The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-14
lands Is SMOOTH.
The Warden's Report Is Constructed
to Mislead the Miners.
II. g. Pipp. of Oasge City, Throws Some
Light ON the ubiect-- rhe sale of PEN
itentiary Coat Has Increased Under
the PopuIist decentralization.


the PopuIist decentralization.
In making his report to the governor,
Warden lands of the state peniten-
tiary says:
Referring again for a moment to the
mine discussion with reference to the
sale of coal, i want to call your atten-
ton to the fact that during the last
two fiscal years there has been sold,
all told, $500 bushels, as against -
O52,e4l bushels reported in the bien-
NAL report published by Mr.. Lynch for
the two fiscal years preceding
Mr.. Lynch was the republican war
den under the Morrill, administration.
The fiscal year ,ends on June 50 of.each
year
4. q Pipp, of Usage City, who is
perhaps, the hest informed man in the
state on coal statistics, takes up the
report and shows how Warden lands
attempts to work a ''con" game on the
coal minors of Kansas Mr.. Pipp says:
Taking the state ments as put by Mr..
Lands it leaves the impression that
considerable less coal was sold under
his wardenship than under that of Mr..
Lynch's yet the reverse of that state-
ment is true, and that is why papers
quoting the statements of Lands cam
not be relied upon. lie is shrewd; he
puts his comparisons in such a way as
to take credit ito himself that is due
Others
2 The fiscal years included in Lvnch's
repart covered from July 4, 1884 to
July 1, 1895; the years Included in
Lands report covered from July l,
1896 to July l, 1898. During that
whole time there were three wardens
in charge of the penitentiarys two of
them were populists and one re pub-
lican. Let us see what the records of
the three are as shown by the auditors
books in Topeka
Lynch, the repu blican warden, did
not go inuntil June 81, 1895. and so
his report included IL onths,of the
wardenshir of his populist predecessor,
Mr.. Chase, and 10 months of his own
wardenship- Mr.. Lands went in Feb.
ruary l, 1897, and his report included
seven months of Mr.. Lynch's admins
tration and n months of his own.
The following are the sales by the
three wardeus during their admins
tration within the four years referred
TO In Mr. Lands statement:
Sold IN Chase tpopulis) from Julyi,
1894 to July |, 1895 f35 500 SO
Sold by Lynch republicanJ from July
1, 1895, to Julyl 1898. ....-........... al5aac0
Total Observation-Disclosures. 500. 3s7 ~
The above sales, taken together, aon.
-stituteG the biennial report made Joy
Warden Lynch
Sold by Ls nch (repI blican) from July
4 To ahr 4
Sold by Lands (poPnliStl from Feb
ruary 1927 to JuIs /. 1898 .......... 20 2s5. AZ
Total ,....-,..,..,,,......... .i20 Ss2 ~
Monthly average for Lynch t52223
Monthly average for LaudiS 3l.hi2.0
Now this shows that. while takiLg
the last tive years end comparing with
the former two, there has been n re-
duction, but the how sales in each
period were hnder republican, rule; the
republicans IL each case putting less
In competition with cur miners than
did the populists.
In the first period OF two fiscal years
the repu blicansscut down the monthly
average by over 81, OO1 mont6. In
the second period Of too fiscal years
lands increasa3 LyEch's average
nearly threshold. Yet the smooth
Lands makes his report to the gov
,ernor (and to the people in campaign
time) SO that it appears as though he
had made an actual reduction.
A proper comparison would be thai
part of the entire four years (which wa
under populist wardeHs with that pare
of the four years which was Guder re
publican wardeps.
uNDER PopULlsr wAHprNS
Amuuls Nonitlv
sold AVERAGE
Chase IL mouths ............i3}5 0So2 .2g6j 5i
Lands Ii months ........ 2d,'2'l2 t74AT
Total. 90 months .........s6l.s 2a6l Ea.i8Lgj
UNDER REPUBLICAN Walden
Amount Monutly
sold average
Lynch, 10 months....... e., 3sb ~ !l3sdLi
The republican average was about
$500 below the populst average And
yet this is the exact period to which
Warden Lands refers in his report, in
which he makes it appear that it was
he who cut down the sales in the in
terest of the miners.
Continuing, Mr.. Pipp makes the fol-
lowing charges which are fully sup
ported by the records:
That the present populist admins
tration put convict coal on the market
mt 81. 0S or less
That their product has fallen into
the hands of the railroad companies
and other customers of free miners.
That the price under the new law is
at least 2s cents ton less than under
the old law.
That the populist party ignored its
platform pledge of 1895, promising to
free the miners from convict COMPETE
ton Worse, we charge it with giving
IA worse law than the old one
Under the old law the surplus out
put OF the mines was sold to the
highest bidder on contract Accord
ing to Warden Landis' report 1862, Gal
bushels were sold in the two years
from July i, 1894, to July /, 1896. The
state auditors books show that S57,-
1927. 70 in cash was turned in TO pay for
that coal. That is nearly 81 cents