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-- - -i 3fc j EAVEN y - f LIMES v P 1 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1878. HtaMnhed. 1855. . I Vol.-2S.-Ko. 1. f JConvrvmlte Kslnblislicsl by l. IU Anthony, January. ISBI. iv-.tt jr S j woum wi 1j i t i 9 t ; I? - itlicckii) SHimcs THURSDAY. MAY 2. 1878. ;OV. ROBI.fSOSi'S LETTER. The statement to which Governor Bobin- son refers, f n the open paragraph of his letter this morning does nrf express the sen timents of the Republicans of Kansas. The men who C-titute the rank and file of the Republican part in this c tate are more nearly unanimous ujwn tlie currency ques tion than upon any other; they regard 'that as the one livi issue of the present dav of more vital interest than nny or all other issues combined, and they believe, with Governor Bobin smi, that the only pa per money of this country shou'd be the United States Treasury notes the only honest paper money we ever had the money of the people the Greenback. We believe we express the sentiments of j 'nine t-i"--hs of the Bcpublicans of Kansas j when ;.? tay that the interest which we no pay upon bonds depo-ited to secure Xational Rank circulation, should be saved to the public treasury, by sub-tiluting Greenbacks for Xational Bank notes, and we believe, too, that we express the senti nienU of the Republicans of Kanas when e say that the quantity of Greenbacks in in circulation should re incre-sed till the seat- amount; to enough to supply the busi-.ne-s demands of the countrr. In a countrv s rich in cvry element of material wealth Moure, therein no po-siblc reason for the wholesale bankruptcy of the Jan few year?, bat a nsiakcn and pernicious financial policy Ve shoil.d like to we all the Greenback men of Kansas take the advice of Gov. Robinson and co-operate nh the Ke-publi- cstis in the choice of public officer who are knowh.tobe sound upon this great issue. c Tie sty1! ulj'i 'bat our present representa. tivAt :itWasiiingtou. having been tried and found true, should nofWcirhinged for un tried men. in regard tn our State officers. a little more care should be taLen, than Iiere'ofore, to select men wh'i art on tlie j side of tho people, and of who.ni o nwl i have no ears that they will ever betray us ia the interest of the money power. 3 A utn jot: OwlliaMOlII Imil Ji.lltm. Alfrd Gray has r--lsiird Ills j-Ulon nsoneof the American j Coiiniilv.loiierKto the l'trt vxxi-lliu. It kvnislliaiF I-. HalMr knewof Hie coiiU-ui-p!allrl.:n-uiou, and whs on h nd prompt ly to in lce application to hfttppotuleil ttillii vintnri, wlitrn li-afc Ikysi done. We ramnl lni-.- t.nMniin..ti', a-there very initio men tti our -mile wtioco ltd represent us lar mole llmil; iluAcm Mr. l-k r, and he Is not t alt tuec'toic. of the iiivofUieieop!e! our isiale. C7im Tunc, Biker knew of the contemplated re-igna-tioO beoiu-e the whole thing was a put up job from the hr-t. Mr. Gray i- cen-urable becaii'e he allowed iiim-elf to be made a tiiol f in carrying iut the fraud, but the real re-jm-ib liiy r-ls uimn the(iovernor, who plaunxl the di-reputable scheme', and cjrried it out, for the puri-eof rewanling Baker for the dirty wrk that he has done for 'Hi- Kieellency" in the past and is expected to do in the future. Djn't blame Biker. He did right in taking the place when he could gt t it. If the state has heen elisgraexsl by his ajtpoiutment, lrt the res jKjnsibility for that appointment be placed where it lielong. doi i r t'.vv -m in: hipt The business of the Xorth Western Mu tual Life In-urance Company, of Milwau kee, in the state of Kansas for the years of 1S73, 1S7C and lfeTT, shows sueh a falling off in receipt", occasioned no doubt, by the publicityjglven tothe wrongs perpetrated on widows, orphans .-and unfortunate policy holders by said company, and such a terrible increase in the amount paid for death los-es and matured endowments, that wc have new proof of the fact that it will 'v a corporation, as well as an indi vidual, to art honestlyinits transactions with tha-public Tlie following figures from the Company's sworn statement, give pretty strong evidence that the people of Kansas tlon't appreciate unfair dealings in a Life ' Insurance Compauy : Premium receipts 1S75, S4o,9 1C.S1 ; Io-s-es paid in 1S7, 53,300; about S per cent, eif income. Premium receipts, 1S7C, s40,C09S3; lo--cs paid in 1S7C, jil.000; about 37 per cent, of income. Premium receipts, 1S77, $31,210.40; loss es paid in 1S77, S22.C00; alout 64 per cent, of income. The liutnWr of new jiolicies i ued in Kan-as has al-o been getting beautifully less. The Company i ned new policies in Kana-in 1S73, 73; in 1S7C, oo; in 1S77, only it. This f .lling ofThas been general all over the country, o that their ecnliar method of tran-acting bus:ne-s was not altogether confine-d to this State. TeiUl income, 1S73, 54,033,492.73 ; paid for loss's and endowments in 1S75, $702, 2S7.03. Total income, 1S7G, ?3,92i,372.23 ; paid for losse- and endowments in ls0, $904, fc!0 07. j Total income, 1877, S3,711,0S7 11 ; paid for losses and endowments in 1S77, if 1,182, 3S0S2. This break-ccck pace to utter, irredeem able insolvency is not entirely cau-ed by hard times; it is principally owing tothe unfair manner in which the "Xorth AVest crn" takes advantags of their unfortunate jolicy holders, in settling death claims, en dowments and lapsed policies, as is evidenc ed by the business of a company whose offi cers and agents act honestly towards their .policy holders. The Kansas business of the "2cw York Life Insurance Company " during the same years, 1S75, 1S76 and 1S77, shows that it pays to be .honest; and that honesty and fair dealing will win, even unier adverse circumstances, and that fraud won't take with an intelligent public. The following "Is the business of the Xcw York Life in Kansas: Income, 1S73, $21,000; death claims paid, 54,133 about 20 per cent. Income, 1S7G, 520,000 ; death claims paid, 51,000-abonl 5 percent. Income, 1877, estimated, 5t5.019.08; death claims paid, 53,000 about 11 percent. New policies issued 18?5, 63; 1876, 150; 1877, 213. Whilst the claisis paid to receipts, of the "North Western" in Kansas, for the past three years, are nearly 50 per cent, and still increasing, the average of the "Sew York Life" for the same term is only 12 per cent. And whilst the receipts of "North Western" are decreasing, and the claims for death increasing, the business of the "Xcw York Life" is growing rapidly; and its percentage of death claims to receipts get $ng less. Another evidence that it pays to e honest, and the "Xorth "Westtrn must act like honest companies," if it expects to do business in this States. Sexatob. PttacB promptly forwarded fifty dollars for the benefit of the offerers from the late tornado at Emporia. VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS, By Hon. George A. Crawford, of Fort Scott, As to an Immigration Bureau, and Other Matters. Why Kansas Has no Display at the Paris Exposition, The Governor Doesn't Want to In vite "The Foreign Element." A Great Opportunity Sacrificed to His Personal Ambition. The Paris Commissioncrship Personal Perquisite. His His Opposition to the Newspapers His Egotism and Petty Envy. The Secret of Baker's Appointment a? Commissioner. An Interview That Will be Highly Interesting to the People of the State. Learning that Hera. George A. Craw ford was in the city, a few days ago, and think ing that he could throw some light upon the Baker appointment, which has -.o ex cited the indignation of the peopV of the f-'tate, a Times reporter interviewed him at his hotel. When the matter had been put intypcitwa.1 submitted to Mr. Crawford for hn inspection, i'"l as by him pronoun ced cornel, as will Iv een by the folU.wing note: J Ion. Gorge . C,m-f.,rd; Th following DeauSik r'prt nf an interview held with you has lutn presented by one of our reporters, for pii'-IicstioD. by one of our reporters, for pii'-Iicstioa. Will you pi asc read the same before it is liin to the public It contains many statements of Very great imp irtance, and, a a nutter of justice to you, as well a- to the p i.r, wederire to have it accurate. Very Bespaetfully, i l'niToi: Turn.. lliihir Timm: DeauSik: I have can-full read tin- accompanying report, and lind it to tie a correct version of an interview held with me hv vour retiorter. And 1 weuld state further, for the i 'formation of v mr read ers, nad the public, th t eve ry st itement therein made, i; true to the h tter. Yours Truly, Geo. A. Ik tumuli TUr luirrvlctt. BeiHirter. Your recent VxjierieiKv in the double capacity of Unitiil Mate-. CVn teutennial Commissioner, and of State Cen tennial manager, together with your serviev as Commissioner of Immigration in lM57-i, alter the first gra hopjier raid, should en able you to speak, as with authority, upon some topics of public importance. Mr. Crawford. To what do you refer. It. Well, for in-tanev, the topics of Im migration, the l'aris Exposition and kin dred helps or hindrance to the prosperity of the Slate. HOW IV E FOIX.HTTHE lKAsI!0rrER3 TEX YEARS AGO. THE IMMIGRATION BUREAU OK 1SG7 S. IT CJST THE STATE OXE 1IUXIIIEI DOLLARS. Mr. Crawford. The gra hopix-r raid of 1SG0-7, was about as di-a-trou- as that of 1874-5. It was at the chssj oi the war. Farms