The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-22
Written to Pave the Way For
Future Speeches.
Usage PAYS NO COSTS.
Mr.. Waters Punctures a Repub-
lican Argument.
Expenses Being Paid as the
Case Advances.

J. G.-Waters has been invited to make
political speeches in Usage county Tor
the benefit of the fusion ticket in gen.
eraI, but specifically for the campaign
advancement of A. B. Crurn. the county
attorney who signed the petition in the
case against Frank Grimes.
Mr. Waters will go to Usage county for
the purpose of explaining the Grimes
case and to prove that Mr.. Crum is not
entitled to receive the criticism which
is being directed against him. In ad-
vance of going into the Usage county
campaign, Mr.. Waters has made public
the following letter:
To the Voters of Usage County:
The suit against Grimes, the state
treasurer, is a righteous one. He has
had an average of S34O, 600 of state
since he has been in Office Some OF this
time he has been stamping state war
rants Not paid for want of funds"
Mr. Grimes. before he deposited any
funds with the Central National bank
asked Mr.. Bonebrake, the president, if
he would pay him interest, Mr.. Willard,
the late cashier Of the Merchants Ma
tiOnal bank, has declared that he was in
the habit of going to the state house
and carrying the money in envelopes to
pay the interest to Grimes.
Grimes ran Willard out of the state;
called him UP from Lake View, by tele-
phone got him to come to Topeka, got
a pass for him, and run him out Of the
state
If we can get the truth from the bank
officers there is plenty of evidence to
sustain the petition fled. The peoples
money is used by the banks here; it
should be in the state treasury, in the
vaults Of the state house It is peni-
Tertiary offense for the treasurer to
loan it; it is a. like offense for a bank
officer to pay interest on it.
What do you think of a state treas
urer who wants to know of a bank
president IF he is paying interest on
state money?
This suit could never have been
brought in Shawnee county as the law
officials here would. under no circum-
stances have brought it.
It may be that other state treasurers
have done this thing, but that makes the
Offense no less for Mr.. Grimes
How does it come that hundreds of
thousands Of dollars are in Topeka
banks, instead of the state vaults2 The
banks refuse to show their books; the
officer of the bank who knows, Mr..
Grimes deliberately run out of the state
The whole costs viii not amount to $50
and are being paid as the suit advances
Usage county will never have a cent of
the costs TO pay
The question Of where one of the SEN
atOrial candidates gets his money to
conduct a continuous campaign for four
years, may be, in a way partially an
swered by a rake off of interest on state
money.
Mr.. Crum. if he had never done any
thing else, deserves well of the people for
this one act. Nearly every bank, out
side Of Topeka, says he is doing a splen-
did thing, and host of Republican pa
pers are saying the same thing.
Whoever is elected, this thing will stop
and Mr.. Crum viii justly get the credit
for stopping it Your county ought to
he proud Of your county attorney; a
young man who has courage to do his
Isuty and save the public treasury from
10lunder. We need more men like Mr..
Crum in Office.
Mr. Grimes got the money. Mr.
willard. who paid him told Mr.. Brown
and Mr.. Bone how, when and where;
they are Republicans, and it is to their
credit that they told the truth Grimes
ran Willard off. We will follow him, and
get his evidence.
Before election I shall do my best to
tell the people of Usage county the facts
about this case.
JOSEPH G. WATERS