The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], October 05, 1892, Image 1

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VOI . IV. NO. 7.
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A POLITICAL MOVE.
Chairman Breidenthal Arrested for Al
leged Violation of Law.
Last Friday evening the associated
preas circulated the following dispatch,
which was sent from Enterprise:
John W. B eidentbal, state chairman of the
People's party of Kansas, was arrested to-day.
The charge preferred Is that of dolus a backing
business without having compiled with the law.
Moey baa own received by Mr Breidenthal
from parties who desired it sent to friends In Old
Mexico, wuo are reldents of the X pnlobampo
colony, and It was transmitted there by him and
paid out at the Mt-xlcan i fflce.
Tne charge In based n an advertisement pub
lished In the i fflctal organ of the coly nubllaned
at this pla 'e, which states that thi Kaunas 81na
Ina Investment company will transmit money
free 01 charge to members of the Credit Ponder
company lu ilnaloa, Mexico, the money to be
remitted to J. W. Brelden bal, secretary. Euter-
Jirl-ie, Kansas, who lssutd certificates of d- polt
or the same whUh were sent to the colony by
mall.
Mr. Breldentbal's friends denounce his arrest
as a move for political effect.
Tne accused was taken before Judge
Humphrey at Abilene, and insisted on
having a trial at once. The judge was
not Inclined to comply, but finally set the
hearing for October 7, and accepted a
bond of $300.
Mr. Breidenthal arrived in Topeka Sun
day and has established headquarters
here. He is not in the least disconcerted
as to the outcome of the matter, though
he 8a j s the inconvenience it is causing t
this particular time Is unpleasant. Inas
much as the certificates of deposit were
issued only to members of the colony of
which he la secretary, and the business
was not open to the public, he does not
admit that he has violated the banking
law.
As evidence that the charge was sim
ply a political move, Mr. Breidenthal
cites these facts: Tne charge was insti
gated by one Case, an official of an En
terprise bank, whose competitor handles
Breideathal'a business. These certificates
often came to Case's bank and he has
known of them for nearly a year. Be
sides that, as Breidenthal has for about
nine months publicly advertised this
manner of receiving deposits, it la pre
sumed that Charles Johnson, the state
bank commissioner who caused the ar
rest, knew all about the matter for that
long a time, and if it was a violation of
law this state official was wofully derelict
in his duty. Johnson is noted as a trick
ster of the rankest kind.
The Truth Concealed.
One of the latest and basest frauds
perpetrated by the republican party has
just come to light, and is the work of the
Chicago Inter Ocean. It has been the
unconcealed attempt of old party papers
for a long time to deliberately He and to
falsify People's party records in order
to place the reform movement in a bad
light with old soldiers and the railroad
man, but the Ananias on the Inter Octan
completely overtops his brother liars In
a recently issued supplement of that pa
per. This supplement gives what pur
AND TOPEKA TRIBUNE
TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1892.
ports to be a copy of the People's party
platform, and was issued for the purpose
of hoodwinking the railroad men. It
gives the third demand of the Omaha
platform as follows:
Third We believe that the time has come
when railroad corporations will either own tbe
people or the people will own the railroads, and
should the government enter upon the work of
owning and managing any and all railroads, we
should favor an amendment to the constitution
by which all persons engaged in government
service should he di-franchtoed, to a to prevent
an increase in the power ifcortrati- -n, ami that
railway emphtii' mhmdd be rxcludfd fnm votmg
the tame as in the District Y Vulumoia.
Presumably by accident, tne first part
of the plank is given correctly, but that
part in italics is solely the creation of the
Inter-Ocean. It should read as follows
'placed under civil service angulations,
so as to prevent an increase of the power
of national administration by the use of
such additional government employes."
The People's party is now, always has
been, and intends to always be, the friend
of the railroad men. Were its demands
framed into laws the salaries of railroad
employes would be raised, and more than
that, wages would come as regular as
payday. Positions would not be de
pendent upon the will of a few autocrats
who create and destroy offices at their
pleasure or to favor friends, but every
man would be sure of work, and steady
work, as long as his conduct deserved it
Every People's party man and every
reform paper ought to make it his duty
to refute the deception of the Inter-Ocean,
for the supplement has obtained quite a
large circulation and will be used freely
as a campaign document unless exposed.
If ever a man's life was made miser
able by the ghosts of corrupt jobs, acts
of perjury and other dirty tricks, that is
the case with Geo. T. Anthony. The
people of Harper county are just now
reviewing the history of the would be
congressman's official connection with
the organization of that county. He vlo
lated a pledge to the people by organ
izing the county before the number of
inhabitants and amount of taxable prop
erty justified it, and he did it in order to
get a delegate from the county favorable
to his renomlnatlon for governor, and to
have the town of Anthony, in which he
had an interest, named after him. He
failed to get the delegate because the
people who were opposed to the organi
zation at that time were in the majority.
Senator Perkins spoke to an enthusl
astic audience of about twenty-three
people in an Ellis county school house
last week. How here the mighty fallen?
Is Perkins to have no reward for Intro
ducing the bill' to steal the Cherokee
strip and for going back on his free sil
ver speeches of a year ago?
One of Governor Humphrey's hench
men whom he appointed stook commis
sioner Is said to have never owned any
stook but two cows in his life.
KANSAS' SHAME!
Congressman Otis Assaulted at Princeton
Free Speech in Danger.
Ottawa Journal, September 29.