were new people were poor. We were losing our population. Unimproved lands had become depreciates;! so as not to he worth the tate. The Ix-gisltture re fused to make an appropriation for immi gration purposes. Gov. S. J. Crawford asked Judge L. IX Bailey and myself to act with.hini as Commissioners of Immigration, He set apart from his contingent fund one bund reel dollars, which we u-ed for printing and stationery. Beporter. You were Secretary of that Board, I believe. Mr. 0. Yes sir. We enlisted the press of the State rallied the people and in two years the immigration was more marvellous than it had ever been. Tlie two ve-ars of that bureau cet the State 5100. The "Centennial" co-t us 53S,C23. Or, to put it otherwise, the grashopr of the tir-t raid were van'pii-hed at 3M5 times less cost than tlio-e. of the last raid. That is forgotten history but it is a prouder chap ter thaD the "Centennial," in some nsjiecLs. THE IMMIGRATION OF lisi 6 -MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO BE MADE FOR THE STATE BY A BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION! WHERE THE FtUI.TLIH5 SUGGESTIONS AS TO THE REMEDY. - It. Do you attribute the present immi gration to the Centennial dipliy7 Mr. C. Msinly. Our liopulntion was decreasing, as the agricultural re'mrt show . Hou-es were empty inourbe-t towns; the stoutest-hearted were lo-ing faith in Kan sas. I am sati-finl that but for our di-play at Philadelphia, Kansas real estate, not yielding a revenue, would not to-'ay be worth paying taxes em. Texas made" no exhibition; she was getting immigration at the rate of 200,000 per year. Now this is stopped, and the tide is setting in from Tex as to Kansas. It. But the papers complain that the im migration comes ticketed to the wild fron tier. The immigrant mikes a great mis take. Mr. C Kansas has made the mistake. Better have them go to the high plains than not come to Kansas at all; better let them skip the best part of the State rather than not come. Atter we made our exhibition at Philcdelphia, we ran away from its re sults. We left the harvest of men to be gathered up by other Western States. A national bureau of immigration has been established for the States in Machinery Hall, Philadelphia, where ample space is furnished for products, mais, pamphlets. Ac, rent free. The Wet is at work thsre. I was made a vice-president but have not accepted, because tuere is no appropriation. I have no longer the means to enable me to work for the State. It. And are your friends to understand that all your large estates have vanished. Mr.C When 1 made the fight feir Kan sas at Philadelphia, not one of her fifty two millions of acres was any longer mine. I surrendered even my lot in" the cemetery. But these are unpleasant themes, and I pre fer to resume the topic that interests Kan sas, viz: immigration. B, The railroad companies are doing all the work, are they not? tw C. It is fortunate thev in nrttr They display enterprise worthy of imita tion by the State. They have agents in the east. They distribute maps, pamphlets, etc, and compete with rivalry from other states. All honor to their public spirit! But tbey ticket their travel through to their own lands, as we might expect. They own but five million acres. Kansas embraces fifty two millions. Why should Kansas have ran away from Philadelphia, leaving to therailroad companies ot this and other states to gather up the results of our ex penditure of 53S.G25.00? At the close of the exhibition, Mr. Gray and I, supposing that Kansas would follow np our work, placed in the main building in the permanent exhibition, our floral bell, our bale of cotton and some great cross-section of wood, as the nucleus for a permanent Kansas display. Kansas was notified through the papers of that fact. They favored a bureau of emigration and the keeping up of a permanent exhibit in that main building. It is a building that cost a million and a half of dollars, and space was offered us tree of cost. Our arti cles on exhibition would have been sur rounded and -Bade attractive by the ex hibits of natioas, that were left there tor permanent di-play. Thousands of victor eachdaywould see them. In a radius of one hundred milts from th,t cvnter. nr.d seat of Kansas' tion of five mi locality, had seen were our friends. Letters were written by practical business men from Philadelphia to Kansas, advising that Kan-as shonld fol low tin her work by a bureau of emigration with headquarters in that building and with a permanent eli-'plav, to be supplied from time to time with her growing products. AVhen I reached Kansas, after Feven and a half month' ah-ence in Philadelphia in connect ion with the Kansas display, I found the Kansas pajicrs, as I have said, favoring such bureau of emigration. Its advantage would have been felt in distributing popu lar pamphlets, and in working up colonies of emigrants, making of iuelf a general in telligence "llicc, finding out the needs of each locality in Kan-as, what towns and counties needed manufactures, which need ed banks, which i.eeded the loan of money at low rates of intere-t, which needed news paper-, S.C-, and having ascertained the-e. it would have commended to such locali ties the proper pcr-ons in the -.i.-t desiring to enter into such business. It turns out now that the populous portion of the State, which paid .'S3,-o to make this display, is not reaping the benefits intended. The riilroad companies are left to do all that is done for Kansas, and they very naturally, anil very properly work for the sale of their lands. They ticket parties through to tlie end- of their roads, and the papers of the settle-d portion of the Slate complain of this and find fault with the immigrant. It is the fault of Kansas for not having a bu reau with agents to tell the immigrant tint he can huv, in the eastern half of theStatc, farms for less than the co-t of the improe menis, with the land thrown in. Itrfis be-caii- of our own negbct that proerty in our cities has not improved in value as it should, and that lands in our old counties are still eneumbcred with mortgaces, with no purchasers to relieve them. The popu lous K)rtion of the State, which is Kansas, really dermis entirely uiiou the reaction ary wave of thi-railroad tide of immigra tion. tiik r.iatEUY. IL How can the mi-chief be repaired? Mr. C. The eople c?n !o it. They should hold a convention of citic-, towns and counties organize put the-iragents in the Eat with products, paniphles, news apers, maps, and public lecture. If we i-rmit )he tide to re-act, we cannot se cure it agiin. There is no rea-ou why we should take a life time to till Kansa- with people whm they m come in three day from land M-llins fur from ilOO to ?300 ace ,() ,t,""r IjhJ t0 be had for the o-t of improvement-. Iet them organize also, to relieve the mortgaged tarnis with money at lower rates of intensU. What ever organization they shall effect will be sustained by the I cgi-Iatures by future- a iropriations. Irllcl ve liana Goternor K.iu tritf f ihvvrt the nuhts rfthe jxcJe. Let us move for a Bureau at large as Mr. Mei-her and the Germans lime done for Germ-in immigration. B. Who-e fault is it that we have no Bureau of Immigration to do a work tint would lie worth so maur millions of dollars to Kansas? Mr. C. A I am seeking no favor at the hands of ihe iiceiple-, except their regard, 1 r:n afford to sjieak plainly when a blow is struck at their ital interests. Gutcrnor Aut'itmy it'o Uimc Having ls?n elected Governor lecau-e of King President of our Hoard of State Centennial Manigers, his opinion had great weight. His experience in th it capai'ity (President) would se-eui to entitle him to s-ak with authority even the authority of ihe Hoard. It was natural that the legislature, in this particular, should follow the lead of his experience and recommendation'). B. liire-M,nseU the demands of thepress and the neces-itie-s of the eicca-ioii what did lie' recommend? Mr. C. Con-ult his message. B. Well, I find he says: "Thesubjtct of immigration is one of more itnl conse iju.nreto your State than any, if not all others.'' Mr. C. He is not in ignorance you sec Pa on to his eonclii-ion. Se-e where he leaves this most "ital" epiestion. B. I find on page 33 that instead of re commending a Bureau of Immigration or an hxpo-ilion at l'ans by Kansas, lie says that the Centennial work (1 quote his lan guage) "need only be supplemented on the part ef the Stale, by an intelligent and ex haustive collection of facts of interest to the home seeking. It i- not necessary (he says) that the State provide for anexten-ive pub lication of the-e statements. It neeel tmlu give them (lie says) properlv aiithcnticate-d and the press of the country, with the aid of l.ire landholders of the State-, will give them world-wide currency." It. And so he recommended no Bureau of immigration, no exhibit at Paris? Mr C. None. On the contrary he gave us warning against any effort in that direc tion by stating that it was "only" neces sary to collect facts and let them find their war cast through newspapers and land owners. A cavalier way of disposing of the State's mo-t "vital" interest an abdi cation by the Governor and the statejof all those duties the State owed to itself to guard anil protect. The newspapers circulate mainly within the State. So also the Beportof the Board of Agriculture. It was important to reach the eastern public by more direct me-thesls. The only appropriation made in this di rection was to the Board of Agriculture for the publication of, I think. 