Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-02
lEBDY AT HIAWAqHA.
I pecial to the Kansas City Times.

here this afternoon. Mr.. Smelling
spoke first and reviewed the fights the
administration had carried on to force
the Stock Yards company to obey
the script and screen laws. Also the
efforts that had been made to break
down the insurance department and
how they have been successfully re-
sisted,
He also touched up the Republican
claim that congress should be elected
which would support the presidents
policy touching the war, and asked
who could tell what that policy was.
No man in Kansas knew what instruc
tions have been isgued te peace com,
missioners, and yet the people were
called upon it to go blir d and support
any policy the administration might
have. 1t was the province of the leg
islature department to make policies
and the executive to carry them out,
and the people were vitality Interested
in electing a congress which would
carry out their policy,
GOV. LEEDY SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF.
And again, he said, the Republicans
claimed that theirs was patriotic
party, when the records show that it
was the fusion candidates who sent
their sons into the army not their Re-
publican opponents.
Governor Leedy said in opening ::
81 have been criticised for spending
the money you gave me as a contin-
gent fund. I plead guilty 1t has
been the policy Of this administration
10 protect the citizens in his rights
against the corporations. In the
stock yards case we had to contend
with the best expert testimony the
company could procure.
Attorney General Boyle said it
was necessary to meet them with
equal testimony. l said to HIM, find
creGitable witnesses in whom the
public will have confidence and we
will pay them for their time. The
insurance companies began to pile up
suits against the insurance commits
sioner for attempting to enforce the
laws that Republicans had made,
and | hired lawyers to defend him.
used your money to do these things.
They said it was unconstitutional,
but whether it was or not, the fact
remains that we won every one of
these suits. The money was expend-
ed in your interests. Do any of YOU
doubt that it was we'll expended?
HAS OPPRESSED NOBODY.
1T has not been the policy of this
administration to Cypress any cor
poration. All we have asked is that
they treat the citizens right. We
have stopped the exactions of the
book trust. We have made your in
surance policies worth just what they
cal. for. We have driven the insur
ance adjusters out of business. We
have forced the stock yards company
to jump back and forward across the
state line, like thief trying to dodge
the sheriff, in it's efforts to evade the
law. Do you want this kind of work
continued? II so, it is your duty tc
vote with us this fall. If you want
it stopped just elect the other fellows
and you will find it the easiest thing
in the world"
AS TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
The governor then took up tn
question of constitutional conven
ton. He said the wheat field O
Russia now being opened meant new
competition for Kansas wheat grow
ers. The Russian government had
put state railroad into the countr,
TO lay down its products with tn,
tide water and there would be NJ
watered stock on which it must pay
dividends. This new competition
meant that the Kansas farmer mus
have cheaper freight rate or hi
land would go down in value.
The courts had 'decreed, he said
that the roads now doing bushes
were entitled to interest on thei
Tortgaged Indebtedness and som
dividends in addition to running e1
penses. II this was so the peopl
who had to furnish this money wer
entitled to see that it went for legi
innate purposes. The populist
were asking for constitutional cor
convention, that a remedy Nigh
be put into the hands of the peopl
where these things could be PROF
'rly locked after.
The governors speech was we
received. In the aud. ence were man
Of the republican 1usiCess men {
the town who we Fever known t
after populist meeting befor,
Some Of them have announced thei
intention Of voting for Leedy on th