The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1911-07-13

The amount of the appropriation hae
already been reduced from 5000, 900 te
$40, 1000, although the fund out o
which it is payable is created speci6.
cally for the game and fish department
and not dollar of it comes from tax
alton. The state has no right to use
any part of it for any other purpose
than the propagation and protection oi
game and fish.
But these despicable Democratic
schemers "reckoned without the host. !"
Governor Hadley asked Mr.. Tolerton
to continue in Office as long as he re-
NAMED governor. Employing his pri-
yate funds to sustain his department
Mr.. Tolerton stuck to his post, mean
while demanding of the auditor his sal
ary and expenses, asserting, on the
advice of Governor Hadley and other
eminent lawers, that the rider on the
appropriation was illegal and void.
Gordon took advice from Attorney
General Major who is always ready with
bad advice and far fetched conclusions
for Democratic officials and refused
payment. Mr.. Tolerton then applied
to the Supreme Court for a writ of
mandamus compelling Gordon to audit
and pay his claims for the salaries and
expenses of his department, and on
July 8 the Supreme Court issued the
mandamus, Rocking out the infamous
rider and confirming the title of Mr..
Tolerton to the Office he holds, des-
pite all that Major, assisted by a for
mer Supreme Judge and lesser legal
lights of the desperate Democratic
crowd about Jefferson City could do to
prevent such jusdand fair procedure.
The little Democratic schemers who
consumed the time of the Legislature
last winter and thousands of dollars of
the money of the people in an effort
to down Tolerton and hinder Hadley"
are down themselves, and sit in sack
cloth and ashes oyer the far reaching
results of supreme court ruling that |
stands in the way of their partisan
schemes and hopes and shows that the
day when the Supreme Court can be
used for partisan purposes has passed.
While Judge John Kennish, stalwart
Republican, wrote the opinion of the
court, Judge Waller w. Graves, the
latest Democrat elected to the supreme
bench, wrote concurring opinion with
which he took all the hide off of the
Democratic schemers responsible for
the rider and handed down a lesson to
Major, Gordon and their associates in
peanut politics which they are not
likely to forget.
The decision in this case is a glor-
ous victory for Governor Hadley and a
tribute to his digni6ed course in sus-
aiming his rights as the chief execu-
i've of the state; and it is stunning
blow to the stumbling Democratic poll
icians whose chief business has been
o hamper and hinder the administra-
ion.
And it is decisive and gratifying
'ictory for Mr.. Tolerton, who bravely
md frankly met every charge preferred
!gainst his official conduct and defied
lis bitter democratic enemies till they
,ecame foolishly furious, and then
the auditor and the attorney
,eneral to take their contentious before
he Supreme Court. Mr.. Tolerton
las made the game and fish laws oper- .
tive and successful and has won the
confidence and cooperation of citizens {
vho approve such laws. His admins
ration of the game and fish depart +
nent has been so much more success t
ul and satisfactory than that of his i,
Democratic predecessors as to make
Democratic politicians afraid of the
POLITICAL results. {