Thursday ni.ht Congressman Otis
spok at Princeton, this county. He had
a g'X)d audience, and, as is his usual cus
torn, he gave a good speech. When the
speech was over, Mr. Otis repaired to his
hotel When ascending the stairs, on the
outside, accompanied by some Franklin
county People's men, he was assailed
with a shower of eggs. The ruffians that
threw them could not be recognized in
the darkness and made their escape.
A few moments before this Mr.Cowgll.
who had attended the meeting and who
is about Mr 0 la' build and wore a hat
elmilar to his, was assailed in a similar
manner, and took refuge in Thornbury'a
drugstore. He said there appeared to
be nine or ten in the crowd, but he could
not recognize them in the darkness. The
gang evidently perceiving their mistake
moved on, and in a few moments found
Otis and got in their work.
Evidently republican temper is grow
ing as their prospects are waning. It is
perfectly natural that the first outbreak
should occur in this county. For thirty
years It has been the hot-bed of republi
can perjury, injustice, hypocrisy and
crime. It matters not whether you take
the speech delivered in this city by the
republican candidate for auditor on the
very day Otis was assaulted, in which
said republican candidate advised the
mobbing of those who voted against the
republican party it matters not whether
you begin there or go back to the time
when Anthony, their candidate for con
gressman at-large, headed a mob in the
streets of Ottawa, and the present repub
lican sheriff stood by with folded hands;
or whether you go back to the time when
Hawkins, the present commissioner, was
councilman for yean, and later on mayor
while yet an alien and a subject of Great
Britain; or to the time when another
alien and an ex convict from the Candian
j penitentiary was brought here to edit
the Republican, and was backed up in
his hellish work by a grand jury of re
publicans headed by a republican poli
tician; or the time when all these glided
scoundrels with their associates organ
ized themselves Into a "law (?) and order
(?) league," pretending that the law and
order of Franklin county was menaced
by the only law-abiding class within her
borders. It is now perfectly natural that
when lying, perjury, official crookedness,
bribery and intimidation are no longer
effective, that Franklin county republi
cans should resort to open violence, and
the suppression of free speech.
The rubber signature stamp in Hum
phrey's office is doing its duty nobly
while ths governor and his party of sal-
OFFiriAL PAPER OF TflV
PEOPLE'S PA MY OF KANSAS.
vatlonlsts continue to meander over the
pr&Irles of the Third district Last week
the salvation outfit wandered across the
line of Chautauqua county Into the In
dian Territory and was lost fur two days.
The governor was tryiog to rind some
school house where he was billed to
speak.
The Shawnee County Democracy.
The following preambles and resolu
tions were submitted to the Shawnee
county democratic convention in this city
on Saturday, the 1st inst,and were unani
mously adjpted with cheers. Similar
resolutions were also offered by Ojcar
Blschi ff in behalf of the German-American
democrats and were likewise unani
mously adopted:
Whereas, A pretended democratic con
vention has been called to meet in tbe city
of Topeka on October 7, 1802, by several
pretended democrat, to which call is affixed
the signature of one C. P. Spencer, i-f hb
county of Shawnee, who has mnoe 1889 held
the illje ot police oonimiiwiouer of th city
of Top. ka, appointed by Oovernor Hum
phrey; and
Whereas, It was the duty of Governor
Humphrey to appoint a democrat to fill said
poeiiion as provided by law; and
Whereas, The democratic party of ths
oounty of Shawnee in mass meeting assem
bled unanimously recommended the ap
pointment of one Furman Baker, a true
and tried life long democrat, to said position
and so notified the said governor before
said appoitment waa made, which recom
mendation of the demooratio party was en
tirely ignored; and
Wherean, la signing said call, the said
Cntrles F. Spencer aesumed to act for and
on behalf of the democrats of Shawnee
count); and
Whereas, The said Charles F. Spencer
acted wholly without authority or consul
tation with the democrats of Shawnee
oounty; and
Whereas, the said Charles F. Spencer has
not affiliated with the demooratio party of
Shawnee oounty for years, and did in 1838
openly oppose tbe regularly nominated can
didate of the demooratio contention for
oounty clerk, and did in combination with
the republican and at their intanoe and
request materially asaiet in defeating said
demooratio oandidate and in electing a re
publican to said office; and
Whereas, The said Charles F. Spenoer
bolted the regularly nominated ticket of the
democrats in 1800, and especially, the can
didate for governor, ex-Governor Robinson,
and whereas the demooratio party of this
oounty has not for many years considered
or recognized the said Charles F. Spenoer
as a democrat, but on the contrary have ac
cepted his abandonment of the demooratio
party as final, and have considered and
treated him as a strong prohibition republi
can, now therefore
Be it resolved by the demooratio party of
Shawnee oounty, That the said Charles F.
Spenoer is a political renegade, a traitor to
the democratic party, and an emissary of
the republican party; and in aseumisg to
act as a democrat, and in behalf of the dem
ocracy of Shawnee county in signing said
oail, has grossly and falsely misrepresented
the sentiment of the democracy of Shawnee
oounty, and is furthering the in'eretts of
corporations, trusts, oombines and monop
olies, and is attempting to materially in
jure the demooratio party of tbe state of
Kansas by perpetuating republican misrule.
And resolved further, That in the opinion
of the demooratio party f Shawnee oounty,
in convention asembld, no good or faith
ful democrat will participate in r recog
nize said fraudulent, unauthorized and cor
poration convention to be held October 7,
1892.
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