Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-10-27
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
POpuIist Statesmen Regard Public once q
snap for Relativea-They Give Fat
Places to Them.

SS.~SStSN &bOap OEOi thC ob0tO VIM
whooped 1t up increasingly for the
ticket during the campaign and who
felt that they we're entitled to share
OF the pastry, but they have been un-
tremendously elbowed out Of the way
while the relatives of the state officials
have been given places at the public
table. Gov. Leedy found places for
three OF his relatives; a ncice in his
office, a nephew on the police force Of
Kansas City, Kan, another nephew on
the police department at Leavenworth;
the two latter lost their jobs though,
when the pop state convention forced
Leedy to abolish the metropolitan po-
lice.
Chief Justice Doster, the high priest
ofpopulism, worked all the able bodied
male relatives he had about into office.
lie got Taylor Riddle, his brother.in.
law, in as a member Of the live stock
sanitary commission. He made his
nephew. Humbert Riddle, who is
son of Taylor Riddle, stenographer.
His old law partner, Henry McClain,
son.in.law, assistant supreme court
reporter, and wound up by getting his
son, Chase Doster appointed a major
in the Kansas volunteers.
Judge Allen, of the supreme court,
did not fare so well. He only succeed.
ed in getting his son in as clerk for
the supreme court reporter.
John Martin, clerk of the supreme
court, appointed his daughter, Carrie
Martin, copy clerk in his Office.
State Superintendent Stryker gave
his wife a Sl,2OO job when he first
went in, but the pops raised such
row about it that Althea Briggs re.
signed and the place was given to q
nephew, Delbert Stryker
Lieut. Gov. Harvey, now major in
the army, appointed his bride as his
chief clerk.
Capt Morris, state auditor, had his
son in his office for several months at
good salary.
Senator Greedy Jumper, chairman OF
the state board of charities, had his
sister-in-law as his clerk during the
legislature and now has his father-in-
law, patent medicine vender, in the
medical department of the Osawato-
mic asylum. Jumper is the individual
who introduced bill at the last SEES.
sion of the legislature prohibiting
nepotism.
Pat Dolan, treasurer of the state
board of charities, has son on the
pay roll Of the Topeka insane asylum.
s. c. Wheeler, secretary Of the state
board of charities got his sister fat
job at the Topeka insane asylum, but
she was fired for some reason short
time ago.
W. L. Brown, formerly chairman Of
the state board Of charities, but now
major in the volunteers, had landed
two relatives in positions at the state
institutions, but both were discharged
for incompetency.
Frank Shane, another member of the
board, succeeded in getting one rela-
tive on the pay roll.
Warden Lands, of the penitentiary,
has brother and one other relative
on the pay roll of the penitentiary.
DR.. Hinton, superintendent of the
0sawatomie asylum, has given his
son soft snap at that institution.
Railroad Commissioner Lewelling
had his niece, Viola Bishop, as his
clerk during the legislature, and then
landed her in a position at the peni.
Tertiary.
Col. Hank Lindsey, of the Kansas
volunteers, got Leedy to appoint his
brother as quartermaster of the regi.
ment.
Three populist district judges made
the court family affair by appointing
relatives as court stenographers. W.
A. Randolph, Of Emporia, has his wife
as his official stenographer, besides his
brother is member of the state board
of pardons.
Judge c. w. Shinn named his daugh-
ter as stenographer and Judge Mckay
named his brother.
Judge B. +. Milton, Judge of the ap-
pellate court, appointed his wife as
his court stenographer.
Just to show that nepotism is con.
tageous among the populists, the rec
ord of the populists in the legislature
is given. Senators Forney, King and
Householder named their daughters
as their clerks Senators Hart and
Helm had no daughters so they named
their sons as clerks Representatives
Cassin, Gray, Johnson, Hibner and
Patten got their daughters in as clerks
Of committees. Representatives True
blood and Ingalls, had their sons on
the pay roll as committee clerks.
1t is evident from this record first,
that campaign pledges do not weigh |
heavily on the populist official, and
second, the average populist official
takes the modified Scriptural view that
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