13,500 copies of the BejKirt and for a monthly reiwrt. Mr. Gr.iv, Secretiry, had already more work than he could do correctly. His monthly report precipitated ujwn him a corre-pon-dence which he has not the clerical force to an-wer. SenJing that great Tolume of sta tistics to the east, to the average reader, is like giving a stone where they ask for bread. As a Gubernatorial attempt at a Bureau of Immigration,the Secretaryship of the Boanl of Agriculture is a failure however valu able as a Bureau of statistics. It. But why did not you or the I-egi-la-ture act independently of the Governor ? Mr. C 1 was but a" private citizen. Be sides, I was a Utile tired. I was willing others might try it. The fact that mv own name had been conm etcel with the Paris Exposition and the Bureau of Immigration made me have a delicacy about advocating them, especially when 1 saw that the Gov ernor was against them. On this la-t ac count the Legislature doubtless felt as I did. Our experience with the Centennial ap propriation, and the legislation attendant up'.n it, was a lesson to us. After 1 had spent the session of lf74 atTopeka, wc only secured the passage of the bill creating the State Board by one majority in the Com mittee of the Whole; and in the scs-ion of 1870 our appropriation was once defeated, and afterwards passed only at the close of the session, Gov. Osborne, the then incum bent, being actively and warmly with us. It was usele-s to undertake further appro priations with the President of the Centen nial Boanl of Managers, then Governor, acting in opposition to us. So, rather than suffer defeat, the great opportunity went by default. THE TAKIS EXrOSmOX XO KAXSAS STATE DISPLAY THERE ASOTIIEE CEXTEXXIAL orroRTCXiTY THROWN AWAY WHOSE FAULT? B, What of the Paris Exposition ? Mr. C Kansas makes no State display at Paris. Prof. Lemon, fortunately, has pro vided some photographs of school houses and some samples of school work, but, as a State, Kansas is doing nothing. For year the world has been getting ready for that contest. Kansas had timely notice. The people expect their trusted officials to lead off in all such matters of pnblic interest. Indeed, it is the duty of the Governor, un der the Constitution, to make recommenda tions to the legislature. It. And did Gov. Anthony nuke no rec ommendation for a display at Paris? Mr. C He did not, but was adverse to it. But before we fix the responsibility, let us glance at the extent of the sacrifice. Seeing 100,000 people pouring into Kan sas per year, we can appreciate what would have been lost to Kansas if we had not made the display at Philadelphia. With this experience before us, we can have some idea of wTTat is lost br not having an exhib it at Paris. At Philadelphia we beat the world in agriculture, but it was on American soil. Kansas should have repeated her victory on the continent of Europe. Paris is a world's centre Philadelphia is provincial. A victorv at Paris, following upon the oth er, troulei have brought us Bullions of mon ey and thousands ot men. Kansas needs cheap -nosey ; Europe, where it lies idle, is ' iri.imi.h thprc U a iwinril-,. i ranitalists. We could thenceforth have me. I ha-been his best trie lliocs. someofwhom.ine-vtrv dealt with them direct, and net through -Mr. dray and I, wnen nnr PT(i;inl9ll nf irhnm limbn. ' Ijot at the pSpeW at all. ' the place to get it. A showing of products there would have established Kansas lands, bonds, and cBternrists in the coutidence At Philadelphia I met Mr. Chadwick, member of Parliament He loans several work was being given to Anthony he lie millions of dollars everv year through Iowa ' ing in Kansas attending to the duties of his and Nebraska for the Liverpool. London & ' Collectors office, and of hi- canvas for Globe Company. If I could have lelt my work he would have visited Kansas with roe. To gain the confidence of one such man for Kansas investments would be worth a dii-play at Paris Manufacturers might have been induced to come over. "With home markets we would be indepen dent of ruinous freights. France revived rapidly from the effects of the German war becau-e she does not depend on profits from raw products, but from manufar tures. 1L But it is too late vtt to operate at l'aris. Mr. C Something might still be done. Arrangements might jw-sibly be made to send forward products, photographs of town and country, .Vc. Jt our fans -.onimis-sioners understood their work it might be done, although the exposition ojiens 1-t of May and our Government vessels have Ene. . . B. I have heard you express the opinion that much might have been done without an appropriation. j ilr. C its. lou rememoer tnat-ju, t;oi Kansas made a diplay at l'aris and took some honors. Col Isaac Young, of Leav enworth was Commissioner. Twenty-five lui mired dollars were appropriated minly for p-rsoual expenses. Articles were con tributed from various parts of the State. Fort Scott s nt a shaft of marble and so jic coal. CoutiibutioiM were voluntary, hut Col. Young lutiletl ih'in. It Our Paris Comuiiioners have in vited no contribution of products, I be lieve. Mr. C. Xu. They make the office one of personal enjoyment and not of hard work lor Kansas. B. They claim, I Iielieve, that they are rniled States Commi-siot-crs, and not State Commissioners. Mr. C Ye-s, but is a man less a Knu-an b-cau-c hj has a L nitesl States Commission in his pocket"' Those three Couiuii-ioutr-ships Were conceded to Kaia-as. Iliey in volved great i-sties and should not have been used for "dre-s parade nrlur an a-jiiring Governor's political stock in trade. It. You and Col. John A. Martin were United fctate Commi-sioners -Cintenuulj were von not? Mr. C. Yes, and would the Slate ever have forgiven uj, and e-ould wee-vtrhave forgiven ourselves, if we had throvvu our selves haek ou our dignity, sa ing, Let the State look after a State di-play we are ap pointed only to perioral the national work." If wc had acted thus, Kan-as would have hail no triumph at Philadelphia and no 100,0u0 immigrants for 1S7S. it. Then you think we should have had a di-play at" Paris, even without an appro priation. Mr. C. Why not? the freights would have cost nothing. The U. S. Commi-siou, out of their appropriation would .gladly have placed the articles on exhibition. And as for iiroducL. the whole Slate would have ri-enasone man to the workof volun- tary contribution, if there had been but a vigorous and inspiring call. The rivalry of cities, towns, aud counties would have been excited and the railroad companies. too, would never have allowed theiiielve-s j Hi tall Islnnil. tiov. Anthony knew an this. He knows the public spirit of Kan-sn- but he could not go himself and he did not intend that the (e.-dershipsboiild fall ou any shoulders but his own in that work. B. Ix-t me remind you that your raid again-t the grs--hopiers in lSi7 was a voluntary effort like this you have describ ed. Mr. C. Yes. Our Bureau of Immigra tion rallied the press organized immigra tion societies in every county introduced the "immigration letter pajier" with its de scription of the town and county printed on the rever-e side of the hheej got the newspajiers into a way of keeping a de scriptive column standing, Ac. Xo letter went out in English or German arid no new psjier but what told all about the lo cality. It was the people's work but it was tnumphant. In like spirit, if we had sent forward a few car loads of our largest ears of eorn to Paris it would have been much. Corn is but 20 cents er bushel freight nothing '1 here is no card we could have presented ou the continent as captivating as an ear of Kansas corn. Wc gave away half a car load at the Centennial and could have dis posed of many more. The people even pinched the ears bare to the cob a- fjr up as they could reach. It seemed to me the poetry of propriety that Kansas should have been at ihe French capital. Paris was once our capital when Kansas belonged to France. If we had but taken our "old John Urovrn cabin" and our "old John Brow n" song, how we would have stirred the heart of France like her own "Marsellaise !" Victor Hugo, who counts that Virginia-Kansas scaffold n-jct to the very cros how proud he would have been to have opened the Kansas dis play in his own triumphant French way sending the name of Kansas round and round the world ! But "some one has blun dered" and it was not to be! 1J. What is the rea-on of the Governor's opposition to a Paris display ? ilr. C. I do not wih io go into motives except when they are expressed. I might name more reasons than one, but they are jiersonal. 