People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-06-13

had the strongest endorsements Of any
applicant for an appointment under
him. But there was an inSuperable
barrier to his success. In the divis-
ion OF spoils this place had been al
lOtted to Cy Leland and during the
campaign he had promised the place
to Bruce Lynch. Lynch has repeat
eddy made this statement; Leland has
admitted it, allof which was known to
Morrill,, who controlled his actions and
secured Lynch the appointment. Le-
land and his gang, including the gov
ernOr have repeatedly admitted
Lynch's utter incOmpetency for the
position, but there stood that promise
which Leland insisted should be full
filed and it was so.
In the meantime Morrill, made very
strenuous efforts to induce Mr.. Morse
to accept the position of deputy war
den. Mr.. Morse answered him that
those who had endorsed him had CIV
en- him their support for warden; that
the main reason why the Republicans
OF Sumner county had supported him
so loyalty was that as warden of the
penitentiary he would be able to give
good places to large number of de-
serving Republicans in Sumner
county; that he did not consider that
he could hOnOrably take advantage of
the results of these endorsements by
accepting good place for himsels
which was without patronage; that
he has made the fight, not for HIM
self alone, but for the Republican
party of the county as well and that
he would succeed or fail with the rest
OF the boys. Gov. Morrill, repeatedly
Laid down on" Morse to accept this
deputyship; he turned his whole gang
loose on him, Leland. Simpson, Jobes,
Albaugh and even Long insisted on
hlS:accepting. Then Maj. Levi Fer
gusOn and Hon. r. T. Simons were
summoned before the governor and
asked to exert their influence to in
duce him tC accept. OTie still said
that he would succeed hOnorably or
hOnOrably 60 down in defeat with his
county. Last Monday he received
the following telegram: II again ten
der you the appointment as deputy
warden. Early reply requested, E. N.
Morrill,, governor" He went to To-
peka, saw the governor and told him
again that he could not afford to ac-
cept the deputyship under Bruce
Lynch under any circumstances and
would not do so.
As matter of fact and Of law, Gov.
ernOr Morrill, has no more right mol
power to be rendering the deputy
wardenShip than the writer. The
law expressly provides that the war.
den shall make the appointment.
Everybody knows that Bruce Lynch
would never appoint Orie Morse
deputy warden voluntarily. The
deputy warden has to give a $4,000
bond; he is subject to the orders and
directions Of the warden and liable to
be discharged at any time upon his
recommendation. In our opinion, this
whole scheme to induce Orie Morse to
accept this deputyship was a scheme
similar to those worked by this gang
before. They have found that they
cannot use Morse and his friends as
tools: their next move is to ruin and
destroy them. No matter what
Morse may have done as deputy war
den under Lynch, it would have been
only a short time until he would
have gone out from the penitentiary
in disgrace so far as these people
could heap it upon him and with his
character besmirched. Governor
Morrill, knew this better than auy.
body.
We do not care to comment upon
these facts at this time. Sumner
county Republicans will be Republi-
cans still, as a rule. But this ring
rule" OF the party has driven scores of
men out OF the party and unless the
organization is wrested from the
cutthroats who now control it, hun
dreds OF others will follow in tLeir
wake. Principles enunciated in plat.
forms are always contrasted with the
practical fruits of the administration
and Governor Morrill's admiDistra.
tlon, so far, certainly suffers by such
a contrast.
Our City Fire Department.
We regret very much to see the ex-
isting differences between the CITY
council and the fire department of the
city During laStyear the city paid
the fire departments over s1.5OOfor SER