The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-17
DRIVING STATE TO PERDITIoN
Webb McNan Asks Some Pertinent
Questions About Certain
Kansas Counties.

One Of Webb AlcNalFs friends was talk
ing to him at the National hotel the other
evening and facetiously asked.
What's the matter with Kansas
Webb replied: Il viii tell you; it is
the continual libeling of the state by in
dividuals who write articles with phrases
like that in order to obtain notoriety.
the country and individuals write letters
Of inquiry to know the exact conditions
1ess to have the interests OF the state
at heart are continually denouncing the
except the voters nave Ialleq 70 record
their votes as the writer or libeler of the
state expected Is II more OF CRIME 10
libel your town, county or nome,than the
What would the people of Lyon coun-
ty say without regard TO party, If some
newspaper writer should denOunce the
voters of the county because in 1894 they
gave Morrill, for governor IS0 more votes
fI7ar avpaIlfner when this wear the same
voters gave Leedy 327 more than Morrill,,
the author Of the libel What's the mat
ter with Kansasg' For the last eighteen
months the aforesaid writer mas resided
al Fmporia and published a paper in the
city and he has assisted in changing
Lyon county from $50 for morrill, in 1891
to 327 for Leedy in 1885. BY the way,
what is the matter with Lyon county,
II assume that the causes that made
change in LvOn county. as above stated.
must nave 4lslSS a.. III r5 - ~ II c,,l+- 80
Morrill, 995 more votes than Lewelling and
N 1870 ne sane 4 Te77- Nv re Va 40
what's the matter with Brown cOunty2
nOlu
as repudiators and anarchists Ihen
again. Coffey county. the home OF Leedy,
in 1894 Morrill, carried the county by go.
This year Leedy carried the county by
So What's the matter with Coney2
1T is time the state was given rest by
certain individuals who seem to believe
that if a person votes as he sees fit, the
state is going to perdiuon- Persons are
writing to know if any more laws win
be passed to make it harder to collect
a mortgage or foreclosure on the same
Geo L. Douglass. if my memory serves
me right. was the author OF the bill pro-
viding for the redemption Of real estate
after sale on execution or order OF sale
George this year was making Repupil-
can speeches in Illinois, When the Dill
the senate Populist- Iowa and Illinois
have had similar laws as to redemption
of real estate for years W nat lne
matter with Iowa and 4iiinois On, noun
ing. they. of course, voted right
My judgment is that any individual or
newspaper in this state that Will libel
me state is not worthy of being called
a citizen of the state. And, by the way,
I notice that the reporter Of The Star
TO the results Of the 4lection in Kansas,
when he said: ] do not care for my
self but I feel sorry for Kansas Why
not give the people rest on TINS Ques-
tiOn and make UP our minds that 1t is
unnecessary to waste ympathy of this
nature2 IT does not sound well abroad.
what ought to be done and then assist
in doing it. The persons elected to state
Offices are each and all of them respected
in the mmunities where they reside,
and always haFe been There is no rea-
son to expect they VIII Immediately be-
come laWbreakerS because lhey We're
elected to office. The Republicans who
were candidates for office We're also good
citizens and / assume they and each of
ter with Kansas Why, nothing. kan
sas is all right Tt was simply done so
have not realized as yet What's the
matter with Kansas