The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-03-22
cAusTIc DROPS BY soL MILLER

CAUSV1C OROPS By 0OL MILLER
Sol. Miller, the veteran editor of the
Troy Gtsef, cre.lted something of u
sensation when he returned his COM
mission, as a member of the state
board of pardons, to Governor Morrill,,
with thanks; but he has created a still
greater commotion within the ranks of
the republican party by a four column
castigation of the late legislature and
the present administration, in this
weeks edition of his paper.
In this four column editorial he saws.
under the heading "A accord to be
Ashamed Of"
1.-The legislature postponed its most
creditable act until the very last-that
was the adjournment. After having
condemned the late democratic con-
gress. and the calamity legislature,
we cannot say ''Well Done'' of body
that discounted them both in worth
lessness and extravagance, simply be-
cause it was republican. Therefore,
we are compelled to say that the late
legislature Of Kansas was the most
reckless, the most worthless, the most
scandalous, of any body that ever sat
in Kansas.
1--WE would add the most corrupt,
but we have no proof of it except
appearances. How the republican
party can 60 before the people and
ask for continued confidence OH the
record Of that legislature, We cannot
imagine. 1t was thought that defeat
and exclusion from power for two years
would have been IL lesson, and that
when they returned to power they
would have used extra exertions to
commend themselves to the people;
but instead, they seem to have become
ravenons by their enforced absence
from the fodder rack and to have gone
il, to gorge themselves, regardless of
all else.
LIKE A HERD OF TEXAS STEERS.
The legislature passed few COM
mendable laws-as what one ever
failed to do so? There were also few
able, level-headed members of the
house WHO occasionally managed to
hold that body steady. But as Il
whole, it was Il herd of Texas steers
without any conception of the duty of
lawmakers, bent upon running things
wide open.
''Their first stampede was in the
selection of a United States senator.
They had discovered, or heard, or
thought they smelled Doodle in one of
the camps, and they rushed to that
camp with force that threatened to
carry everything before them. 1t was
only by means of tile sharpest kind of
strategy that they did not saddle Il
scandal upon the state, to begin with.
"The republican state platform
promises the people an honest and
economical administration of the state
government.
1.-The appropriations (of the legisia-
turel aggregate over three and quar-
ter millions of dollars. And then it
is boasted that the tax levy is not
increased, but remains us it was
before, when things were prosperous
All times good.
| COwARDLY COMPROMISE.
''The worst feature of the whole
business is, that the entire proceed
ings were characterized by tyrannical
disregard Of the rights of their politi-
cal friends, and cowardly compromise
with their enemies-yes. worse than
compromise; it was abject surrender.
The calamity majority in the senate
got everything it asked for. 1t cOerced
the house into yielding to all its
demands; while the house passed
all the senate measures without even
demanding anything for itself III
return. The governor as we'll as the
house succumbed to this system OF
coercion, and both became the meek
doers of calamity work.
'-One of the very first acts of the
legislature was the appointment of a
swarm of clerks and other subordinate
officers, four times as MANY AS were
necessary at any time. and placing
them upon the pay roll fo- the entir,
season, and long before the service q,
any of them were needed.
: There WAS a grsat ado made abou
abolishing useless offices: but tile re
suit was, that just one Office wa
, abolished-that of state veterinarian
which many persons insist was reali,
a necessary Office.
''On the other hand, not less thar
twenty-five new salaried or feed Office
were created, that the people mus
pay for.
; IAN appellate court. was created
= with six judges, each judge with
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