The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-10-21
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
PopulIst Statesmen Regard Public omoe ne
n snap for Reiativea-rhey Give Fat
Places to Them.


the populist state officials go right
along working on the theory that pub.
lie office is a family snap. There are
several thousand populist workers
scattered about over the state who
whooped it up increasingly for the
ticket during the campaign aud who
felt that they were entitled to share
of the pastry, but they have been UNI
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 neice in his
office, 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 POI
lice
Chief Justice Doster, the high priest
of populism, worked all the able-bodied
male relatives he had about into Office
He got Taylor Riddle, his brother-in.
law, in as u member of the live stock
sanitary commission. He made his
nephew, Humbert Riddle, who is a
His old law partner, Henry McClaiD,
u son-in-law, assistant supreme court
reporter, and wound up by getting his
son, Chase Doster, appointed a major
m the Kansas volunteers.
Judge Allen, of the supreme court,
aid not fare so we'll He only succeed.
ID in getting his son in as a clerk for
the supreme court reporter.
John Martin, clerk of the supreme
court, appointed his daughter, Carrie
Martin, a copy clerk in his office.
State Superintendent Stryker gave
his wife "A $1,000 job when he first
went in, but the pops raised such a
row about it that Althea Briggs re.
signed and the place was given to
nephew, Delbert Stryker.
Lieut.. Gov. Harvey, now major in
the army, appointed his bride as his
chief clerk.
Capt Morris, state auditor, had his
a 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 ses-
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.
5. G. Wheeler, secretary of the state
board of charities, got his sister a fat
| job at the Topeka insane asylum, but
she was fired for some reason q short
time ago.
w. l.. Brown, formerly chairman of
the state board of charities, but now a
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 peniten tiary,
has brother and one other relative
on the pay roll of the penitentiary.
DIR. Hinton, superintendent of the
Osawatomie asylum, has given his
son n soft snap at that institution.
Railroad Commissioner Lewellng
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 "A member of the state board
Of pardons.
Judge c. w. Shinn named mis- daugh-
ter as stenographer and Judge Mckay
named his brother.
Judge b. r. Milton, judge of the APP
pellate court, appointed his wife AS
his court stenographer.
Just to show that nepotsm 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
llGllu huu lO NAah AhNAa op bhN1 hhhiNN
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 hrst
that campaign pledges do not weigh
heavily on the populist official, and
second, the average populist otiicia,
takes the modified Scriptural view that
the man who doesn't get jobs for his
own relatives is worse than an infideL
When Bismarck Played Cousin.
The following is story on Bismarck
for which an aged Swedish lady is the
authority. Nearly go years ago, wher
a girl, she went TO Berlin, where she
expected to meet a cousin, then study
ing at the university there. The
cousin appeared, and proved to be &
faeoi natinn uouth For savaral dau,