The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-08-25
WILL NOT BE TOLD.
Twenty. Five Tales the Populists
VIII Not Publish.


The populist campaign handbook
from . populist standpoint will be .
good thing" The book will be more
notable for the things it does not con.
tain than those that it does contain.
To begin with, It will give ske tch
of Gov. Leedy, but will not contain the
governors interview in which he said:
Having been unable to make living
on . farm. 1 quit that business and
went to studying the financial ques-
ton"
The railroad question will be re-
ferred to a. showing what Attorney
General Boyle and the railroad COM
missioners have done, but no place
will be found for the interview Mr..
Leedy had with Senator John Arm.
strong. populist, when he said he
would have vetoed the Brown bill had
it passed the legislature. as he did the
Harris bill Bailey Wagener's advice
to Representative Ed Hackney: 'It's
NO use for you to expend so much en-
ergy on railroad legislation. Ed, for
the governor will veto any bill you
pass" will not be incorporated.
No reference will be made to the
fact .~at several populist members of
the Legislatures went to Topeka on
borrowed money All returning home
built new barns. bought .eo*s> o. cat
tie and opened grocery stores.
Representative W. =. Browns open
letter charging that 1.-rv simpson
was on the pay roll of the lobby to de.
feat populist measures and Browns
severe arraigument of Simpson and
Senator Harris will not appear.
The editorial in the Hiawatha Dem.
ocrst, accusing the populist state board
of charities with boodling and de-
manding their immediate removal by
the governor will be one Of the stories
overlooked In the makeup of tho book.
The book will contain no reference to
Oil Inspector Wharton's inspecting u
barrel Of rain water 1T Garrett and
stamping it "160 test" Neither will
it contain the article Frank Elliott
wrote exposing the coal oil inspection
scandal and which by threats of pub
fishing in his own paper. forced Leedy
to 70 over to. Atchison At midnight
and tender him the Office of executive
clerk in the governors Office, which
he accepted and which he now holds.
Frank Weinschenk's expose of the
deal the other members of the live
stock sanitary commission. of which
he was president had with the rail-
roads to compel cattlemen to ship ali
of their cattle into Kansas by rail in
stead of driving them in, and also his
expose of the 80 per month Doodle
deal At the Kansas City stock yards
will not be part OF the populist cam
paign handbook.
Tho story of the payment of g..
900 to David Overmeyer by Gov.
Leedy out of his contingent fund q
short time after the Atchison demo-
cratic convention, for services rem
dered," is to fall in the waste basket
of the populist censor.
There will be no chapter on ''why
the populist executive committee
awarded the contract to pave the walks
and drives of the statehouse grounds
to the highest bidder"
The Graham county bond deal, at
tempted to be perpetuated by the state
school fund commissioners, and only
stopped by Treasurer Hefebower ap-
pealing to the supreme court, would
be interesting reading. but G. w. Har-
rington censor on the book) will let
the public find that out some other
way than through the populist hand
book.
The successful efforts of Bank Com
missioner Breidenthal and Secretary
of State Bush to stop a wholesale
Doodle deal on the selection of New
York fiscal agency is such rich read
ing matter that the populist managers
will keep it from the "poor. down-trod.
dren" farmers of the state and will not
insert it in their book
Speaker Streets testimony about
that 800 bill being thrown at him By