Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

Topeka, Kan, April 6.-J. A.
Ramsey is one of the many Kansas
repub leans no has lad enough OF
Lelandism, Lltcrumism aud Stanley
ism, and announces he is ''done"
with the repull can party. In shak-
irg the republican dust from his feet
Mr.. Ramsey is candid enough TO
write an open letter to Governor w.
Eugene Stanley, giving his reasons
for doing 80.
Mr.. Ramsey is one of the best
known educators in Kansas. He was
elected superintendent of Anderson
county two terms, beginning in 1890,
and wss the only republican on the
ticket that car ried that county. Mr..
Ramsey was an atpirant for superin-
teLdent of the reform school at To
peka. His recommendations were
giltedged and the board of charities
wanted to give the place to him.
But Cy Leland, Stanley and the rep
uhlican 'close corporation" lald
down Cd the board and demanded
that the place be given to Hancock,
boiling Rock Island section boss
from Jewell connty,in fultillment OF
an ante-election promise. The ap-
pointment is one of the most motor
ions that has 80 far emsnated from
the business" administration. This
was the last straw, aud today MIR.
Ramsey penned this "open letter" to
w. Eugene Stanley:
OPEN LETTER TO STANLEY.
Son this beautiful spring morning
desire to pen you few lines to stir
up your pure MUD by way Of rem
entrance of events of the past few
weeks which you would doubtless
wish to have bIotted out. It is an
nounced that you are sick and 1 do not
doubt it, as the doses of political
hash administered lately by boss LIE,
land and the state committee have
been hard to stomach.
1.-The great trouble with the people
who electtd you, and to whom THESE
doses have been extremely nauseating
is, that they are not able to HE away
to the seashore, but must trust to the
Kansas Zephyr's of the next two
years to drive away the stencil Of the
political actions of your administra-
ton for the past three months. Let
us briefly refer 10 few which deserve
special notice.
''No governor ever entered upon
a term of office under more favorable
auspices. You were elected by a
constituency of which you should be
proud and enjoyed for brief time
their confidence. You owed Cy Le-
land and the politicians nothing for
your nomination and election and it
was with pleasure we heard you say
IN your speech of acceptance at
Hutchinson. eff I am elected / will
be governor.
"This was good enough for us and
we tossed high our ready cap in air
and lifted up our voice in servile
shouts saying, that that was all the
platform you needed. Recent po-
litical actions have led us to conclude
that we misunderstood you then and
you probably ssid,' If 1 am elected
Cy will be governor Such seems to
be the case and We note with pity
how Cy can hack you up against a
wall in the Copeland and give you
your orders. We notice on your face
that Fad, far away look as he gives
you bis instructions, but you obey
his orders Just the same.
"My dear governor, do you know
that a good dose of genuine Metho-
dist vim, or shoulder blow between
his eyes as he thus dictates would
raise your dropping spirits and make
you feel like a man again and raise
you in the estimation of many Kan
sas people?
PREFERENCE FOR BLEAR-EYED BOSSES
"We have noticed with some degree
of disgust how the blear eyed bosses
who were in the push were admitted
TO your Office by the dapper little
dude who is your private secretary,
while a one-legged soldier is forced to
wait at your door for hours for a
brief interview.
"Where were these men who are
now in the push, when that man LOST
his limbs?
Eyes, Governor, where were Leland,
Brown, Albaugh & Co. when the last
call was made by Uncle Sam? Their
names do not appear on the muster
roll, but they stand first at the pie
counter; and they get the pie, too.
This coterie of politicians having
placed Allen as your private secretary
have the key to the situation, even