The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-24
The fight on Governor
THE FIGHT
but a persistent incoI
ON BAILEY
Inconsistency is the cha
IN A NUT SHELL.
the raid against the ad

but a persistent inconsistency
Inconsistency is the character o
" = " the raid against the administra
ton of Governor Bailey.
Probably about no thing is the public sensi
tive that of tax-rates. The hint Of wrongful
taxation will fire the most obtuse community. The
which has prejudiced many against Governor Bailey
has consisted allround charge Of unwarranted
travagance the of his administration and
consequent necessary the per OF
taxation.
the first place. except by school boards by city
councils there, for local purposes has there
been any increase taxation speak of in
this state? your receipts The bulk of the ap
preparations made by the last legislature. were made
institutions The state institutions located
part in the oldest and richest counties in
the state whose representatives the legislature
bined force allowances demanded. The head of
the boss buster machine Stubs, turned things
upside down, and as member of the ways and means
committee for big appropriation located in his county
He got it Still he is among those who howl the oudest
against extravaganza Of the Bailey administration
Had Bailey vetoed the appropriation bills, what a
groan would have gone up from Topeka with her two
institutions counting the state house; from
Lawrence, with university; from City, with
her blind asylum from Olathe with her deaf and dumb
institute from Osawatomie, and from Parsons with
their insane asyums; from Leavenworth with her peni
Tertiary; from Atchson with her soldiers orphans
home from Manhattan with her state agricultural col
lege; from Dodge City with her soldiers home; from
Hutchinson Belot with their reform schools from
Emporia, with her normal school, and from Winfield
with her idiot home, and All would have de-
cared that Bailey, in vetong or in even suggesting
curtailng appropriations respectively would
have been Gripping and state nstitu
lions much of the fight being made today against
Bailey the grounds of extravaganza by politicians
in the counties where these costly and expensive
institutions located There is the consistency of
which jewels not made
Many of these very fellows who are bowling exces
sive expensive appropriations will
forgive Bailey because he didn't the legislature to
incur debt of millions for making good the losses Of
the sufferers The truth is that is where
and when the fight started Bailey. Kaw river
communities away up the Smoky Hill and Blue
Missouri disappointed that the state at
large didn't whole the sufferers from act of
Providence The fact that the great bulk of the
losses sustained by powerful corporations by big
companies and rich men, cut no figure The poor peo-
pie who lost their little all helped by contributions
That Missouri municipal hog located at the mouth of the
Kaw being the sorely disappointed Kansas
refusal whole food victims largely inspired
the howl extravaganza against the Bailey admnistra
ton From the politicians of Topeka and Lawrence
arises the incessant of extravaganza and high
against the Bailey administration. Both of these
ofp for
their pet state Institutions but grew furious
cause Governor Bailey refused to recommend debt Of
millions to make these flooded towns whole. That's
consistency robbed of the proper prefix Are the tax
payers of the to understand that if these Kaw
river soreheads their sympathizers and abettors
should succeed in defeating Bailey that the Hoch admin
straon is down the appropriations these pet
state institutions in the interest of economy? Is Mr.
Hoch pledged to veto any appropriation bill carrying
extravagant item? Is there voter payer in
the state fool enough to believe that if the sorehead
fit outfit seeking to defeat Bailey, should succeed in
getting control of state affairs that they would cut out
anything few extra door keepers janitors?
Governor Bailey is honest His enemies
dare the contrary. He is above trickery
and trucking of whatever character Nobody disputes
that He has ben faithful in the discharge of every
duty he understood the rightful demands of such
duty. He is conscientious who in sticking by his
friends does his enemies. He has been more
friendly interests of the very man who has
consented become the tool the attempt to crowd
him out and thus deny him the vndcaton to which he
is entitled In short the vndictive fight being made
upon him is persistent inconsistency consisting of in
dividual disappointments in part of personal amb
tons land something in the shape of soft snaps
THE CLIMATE OF THE TRANSvAAL
England aside from the gold and diamond mines