People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-10
WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES.
A Detailed and Plain Statement OF
Facts Showing What Be-
comes of the Pub
lies Money.
VIII Pay Vow 10 Study these Facts
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We condemn the extravaganza meth
DDS Of Tue Republican administration
uf the affairs Of Sumner county and
pOim the taxpayers to the fact that
the annual expenditures for all gen.
eral purposes, other than bridge
bu, 'qIng, have been increased from "a
total average Of $4,000 under a par
tiai POpuliSt administration to total
of $4,000 for the wear lS94.-POpulist
County Platform.
The above resolution was written by
Lyman Naugle, editor Of the Voice,
and was unanimously adopted by the
late POpulist county convention. We
have no doubt that ninety-nine out Of
every hundred of the delegates in
that convention who voted for that
resolution believed that the state
ments therein contained and the
differences necessarily drawn there
from were true. We cannot say as
much for the author Of the resolution
however. This is a subject which
Naugle claimed to have Investigated
thoroughly and upon which he wrote
quite an extended article in the
Voice some months ago in which he
made comparison between the years
1888, 1889, and 1890 as Republican
years and 1891, 1892 and 1898 as POpu-
list years in the administration of
county affairs. He then averaged the
three last named years and compared
them with the year 1894 as Repu Dill
can year.
Now lee US read that resolution
again. What does it say? What
does it strive to make the voters and
taxpayers of Sumner county believe?
First; That by reason Of the fact
that certain POpuliStS held Office DUR
ing the years of 1891, 1892 and 1893
the affairs of this county were more
economically administered and the
average expenses for all general pur-
poses, eX ;ept bridge building, during
these years was $4,000 Second:
That these same expenses for the
gear 1894 increased to $500 by reaS-
on of 'the eXtrayagant methods of the
Republican administration of the
affairs of Sumner county" People Of
Sumner county, is this true? Is it
true that extrayag2nt Republican
methods have increased the expenses
of this county $1,000 per annum? If
this be true. then the rank and file of
the Republican party in Sumner coun-
ty ought to know it. The Republi-
cans of Sumner county are, at least.
Just as good citizens, Just as honest.
and as heavy taxpayers as the Popu-
lists or any other set of men. The
Republicans of Sumner county are
Just as DESTROYS Of having an honest,
upright, economical administration of
Sumner county finances as any other
class Of people on earth. If those
whom they have placed in Office and
entrusted with the management of
the county affairs have proven recre-
ant to the trust repOsed in them, it
is the duty of every man who knows
the facts to state them plainly and
publicly. The editor of the MAIL be-
lieves this and has never failed to put
his theories into practice.
On the other hand there is no other
liar on earth, or in hell. that is, in
our eyes, so mean, contemplate and
villaiDOus as the man who studiOusly
and Intentionally tells a wilful,
malicious lie by creating a false i'm
preston by means of telling part of
the truth and Withholding other parts
of the truth, or who aCcOmplisheS the
same object by making statements
true in themselves but so wOrded as
to create and leave false impression.
Long continued and studiOus practice
in this method Of lying has made Ly-
man Naugle, editor OF the Voice. an
expert in it and he is very vain of his
accomplishments in this respect. In
the above resolution be states some
truths, suppreSseS Others aud fills in
with unadulterated lies.
AS part of this article we publish
a detailed statement of the annual
expenditures of Sumner county from
1883 to 1894, both years inclusive
These figures are taken from the
official records in the county clerk;
office and may be relied upon as cor
rect. A glance at this table viii
show the following totals:
1891. .Si6.52S O
1892. .................. 1921
1928 Sass 4
Total Sl45.:Oi 3
Average for 1891, 1892 and 1893 SIS 30! |