Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-12
GOVERNOR STANLEY.

OF all the governors Kansas has ever hao
W. Eugene Stanley is, by great odds, the mos
extremely partisan, self-conceited and hypocrit
ical While dealing out temperance speeches
and long prayers with one hand, he hands GU
with the other political patronage to men whose
breath is rarely free from the smell OF liquor
and who seldom utter a dozen successive sen
fences without the use Of profanity. While
protesting friendship for our educational lnsti'
tutons, he organized partisan committee tc
try Regents Hoffman and Limbocker, OF the
State Agricultural College, on frivolous trump
ed-up charges, which, when the light OF truth
was turned on, fell flat, in the estimation OF all
fair-minded citizens, for the want of any evil
dence to sustain them. But it was not expect
ed that any evidence could be found to back up
Perkins, the political tool who filed the COM
plant In fact it was SO declared in the be-
ginning But the filing of the charges and the
partisan report of the committee were the
touching of the button, and Cy Leland's jump
ing-jack, Stanley was to do the rest by remov
ing these two thoroughly fair, competent and
worthy regents, and appointing two Republic
ans to fill their places; thus turning the college
over into the hands of regents the majority o.
whom are lady to do the bidding of their boss
King Cyrus, by prosttuting this grand institu
ton to the service of the G. o. p.
A. A. Stewart, one of the most efficient Sill
perintendents the institution for the education
Of the deaf and dumb has ever had, was re-
~, rs ha tar,, or6 II 4
Hammond, an extreme partisan Republican
put in his place. The very competent steward
whose record was credit to the service, was
dcposed to make place for Governor Stanley's
wite's father. DR.. S. d. Wilson, one of Ola
the's oldest and most competent and successful
physicians, succeeded DR.. H. E. Williamson "a
Young man of limited experience) as physician
for the institution, about two years ago. The
drug bill during DR.. Williamson's first year as
medical director at the institution was $3.50
The second year, it was $247.17. During Dr.
Wilson'S first year, it was but $3a. 5o and the
second year, up to April Ist, it was only $I8 S.
plus one quart of brandy and one pint of whis-
XIV, which were bought on the 9th, but not by
the Doctors order. DR.. Wilson never lost a
case during mis- term.
The other state institutions have been ham
died in about the same way No attention is
paid to merit. They are used simply for parti-
san purposes. While pretending to distribute
political plums equally among his adherents,
Stanley makes w. T. Voc regent of the Ag-
ricultural College, and gives his (Yoe's) daugh-
ter a good salary as teacher in the institution
for the deaf and dumb.
While posing as an anti inonopolist, Stanley
selects notorious political hxe1s and railroad
attorneys to constitute the court of visitation.
He ignores all precedents and tramples under
foot all rules of justice and right by selecting a
subordinate officer for the colonelcy of the
Twentieth Kansas, position to which Lieu
tenant. Colonel Little was justly entitled, but
was thus outrageously treated solely because
he did not train with the Stanley crowd polit-
ically,
Governor, you are vain, weak, vacillating
official. who was vaccinated for craftsmanship,
brt # didn't"take." You have already dis
rupted your party, and may just as well, with
out further delay, buy your political coffin,
crawl into it and pull the lid down.
. TIE expansionists are scared, as we'll as mad