The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-19
Advises Federal Employees to
Come Home or Send $40.
: WE NEED THE MONEY!
That Is the Import of Letter
Sent Out.
Kansas Men Who Hold Govern.
ment Places Held Up.
Bank Examiner J0bes and Geo.
Clark Sign Letter

The Republican state committee fig
ures that a vote is worth SO and that
unless the person controlling said vote
shall come to the state to cast it on
election day, the said person shall remit
to the committee $40 in lieu thereof.
This is regarded as an exceedingly low
price for votes, especially in view of the
fact that some politicians in Kansas
have paid as high as $4,000 for votes by
the half dozen. At other times legis-
lative votes, which once were Jumped off
at the general price of 81, 500 each, have
marketed as high as 81, 500. but this has
nothing to do with the new scale OF
prices inaugurated by the Republican
mana cement for the campaign of 1900.
The Republican state committee, on
official paper, and with official sigma
lures has issued letters to Kansas Re
pubhcans holding Office in Washington
under the federal government, asking
them for contributions to the campaign
fund
This letter does not contain the de-
man for cash in lieu Of votes, 50 the au-
thorfty for this demand is not found in
the letter which has been given out Tor
publication. However, a supplemental
letter to which the one appearing in the
following, does not refer, seems to have
been issued by the committee.
A State journal reporter today was
permitted to read q letter which has
come to Kansas from an employe in one
of the departments at Washington who
has, in years past, been furnished by the
state committee with transportation and
expense money to come home to vote.
This letter which the reporter read tells
a different story this year. The urSt SEN
tence which refers to the subject says:
THE Republican state committee has
sent me a letter insisting that l go
home to vote. Unless do this the COM
mittee demands that 1 send $40 for the
campaign fund in Kansas
The official letter to which the com
mittee pleads guilty Of publishing among
its confidential friends follows:
Dear Sir:-The undersigned members
of the finance committee of the Republl-
can state committee have been directed
to raise funds for the said committee, for
which there is pressing need.
This communication is addressed to
you for the reason that it is believed
that you will be interested in the success
of the Republican ticket in Kansas, to
the extent Of contributing a fair share
towards the accomplishment OF Such
purpose Your appointment to the posi-
ton which you now hold being charged
to the state of Kansas, warrants US in
this belief. We hope and confidently
believe that we shall have your hearty
cooperation and prompt action by max
ing q remittance with the least possible
delay to Morton Albaugh, chairman, en-
closing it under cover addressed to him
at Topeka, Kan, who Will promptly re-
ceipt and give you credit for the same
and advise the national committee Of the
amount paid in each case.
"A very large number Of the rank and
file of our party are contributing to the
success Of our ticket by their labor, zeal
and interest, and those of US who are
the benefciaries pecuniaTily and can not
devote our time are properly expected
to contribute means for the discharge
Of the obligations which the state COM
mittee necessarily has to meet.
You are respectfully advised that the
chairman of the national committee has
waived all claim upon Kansas Republic
cans and has authorized the chairman
of the state committee to ask for such
means as are expected to be received
from federal employees
Means can be used to a better ad-
vantage in the immediate future and the
necessities are more pressing than will
be the case in the last few days of the
campaign.
with the hope that this will meet
with a substantial response not later
than the goth instant and for your cour-
teous consideration tender the thanks
of the state committee as well as yours
respectfully,
GEORGE A. CLARK.
&C. S. JOBES."
Mr.. Clark IS secretary of state; Mr.
Jobes is the national bank examiner for
Kansas.
1t was certainly. very considerate on
the part of Mr. Hanna, the national Re
publican chairman to waive all claim to
the Kansas Republicans and permit the
Kansas committee to go after them. As
Mr. Hanna is very close to the national
administration it would seem highly inn
proper for him to ask for these c0ntribu-
lions but he is sufficiently a politician to
find a way to have it done.
The author of the letter concerning the
demand for q vote or $40 is in much
trouble. He thinks he can not afford to
pay his expense to the state to vote, al
though he would like very much to come
back on a visit. He had practically de-
cided to send the $40 but a Republican
politician who usually does things when
he says he viii is after transportation
which would save the $40 and bring the
vote at the expense of the contributors.
This friend who seeks to confer the
favor of transportation came to Topeka
today from a distant part of the state
to confer with the committee about 1t.