The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-17

IIIUIIEF
the average citizen has about forgotten
that there is such a thing in existence
as gold reserve. No more do Amer
lean citizens languish and suffer in
Spanish prisons without cause. Since
March the American government pro-
tectS Its citizens wherever they may
be and the American citizen in foreign
lands can look at the banner of their
country once more and realize that it
is their shield and protector. They can
be proud of it as the emblem of a brave
ana courageous government and can
KNOW and understand that it will re-
main so while William Mckinley and
John sherman administer the affairs
Before the administration was two
weeks old the resonant voice of Tom
tNeed was heard cheerfuQy counting a
quorum or decapitating the sockIess
statesman from the big Seventh, and
a Republican tariff measure, framed
along protective lines in the interests
OF the old fashioned tin bucket brigade
was IN process of passage through con-
gress
Let not hte Democratic and Populist
Dfethfen worry their souls about that
Dill Owing to the number of Demo-
Gratis and POpulists in the senate it
may not be all that Republicans would
nave, but when it has assumed its final
shape, it will be a Republican measure
ana more than that it will be an Amer
lcan measure and its author will not
be toasted and feasted by English man
utacturers after its passage. 1t will re-
ceive the signature of the president and
viii not be characterized by him as an
instance Of party perfidy and dishonor.
After its enactment, the task of reform
ing the currency of the country will be
taken up and carried forward to a
speedy and successful completion At
ter all this is completed, when the is
sue of bonds in time of peace is effect
ualIy and certainly stopped, when the
revenues of the government are sniff
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tariff is framed along protective lines
that will build up American enterprises
that will employ American WOrking grnen
-Wnen the currency of the country is
sound, sta bic and secure with elastfci-
ty that permits it to respond readily to
the needs of business and so constituted
that 1t will not be a menace to the
treasury; when we have honest Re
publican officials to enforce Republican
antitrust laws, surely Almighty God
Will forgive US for shamefully dallying
with Democracy and Populism and will
remove his Christening hand and permit
US to enter upon the full benefits of
period of genuine prosperity"
OF the result in Kansas, Mr.. Madison
said:
while we rejoice in the victory in
the nation. locally we are plunged in
sadness. Kansas has returned to the
slough of POpulisnn. Not content with two
years of infamy, we must repeat the
dose. Not content with the first PeC-
pies Party government on earth, we
are enjoying another of the same kind
Two years of an honest, economical Re
publican administratio against which
no suggestion of Doodle or corruption of
any kind was ever whispered. seemed
to have caused the people to forget the
Lewelling regime with its scandals and
corruption.
Never did state administration
have a more auspicfous beginning or
more opportunities to serve the people
than the one now in power. When it
came into existence the rancor induced
by the political conflict had died out. A
hope of better things and entered the
breasts of the people. The Populist
party was in possession of every branch
of the government, and on every hand
the hope was expressed that their new
Iy conferred power would be used wise
ly.
''Memberso of all political parties man
ifested a desire that all join hands as
earnest, loyal Kansans and unite in
common effort to upbuild the credit and
the good name of the state 1t was
thought the Populist party had learn
ed wisdom from it's former experiences
and that the old ideas and practices
would be repudiated and common sense
and honesty would prevail. The hopes
of the people were doomed to be shat
tered. When the legislature met it was
discovered that one of it's leaders was
the man whose administration had been
such a disgrace to the state and one
of the first acts of the new administra-
ton was to place that man in one of the
highest official positions within its gift
NepOtism in its most virulent form re-
appeared in almost every department.
According to the testimony of POpu-
lists their political brethren in the leg
iSlature engaged in the most cOrr11Dt
practices, devised schemes to rob the
state, and the giving and accepting of
bribes was common practice. Even
the immaculate senator from Usage
was tempted in a Topeka Joint where
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proprietor of the error of his way and
his tempter, who held himself out as a
dealer in options on Populist legislators
was sentenced to the awful punishment
of being prohibited the freedom of the
state house when the legislature was
in session.
'The people of Kansas thought a the
time that the punishment was so light
learned that the punishment was in
deed severe, as it deprived the guilty
man of easy and prGfita BILE employment
and no doubt prevented him from ac-
Quiring several thousand dollars.
dishonesty of members was coupled
with incompetency of employees, while
a large number of persons were en-
pIOyed at great cost to the state to per-
sion of the legislature, yet never was
such miserable service rendered the
state. Bills were mutilated and their
effect DESTROYED Whole sections fnvs-
measures, and lucky was the member
who succeeded in getting his bills
through the hands of the employees in
the same form in which they passed the
legislature
''Ante-election promises were re-
garded lightly by the Populist members
and storms of indignant protests were
heard on every hand. Cardinal princf-
pies of the party were disregarded
with a nonchalance that paralyzed the
faithful in the ranks. Since the advent
of the new administration, the state in
stitutions have been conducted upon a
new ard peculiar plan. The test of ner-
it in officers, professors and teachers,
consists in a belief in certain principles
of political economy and Populist po-
and fidelity to Institutions, ability to
well and faithfully to perform the du-
ties count for naught. if not coupled