The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-03
new CHARGES.
Evidence Against 7. T. Kelly
Continues to Increase.
Miami Republican Publishes
the Additional Facts.
WHAT RECORDS SHOW.
Accounts Manipulated to Secure
Various Sums.
Figures, Dates and Particulars
Are Given.
WHAT RECORDS SHOW.

Much has been charged against T. T.
Kelly, assistant state treasurer and
candidate for the nomination for state
treasurer before the Republican state
convention.
Many of the charges have been of
such a nature that credence in them
was to be doubted.
The stories, however, will not down.
Mr. Kelly must meet them. He is a
candidate for an office which handles
millions of the states money. He must
convince the people that his integrity
and past conduct are above reproach, or
he must get out of the race.
It is said that the county commits
sioners of Miami county viii meet Mon
DAY 10 consider these grave charges.
Let them investigate to the bottom
If Mr.. Kelly be innocent, the board
should exOnerate him, and a few big,
stiff libel suits should be brought
against the Miami county paper which
is printing pages Of this stuff.
On the other hand, if the charges
prove substantially true, the state
treasurer's Office, in which Mr.. Kelly is
the active man, should be Investigated,
and no whitewash brush be used.
w. d. Greason. editor of the Miami
County Republican, devotes six and q
half columns of the first page of his pa
per this week to exploiting the charges
against T. 7. Kelly, Miami cOunty'S
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for state treasurer. The fight be-
tween Kelly and his opponents in Mi
ami county is becoming more brisk
than ever. Since the inVestiga ton by
the county CON nnissioners several weeks
ago, of two charges of crookedness on
the part of Mr.. Kelly while he was
county, clerk of Miami county, experts
have been at work on the records, and
a number of additional charges are now
made against him. What action viii
be taken by the commissioners with re-
gard to them is not known. 1t is not
stated that they have been formally
nlapaH hafnre he ci
Mr. Greason publishes nine new
charges against Mr.. Kelly. The follow
ing are some of them:
First-On January ), 1891, the records
OF the county clerk show that a bill of
| T. NJ. HObsOn for masonry on the Hills
! dale bridge for S753.95 was allowed, and
is the only bill of that amount present.
ed by Mr.. Hobson at any time This
/ bill was paid on January s, 1891, by
1 warrant No. 1850 to Z. M. Hobson for
| $753-95, as shown by the treasurer 5
| books The stub of warrant No. 1871
! shows that this warrant was also drawn
in favor Of T. NJ Hobson for masonry
/ on the Hillsdale bridge for $753. 95. How
/ ever, across the face of this stub is
written the following: Repetition, can
| celled and destroyed. County Treasurer
( Not paid all of this being in Mr.. Kel-
] lys handwriting The expense book
kept by the county clerk shows also
| that both of these warrants We're paid
| to T. NJ. Hobson for work on HillsdaIe
! bridge, but Mr. Kelly, in certifying the
| allowances of the board of county COM
| missioners to the official paper of the
| county for publication, omits one of
| these allowances to Mr.. HObsOn. The
! treasurers books show that on Febru-
airy 28, 1891 warrant No 1871 which Mr.
Kelly had marked Repetition, cancelled
and destroyed, County Treasurer. Not
/ paid," was paid to the King Iron Bridge
1 company for $45395. No bill for this
1 amount was presented by the King Iron
commissioners, nor allowed a this time
or a any other time. The treasurer s
| books show that on February 2S, the
! date that the King Iron Bridge company
! is supposed to have drawn this can
| celled warrant Mr.. Kelly was given d
check for $500 by the county treasurer.
! Presumably the balance of the $753. 95,
| or $253 95 was paid to Mr.. Kelly in casn.
The books of the National bank of Pa
ola show that this county treasury
check for $500, issued to Mr.. Kelly, was
deposited to his own credit in said bank.
Through the manipulation of Mr. Kelly
Miami county was robbed of $753.95 in
| this matter AS to warrant No 1850
| payable to T. M Hobson, for $753.9 .95 the
records show this bill is absolutely cor
( rect: that he filed his voucher for this
amount and received the same from the
| county treasurer, receipting the stub
| HObson knows nothing of the manipu-
lations of warrant No. 1871, and is in
no manner responsible for 1t.
Second-The stub Of county warrant
| No. 1892 is blank. Warrants Nos. 1881
and 1888 preceding and following. No.
1882 are dated April Il, 1898 In tracing
No. 1892 through the records We find
that at the quarterly meeting in July,
1893 this warrant was cancelled as paid.
The records show that this warrant was
never presented to the board of county
con missioners for their consideration,
Under date of April T. 1888 the treas
urer paid warrant No 1882 for $3.50
drawn in favor of George H Bradford
TIE treasurer's books do not show. how
ever, that he issued such a check, but
they do show that he issued check No
1878 to Thomas 7. Kelly for S160. The
allowance of this 1850 is not published
in the official county paper giving the
official proceedings OF the county com
missioners at this date.
Third-On April IS, 1892. warrant No
237 was issued to the King Iron Bridge
books show that he issued check No
1881 to the King Iron Bridge company
( for S4 200, and on the same date he alSl
| issued to the King Iron Bridge company
check No. 1882 for sI00 The only en-
dorsement on check No. 1882 for Sl00
payable to the King Iron Bridge com
/ pany is Thomas T. Kelly. The allow
ance of 81 800 to the King Iron Bridge
company is published in the official pa
per giving the proceedings of the bOarC
at their April meeting The records
show in this transaction that Kelly
rakeoff was 800.
The Republican also publishes an ex
tract from the testimony given by Mr.
Kelly at the investigation before tn
county commissioners a few weeks ago
concerning the charge that he raises
a voucher in favor of Crane & Co. from
S4625 to S146.25 The testimony as pub
lished was as follows:
Q.-Mr. Kelly, do you recognize tfi
newspapers handing him a copy of tn
1 A nF Ar1rf I
1893