The National Republican

Gov. Robinson is just showing himself in a new character. He is a pocketor. He pockets bills. The people elected men to represent them in the Legislature—men from every county, and men who know the wants and wishes of their constituents. They passed certain laws. They passed certain laws which the Robinsonian dishonesty and malignity was opposed to. But Robinsonian-ism is covert, cowardly, and intriguing. It has no manly traits about it. It does not veto bills, it pockets them.

Our high minded and brave Governor puts the bills in his pockets, keeps them there the constitutional period, and kills them by non-action.

A decent Governor would not hesitate to veto them. Robinson is not a decent Governor, and he kills them by concealment.

THE POCKETED BILLS.

Here are some of the bills which Robinson has killed by hiding them in his pocket:

An act incorporating domestic insurance companies and taxing foreign insurance companies.

The people would like to know why the above bill was pocketed.

An act incorporating agricultural societies.

The fee bill.

All the county officers were opposed to this bill, (it reduced their fees,) and had money to pay for its defeat.

An act appointing an agent to receive moneys due the State from the Interior Department for the sale of State bonds.

In the original bill, Judge Ewing was made the State agent; afterwards, at his own suggestion, Judge Ewing's name was stricken out and that of George W. Collamore substituted. Thus amended the bill passed. The Governor's "pocket," at such a time, gives indubitable testimony of his complicity in the bond swindle. This is Robinson's crowning act of infamy.

An act making an appropriation for a Penitentiary.

The appropriation in this bill was only $5,000. It proposed to pay for forty acres of land, and to commence work on a public institution universally needed.

It is said this bill was pocketed by the Governor because it was a "Leavenworth measure." The reason may have been that Robinson thought he would be the jail's first inmate.

All these acts, and perhaps others, have ceased to become laws by the Governor's pocketing disposition. Every one of them were matters of public advantage.

Is it not time for us to begin to echo the popular cry—that cry which proposes a speedy and hempen conclusion to the life of our scoundrel Governor.—Leavenworth Conservative, March 3.