Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-07
GARNETT, KANSAS, APRIL 7, 1899.

There is said to be honor among hem, and we
certainly should find 1t in one who has been
elected as chief executive of so great state us
ours. You allow your private letters to be in
spected by 3he state committee, and this leads
us to wonder whether some of the applications
of those who are not in the push ever get to
your notice.
'Your first mistake was in appointing your
private secretary at the dictation of these bosses,
as he has made enough enemies in three months
by his unfairness and deceit to defeat you in
your next election.
"Then it must have wearied you to see how
Cy could hold the Legislature deadlock for days
in his determination to prevent, if possible, the
Stuart Falcon contest. How they worked you
up to the point where yol lid you would veto
an appropriation bill and thus cripple the work
of the state courts,
"And when the bill was passed you vetoed it
at Cy's command and thus used the power con-
ferred on you by the people of Kansas to prevent
an inquiry into facts for which the law provides.
Then you hied away to the seashore during the
trial. lest the political methods of Cy to elect his
boy-judge should further nauseate your already
weakened stomach.
"Do you realize that the people of Kansas are
in favor of fair elections? That they despise the
the methods used to nominate and elect this boy
from Doniphan as Judge?
''I might mention your late scrap with Nc
Nall, but fo1bear with only few remarks as
surlnise your present illness was caused by a
perusal of his veiy interesting letter You
called his language 'insolence, but many who
read it had to admire the nlanlincss of the man
who wrote it, and who coolly invited you to 60
ahead and do what the politicians and insur
ance companies had ordered you to do.
"You will not call it 'lnsoence' should he
ask you to give up to him he chair YOU now
sit in when two years shall roll around Yet
you have made such thing possible.
''rhe people of Kansas rather rejoice to
the insurance corporations brought to time, and
McNall had a strong hold on the affections of
Kansas business men.
''But You perpetuated your farce of ousting
him, and the hearts of many who voted for you
sank notch or two in their breasts, as you
obeyed The dictates of the corporations, when
not citizen of Kansas was asking for his dis
charge.
Lately you have had grand chance to
raise Yourself in the estimation of some of the
boys in Manila, when whole company pc
titioned you for the appointment of their friend
and conrade to be captain. But you turned
down their request even after it is shown you
that the man they want is senior by four days
ove- the man you appoint.
Chow those boys in the trenches, under the
tropical sun, would have cheered had their re-
quest been granted. But you add to their load
by appointing stranger who has the pull
"Then IN the late session of the legislature,
how quickly the Republican majority turned
down the bill passed by the senate to give all
additional bounty to the brave boys who enlist
ed in the late war. The Republican bosses
raised the cry of buncombe, and it died in CON-
m'ttee. Where was the buncombe, pray, when
those seme men voted $1o,o 900 out of the state
treasury to the colored school of Quindaro?
And this done, too, to reward one who came
over from the ranks of the opposition and at
the request of the state committee.
"rhe only redeeming feature of your ap-
pontmcnts has been the appointment of the
bo,rd of charities, all of whom are gentlemen
You surely must have been alone and from un
der the influence Of Cy Leland when you ap-
pointed those men.
III I'd you and the state committee let them
alone, as you promised, all would have been
WELL but you forced them to carry out election
prom, ses, much to their disgust
''1o be sure, you and the push have the