The Advocate and news., 1899-03-15

eral weeks, from your party organs, that
my removal was promised by you and 9TH
ers In the campaign last fall, and this being
true, 1t occurs to me that you have given
me entirely too much time to prepare
against the charges I'm a case where the
verdict has already been agreed upon. To
be perfectly frank with you, l will say that
yesterday l was informed by q representa-
tive of one OF your party organs that the
charges against me would be printed In this
mornings paper He must have obtained
this information from your office. He had
also been notihed-and l assume that this
was from your office--that Mr.. James A.
TrOutman was preparing the charges. l
find, however, from your communication,
that the same were signed by one Arthur
Capper May I ask what Is to be Mr.. Cap
per's compensation? Is Ii to be the off
cial State paper" To be sure, all he knows
about the matters contained In the state
ment he has signed he has obtained from
reading ex parte afiidavits published in the
daily papers, and that Is also all that you
know about the matters.
Your action leads me to believe that you
consider this an office to be given to your
friends, and that the friends will do your
constructed along these lines. While / have
been in this office, 1 have been enforcing
the laws Of this State and compelling the
Insurance companies to pay their losses In
this State according to the valued policy
laws, as the Superintendent of Insurance
has right to do and while l remain in
this ofice-which l fully realize will not be
very lOng-I shall continue to do this, and
no Governor can control my actions along
this line. II Is for the people of this State
to say whether my administration Of this
department is satisfactory or not. AS to
your opinion concerning this matter / care
nothing. II you are determined to remove
me from the position of Superintendent OF
Insurance l admit you have a right to do so,
and 1 will say to you in all candor that
IL you remove me upon the information con-
tained in the ex parte affidavits filed In
your department in pursuance Of your ante
election promises 1 will treat II as a reward
Of merit. Whenever you make the appoint
ment of party to fill this office and your
appOintee gives his bond and II is approved
by the executive council, he can have the
Office
One word in concusion--the twenty-four
hours notice you have given the head of
this department to appear at your office and
defend upon these charges Is farce. No
body knows 1t better than you. BE honest
and pass upon your charges today. Make
the decision that you have already agreed
upon. What is the use Of waiting until Sat
urday, March II, when you may just as we'll
make your decision on the 10th? No one
is misled. I shall not appear at your Office
tomorrow at 10 O'Clock, for IL there is any
thing that I have always had a supreme
contempt for 1t Is a farce Of any kind or
shape. Respectfully yours,
WEBB McNALL, Superintendent.
AlSeE some lurtneE animated correspond
ence between the governor and the insur-
ance superintendent the former called the
newspaper reporters together and opened
court announcing the formal removal Of
| McNal and the appointment of w. v.
Church Of Marion as his successor At
last accounts Church had not qualified, but
was waiting for Stanley to return from
Wichita to brace him up for the ordeal Of
stepping into McNalps shoes.