Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-07-27
Our Topeka Letter.

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perimental station from $23, 900 tc
$24, 900.
Republicans don't like Secretary
Bush's ruling that evidence of the
genuineness of signatures to a nomi
nation petition must accompany it.
The nomination by petition feature
is one of the Australian ballot law.
and it-was to be expected that Re
publicans would not approve rul.
ing which would tend to prevent
fraud in such papers.
The policy of the Republican
party is illustrated in the matter of
Judge Fosters Illness. Instead of
asking man who is unfit for duty
to step down and out, Senator Bak-
er and the party leaders are trying
to push bill through Congress to
give an assistant at the same sala-
ry that he himself gets. Anything
to make places for the party strik ers
is the watchword.
The Kansas City Star says that it
is waste of time for Republicans
to talk about redeeming the good
name of Kansas aud that sort of
thing this year. 1t adds that ''the
Populists have had control of the
government Of Kansas for the last
two years. Things have gone much
the same as when the Republicans
were in power. The state debt has
not been repudialed, the state treas
ury has not been looted and the
state house at Topeka has not been
moved from it's foundations. If
eastern capital has been withdrawn
from the state it is because the Kan
sas people have more money than
they knox what to do with"
The Twenty-second Kansas has
been brigaded but once since its ar
rival at Camp Algers, Col. Hughes
the disappointed, to the contrary
notwithstanding. 1t was original
ly brlgaded with the One Hundred
and fifty Indiana and the Third New
York and it is with them yet. Ac-
cording to the testimony of Cy
Leland, the President has taken
great liking to Colonel Lindsey, and
the regiment is making as rapid
progress and will get to the front as
soon as any regiment in the camp.
Col. Hughes, the disappointed, is
writing articles for the newspapers
in which he finds fault with Gov vern-
or Leedy's organization of the vol
unteers, and charges that incompe-
tent regimental officers are prevent
ing the Kansas bows from being
properly recognized. Among other
things he says that the Twenty first
Kansas has been brigaded with q
half d zen different regiments. all of
which have been sent to the front,
leaving the Kausans at home. As b
matter of fact the first assignment of
this rigIment was with the Eighth
Massachusetts, and the Twelfth New
York, and both these regiments are
still in camp and all IN the original
brigade, no change having been
nade. That the officers are not re-
garded rs chumps is shown by the
fact that Lieutenant Colonel Nc
Crum is brigade inspector, Major
Smith is member of the brigade
court, Major Brown is inspector Of
rifle practice, Lieutenant Schulz is
brigade commisSary, DIR. Armstrong
is chief of ambulance corps of the
Third division and DR.. Biddle is
chief surgeon of the reserve hospital.
These details Indicate that the regi-
mental officers have mighty good
standing with the powers that be.
The report that Major Harvey has
declined to accept the Populist and
Democratic nominations for Lieuten-
ant Governor Is not true. How the
report started is mystery.
Kansas military officers may be in
competent and our soldiers may be
held back for the reason but 10000
other volunteers are no further along
than the Kansas boys. Only about
1900 of 16o eco volunteers have
left the original mobilization camp.
When the Western Methodist,
published at Wichita, undertook to
defend Stanley and boom him for
office it loaded up with fight which
cost it its life. 1t has suspended
publication.
Secretary Bush refuses to issue
charters to drinking clubs and organi-
cations. Occa sionally a1 organi "a