1 lit public rea-on appears in his me-sage. He -X res-ed it to me in about these words : " lie Jo n-tuntJ the foreign tie went it is not as dc-irable as the native " I.t me quote his me-sage, p S5-1, to show how his hostility to the lcreign clement op erated with him. He says: "True, num bers are valuable, but eh t'mcttr is indispen sable; and so far as it is in our patter It ehvcee, we should secure, by immigration, men and women who will, by mental, moral and educational fitness, give sfenrfinfM as wellas monieiitum to our growth as a State." He is going to "choo-e" to pick his immigrants from the native class, as will be seen by the following sentence: "There are to day enough of the Very best citizens of the older Stale-e ot our oicneovnlry, who, if they but knew the advantages of Kan-as, and its freedom fnim the crudeness of civil ization they have been trained lo believe a necessary condition of a new Stite, to swell our jiopulation far above a million before the clo-c of the present decade." That he wants those of "our own country," and not the "foreign element" those ot our eiwn "language," who will "assimilate," Ac, is manifest by his further statement, as fol lows: "This class of people, ("of our oven country,"! will xrf im as soon as they are with ns. Our Inngwige, habitf, schools and churches will be to tlicm an immediate home, and their afrimihuon be so rapid and so complete as to caue not the lead jar of dtxonl." What does all this jargon mean, except that the French, the German, the "foreign element," will not lie "of us;' that our "language,habits,scboo! and churches" will not suit them that they will not "as similate" with us except with some "jar of di-cord." In other words, he didnol wsnt a Paris Exposition nor a foreign immi.r. tion; artel as for those of "our own coun trv," he would leave them to the large land owners, and the statistics of his Board of Agriculture ! A Governor of Kansas should lift Ir-n-self above the prejudices of nationality ..nd race, and the pettiness of envy. He should lie a Governor, not for a.term, but for all time. He should live and lead an 1 gori ra to the worlds end; in great achievements tor the people like the Centennial like whit the Kan-as Exposition at Paris might have been! INSULT TO KANSAS XEV-PArEl!S. IVsULT RESENTED ! INJUSTICE ATTEMrTEK AQAINST 1IIE CEXTEXNTALEOtEU! Tt. It has been snggestcd that George T. Anthony felt that every mention of your name in the papers in connection with the Centennial Exposition, was disparaging to himself, and that he set his face against a Bureau of Immigration and an Exposition at Paris because you were named to take charge of them. Mr. C I would be sorry if envy of my self killed the-e great measures. I was not asking promotion or a place. I went to Topeka that winter 1876-1877 not to urge those measures bnt to assist Mr. Gray in writing the Centennial Report. .After seven and a half months stay in Philadel phia I went direct to Topeka upon the written request of Mr. Gray, without even going home, and I did not get back to my home until after eleven mouths absence on Centennial work. The papers- gave me those Dottees- for 'those positions without solicitatioB, direct or' indirect,' T was not moved vrnh envv towards my colleagues of fib? (nter.ni-.I Board, anddon't know why ot he should nave had such letting towards nd as I thootrht. we found time were amused I sometimes to see that the credit of our uovernir, and we at i hiiadeipuia working until the stars came. Vke ju-t worked on and let him take the glory, and, by con sequence, the Governorship. I never once took time from the hurr of dutv to write a letter to the ' for publication, and thousands of my friends ilidnt even know I was there at work. Doing thus quietly. I don't see any gnmnd for envy on ihev part of Gov. Anthonv. It. It is evident that Gov. Anthony came to think that heswas ilispnage-d as you were complimented. Mr. C. I do not wish tn give private and Iier-oml rea-ons fir'impnting motive, hut there are some circiim-iano th it corrolio-r-ate vour statement.?" It is well known that G7'-,or Anthony con-iders ihst he is the Ji-jidsi.f gricultura He ha- been in the hf-!,J20 ' eaking at coun'yf lirsin advance of l";v,T"'ort, and of lorcslmdowipgitsfnrth coinin,"'facts and fijim. '1 he circulars of the beard formerly- ut wit with George T. AnthoJy asPii-nile..i 'he i no longer President) signed to t'icm a! i. witli the name of the. Secretary. The nnnunl rc jorts were habitually transmitted by ihe President Anthony, that the Governor came to have the credit of writing them J Mr.Gray being his-rh'rk. President Autho- ny was in the lurther Inbit of aking credit among his friends for (sirtions of the re- orls. IJ j but lecently that it begins tube known that Mr Gray is making the reports, but the yvernor claims the B aid of Agri- ;is of!-siring. To exalt it. is to .ill exal J?v--J. 1 have given you the key to to eaeh tiewspi-ier to and from Philadel-the-i?i,'Vf.ljn. So much floes he think he phi, to be paid for in advertising. own-fCyl IkiardTI hive seen him go be- fore one of their committees of examination and dictate ho Mr. Gray's arcounts should be examined and kept anil 1 have seen him get rebuked for his otliiiou-iu. I ins, since he is Uovernor. Well, when, alter a winters work at loiieka, l got a State Uenteniai iioani created, and made George T. Anthony its President, through which means he came lo be tiovernor, it would have besrn imuioelcst iu him to have claimed our Centeinal work .is his own. But he must ilo it indirectly and as near as he can. Hemu-t put on reconl, as Gov- trnor, as modestly as os.-i!ile, a protest again-t the action of ihusepapcrs which ac- corded some praise to those members of our Centcnial Boanl who did not belong to his Board of Agrictlture. And so, in bis ms- s--ge, he gives the creelit of our great lalior to his lioard oi Agriculture, wnuii means iniiuteu. it made my blood boil to tlunk hiniself. of it. And br and by Mr. Glay and I de ll. What makes you say so? t.rinintd to liisregini the unfortunate or- Mr. C. On page'M of his message, Fx.-:ik- der of the board to the extent that we gave ing of the workot the Board of Agriculture circulation to such documents as afterwards "its collection and collation of industrial came to us. I remember there was a pack statistics," Ac-j he adds : age of pamphlets from Montgomery county "The Exjiosition ofyourStateat the Ccr.- that lay in one corner of tlie efiice; I put tenniil Exhibition at Philadelphia, ecu bat I tlnm on the table and they went into imme i ;rt if llm vorlc." I di.ite circulation. I). 15. Emmert, a real If the language is not plain, the infer- estate agent of Wichiti, a-Lcd leave to cir ence is unmi-table. lie was attempting to ! culaterealcstate pamphlets ju-t such pain take awav the honors of the Centennial i phlets of general information as was need- Board making ns tributary to his Iioani 'of Agriculture. His injustice will Is; ap- parent when it is stated lhat our Centennial isiard Used me uoaru oi .tgricuiiurc noi they, u-. Judge A.II.HortouandIhaditin serteilii fis bill cicating our Stale lioarel, lb 1 1 buhl u-c their rooms, pspoke to Gov. orn to appoint the President and Se-ci- y of their Bonnl, Me rs. Anthony kaud tiny, to ours and. on my nomination, wo gave them similar xsitiiis iu our Bo-ml. You will see that l.e does not once mtn tiou the Centennial Ik:ird in his mrs-age. lie speaks of "the lo'dric-. of conception daring of puriHise," Ac, which, if 1 had but tune, I would demonstrate to Wire meant for George T. Anthony. Another prool of what I say. The report of the Board of Agriculture, of 1S73, prin ted to circulate in the Centennial year was edited Tn part by ouijenteiinial Board. One hundred and tw.euty-'lour pages were our contribution. It was sent tn the world under the signature of "George T. Anthony, President." It contained tlie names of inemliers of the Agricultural, but not of the Centennial Board! A law of March 4, 1S7C, requinsl our Centennial managers to prep-ire a volume of which 23,000 copies WCre eti'tributed. Xo letter of tranmis-.il to the Governor (Osborn) was re-quired by law, in the preface-. Yet that work, with whico the Board of Agriculture had nothing to do, was treat eel as theirs, their names were inserted (all proper enough, but a courtesy not extended to our Board in the other publication) and it was transuiitteel to Governor O-born by the Boanl of Agriculture, "Geo. T. An thony, President," when tlie law made it the work of the Centennial Bo ird, n 1 re quired no letter of tran-niissal. It is a vast thing to see ones name in print. If you will take up the Beort of the Slate Boanl of Agriculture of 187t you will see the name of our Governor among the list of members as "Governor" and yet on the opoite pge he was transmitting the Beport ov. 30, 1S70. to "Thomas A. O-born, Governor." Esgerloweir the hon orstwo governor- one on each page ! It. I understand Anthony and Biker plotted to turn you out of ihe Presidency of the Hi-torical Society. Mr. C. I have no time to di-cuss tint lit tle trick. Col. Martin, who had no h uid in it, was elected and is a eouipetent man I hope he will not iiermit Governor An thony's schemes to prevail, to rob the Ss ciety of its work. The new-pajiers are all interested. The editors are our meml'ers. The Secretary of the Boanl of Agriculture has issued circulars cillir.g for "hisiorv." He has more than he can do in his legiti mate sphere of ''Agrxulinre and Stali-tics" and history lielongs to the Historical Society. It. What is this story of Gov. Anthony's in-illt to the newsp.ieis? Mr. C. It is a matter