The Topeka state journal., 1901-10-19

next day and I told Allen that the
board did not know all that is going on,
or if il knew anything about it, 1t did
not attend to business. Allen tried to
shut me off, but Secretary Snyder
jumped UP and said l should have a
chance to speak out everything
so much that is deceptive and un-
true has been published in the last few
months with regard to the Boys In
dustrial school that it is high time that
the general public knew of the actual
conditions there and the heads of polit-
icaP organizations were making some
move toward putting that institution in
the shape that is boasted for it.
''As far as the new industrial build
ing is concerned. it is a white elephant
on the hands of the state and some
member of the board has been wise
enough to see it and the building is
being closed up. The blacksmith left
the 18th of this month. The boasted
carpenter shop, of which so much has
been said, will be closed the 1st of No
vember and the one 9-year-old boy who
has been the only boy employed in the
shop will have an opportunity to go to
school, providing they can get a grade
started AT the present time there is
not a boy attending grade becaus>a
there is noe in operation, and there are
countless numbers of boys in the inSti
tuition who have been there over a year
who can neither read nor write, and no
effort whatever IS made to educate
them, teach them a trade or in any
way prepare them for the responsibili-
ties of citizenship. Boys, instead of be-
ing taught industry are taught indo-
lence and crime, both by precept and
exam pie.
The very last question asked of an
employe by the present Management
has been: Are you competent and as
a matter of fact officers who have
shown themselves to be competent have
been discharged or have become dis
gusted and quit, in order to please po-
litical scoundrels' who have never done
an honest days work in their lives, but
who have done dirty work for the
Dear Old Party.
1T is a positive shame that the
youth of this state should be thus
treated all for the sake of politics. and
it is a further shame and disgrace that
the men who are paid by the state to
look after these things should stand
idly by and see the thing growing daily
worse and make no effort whatever to
check it, while the boys are being
turned out, hardened criminals fur
ther burden to the state, to say nothing
of the wrong done either the boy or his
parents.
I have always been a Republican,
but when men and women who have
been employed in the different institu-
tions for the past six, eight and twelve
years, under all administra tionS, de-
clare this to be the most corrupt and
grossly mismanaged of them all, it is
high time that some active measures
We're taken to correct this growing evil
and the people of this great common
wealth know the truth"
Kellogg says he has 300 men to stand
by him in the fight on the state board
of charities and the reform school
mana cement. He says civil service is
what is needed for the employees of
state institutions.
did you file any written charges
with the board?" was asked Kellogg.
No, I made my charges verbally -
he replied. a
MIR HANCOCK TALKS.
superintendent Hancock was inter
viewed today by State Journal repor-
ter Mr.. Hancock asserted that he had
no personal feeling against Kellogg, al
though the discharged mans state
ments were false and plainly the result
of his being let out
Superintendent Hancock said that
Carpenter Wildey would not leave No
vember 1 as far as he knew. He is con-
fident that his management of the insti-
tuition will stand any Investigate tions
that could be instigated.
In the course of the interview Mr..
Hancock said:
THE discharge of Jesse Kellogg is a
closed incident. I suspended him for
practicing brutality on the boys in the
school and when the board met it
promptly sustained my action and dis
charged him. I allowed Kellogg to re-
main at the institution during the per-
iod of his suspension and have his
board.
He is a man of high temper and sew
eral times got in trouble with the boys.
l warned him that he must stop beating
them ana that if there was another in
stance of brutality on his part L would
have to suspend him. That was tNo
months ago. When the incident with
the Shoffer boy came up investigated
it thoroughly and decided that Kellogg
would have to go. 1t was for the good
of the institution and consider 1 only
did nay official duty. Mr.. Allen, Mr..
Snyder and Mr.. Kanavel, the latter
Kellogg's sponsor, told me I had done
perfectly right
1T was natural that when Kellogg
was discharged Miss Wood should be-
gin roasting everybody around the in
st1tution. As a sample here is a. note
which she sent me a day or SO later
in which she says she must have a
large table and if my four carpenters
are not too busy can they not make it
this afternoOn?' The table was in pro-
cess of making then. Mr.. Snyder said
this note was sufficient cause for dis
missal. But there was a great deal
more insolence.
My son Clyde quit in order to go to
school in Topeka His resignation was
In before the board met. 1t was vOlun-
tary. We tried to get an exchange of
positions with a state house employe
for him, so he could be in the city and
go to night school, but that could not
be affected. He decided to resign, then.
1t was two months or more ago that
he strapped a boy for stealing a dollar
from him. 1t was not right for him nor
any officer to become provoked and do
so.
''Kellogg's statements are garbled
and not true The escapes are less than
half of any administration. The board
let Blacksmith Jewett go because it de-
cided not to operate the blacksmith
shop until spring. The making of clothes
goes on full blast.
But there is no need to go on nor
pay any attention to the staten ents
made by Kellogg. I have done my duty
by the institution. the board has made
a complete investigation and has no
censure at all for what have done My