The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-15
SOILS HOT SHOT.
Editor Miller Of Troy Throws
Blue ViGiOl
Into the Face of His Own
Party.
PEELS OFF THE SKIN
And Applies the KnOut to the
Quivering Flesh.
Spares Neither Friend Nor Foe
in His Ire.
REGGARS LANGUAGE.
Rotten, Corrupt, Depraved,
Worthless Legislature,
Is What He Calls Our Kansas
"Redeemers."
BEGGARS LANGUAGE.
Rotten, Corrupt, Depraved'
Worthless Legislature,
Is What He Calls Our Kansas
"Redeemers."

heuo6lllefS.
Sol Miller the veteran editor of the
Troy Chief, created something of a SEN
sation when he returned his commission
as a member of the state board. of par
dons to Governor Morrill, with thanks;
but he has created a still greater com
motion within Che ranks of the Republi-
can party by four column castigation
of the late legislature and the present
administration, in this weeks edition of
his paper.
In this four column editorial he says,
under the heading ga Record to Be
Ashamed Of:"
"The Legislature postponed its most
creditable act until the very last-that
was the adjournment. After having con-
demned the late Democratic congress,
ana the Calamity legislature, we cannot
say swell done" of a body that discounted
them both in worthlessness and extrava-
gance, simply because it was Repu blican.
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 il Kansas.
we have no proof of it except appear
ances. How the Republican party can
go before the people and ask for contin-
ued confidence on the record of that leg
islature, we cannot imagine. 1t was
thought that defeat and exclusion from
power for two years would have been a
lesson, and that when they returned to
power they would have used extra exer-
items to commend themselves to the -peo-
nj a h11 inc to haxr he
come ravenous by their enforced alb
Bence from the fodder rack and to have
gone in to gorge themselves, regardless
of all else.
Like Herd of Texas Steers.
'The legislature passed a few com
mendable laWs-as what one ever failed
TO do so? There were also a few able
level headed members of the house who
occasionally managed to hold that body
steady. But as a whole it was a herd OF
Texas steers without any conception of
the duties of law makers, bent upon run
ming things wide open.
Their first stampede was in the selec
tion 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 a force
that threatened to carry everything be-
fore them. 1t was only by means of the
sharpest kind of strategy that they die
not saddle scandal upon the state, tC
begin with.
"The Republican state platform prom
ised the people an honest and economi
cal administration of the state govern
ment
"The appropriations (of the legislature
aggregate over three and quarter mil
lions of dollars. And then it is 0oasteC
that the tax levy is not increased, but re
mains as it was before, when things were
prosperous, and crops good.
COwardly Compromise.
"Ihe worst feature of the whole bust
ness is, that the entire proceedings wer,
characterized by tyrannical disregard o
the rights of their political friends, anC
cowardly compromise with their enemie
yes, worse than compromise; it was alb
Ject surrender. The Calamity majority
in the senate got everything it asked for
1t coerced the house into yielding to al
its demands; while the house passed al
the senate measures without even de
manding anything for itself in return
The governor as we'll as the house sue
cumbed to this system of coercion. anC
both became the meek doers of CaIamit
work.
''One OF the very first acts of the leo
islature was the appointment of a swarT
OF clerks and other subordinate officer
Tour times as many as were necessary a
any time, and placing them upon tn
payroll for the entire session. and Ion,
before the SERVICES of any of them wer
needed
There was a great ado made abou
aDollshlng useless offices; bat the resul
was, that just one Office was abolished
that of state veterinarian, which man
persons insist was really a necessar
office.
ION the other hand, not less tha
twenty-five new salaried or feed office
we're created, that the people must pa
AN appellate court vas created. wit
slx judges, each judge with clerk an
stenographer, making eighteen office
rlght there. There is no dispute that tn
supreme court is over-crowded. and be
hlnd with its work; but this appellat
court Is but temporary makeshift.
Most ScandalOus Part.
s'But the most scandalous mart Of itws
the terms upon which the court was or.
ated- The senate would not permit th
passage OF the bill without provisio
tnat at least two of the judges should /
members of the Calamity party. and or
democrat The house meekly yielded
the cheeky demand. But after the mas