of public record and therefore 1 speak of it. It is not generally known however. lie inmll not permit the irirsyxijer c leuhite in the Kanmt lluitdixg at I ItitwUlphut ! B. Wh ? Mr.C. For the same naon, I utipiio-e, that prompts him to try to monopolize everything in his Hoard of Agriculture. He wanteel the glory of having Ins name to every document that should circulate at Philadelphia, so he would let nothing be distributed except our Centennial Volume with hi- indorsement. It. (Jive us the facts. Mr. C. You will ob-erve thai in his mes sage he said the new-papers wot Id publish the facts about Kan-as; but you will notice that he confines him-elf to the facts furnuh ot by hit Hoard if Ayrieullu e. Our Centennial managers, in our appeal to the Legislature of lfc7C for appropria tions, said: "An immigration pamphlet on Kansas should be on hand for free distribution in large quantities ; it should be prepared with care, and publi-hed in more languages than our own, etc. That apjeal, looking towards foreign immigration als , was uot written by our President. I left the framing of the printing hill to Messrs.Anthonv'and Gray. When I came to read it, I found ft unfortunately prescribed what we should print, instcaiijnf lea ving it to our own judgment, It said that we should print 234 pages of the industries by coun ties, to lie taken from the fourth annual re port of the Board of Agriculture. I knew the-c sLiti-tics would nevrrbc read. They are good for reference in a library, but no man ever reed ihcm them through, no man ever will. I wanted a pamphlet that the vi-itor wouTd j nt in his pockt and read on the cars en hi- way home. These we could have had by the ndHion w-creas we had 25,000 books that were of Utile u-e to the general reader. In a meeting of our Itoard I offered a res olution viving to city and aunty organiza tions, emigration sociiies of all kinds, real estate men and new-pajvr men, the privi lege of placing their p-iuiphlf-ts, niap and newspapers upon our table at Philadelphia in the exhibition building, to be distributed gratis. This proposition was bitterly op posed by Geo. T. Anthony on the ground that ve,'thc Hoard, had a tharotttr lo tmlain, that ire eould nd oji- ef to endorre the nectpaper, aatemenlt eincerni-g tKeir otx cwMia and Ibvm, that the immigrant, taking the-e for true, would come to Kansas and find that hje had come upon fal-e representations, and would blame us. I resented this spiritedly, as it deserved, said thenew-paper was the best index to the public spirit and enter prise of Kansas, that the newspaper men had arepatotion to sustain alike with us, that rivalry would be excited in sending m djBcumrnts, "that this literature 'would be worth thousands of dollars to us, would cost us Bothiraj and would supply an important Anthony mudttvorprttleAagaini-l evtpapers at bet"! unuvjvt? ' our eadJ'n t-tit, and l inade two in their laver. debate was a hot one. to I Other arguments were u:ed hv other mem ' hers against the profosilion, and it was io-t. But the only argument against the news- papers was made by George T. Anthony. Nothing could hav truthfulness without our-his indorsement The Board were bullied into a blunder. The Atchison, Tojeka, and Santa Fee Com pany, set us an example with maps and pamphlets to he read on the cars. We sent ' the favored few awav with a book of figure and a iiroatK.-ctive headache iue newspaper boys 1 ad come tot'e re-cue when our first Centennial appropria - tion bill was defen ed the omo-ition being .... - - . . ! mainly to George T. Anthonv- ns a member J ot our Board. Anthony demanded the resignations of North, Dennis and Evins of ' our Biard. to appease the Lei-Iature. ' 'I heir head- went to the bhfk, but here fused, himi-cif, to resign, stating tliat he would sink the "Veiueniiial" Ufure he would resiiin. He did not save the appro- priauon, oui me new-paper boys -avtit it and him too and this was his return! At their Convention at Manhattan they resolved up n an Excursion to the (.enicn nial. We were frus rated in our efforts for the excursion only be-cau-e the railroad com. pintcs had entertel into a compact cet to I give excursions. B.it later in the Season, after not less thin twenty visits to ihe Pennsvlvania railroad office, in oneof which Iliad to quarrel with ihe general ticket ugent, poor CoL Boyd, now elead, appeal nig Irom htm to Col. lorn Scott, it was very gratifying to me to be able to announce to ihe 1'rcridrnt of the Kansas Editorial I Association, for whom I w..s working, that ' two round trip tickets would le furnished j Many of them came and saw their files on the wall of our reading room. Forney ' wnt into raptures over our 130newspiers. They were our proudest evhibit. When tho-e illu-trated numbers of the Fourth of July carue such as the uhita rjujle. Junction City Union and others, containing euis oi ihe great public buildings ot tueir several towns and cities, we felt proud to place them on the files. The cast was as- totii-heel and could not compete with Kan- fas, for newspajiers. But there were none . on our tables for distribution. The millions could admire from far off but there was no label saying ''Take One," and there were none to take. Ambition and rivalry in sending such forward had been suppressed at the start. George W Martin of the Junction City Union, among ether-, had l"cn notified that papers could not be dis- ed. 1 wrote to him that it was contrary to the order of the lioard to circulate them, oui iii.ii i would see that all that came should find a place on the table for distri bution. Anthonv misled the board into taking that unfortunate no-itinn. and thev I doubtless all regret it new, but I repeat again that he was the only man who made the- iioint figain-t.the newspapers. B. elJ, how do you account for his op-to-itionto this popular immigration litera ture of which yon -eah? Mr. C. Only in one w ay. It elid not be-r the signature of George T. Anthony. THE KANSAS COMMISSIONERS TO TARI3 HOW ArrOIXTEP -WHO RISI-OXsIBLE. When I was doing the work of Messrs. Anthony and Gray, for they were salaried officers ami should have written the report, the Governor was con-piring to strike me a secret blow wherever he could. Mr. Grav ai irk, anil for the sake of iieace and quiet .i..)l: if... i. .1 ;.!. .ions iiiiu-eii io oe uranu lino measures that his heart docs not sanction. He was u-ed for the designs of Baker and the Governor. There never was a time when there was the least prospect of his go in,; to France. That was settled when we were at Philadelphia in 1676. The damp air ot that city- and Paris is as damp was too mnch for him. It is doubtful if he could have lived there a month longer. He h.cs asthma and a'scesses of the lungs. How, in such condition, could he cross the ocean? The Governor knows of this in firmity, and yet continues to heap work on him. He had not been able to walk from his hou-e lo his office, aliout four blocks, for a long time prior to his appointment, and during the three months I spent with him through the winter, never once within my knuwle. ge was he able to walk that dis tance, ilow could he di-charge the duties of commissioner around the extensive grounds of the Paris Exposition? If he h id been a well man he could not have gone. Every reion which he gives in his letter to Mr. Kelly for tendering his resig n ition as commissioner to Paris existed at the time of his appointment, and Governor Anthony knew it. His office was behind hand with is work. Eighteen hundred and seventy tight had arrived and his agri cultural reorl for 187C was not out, ihe Philadelphia Exposition of JS7( was past ai.d goi.e, mid the reort of the KansisCen t.Miial Managers, when 1&78 had arrived, was not in i riot. Mr. Gray had no time to write up the reort of the Philadelphia dis play, iluw, possibly, could he leave his Hgncultural work to write up the l'aris Ex--Kisition? It was absurd to think of it. (iovernor An bony knew it to be so, and has ailnutly manured to turn the apfioint ment over, as doubtless was intended from the beginning, to a man against who-e ap-l-iintiueiit the State of Kan-as would have risen up, as one man, if the Governor had coiide-cendcd lo let them know there was a vacancy. '1 he jw-ition accorded to Mr. Gray, and now given to Mr. Baker by stealth, waswon fur Kansas by the Centennial ili-play. It was announced with a llouri-h in the ( oinmonvfolth that the first appointment of commissioners was that of Mr. Gray. Kan sas, by reason of her agricultural di-play, had precedence over Massachusetts, Xew York, and the other States. That was a high compliment and should have been ap preciated by being honored accordingly, it would have seemed natural and human that Governor Anthony, knowing the con dition of Mr. Gray's health, and of the overwork in his office, should have select ed for Mr. Gray's place in the first in-tance, or as his successor in the next, some one of his colleagues on the Centennial Board. 