The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-10
"A PLAGUE
ON BOTH
YOUR HOUSES"
The Plain, WOrkaday, Taxpay-
ing People of Kansas
Disguised With the Costly
Examinations"
Got Up and Conducted Year by
Year by Politicians
OF BOTH THE PARTIES
Merely For Partisan Ends and
Party Advantage.
Both McNalI and FallOOn-S Stuart
Matters
ARE PURELY A WASTE
Of Thousands of Dollars of the
Peoples Money.
4 Business Administration En-
tireiy on Business Lines
just as a Corporation Is Run by
Its Stockholders
Of Thousands of Dollars of the
Peoples Money.
4 Business Administration En-
tirely on Business Lines
just as a Corporation Is Run by
Its Stockholders
IS WHAT CITIZENS ASK
They Have Neither Time Nor
Money For BuncOmbe.

Two buncombe examinations are to be
carried on by each of the political par
ties in Kansas this month and the peo-
pie are to pay for both.
Purely for the entertainment of the
Republican and Populist politicians and
for the purpose of furnishing campaign
material on which to gain and hold Of
flee two years from now, Webb McNaH
is to be examined and the Falcon
Stuart judicial election in northeast
Kansas is to be examined. Now, the
public at large does not care deeply
about either of these fights" which are
merely for political advantage. The
motive and object at the bottom of both
examinations is to get party ammuni-
tion. Both these examinations will cost
a large sum of money.
The McNaH ''examina ton" will be
paid for out of the governors conting-
ent fund and will cost some thousands
of dollars. The FalloOn-Stuart eXami-
nation will be conducted by the senate,
perhaps by voluntary contributions
which will be made good by some fu-
ture Populist Legislature. In the end
the people will pay for both. There has
been no popular demand for either eX-
animation. The public doesn't care very
much about them. They are pretty
we'll satisfied with Webb McNalls ad-
ministratiOn of the office of superin-
crOOkedness in the election of Judge
Stuart, they think that the district
where Judge Stuart was elected is the
place to make the examination. The
state at large has nothing to do with
it.
There exists no reason why the peo-
pies money should be wasted to supply
politicians with material to carry on
their campaigns. What the people ask
for from their state government is good
laws and careful and economical man
L, e
the time of the legislature was wasted
in passing buncOmbe resolutions and
saving the air about nothing. Tens of
thousands of dollars squeezed out of the
people in taxes went up in this sort of
folly The continuation of this folly will
be these foolish, resultless partisan eX-
aminations.
The facts are that the two political
parties dominant in Kansas have ar
ranged a two ring circus for the edifi-
cation of the citizens and at the eX-
penSe OF the taxpayers which causes the
average man to demand a rest when he
thinks about it. The spectacle is found
IN he two Investigations to be made under
the alleged necessity of purifying poll
tics One is to embarrass Cy Leland;
the other to oust Webb McNan.
Governor Stanley declined to permit
the Populist senate to have money to
investigate a contest in which Cy Le-
land appears as the central figure, but
turns around and will use his con-
tingent fund to boost McNalI out of
office There is no hope for McNan.
When the partisan investigation ends he
will walk the plank to make way for
Governor Stanley's appointee. w. V.
Church. of Marion. On the other hand
Stuart has the certificate of election
as judge of the judicial district COM
posed of DOniphan, Nemaha and Brown
counties. but the Populists propose to
investigate this case, claiming that
fraud was practiced and to this alone
does Stuart owe his majority of 235. so
they say. So the senate agreed to re-
turn to Topeka March q and hear the
contest without money but with the
hope that the Republican administration
Will be turned out in two years and that
a Populist legislature may be depended
upon to pay them for the time.
If McNaH is Ousted, as of course he
will be, the Populist politicians want the
senate to convene and after a brief
hearing oust Stuart and seat Falcon
Frank Elliott, editor of the Troy Times
says that If a Populist judge can be
gotten into office in that district some
of the political leaders will be sent to
the penitentiary-
But this political performance. unnec-
essary and foolish as it is. will go on
until the end of time, no doubt, in this
state. unless the people strike it down
Governor Stanley complained when the
Populist senate did not confirm his nom
nations at once, but combinations
amount to nothing. Should the Populists
throw the Repu ublicanS out neck and
breeches just the same as the Republi-
cans are now doing with the Populists
And as time drags on the succeeding
administrations will do the same. so a
continuous performance awaits posteri-