Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1898-12-10
lens are nuts and clover for demagogues. -
WA-KEENEY, KAN, DECEMBER TO- 1898.

let the responsibility rest where it
properly belongs.
Well, there will be no recovery and
the county will not be forced to pay
for the work a second time, for,
strange to say, both the district and
the appellate courts sustained the
arrogance, impudence and ignor-
ance" of Commissioners Hinshaw and
Barclay who need make no apology
for knowing as much, at least, as
some other people, and still remain
mentally responsible.
The question as to which paper had
the legal contract for the county
printing for 1897 was submitted to
Judge Monroe on the 18th day of last
month and the matter was of such
Importance that the Judge still has
the matter under adviSement, yet
Barclay and HinShaw allowed the ac-
count of the WORLD without heSita-
tion. These fellows have, unfOrtu-
nately for the taxpayers, had control
OF the disbursements, etc.-lndepend-
ent, January 8, 1898.
Fortunately for the taxpayers
''these fellows" paid the legal claim
and the decisions of the courts are
someTecompense for the abuse heaped
upon them for that act by the differ
the last two years.
Only the most narrow partisan or
the blindeSt bigot would have been
satisfied to have the claim of WORLD
paid, etc.-Independent, January 20,
1898.
And yet all the courts that have
passed upon the matter seem satisfied
Were they partisan bigots or is it only
the wav of blind justice?
Judge Barclay and Judge Hinshaw
decided the questions involved in ten
seconds. If the courts decide that
the contract with this paper was
valid, Trego county will have to pay
the claim, and the WORLD will enjoy
the pleasure of digging up" what
has been paid to it that belonged to
this paper.-Independe January
| %, 1898.
just at this moment we are dig
ging up abuse of good citizens found
in that paper and belonging to it
] The WORLD outfit don't know just
how to go at it to justify HinShaw
and Barclay in deciding in ten Sec
onds which paper had the legal con-
tract for the county work last year,
WUeIl IU DdkcS IhOuiOC SCNOi al
months to decide the same question.
Independent, February 1S, 1898.
The Appellate court got at it in
pretty good shape several weeks ago
but our neighbor doesn't seem so anXi-
GUS to announce the result as he did
when complaining of the delay of the
district court. The Appellate court
sustained the action of the commits
sioners and the decision of the dis
trict court on the 18th of October, af-
ter having had tue matter under ad-
visement several weeks, if not months.
On the same day the clerk of the Ap-
pellate court notified at least one of
the attorneys of the result of the
court's deliberations. He doubtless
sent the same notice, at the same
time, to all the ''lawyers" interested
in the case, and yet, several days
later, we were informed, that the at
torney on the losing side, evaded the
question and practically denied hav-
ing heard any thing from the Appel
late court. The opinion was render
ed three weeks before the election at
which Judge Monroe was candidate
for reelection. 1t was only fair and
honorable that the people should
know that the Populist Appellate
court had sustained the decision of a
Republican judge in a case in which,
from beginning to end, every Repub-
lican in connection Herewith had
been charged more or less directly,
with partisan bias and had endured
frequent abuse of the impudent and
arrogant kind. Common decency on
the part of the agent and mouthpiece
of all the vituperation should have
enabled it to announce the result, at
the very least and without delay,
even if it were not capable of admit
ting its mistake and making the apol-
ogies now long overdue
Here is the opinion in full:
WELLS, j. Previous to the second
Monday in January. 1897. John Z.
MarQuand was county commissioner
OF the First District of TregO county
for the term ending at that time A
r Hinshaw was commissioner OF the