The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-21
DISGRACEFUL.
Republicans Have Another
Chance to Hold Their Noses.
Disreputable Old Ben Glover
Given an Appointment
AS a Reward for His "FlOp"
Last Summer.
CAST OFF THE POPS.
He Is Taken Up By This
Administration,
Set to Training Young Boys at
the Reform School.
REPU BLICAN PAKI L
Is Full of Men of Good
Character
But Glover Of Red Slippers"
Fame is Chosen.
Set to Training Young Boys at
the Reform School.
REPUBLICAN PARTY
Is Full OF Men OF
Character
But Glover of RED Slippers"
Fame is Chosen.

BENJAMIN Clover, who accidentally rode
into congress from the Third district on
the first Populistic wave which struck
the state in 1890 and who last summer
sold himself to the Republican managers,
mas been given his reward. He has been
appointed farmer" at the reform school
by the state board of charities.
This is another appointment which
will bring the administration into disre-
pute but it is along with the same policy
which shields men in high places who
are guilty of drunkenness in public and
others who insult respectable girls.
Is it not a pretty spectacle? Ben
Clover is not the man to be placed in a
position Of farmer at the reform school,
where he will have the care and training
of young boys in his hands. He has
figured in too many scandals.
The mem bers of the board of charities
have no doubt followed the instructions
given them by Governor Morrill, and
Chairman Leland in making this as they
have in their other appointments.
Clover disgraced the people who sent
him tc congress in 1890. and at their next
congressional convention they turned
him down and nominated JEFF Hudson.
When Glover went to Washington he
took with him a woman stenogra pher.
Stories of the attention he was paying to
this young woman found their way back
to Cowley county where Mrs Clover and
her family of grown up children were
living on their farm.
About the time congress adjourned
Mrs. Clover commenced proceedings in
the district court of Cowley county for a
divorce. In her petition Mrs. Clover
charged him with intidelity and cruelty.
Clover made no fight to prevent his
wife getting a divorce, but went to her
and they agreed to settle the division of
their property out of court. In this way
he prevented scandalous details from
coming to the public ear
In an interview about her petition for
the divorce, Mrs. Clover said there WAS
more back of her petition than she
would like to tell, but that the truth was,
Ben had been paying moro attention to a
pair of "red slippers" he kept in Wash
ington than he did to her.
After he was defeated for the nomina-
ton for congress-, Clover went to work for
a live stock commission firm at Kansas
City, but last year, during the campaign,
he was again brought into prominence
by the announcements that he had become
a Republican and was then employed in
the Republican campaign.
In the statement of expenses of the Re-
publican state central committee Clover
was shown to have received but $50, and
his present appointment is the further
consideration he was promised for his
flop.
The position to which he has now
been appointed pays $3.50 a year, or
$29.17 month, in addition to which he
will get his living expenses.
Clover moved to Topeka from Kansas
City early in the spring, and has been
living in the south western part of the
city. His appointment has been credited
to Cowley county.