The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-28
STARTLE STANLEY
Republican BOlter Will Ask
Some Questions.
0. L. Rice, of Jewell County,
Writes a Letter.
HIS INTERPRETATIONS.
Suggestions That Governor
Stanley Answer Them.
Was Member of Republican Com
mittee Until Recently.

The fusionists of northwestern kansas
have evolved plan for the total pollti-
cal humiliation of Governor Stanley at
Mankato where he is to speak tonight
The governor is invading the Sixth dis
trict which has been controlled, until
two years ago, by the fusionists, but the
plan for tonights action is expected to
cure the governor Of a desire TO make
additional speeches in the Sixth.
The governor Will be asked to ex-
plain why he does not suppress the
KIondike and numerous other questions
likely to prove very embarrassing.
All of this has been planned by Jewell
county fusionists. o. l.. Rice having ex-
pressed his willingness to warm the
governor
Rice until three weeks ago was
member of the Republican county com
Inittee. He quit the committee ana Is
now working assidiously for Bryan.
When Governor Stanley is introduced
for his speech tonight Mr. Rice, accord
ing to the prearranged plan, Will place
in the governors hands a list OF ques-
tions which he has prepared touching
state and national issues Rice has nad
1000 copies of his questions printed and
has today been giving them to trusted
friends. The governor, by these friends,
win be forced to take up the questions,
unless Mr.. Rice's nerve" fails. How
ever. there is no doubt that the questions
will reach the governor, the plan being
to take him wholly by surprise
The document which Rice is to hand
the governor, is in full as follows:
Mankato, Kan. Aug. %, 1900.
Hon W. E. Stanley, present
My Dear Governor:-The recurrence
of your biennial visit to this county
freshens the recollection with which
your first visit was connected and
prompts some Of your former followers,
Including myself. who supported Nc
Kinley and Morrill, in 1896 and yourself
in 1898, to submit the following ques-
tions, with the request that you an
swer them in your speech today.
Until very recently l. had the honor
to serve as a member of the Republican
county central committee of this coun-
ty. which relation voluntarily severed
First-When last here did you not say
that if elected you would devote your
time to the duties Of your office and not
run over the state making political
speeches2
Second-Dfd you at said time promise
George H. Case, T. s Kirkpatrick and
J. H. Woollen that you would give w
s Hancock, the section foreman of the
Rock Island railroad. an appointment
worth not less than 81 200 per annun?
Third-Did you not appoint Hancock
as superintendent of the State Reform
school in compliance with that pledge
and did not the men to whom you MADE
that pledge repeatedly round you up
and force you to keep it?
Fourth-Wil you make any such
promises this trip?
F'ifth-Tf you are friend to the old
soldier, explain why it was that the APP
plication of every old soldier of this
county for appointment was turned
down by you and only renegadeS to
Democracy and POpulism appointed to
office over the bargain counter. Please
also state why you gave no heed to the
protest of every old soldier of this
township. with two exceptions. whose
protest was backed by ninety per cent
of the voters Of this Center town
ship2
sixth-win you please answer the
questions asked by Past Department
Commando Botkin, relative to the
Klondike in which he said:
There are 10000 old soldiers in the
state, and SO, 900 of them are demanding
that the infamy which is going on up
there be stopped. Against them are
some 200 jointists and thugs who do not
want the fnfany stopped. On which
side is Governor Stanley2 Does he i'm
agine he can fool all of these old vet
Grams all the time2 There are tens of
thousands of people who are growing
suspicious that it never was intended
to clear out that nest of villains and it
does not help the case for some polit-
ical jawsmith to interview himself and
and talk grandiloquently about the
difficulty of getting evidence" And he
adds: rs this administration afraid
of the Klondike's political infiuence?''
Seventh-While speaking about Klon-
dixie and the way old soldiers are MUIR
dered there, let US ask you to explain
why you gave no heed to the letters OF
Comrade Donald McPhail. who with two
of his brothers served four years in the
civil war and who in a most pitiful let
ted dated August 2. 1889, related to you
al the circumstances Of the death of one
of those brothers, a victim of the infa-
nous Klondike?
Eighth-Is it not true that there is not
a single place in the Klondike district
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