1 he jieople of the State seem ilipotd to acxonl great credit to the effort of the Cen tennial .Managers, but the President of the Board of Managers has not stooped to com pliment any of tho-e gentlemen by a nom ination to Paris. Disregarding the rule of civil service reform, to which the Kepubli can party is committed, he has gone outside of the number of those gentlemen acquaint ed with exhibition affairsand has taken men entirely inexperienced. For it mu-t If re membered when we speak of the Governor, that it wis he who went to Washington and procured a union of the delegation in Con gress in favor of Mr. Gray. It was the Governor who nominated Mr. Baker and Mr. Myers to the Honorary Commissioner--hips, ami if any member of the Centennial Itoard has been honored with the compli ment of eyen a tender of either po-ilion, I have not beanl of it. The special duty as signed to Mr. Gray, and ujion his resigna tion to Mr. Bsker, is that of an agricultu ral exiiert. lie is required to write up for the American Commission, a reiiort ti-ion the agricultural exhibit at Paris for publi cation by Congre-s. It would seem appro priate, when none of the Centennial mana gers were to be honored with that mission, lhat some one of the Governor's associates iu the "lioard of Agriculture should have received the appointment. Governor An thony, for years, has been President of the Board of Agriculture, he has been associa ted with the best cultivated and most scien tific farmers in the State, and knew where to find them, and it seems strange indeed, that from among all the intelligent farmers of the State, none could have been found to have represented the agricultural State of Kansas, in the Agricultural Department of the Paris xposilion.J The truth is that the condition of Mr. Gray's health ami ot the work in his office, was kept as much as pos sible from the public so as to excite no con test among the worthy men of the State for that position, and when the time came none of tbe people of the State interested for its honor, its good name and its material in terests were allowed to know anything about the contemplated vacancy; The need, tevtj. the office was treated as a pergonal -erqtiisite - ol Uovernor Anthony, the secret ot the rte the ignauon concueu 10 nini alone, una him to Mr. Baker, and betore the people of - the State could know of the resignation. Baker was in Vashington, and had recurcd j .ur. oray s place, i he same number ot the Con-o-.iTCTfti which announces! Mr. ' Gray's resignation, announced Mr. Baker's apttomtnient. It was a trick. It. What motive could Gov. Anthony have had in keeping this matter a fecret and consulting no one? .Mr. C. 1 have heard the answer at Tope ka. The harve-t time of the mercenary (sltfiir if -firli tlipr. Ii .tlmiit Tntul-. lj ' .- ? . .L.- t -. 1 1 -I .?.. tl'. 1., ,..". . . .. couiiu:r luc lau cietiiuii. .en ouice like tins, ceiual to a tirst-class mis-ion, is an 1 equivalent for money. Gov. Anthony can i control the one; he may not be able to com- I marel the other; tl.ereare, doubtless, other t motives that.I might mention, but none of t them complimentary. I And now. what is the end of all? What - L the rwult of our grarel elisplay at rhila- . elelbhia? The commissioner is the asses- ci.ue, in Pari-, of the noble J eanh. Kt-glncd -ends the Vi men oi me rince of Wale-., the heir apparent to the throne, to repres ent her. .New York designateel President White, of Cornell, to write up the educa tional duply at Paris. l'ennsy lv ania. whieh gave us the Centennial, selects that high-toned gentleman, ex-member of Con gress, Hon. D..I. Morrell, superintendent of the great Johnston iron works, and prcsi- , dent of the Centennial Executive Commit tee. to write up the inin interest at Paris. i Other states send other gentlemen of eoual ' rank and character, and Kansas, preferred over all, answers back the compliment of the J'residcnt bv sending 1 . P. Bake; is a fraud ou the Pi evident. It is in vio lation of ihe law ; the law requires that tlie man shall be a practical agriculturalist. Ikfore he could have been appointed it must have been represented to the Presi dent, if not in exact words, at least in sub stanev, that he would fill the requirements of ihe law, else surely the 1'n-sideut never would have appointed him. How can the vople of Kansas tolerate this great abuse of heropcrtunit;es? This throwing away of ihe privileges that are theproivrtv of the j Slate at the mere behest of the Governor, who u-eM the highest places as a mere step- pin stone lor his personal ambition it remains to be seen what the people hue to say. R. Were you ?ii applicant for the place filled by any of the-cs Kan-as Commission ers? Mr. C. I was no applicant I filed no letter. I authorized no friend of mine to file an application for me. I would have been proud to have taken the appointment when it was given to Mr. Gray, becau-e then I could have arranged to do good work for the State, but after the hands of the State were tied until the day had come when it was necessary to sail in order to reach l'aris, at the opening of the exhibi tion, I cared nothing about it personally. I have a personal interest, however, in see ing Kansas well represented at Paris. My friends are there. My old Centennial asso ciate, the Commissioner General, Governor McCormick, is an old friend, and I am glad to know, through various source-, that he de-ircd to hav erne with him in the work, and would have done so, but for the interfer ence of Governor Anthony, in procuring the delegation to unite ujion Mr. Gray. There is nothing in the office, but the op portunlty to serve Kansas ; the salary is only $1200. The best points to have made would have been the securing of c ..jtal fur inve-tment at a low rate of lu.n-t ; Kan-as. Huron is full of idle ui-jney. My pcr-ona! acquaintance and friendship with our ministers resident at the capitals of the four great Governments of England, France, CJermsny and Autria, might have availed to have put me in com munication with the monied men of Eu mpc. This is more to be desired lor Kan sas that even the making of a display, and a display was mostly important as lieing auxiliary to the success of Kansas in se curing foreign capital. TSp It. You say the Commissioner General at Paris, Governor, McCormack, is your friend ? Governor C. Oh, ye, he was engaged with me in the national commission from 1S71 to the clo-e of 187C. When he was chair man of a committee to nominate jndges he gave to me two for Kansas Mr. Alfred Gray and J. K. Hudson when some other States received none. In the spring of 1S77, after he became Assistant Secretary ofaiie Treasury, he was my correspondent. The Commi-sionerhip of Agriculture being vacant, I wrote to him from Fort Scott, ask ing him to intercede with tho President for the appointment of Alfred Gray a Commis sioner of Agricnlture. Governor McCor mick and I had con-tituteel the committee to entertain the Governors, the Vice-President and Poeton the 4th of July. Gov ernor, now Pre-ident Have", being then one of our guests. On Ohio day and the day after, the only two other days during which (iovernor Hayes visited the Centennial, he, Hayes, accepted my invitation and spent an hour each day with me in the Kansas building. I know Kan-as had made a goesl impre-sion on the President, anil I beggeil Gov. McCormick tn remind the Pre-ident of who we were, and that Kan sas had captured the- Commissioner-hip of Agriculture-. 1 asked him to have Mr. Gray apiHiinted. Gov. McCormick respond ed promptly to my letter, nd as I under stood, would have succeeded in securing the appointment but for some outside jnter feience. I would have followed up the contest but found Ir. Gray's health con tinued to fail, i tie bill creating the l'aris Coinmi-ion was carried through Congre-s by- the influence of mv Centennial friends. It was understood that t..e number of com-mis-irners was enlarged at the instance of the Pre-iibnt, in order to accommodate tho-e Centennial Commissioners, who had done g'-l service. They had worked with out cempen-ation, and that could m their only reward, and while I was unwilling to a-k for an appointment, it would be foolish to say 1 would not have been gratified if it had come to me without folicitaion. I felt that of my old Centennial comrade-i had their way, it would so come. I out-ranked Mr. Gray. Col. Morton by priority of rank would have been entitled to the first consideration, but he declared in his paper that under no circumstances would he accept. I made no declaration one way or the other. 