Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-06-06
ed Irish boy. living in 6oorless cabin
on the banks of the lD0ylel.'
HOCH CAUGHTBY TEE TRAP.

on the banks of the IDoyle.'
HOCH CAUGHTlBY THE TRAP.
Then the trap that heIrailroAds had
been setting for half a century was
sprung and Kansas lent her name to
lawsuit which will get that 50.million-
dollar claim out of the realm of horse
sense and common honesty and to legal
presidents and tangle where tbeIsmart-
est lawyers in America are hired to col
lect that money by hook OF by crook.
The road could not have got into court
except for Hoch and if he had followed
the example of other governors; he
would have violated no statute. the
road could not hayeImade him act. sHe
did what he did because his heart was
full of beautiful sentiment and his head.
as Ehphaz the Temhntte told job, full
of east wind. Il
demagogic, but 1t does desire to say: in
all candor that If the road Wins this snit
as Joseph H. Choate,its chief counsel
thinks it will and as Attorney General,
G. G. Coleman of Kansas in his bfief
says 1t should, by winning ut will add
so million dollars to! the Golfers of a
system which uses its surplus financial
power to bride legislatures, to c0rrGpt
courts, TO fool governors and thereby to
steal money from the PEOPLE. This so
million dollars will go srom the taxpay-
ers who work to those Nboigive no val.
ne received and who use their great for-
tunes to buy political flower to Cypress
the American people. The wealth of
this country Is not equatably dlstribu-
ted because this government as theufn-
piIe of the game PERMITS tRchnicalities
and presidents and legal tOmfooleries
like this which Hocl, has lust invoked,
to take money away lnl taxes from these
who work and give it as bonuses and
donations and other legalized steals ito
those who do not works i
TIME FOR HOCH YET TO WlTHDItAW.
THE Gazette bas no desire to depart
from the straight path of party regn-
larlty in which it has walked for D doZ-
en- years. But for four years the Ca
zette has been telling Democrats TO vote
for Roosevelt and support him when the
interests of the Democratic party aud
the interests of the county Conflict.
Governor Hoch may yet retrieve. He
may yet see the Highland Withdraw the
name of Kansas from this suit: but; If
he does not get Kansas out Of this suit,
if he does not insist after knowing that
Congress and the executive branch !Of
the American government have review.
ed this case and declared 1t Iworthless,if
he does still insist in; trying to saddle
debt of so million dollars on this IcOun'
try by appealing to preeedents and ira
ditions in the courts,the people of Kan.
sas will be at the place where the in.
terests of the govern ment and those of
the Republican party diverge.
Moreover the people of Kansas will
have TO call upon governor who wall
it back to the realm of horse sense and
common honesty. Gbverncr Hoch has
his chance. If he turns it down then
the people will have their chance. It
will do no good to crack the party lash.
For the Democrats Voted for Roosevelt
and common sense and common hon
esty and have set this country an exam.
pie OF patriotism that Republicans wall
not be slow to follow" i II