The advocate and Topeka tribune. [volume], October 26, 1892, Page 7, Image 7

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TIXE3 ADVOOila
7
THE EOTTEH EGQ PAETT.
Rotten eggs are getting to ba the
regulation republican . argument of
late. Republicans caught the inspi
ration from Georgia democracy, and
its influence is spreading rapidly in
Kansas. First Mr. Otis was egged
at Princeton. Next we hear of the
egging of H. N. Boyd at Brown's
school house in Republic county, and
now comes the report thit the Peo
ple's party procession was egged at
Jerry Simpson's meeting at Smith
Center on the 19th insi This is all
good news for the People's party.
Our people and speakers can well
afford to suffer these indignities for
the good of the cause. "Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad" is a maxim that finds abundant
illustration in the methods of Kansas
republicans in this year of grace 1892
Let's take a sensible view of it
Two years ago, men from Kansas and
other northern states bore messages
to their brethren in the south, telling
them that a great reformation was go
ing on here. They told the truth.
They told them that the People's
party would elect the state ticket in
Kansas. In that they told what would
.have proven true had not the republi
cans resorted to some cf the vilest
tactics known to politics to compass
our defeat. Then came our county
elections of 1891, in which many
counties were, by fusion, carried
against us, and this was heralded in
the south as a republican victory.
Now, what would we think of the
Populists of Georgia if, in conse
quence of all these results and mis
representations, they had turned and
voted against us? Bat tbey didn't, as
the last Populist vote of nearly 100,
000 will show. That many voters in
Georgia are loyal, and if they are not
strong enough to prevent the. crimi
nal element of their state from steal
ing the election, it is not their fault,
but a good reason why we in enlight
ened Kansas should gather our forces
and show them that there is one state
in the union which cannot be out
raged by organized capital Kansas
always leads.
Camdidatk Lewkllino eays the republi
can party haa outlived its usefulness. Not
.until the constitution is enforced and voters
all over the country ec joy in fact the guaran
tee of a ballot cast and counted. The re
publican party is the only party that dare
insist upon this fundamental right. Capi
tal, October 19.
How many centuries of republican
rule is it going to require to secure
the enforcement of the constitution
and the guarantee of a ballot cast a&d
counted? If these things are not now
assured, whose fault is it?
Thebe seems to be some doubt now
as to whether Iogalls is a "republican
republican" as he styled himself last
spring, or one of the latter day,
6tand up variety that believes in
preaching something this year and
going back On it next year.
The opening day parade of the
Columbian exposition was almost
equal to some of the Populist proces
sions in Kansas. It was ten miles
long, which is long enough to be
called a "fizzle" by the republican
press if it were in Kansas.
BOMB P0LTO FOB G0VEM0B HUM
PHREY ABD HIS FBIEBDS.
Eepublican Harmony and Success Can
Best he Secured by Keeping Political
Tricksters Out of Office.
From the Topeka Capital (official republican
ifate paper X April 27, 1392.
The Interviews offered the public yes
terday by Governor Humphrey, intended
to be facetious and unconcerned over the
articles published in the Capital, fail to
offer an answer or an apology to the peo
ple of Kansas for using executive patron
age and influence to secure another office
nearly a year before the gubernatorial
term has closed. The governor, In order
to cover his own haste to promote him
self, calls attention to the satisfactory
appointment of Bishop W. Perkins as
senator. The Capital has not dlsoussed
nor referred to Senator Perkins, who, we
are pleased to say, is doing hla official
work in the senate in a very satisfactory
manner to the citlzana of Kansas. The
Capital and its editor have never found
fault publicly or privately with Senator
Perkins for taking what was offered him
by Governor Humphrey. We are not
discussing Senator Perkins at this time,
but Lyman U. Humphrey, who as gover
nor of Kansas Is better known for his lack
of courage In performing his official
duties than for any other qualification of
head or heart. We have known well and
personally every governor who has Berved
Kansas since it was admitted Into the
union, and while some have not worn the
laurels of scholarship or statesmanship,
Governor Humphrey Is the first and we
hope he will be the last to whom the hu
miliating sneer, "he has the backbone of
the angle worm," has been applied by
men of all parties, but of tenest by repub
licans. The governor, In all his inter
views yesterday, carefully prepared and
revised by him, did not fail to assure the
people that there was no bargain in the
appointment ofSenator Perkins. The
governor doth protest too much. The
Capital has not charged that there was
a trade, but that thought has been In
everybody's mind, and has no doubt been
expressed more frequently than any
other comment upon the governor's pres
ent hunt for another office. Governor
Humphrey stated In one of his Interviews
regarding the senatorial contest of last
winter that the editor of the Capital said:
"If I would appoint him United States
senator he and his Capital would send
me to congress." If .we did not know
that the governor carefully revised this
interview after It was written we should
certainly place the above inacuracy
against the reporter. As it is we can
only say that the subject of congressman
of the Third district was never mentioned
by either of us at either of the Interviews
during that week. While all were puz
zled over the "playing" of three or four
men of fully the calibre and standing of
the governor, we are sure at that time no
one conceived it possible for Governor
Humphrey to have the gall to run for
congress a year before his term expired.
