People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-10-21

printer. Vouchers are in possession
Of state officers showing that
thousands of dollars we're not only
paid to men who were drawing
salaries from the state. but that it
was paid to them actually seven
weeks, according to affidavit, before
the work was done. Members Of
the Board of Charities made affidavit
that the state owed them money for
work which it is now proved was not
performed, if performed at all, for
several days after the affidavit Of the
Indebtedness was made.
The history of the latter part OF
MorrilPs administration seems, from
the evidence produced in the cam,
yaign book, to be a carnival OF
jObbery.
A contract was let for a cement
sidewalk around the Capitol grounds
few days after the Republicans
were defeated in November, with a
stipulation that it should be done
before January II, the date Of the
change in administrations. This
contract involved the expenditure Of
several thousand dollars, and it was
so essential to the interests OF the
state officers that it be completed
before they went cut of office that
the contractors had to keep fires
burning night and day to dry the
cement. The result of this haste in
building a cement sidewalk at that
unreasonable season Of the year is
that the sidewalk has cracked and
crumbled to pieces and is an eye
sore to everyone who seesit. These
are but sample scraps from the
history Of the "redeemers" admins
tration.
The committee that has charge oil
the campaign book is more merciful
than just, or it would have referred
to the disgraceful waste Of public
money on the front steps of the
Capitol building.
MANY ITEMS OF ECONOMY.
The book challenges a compare
son Of any Republican adminlstra-
ton in the history Of the state with
the administration of Governor
Leedy. Under the present ad.
ministration the expenditures have
been 100000 less than under the
Morrill, administration, to say moth
ing Of over 100000 savings OF the
people of the state.
1t is estimated that the passage o.
the text book law will save to the
people of the state annually the sum
Of 100000.
The stock yards bill, which ha:
been declared valid by Judge Foster
will save The people at least S222..
600.
In the penitentiary, for the frs
nine months of the administration
$4,000 has been saved.
In the insurance department tn,
sum of $lO,722 has been collected
in nine months in excess of wha
had been collected in twelve month:
under the Morrill, administration
These four items alone make ovsl
$55o,OO0 saved and made for tn,
benefit Of the people OF the state.
The saving to the people Of Kan
sas by reason of the fight made anc
won by Attorney General Boyle
against the substitution of the cent!
per hundred pounds rate for the Cal
load rate in the shipment of live
stock can be estimated only vaguely
but good authority placed it at $500
a day.
The fight made at Lyon, for
more equitable rate on coal, grair
and implements, for one county
alone, saved the people of tina
county $4,000. This is not guess
it is acknowledged by the railroad
company's officers and the people o
Lyons.
A fight for fairer rate, at Yate,
| Center was also won.
Much is said about the extrava
nee OF the last legislature, but it is
fact, easily proven, that the las
Legislature appropriated t5lO,77s.lt
less money than the preceding Re
publican legislature, and the expens,
of the session was $4,000 less thai
the expense, Of the session of 1895
All the facts about the two legislat
ure' are forcibly brought out in tn,
campaign book.
II makes a showing that will no
only dumbfound the opposition, Blu
) which will surprise even the closes