yet the Legislature that Solomon
belonged to was a right good legislature
as legislatures go. There were a lot of
fellows beefing around on the outside,
just as Sol. is doing now, who said it
was the most corrupt and extravagant
legislature that had ever met in Kansas.
and Solomon came to the defense of
that body and gave Marsh Murdoch
and the other hOwlers to understand
that they were conversing through their
head covering when they talked about
what the legislature had done, because
know and they had not. And yet with
all this experience Solomon has become
"a greater bowler than they were then
and, Judging from the wild statements
in his article. he knows even less than
they did as to what he is talking about.
There is something about this editori-
al of Solomon's that will be noted by
the newspaper man of the state that
with profound regret and sorrow. For
many. many years he has held place as
one of the leading bucks of the editorial
flock. The lambs regarded HIM with
respect if not with reverence.
His ancient Uranium has always been
regarded as being filled with gray
matter of superior quality and it was
taken for granted that his utterances
were the embodiment of good hard sense
but this editorial shows that his mag
nificent powers are yielding to decrepi-
tude and the crisp. vigorous style is CIV
ing way to the senile babblings of
second childhood.
We say that the newspaper boys will
mark his course with sorrow and not
with indignation. They know that fifty
or sixty years ago when Sol was in his
prime he wouldn't have talked this way,
but that now something has vexed the
old man. When he has had a good
sleep and taken some lactated food he
will feel better.-The Kansas Breeze.