1 had refii-ed to be a candidate for Vice President of the Commission in competition with Col. Martin, who-e alter nate I was. Kansas received the Vice Presidency in the iierson of Col. Martin. Then when the President of the Commis sion, Gen. Hawley, went on his campaign for Congress the I". S. Centennial Commis sion, day after d'y until his return, elected me to preside inhis place. This the records will show. I never took time to write to the Kan-as newspaierscoBcerningmy work and this will probably lie news to many of them, and I have only withheld tlie knowl edge of tlie compliment that was intended for Kan-as becau-e it was somewhat per sonal to myself. When the L". S. Commis sion came to adjourn they adopted a com mittee to draft a constitution for a perma nent society, like the Cincinnati, to meet every three years and have perpetual suc cession, and they made me the custodian of the reconls of the organization. This lc ing the Xational status of Col. Martin and myself, he being ranking officer, it was but natural to suppose that the appoint ment would be tendered to one or the other. Mr. Gray was not a Xational Commissioner at all. II- had no experience with the work; he had no acquaintance wiih the foreign commissioners or judges; they all came under the supervision and direction of our X'ational Commi-sion, and yet by the interference of the Governor the com pliment intended for one of the Xational Commission is given to a State Manager, and afterwards to one who had no connec nection whatever with the Centennial. These are the truth? cf h'story, and it is no harm for some of my friends to know them. B. We hear that Gov. Anthony, whom you made President of the Itoard, rewarded your two winter's work on the report with in-ult. Mr. C I supposed I was entitles! to thanks, if nothing more, from onr Presi dent for that service. The Itoard was fall ing into discredit for not getting out its re port. I could have taken his in-ult in si lence for I sent it back but when he spoiled the report I have a right to speak of it. It. What was the cau-e of his indignity? Mr. C I had written a chapter descrip tive of the display; read part of it to Messrs. Anthony and Gray .and they were delight ed. Gen. D. W. Wilder obtained permis sion of Mr. Gray to see the report, and, in his JleraU, after praising Messrs. Anthony snd Gray he gave me some credit more, probably, than I deserved. That was suf ficient. The- Governor falsely ac- cu-ed me of instigating the press - , to rob -Mr. Urav ot tne autaorship. by . urav aunmiea l was innocent, and i j proved Anthony guilty of what he falsely charged again-t me. But the descriptive chapter had to sro overboard. We had pronerlv given an account ot what we had done with the building; what we had done with ihe S3S.623 00. and what in the way of ex changes of products with foreign nation". All this had to go overboard, to give rcom for three pages to glorify the Governor. A (fruit contest had been away back in 187:, at which the Governor had been a judge. So two pages were taken up with "cuts ot that fruit, and onewith the report of George T. Anthony, and the other judges ! lv. U e hear that -Mr. Gray had written a card of thanks to vott for vour assistance in me report and that Gov. Anthony suppress si it? Mr. C It is true, and I would not allude to it but for a series of sly indignities on the part of the Governor and the fact that Mr. Gray submits to be the instrument of somp nf tnm t ti.pd l.n.l .. I .1. 1 t -- i -- ---... . ..,; ii.il. . wiuiucfiy ai lecuon ior him. lie u iiil nti;n. i,t he is killing himself with work. I have been glad to help liear his bunlen, .vir.uray'scard was as follows: "The Secretary desires to return special acknowledgment to Hon. Geo. A. Crawfonl for valuable aid and kindly courtesies out side of his duties) as State ".Manager during and since the Centennial year; during, in furni-hing valuable data from time to time which he was able to readilv obtain as one of the Centennial Commissioners, and since, in adding his reserved fund of facts and figures to those already on hand, and for timclv and valuable assistance in mak- It j ing this compilation. His well-known reputation as an able and pleasing writer, and his scrupulous regard for historic ac curacy will add interest and valne to the report." This can! was inserted on the opposite page from the conclusion of the report. It was the Secretary's personal affair, and the Ciovernor had no business with it in any way. Yet he suppressed it ! B. How about the conclusion of the re port? Mr. C. My "conclusion" was thrown out and the Governor's inserted. It is his onlv contribution. It seemed appropriate that a report paid lor with insult should round up with confusion of ideas and bad gram maras all ot our (.entenmal triumph has culminated in Baker at Paris. 'When I saw the Governor's "in conclusion," I was rather gratified that my name was not con nected with tlie report. B. The Governor and his friends will at tack yon for these exposures. Mr. C. If they are prudent they will not. I have only discussed public affairs. The proceedings of the Centennial managers are public property. I have nothing to fear. I ak for no office ; have only my character left, and that they cannot assail. I have purchased the right to be independent tlie right to speak for the people. Many friends all over the State will hear my voice in the-e words, as if I spoke face to face. My heart makes acknowledgment for all their kind wishes, To the Press I am especially indebted. I can no longer siieak through one of my own, bnt the boys'' will lend me theirs." What are your plans? I would tell Kansas in a feeble way the thrilling story of her triumph at the Cen tennial, if she would hear me. If she will not, I may try to find audiences in the east next winter, friends m Penasylvama im plored me not to return to Kansas. It was a struggle between the graves of parents and kirdred there, and the twenty year3 thatlie buried here. HI had accepted the notice of the Itorder-rufiians to leave twenty years ago, it might have been better. Bu't I came back to lind my lo-t years. If my warning, my words or my services are of little note to Kansas, thejTj have cost her nothing. And so, Mr. EepcWter, I will have to refuse, to continue thee conversations. Iliit, if you print, send greeting to all my frie nds, net forrtting the "Imys." (iltr.EiUACKS All Iiitrrcslllli; Letter Fraill I'x-I'ov-enior Iloblnton. Lawrence, April 10, 1S78. Ho. 1). B. Anthony Dear Sir: I yes terday gave the Spirit a communication upon the subject of independent party action in the State election, in which I assumed that both the Kepublican and Democratic parties oi Kansas would es-iousc the grcen bick cau-e, and carry it to a successful i--ue. Soon after leaving my paper with the editor, I opened the Law rence Journal, and read as follows: "With gold and paper only a fourth of a cent on the dollar apart, the financial ques tion ceases to Ik of any particular interest." Xow, if this statement is a true index to the condition of the Kepublican party, I have made a serious mistake, ami 1 write you for information. Your intereotir-c with members of the party, through your paper ami otherwise, will enable you to judge its attitude on this question intelligently. If the financial lue is simply to bring gre-en-bicks to par for gold and silver,! have mi-taken it altogether, 'lhat could have been done in lb7."as well as now, simply by making them full legal tender, or by mak ing them convertible into a bond at par with gold, ami it could have been done as readily with $."hTO,00O,00O in circulation as with sSUOWO.OOO. It is only necessary to read the debates in Congress of such men as Henry Wilson, Thad. Stevens, and J. G. Blaine, to learn that Congress alone, at the bidding of money-dealers, was responsible for thf depreciation of the greenback. The i-sue before the countrv, ami in which the people are interested, is not the price of greenbacks, that can be fixed at any time, but national currency against bank cur rency. Com-iared with this, other issues are insignificant. The resumption act, so called, provide-, and provides only, for the destruction of fractional currency and green backs, and the substitution of silver and bank note-, the latter in unlimited qiantitj and virtually irredeemable. That aci pro vides for tbe gradual redemption of gre- backs till 3(W,000,000onIy remain, and till January, la'J,when all are to be redeemed. In the meantime, there is no limit to the issue of bank notes. I am aware that Sec retary Sherman now says he can reissue the greenbacks, but he has only been driven to say this that he may quiet Congress and save his resumption law. Tbe intention wa, and Is, as soon as the people will ier mit it, to de-troy absolutely and forever this money. In 1870, Mr. J. M. King, of Illinois, wrote to the Secretary of the Treas ury, and asked if the-e notes could be reis sued after redemption under that law, and he was answered by II. T. French that "there u no authority fur their nbttinient reumir " Xow, what will be our condition when that law shall be fully executed, and we have no paper money but bank notes ? In :ddi- tion to our other taxes, we will have to pay . cijjuieen c-r coiu per uiaum, conipoiiimeM from two to twelve times a year, tor every r.t. . :i-.i dollar ot paper money in circulation Sup pose the amount should be $SW,000.000 we shall pay to these bank corjiorations a sum in interest, if compounded but once a year, equal to the entire taxable property of the nation, as returned in 1870, in less than eighteen vear. Suppose they inflate their bills to i-2,yjO,000,JA which they can do if they will then they can absorb the tax able property in less than twelve vearc Here is what we are coming to with railroad silted; yet the Journal says the "financial que-tion has ceased to be of any particular interest." Does the Kepublican party of Kan-as agree with it? Why,this infamous currency is such that the more there is of it the sooner will we be swallowed up. Iaik at the satanic ingenuity of these men : In 1674, just before the so-called resumption tiiey. w;n have to keep the department reg act, a law was passed by which these banks ualW iiosted