The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-30
THAT'S NOT so MANY
ONLY ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
THREE CHARGES.

ONLY ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY.
THREE CHARGES.
Pops Have Piled up Against Judge vandi
vert, Whose Scalp hey are After Along
with That of the Slayer of Their Mar
tyred Sam Woods, of Blessed Memory
The Ninth District Gerrymander-West
ern County Consolidation - Railroad
Commissioners Districts-New State Nor
maI-Mr. Harris Bumptiousness
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 2s.-tSpeclal-)-
One hundred and twenty-three separate
charges have been preferred against
Judge S. W. Vandivert Of Kinsley, and
there seems TO be no doubt among Pop
ulists that he will be impeached and con-
victed. These charges recite that the
Judge is guilty Of perjury, connlVance,
collision, theft, maladministratSQn, ultro-
turidiction and nearly everything else
that judge is supposed to refrain FROM
Il is one thing 10 impeach and another
to convict, but in this case it will amount
to practically the same thing, for Pop
lists, whose measure it is, have the pow
sr, and, what's more, they viii be sup
ported, in sympathy at least, by a
sprinkling from the minority side OF the
house In connection with this and the
scheme to abolish the Ninth judicial dis
trict the deeper and ultimate object of
the gerrymander and Impeachment has
leaked OUT
1t appears that the reformers are af-
ter Rrennon, the man who killed the
notorious Sam Wood. They intend to
get Vandivert out of the way and lop
and tack the surrounding judicial dis
tricts until they get Brennan and his ilk
cOralied within range of the Pop blade,
then there viii burst upon western Kan
sas day CT wrath and, the wicked Re-
publican Ninth being no more, Brennan
and all the shysters and Williams politi-
cal and otherwise heretofore protected
by Republican ma joritieS will have to
make themselves scarce and remain so
til Mercurial Kansas scales the other
way I'D.
The Pops are queer people and they
have queer ideas and one of their ideas
Is TO queer everything and everybody
that is any way radical in opposition to
their theories. They are conscientious in
this, most of them. They Candidly be-
DUTY TO come as near annihilating Re-
publicanism in every form and fashion,
as is in their power. They fully believe
The Republican party IS responsible for
the death of Sam Wood and TO blame be-
cause his slayer was not brought to jns-
tice. They have dreamed and coniured
and wrought upon their imaginations till
they are firmly convinced that in Hutch
inson, Newton and Mcpherson and some
other places in the Second district there
turks privily a sworn cabal of black Re-
puolicans whose only mission is TO rule.
extort the poor mans earnings and
strangle liberty. They imagine that, on
ly Tor the terror of this infamous and
blood-sticking junto. they would sweep
the entire southwest into the lap of re-
form ana hold it secure. They mean to
be right, most of them, cut the first
flush of success mas brought on sor1e-
thing OF fever. When 6 few icy -eal-
lilies climb up and sit year or so uuca
the roseat brow OF Populism il will pack
plumber for the sunny south, whence it
came, with the simple but sad remark:
This sol-durned reform business ein't
what its cracked up 10 be-
TO ABOLISH THE NINTH.
The house committee on judiciary ap-
portionment have prepared a report fav-
oring the scheme to abolish the Ninth
Judicial district. There VIII also be a
minority report signed by the Republi-
can members of the committee based
upon the almost unanimous protest of
the people in the district, regardless of
party. The demand for abolishing this
district seems to have originated in the
magnanimous heart of the majority side
Of the legislature
- TO WIPE OUT COUNTIES.
his bill consolidating the western KAN
sas counties Of Finney. Keaney. Grant
Hamilton. Haskell, Stanton. Morton,
Seward and Stevens. 1t adds Haskell to
fflney, Grant to Kearney, Stanton and
Morton to Hamilton. and Stevens to
Seward. The bill provides that it shall
be the duty Of the county officers of
Haskell, Grant. Stanton, Morton and
Stevens, at least five days before the
time set for the taking effect of this act.
to deliver TO the persons holding the
same offices in the counties to which the
last named are by this bill attached, all
: the records of their respective offices.
and the county treasurers of each of
such counties shall turn over TO the
treasurer of the county 10 which his
county is attached all moneys in his
possession as such treasurer 1t further
provides that territory comprising coun-
ties to be abolished by this act shall be
liable for all Indebtedness and the coun-
~ seats OF the new counties shall be the
same as the old county seats Of counties
to which abolished counties are added.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
Senator Hanna of Clay Center some
time ago introduced a bill providing for
the election of the board OF railroad COM
mlss.oners by popular vote. The COM
mittee on state affairs has recommended
the bill for passage, amending it so as to
elect by districts, as follows: All coun-
ties east and including Marshall, Pctta-
watomie, Wabaunsee. Lyon. Coffee.
Woodson and Montgomery Will consti-
tute the First district: the second will ex-