Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-13

York Times: The fact that DR.. Lang has
gone to Beatrice with his family indicates
that Superintendent Sprague is expected to
Move into the chicken house II he expects to
hold on at all. Nothing can exceed the
avdity with which a pop seizes the public
teat except the tenacity with whigh he holds
on to 1t.
Kearney Hub: Perhaps Governor Poynter
may be commended for evincing determine
tion to be governor "all his own self" but
in the case of the superintendent OF the
Institute for Feeble Minded Youth, whom
the governor removed for alleged cause, it
would be the proper thing to make the cause
or causes known. As the matter stands
now, on the face of 1t the removal has the
appearance OF an official hgh-handed pro-
ceeding.
York Republican; Some more fusion
economy: j. f. Steele the new superin-
tendent Of the Hastng asylum has removed
the daughter of the late W. A. McKeighan
from the position of bookkeeper and stenog
rapher. She was doing the work of both
offices for $50 per month. He has appointed
Daniel Alphen, a fusion heeler, as book
keeper at $50 per month and a woman as
stenographer at $50 per month. Reform
comes a ''leetle" expensive, but still we
NOulun KNOW HOW 10 get dlOnS WlluuuJ
it-and we don't know what in thunder to do
with it.
Blair Pilot: Governor Poynter is Justify
ing the claims Of the republican press of last
autumn in their claim that the state institu
tions were improperly cared for. The gov
ernor claims to have investigated the con-
ditcu Of affairs at Kearney and Beatrice and
has found a state of affairs that seemed to
fully justify the removal of the supern
tendents of each of the institutions. When
the charges were made last fall by the re-
publican press an awful" howl went up.
From the Investigations made since election,
not only of state institutions but of state
offices, it would seem that the republican
press had the facts down about as they
should have been.
Holdrege Citizen: The innovation of the
present state officials in holding star cham
Der meetings to decide on matters that have
hitherto been decided openly has a suspicious
look, to put it mildly. There seems to be no
reason why bids for house for the governor
to live in should be opened in secret and
the board refuse to let the bids be made
public. Neither does there seem to be any
reason, when charges are made against the
head of a state institution, why the trial
should be carried on in a star chamber. The
puDlC udS IL IlSul u pt lulUIIntu dDOul Nudl
is going on in the state institutions and what
the officials are doing. If they are unwilling
to let these things be made public the people
will feel that there is a special reason why
they should know.
Wisner Free Press: Star chamber pro-
ceedngs seem to be all the go in the fusion
camp at the state house. Recently the
Board of Public Lands and Buildings held a
star chamber session and is secretly exam
lining s25 900 mansions for $4,000 governor.
Now our great and good governor makes OF
himself prosecutor, judge and jury, and then
holds a star chamber session of this high
court and before the stenographer's report
of the evidence Is typewriter and laid be-
fore him he issues his ukase and orders DR..
Sprague of the feeble-minded institute to
be decapitated officially. He evidently thinks
he's the whole cheese. If republican gov
ernor or state officials were to do such a
thing the beacon fires would be lighted on
every sandhill top and the demo pops
would warn the people of the approaching
destruction Of their liberties. Great is re-
form!