People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-25

OlOh 10 uOO JHC oJdOc VI hduSdS 0OI
the Republican party either; il is Cy
Leland, nothing more nor less.
The newspaper that criticises tie
faults of the officers of its own roliti-
cal party as well as those of the op-
position is the paper that is run in
the interest Of the people. Right roy
ally have the papers OF Kansas under
taken the task. The newspapers
can purify politics Of the state and
they are on the right track to do il.
Smith County Pioueer
You are right, Bro. Nelson, but
while they are at it they will have to
withstand the filings Of those members
of the craft VINO are afraid to say
their souls are their own for fear of
losing favor with the "administra-
tiOn" or are so blinded by prejudice or
ignorance that they think the only
thing to do is TO endorse anything
and everything the Ofliceholders do.
The work of buy Ing up support for
the gold standard propaganda has be-
gun. The initial move is to control
the press of the country. When the
policy Of leading papers cannot be
controlled otherwise, these papers are
bought outright. The purchase Of
the Chicago Times-Herald is a case in
point. 1t is annOun ,ed that the paper
under the control of Millionaire Kohl
saat will be Independent in politics
but that it will advocate the gold
monetary standard. The adoption of
this policy will leave it free to SUP
port Mr.. Cleveland for the presidency
if the mOnOmetallists should decide
to unite upon him as their candidate.
At present it is undoubtedly for Nc
Kinley and would support him if he
should secure the Republican nomi-
nation.-TOpeka Journal.
Section II Of Article 2, of the Con-
stitution Of Kansas, says. EVERY bill
and joint resolution passed by the
house Of representatives and senate,
shall, within two days thereafter, be
signed by the presiding officers, and
presented to The governor. We can
conceive of no reason why a failure tC
observe this constitutional require
ment would not invaIiiate any act of
the legislature.
Yet, the official publication Of the
acts passed by the last legislature
shows c0nclusively upon the face of
the several acts that not one in ten OF
them was signed within the constitu-
tional time by Lieutenant Governor
Troutman or Speaker Lobdell. Take
for instance House Bill No. 1926, az
propriating $4,000 for the state prin-
tr. On March s, 1895, Mr.. Troutman
signs the bill, stating that il passed
the senate March 4, 1895. The Sum-
ner county fee and salary bill passed
both the senate and the house on Feb.
ruary q, 1895. In fact bills passed in
January were not signed until that
date.
Now, we presume we shall be black
listed as a kicker" for condemnine
such carelessness, ignorance or worse
But it is just such outrages as these
upon the people of the state that
caused the overthrow of the Republi
can party in 1890. We never denied
that the party richly deserved thu
chastisement it got from 1890 to 1893
and unless it condemns such malfeas
ance, ignorance or neglect in Office al
the above IL well deserved a repeti
tion Of that punishment. The Who'll,
trouble arises from the fact thai
Troutman spent all his time during
the legislature trying to look prettl
and to pose as the wiseacre of the ad
ministratiUn, while LObdell was try
ing to carve out new congressional
district that would lan1 him IN ION
gress. Each was looking after BIZ
individual ambitions and neither car
ing darn for the welfare of the stat
or of his party except as it might graf
ify his personal ambitions. The resul
is that the state has worse than vast
ed hundreds of thousands OF dollar
over session of the legislature, nine
tenths Of whose work is invalidatet
by the carelessness or ignorance 0
these two officials. We think ever
Republican who loves his state AM
his party has very vigorous kicI
coming, and he should kick in a wa
that will bear fruit in the future.