Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-08-24
A VAUDEVILLE ARTIST.

or all the grand stand plays eyeI
made by Kansas governors, and they
are many, probably the most frequent
and the most asSnne have come fron
Governor Stanley Morrill, WAS wei
meaning old lady, LewellinR and
Leedy had their errors; but II remained
for Stanley to get caught playing te
the galleries In such stage paint as
would put TO the gimmer Of night the
most gorgeous vaudeville artist,
In his campaign Of two years ago he
made Il great ado about the road agent
business Of Webb McNall. Then
when he came into Office he proceeded
TO the firing line aud commenced on
McNall because he had sent out his
agents" after foreign insurance coM-
panies, they had collected the usual
$1,000 per day and expenses, and had
failed 10 turn II into the State treas
ury. The Sunday school governor
held up his hands in pious horror and
then applied his boot with pious yigor,
In came Church, his appointee, aud
Immediately began sending out II new
set of road agents. Two Of them
went East and boarded with an lndi-
ana company for several weeks Then
they were put TO work on the Kansas
Mutual, a home company till they had
run up an $500 bill aud there was no
prospect OF any Of II beng turned
into the treasury.
Then The populists concluded ia
again try the governors sincerity by
again following the plan adopted In
the case of the regents of the agriCul-
tural college, aud preparations were
made to file charges against Church
similar TO those on which McNall was
ousted. But by some means the gov
ernOr learned of their intentions and
as there was another little matter rel
eyant to the same proposition he did
not wish TO have known, he immedi.
alely went after his Sunday wearing
apparel and put on u Sunday CLOAK,
lie declared it was against public pol
icy for the examiners to pocket these
fees, and called upon them to disgorge.
Now, Lhe little collateral matter the
governor did not WISH aired was the
fact that IN another Of his economical
grand stand plays the governor refused
to appoint State accountant, but had
nevertheless Kept a fellow named Aus
tin under pay for that service almosC
continually, and that this Austin was
one Of the examiners or "road gents"
VINO not only was getting $40 90 per
day for examining insurance cOmpa-
MES, but also q salary from the gov
ernor AZ the same time for expert &C
countant." Wishing to keep those
facts from leaking out, Austin dis
gorged, But II seems Church, the in
surance commissioner, aud Beatty, the
other examiner, have bucked, They
say, juat rs McNall said, that there IL
no law providing that these fees
be- turned into the treasury and they
don't propose to do It, So now, our
dear governor, in order to shine before
the fOotlights, has bumped up against
ibis proposition, Either these lees
must he turned into the treasury or
his administration will be open to the
same denuncialion he made against
the pOpullsts, and he will have to turn
down charges exactly like those or
which McNall was busted. And he
will have trouble to get this done. IL
II is dOae, examiners of insurance
companies will have to work without
pay for the good OF the cause, and
there are few patriotic enough for THAI
Mr. Stanley now suggests that the law
is weak and should be amended. But
the pathetic thing about that state
ment is that though a lawyer, he
should not find it out till after the leg
islatnre had adjourned aud after the
republicans had killed u bill by Sem
ator Forney, a pOpulIst, in the last SEES
sion covering these points.
The governor has now given in and
Church and Beatty can go on with the
hold up" business. They are on top.
The governor will have to face the
charges and turn them down after him
self claiming they are well grounded.
Kansas has II great governor. o.!
when will this throbbing old world
have another great man when he is
gone.
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