That our readers may tee the character
of the governor's reply, we give herewith
from the Kansas City Journal, the gem,
the particularly brilliant and dignified
gubernatorial effort:
For a man to be a Dartr Nestor, which Hud-
son wants to be, and for him to be eternally
stirring up fights, engendering quarrels and
practicing political barratry. I lnons utant And
Itls particularly Incontinent for him to brew
thw quarrels oil', of bis awn dlapp"totd po
lltl -al ambition, over a Are nursed by the breath
of his own disgruntled wrath, and to dance
around the cauldron where bli defunct asclr
tlons SDd deceased odoriferous visions of great
ness -snine ana suns ana siina ana unine, nxe
mackerel In the moonlleht" It is nartlPuia'-lT
lncoo1 stent, I iay. for him to croon over bis
nauseating nrew a lamentation about other peo
ple's "greed for office. "
What has the Capital said? That
Governor Humphrey was not justified
in using the patronage and Influence of
UDD si in L cuV
Hfflfiijalclri!
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his office In defeating other abler and
more deserving men for the position of
congressman; that he was not a strong
man for the party or the state; that he
ran behind 'every state officer In bis own
county; that he was lacking In the ele
ments of a successful campaigner, and
that this precedent of using the office of
governor for his own political prefer
ment waa an outrage on the people of
Kansas, regardless of party.
But this Is not the most Important
argument against Governor Humphrey's
ambition to remain in office. He has
shown such a sympathy with violators
of the prohibitory law in Atchison,
Leavenworth, Kansas City, K&a., and
Wichita, that to-day, with the governor's
Implied sanction, his unwillingness to
demand the enforcement of the law, the
saloons are run with a fine representing
a license. If a governor occupied that
chair whose letters demanding that the
officers do their duty meant anything, the
law oould be enforced In every city. Is
the promotion of Governor Humphrey to
be based upon his failure to do his sworn
duty!
There Is another reason why Governor
Humphrey should not be endorsed by a
nomination to congress. For six months
he has had a played out politician, a lazy
political loafer, acting as his personal
roustabout. This barnacle is borne on
the rolls of the adjutant general as Lewis
Hanbackat $100 00 per month, and has
not in the past sir months done one
hour's work In the adjutant general's
office. He has been kept traveling about
looking after the governor's political
fences, for which services the governor
has drawn orders on the "contingent
fund," which Is under his personal con
trol, for $280.00. These orders given by
the governor may be examined by any
taxpayer In the state auditor's office, as
they are among the public records open
to all citizens. From D2cember 16 to
April 25, 1892, Mr. Hanback drew on five
vouchers of the governor $280.00 for
"special services," "extra services," etc.,
to each of which vouchers was at
tached the following certificate signed
by Governor Humphrey: "I do certify
that the within was contracted by
me for the state under authority of law,
and that the amount therein claimed !
correct according to such contract and Is
unpaid."
When Governor Humphrey signed
those vouchers he knew Lew Hanback
was receiving $100 per month from the
state, not one dollar of which he earned.
He knew also that the private political
work Lew Hanback was doing and li
doing to day for him on the $50 ha drew
on Monday, April 25, was not an expendi
ture of the money of the state warranted
by exigencies of the public service or
contemplated by law. It was not honest
towards the taxpayers nor was It just
towards the party that has honored Gov
ernor Humphrey overmuch already.
Tals about serving the republican party
with such sbystering politics as this! A
republican party paper Is expected to do
a good deal for harmony, but there axe
times when a little plain truth will help
to clear the atmosphere. When the
pump of the Interviewer is again put to
work on our modest governor we hope
he will drop the facetious mackerel and
get down to a plain straightforward an
swer to the charges here made, which If
true, are disgraceful to the governor and
a humiliation to the party and state.
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