Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-02-03

preparation bill. The issue with which
he was concerned is a greater one thar
any question of money. The increase
cause 1. gave proof of certain unbear.
able conditions which Governor Bailey
made possible. Governor Bailey sur
rendered himself to the bosses i'm
mediately upon coming to Office. He
employed the patronage of governor to
sustain these bosses. He obeyed these
| bosses in debating to the legislature to
the extent Of defeating much that both
| the people and the legislature wanted.
He violated the spirit of this democratic
government by interfering with a
| coordinate branch of the Kansas state
government. That which the bosses
are charged with was an open and
notorious use of bribery-the purchase
of legislators with the promise of Office.
That which Governor Bailey is charged
with is sustaining the bosses.
Everywhere and always where bosses
rule there will be increasing taxation.
TIE stock IN trade OF the boss is spoils.
His business is to get control of as
much of the people IS money as possible
He uses 1t to reward his heelers and to
buy more power. If in control of
legislature he will press the appropriat-
Ing power to the last limit. He will have
useless Offices created for favorite
politicians. He will increase salaries,
and devise ways and means where
even in legitimate expenditures there
will be percentages and ''rakeoffs."
LII Kansas there haYe been useless
offices created for favorlte politicians.
In Kansas there has been an increase
in salaries where an increase was not
necessary. And 1t is more than sus
pected that the percentage and rakeoffs
could be found by little close investl
cation.
1t is claimed by his friends that
Governor Bailey is personally an honest
man. That is the opinion also of most
of his political opponents. But mere
personal honesty does not count for
much unless it is based on standard
Which makes man as scrupulously
honest In his public capacity as he is in
his private dealings It seem, to be
the fact, for example, that Governor
Bailey had no prickings of conscience
when he looked upon the orgy of public
loot which followed the machine
organization Of the house. It is prob
able that he does not yet realize that
when he violated the spirit Of his con-
stitutOnal limitations and every
principal of good public morals by help
Ing to put the legislature in the hands
OF the bosses he was giving license for
all the distressing things which at once
followed. The kind of honesty required
in public servant is the kind that is
incapable of distinguishing between
the crime of cheating trusting neigh
Dor and the crime of cheating a state
full of people.
The Eagle should rub it's eyes and
wake up if it thinks that the revolution
in Kansas against boss rule is based on
large appropriations for tie state in
situations. The matter is pertinent
because it is altogether probable that
the appropriations for these lnstltu-
tons under the coming reform ad-
will be as large if not
larger. To reduce the taxes of Kansas
it is not necessary to be niggardly with
the charities and other legitimate de-
mands upon the public pocketbook. 1t
is only necessary to lop off the CRAFTS |
had by the politicians which have been |
growing at an alarming rate during the |
past few years.-K. C. Journal. Rem.