np in everything that i-orv, are not required to redeem a dollar of their cerns" art, agriculture, commerce. law and bills over their own counters in anything, finance. In order that all this mav be and can only be required to redeem them at , i(JI1e efficienllv it will be necessary to Washington when presented in sums of it 3 good deal more closely into the Jl.OOOormore.and then not in gold or sil-1 ,.uai:ficati0ns of the consuls than it has ver, but in "Lnitid State nUit." Should' been the custom hitherto to do, and some they be destroyed in 1879, as contemplated, now ;n the service ought to be called home men iney can go sco- iree, so lar as the lan guage of the law would indicate. But sup jose they musf then redeem in gold or silver, how convenient? You hare a judg ment to satisfy in a justice's court, of ten dollars, and legal tender is demanded. Xothing but non-legal tender bank notes are in circulation, asd yon must get $1,000 of bills on some one bank, express them to Washington, and then you, can get S1,000 expressed back to you, provided yoa will pay the bills both ways, and the bank has not suspended payment. How convenient I And yet the Journal says this state of things uparticular interest" for the Mr. tot)le. j Another a-pect of the financial question has some interest for Kansas, if not so "mr. ticular." The people of this State are overwhelmed with private and municipal debts. When the debts were incurred, the circulating medium was from two to three times as voluminous as now, and as com pared with real estate and otherpVoperty. was fromone-half to two-thirds less valua ble. This depreciation of property and enhancement of the value of moner has been brought about bv our creditors. "delib erately and feloniously. What is to be done? Our people, in consequence of this action of their creditors, are horelesslr hsntmnt 1!n. nm f lt",. .u.. 1 I done. Either our creditors must repair the I v....... ...... 1,. Ullb V. W ItA.UiS kOli UV - 1 injury they have done, and restore the Ior mcr relations between monev and propertv. will have no or submit to a corresponding reduction of- - their bonds. Honorable and fair-minded fc creditors are consenting to the latter, but those who were instrumental in bankrupt ing the countrv demand the pound of flesh. blood or no blood. In some States the officials of the Government sympathize with the people in their dilemma, and aid them so tar as possible. Our neighbor, Missouri, has a State agent appointed by authority of the State government, to assist the people in compromising with their creditors. What position does Ih Republican party of Ka'n- sasoccupyon thisqucstion? In ourcounty, at the last election, the independent green back voters had a two-thirds majority over till ljfmilisln rsrtv nnif flip I Kmnrrati(- county committew combined. Yet, for one, -f I speak only for myself, I would gladly avoid the exivnse and trouble ol an inele endent State and Congressional ticket, provided, and onlv provided, somo other party and candidates can be fully trusted on these questions. The greenback senti ment has gained all through the country immcn-clv since the last Presidential elec tion, and Is in dead earnest, anel will put up witli no half loaf longer than is absolutely necessary. The voters of our county have no u-e for men in office who eulogize bank notes as the best currency for tho people, or who have municipal bondholder's "toads squat so near their ears." They can hear no appeal for sympathy and relief from tfet debtor class, however load and urgent it may be. Xow, Mr. Anthony, do not mistake the character of this letter. It is in no sense official, and is authorized by no party or person. It Is written on the impulse of the moment, but is the honest expression of my views. Also, do not make tlie, mistake of supjKwing that I want my name to be con nected with the candidacy for nny office. I would not have a nomination if 1 could, for any State or other office. If ourdelegation in Congress proves true to the end of the session, I think they should all be returned, including the Senator. Thev are all, save one, in their first term, and if found faith ful and efficient, their second term will be worth more to the State than their first, or than the first term of anv one else. If you -e fit to publish this, with your reply shonld yon- deem it worthy of a reply I have no objections. Light and information is my obje-ct, and 1 presume many others would le glad of the information you can give. very truly. C. itODIN-OX. THE ;ltFAT ion.vcvci.nMR, I'urtticr lienor! of Ihe Knin Wrought b y Lavst Minday's Tornado. Council lllnlls Nonpareil, V. From the Denison Iteriev, of Wednesday, we learn that there-cent storm visited tic vicinity of Denison and made rail hafw. The a per says that the cyclone sce-med to gather in Willow township, about twenty miles west of Denison, from whence it tsav eleil over a prairie district until it struck the German settlement about ten miles northeast. From the lieriev we summarize the billowing horrible account : Swift like the lightning that preceded it, and which in advance struck John Larson's house, setting it on fire, the cyclone bsrst iion the "Meyers farm," occupied by Mr. . Schloifeldt and family, consisting ot hus band, wife, boy 1 1 years old, and girl 10 years old. The oldest boy w as absent. The only intelligible account comes from (he boy, who, though greatly injured, is likely to live. The family saw t lie cyclone; barred the doors, and awaited their fate. The dwelling was a one-and-a-half story house lbx2b, and well built. The storm king" picked it up like a toy ; twisted it alojut twenty feet into the air, and dropped it 'SIX) feet from where it stood. At the place of first demolishmcnt not enough timber can le seen to build a chicken coop. There the family was found by the eldest son and nearest neighbor, but the youth fainted away t the right, and hail to lie- taken away. The husband was so terribly in jured that he died within an hour, the wife lived a few hours longer, suffering severely. Tlie little girl has a hole in her head near the temple, and is severely injured near the hip. hen we saw her, Monday noon, she was in a comatose condition, breathing heavily ami laboriiigly. There- is only a bare jiossibility of her recovery. Conspicuous as a landmark, was Schu ler's school hou-c, in the southeast of Otter Creek town-hip. On the east is a deep de clivity. This was the entrance to theSweile settlement. A nurulicr of the Swede famil ies looked toward the storm and one of them assured us that he believed that the destruction of the world was at hand when he saw that school boii-e whirled high into the air forty feet high and carried a thousand feet before it dropped into the cha-m. One quarter of the roof of one side was carried three-quarters of a mile. On the storm king swept. Fourteen pigs belonging to Weeberg were swept off a mile, but dropped without injury. The homes of two German families in that spanvly settled region ltwcii the Swede settlement and Wall I-akc-, were nett -truck and de stroyed. A corn planh r weighing I.VJ pound-, was carried forty rods , the forepart of a wagon, eighty rods , a heavy iron w heel from a de stroyed rear, 1,000 feet: sides of pork, from fsOO to i00 feet beyond the house. We have a piece of the schoolhou-e door at the iiost-oflice, which was carried three-eiuar- rs of a mile. It was recognized by the paint and lunges. In addition to the aliove, the Jienev: gives a long list of names of the owners of prop erty which was swept before the wind as straw and totally demolished. It also states that five persons were killed and ten wounded. Of course there has never Is-cn anything like the cyclone of Sunday last in this re gion of country, and its jiower was simply inconceivable. It Is imrossible to estimate the total loss of life and property in the en tire conre of the whirlwind, but it is fear ful. Hundreds of families now mourn for their dear ones, and their earthly posses sions which they labored for years to ac quire, and to see them swept awar in an 'n"l:ln,' almost, Is sad indeed. joiiirtUintt ' for onr Consul lo do Hereafter. 'Chicago Post, 21. Hitherto the average American consul has been paid tolerably well for running the risk of dying from sheer idleness. Thanks to Secretary Evarts that risk has benn Ie-c-ned, if not entirely removed, and henceforth thee officials will all have something to do. They will now have to inquire after and obtain accurate and ex haustive information concerning the re gions round about them. They will have to advl-e the Secretary of State fully as to the wages that all classes of latiorers obtain, and how and what it costs them to live; all about tbe troI-lcts ol the country, their prices, and the u-es of such of them as are ,.t Vnnwn in the ITnim! S(ah in a or.l I instanter At-t. per-ons afflicted with Kidney Diseases, Pain In the Ilack, and alt Urlnary.Disea.se. Grave!, Drop-y r Nervous Debility, shonld atonce take HUNTS REMEDY. AH Diseas es of the Kidneys Bladder and Urinary Or gans, are cured by HUNT'S REMEDY. ties. Uraai at -flllan. Milax, April 27. Gen. Grant .arrived here to-day, and was received bv the I're fect, Syndic and other notabilities. 1 f n o - .vi .-