Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-06-23
REVOLVING CHARGE AGAINST SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF SOLDIERS ORPHANS
HOME At ATCHlS0N.
Investigation ordered, but He Y i'll be
WhiteWaShed.

that if w. Eugene Stanley was elected, there
would be no scandals or abuses in the various
state charitable institutions. Hired affidavit
makers visited the asylums and paid cash for
sworn 6ctions regarding the alleged misinan
agement of the institutions. These hctions
were given to Republican newspaper workers
and used as the basis of weird and hair curling
stories of assassinations and other high crimes
that were encouraged by Governor Leedy's
board of charities. These stories wefe given
the widest possible publicity, and undoubtedly
influenced good many voters for the Repub
lican ticket
The Republican administration has been III
power only six months, but those six months
have been turbulent and full of trouble. Into
them have been crowded more real bona tlde
abuses and unsavory transactions than any BIZ
ennial period in the states history. The Re-
publican board of charities had scarcely begun
operations before a woman from Olathe, an
inmate of the Topeka insane asylum, was taken
out of the institution by her friends Her
body showed many wounds inflicted by brutal
attendants, and she told frightfu story CT
many other disclosures of the same sort, more
glaring than any that transpired during Leedy's
time. They have been told in the papers from
time to time. The latest scandal is at the
soldiers orphans home at htchison, and it was
made public only to-day. little gill eleven
years old charges that w. H. H. Young, the
new Republican superintendent, enticed her
into room and took improper liberties with
her. The charge reached the ears of the state
board of charities through indignant Atchison
people, and special meeting of the board will
be held at the home to investigate the charge.
w. H. H. Young has only one arm. He
claims to have lost the other fighting for old
glory in the civil war. In reality he lost it by
being run over by Missouri Pacific freight
train, and collected fat judgment for the loss
of it.
Speaking of scandals, there was nothing IL
the Leedy regime that could compare with ihe
open and notorious purchase of the asylum
locating committee. Two members of The
committee testify that they were offered bTibe'
to vote for the town that was afterward success
full, and refused them. There is conclusive
proof to be obtained against another member c
the committee In the face of such evidence
as this, Governor Stanley says he has no "juris
diction," and will refuse to act
There have been other features Of the pres
ent administration which demonstrate tina
while it is sanctmonious on the surface, ii il
rotten at the core. The transactions of the III
he ben
The Travellers. Insurance Company owes thu
state $12, 900 back taxes. McNall excluded i
from Kansas until it should settle i'll full
Church, McNalls Republican successor CAV
the company license to operate in Kansas
and accepted the payment of this years take
as settlement In full.
The part the Republicans have played ael
at the State Agricultural College is anothe
sample of Encouragement and incompetence
: The president of the college aud four profess
ors, as competent educators as are identihe
with any institution in the West were removes
! for purely partisan reasons. They are not Re
publicans Two Popust regents of the col
e leae went through the ridiculous ordeal of be
ing "invesigated" out of office. They wer
found guilty of running cooperative dining
y hall in connection with the college. Sine
: then, on the petition of more than 900 of tn
S students, the 'soup-house," as it was contemp
uously called, has been re-estabished. TIL
action of the regents in insulting William .
BRYAN, who carried Kansas for president /
y 1906, was another bright achievement
= 1t is favorte Republican trick in ever
:. campaign to pose as the party OF good govern
:, nent. Il claims to have corner on purit
;. and a prior mortgage on righteousness Thu