Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-20
CONDEMNED BY HIS FRIENDS.
T. T. Kelley, Republican Candidate for
State Treasurer. is Regulated by
the Republicans of His County.

drawal from the republican ticket, from
his party papers is becoming more DOS.
tive each day. There are many of these
on our exchange table but We take the
following from the Miami county Re.
publican because 1t is his home paper
and it's publisher is in possession of all
the facts connected with his rotten
record. Read what it says of him:
1.-The Republicans of Miami co. at
their primary election last Saturday re-
pudiated Thomas L. Kelley, Republi
can nominee for State Treasurer, and
his disreputable methods. Such defeat
would be humiliating beyond endurance
to right minded man, Of ordinary emo.
tiOns and feelings, but to a, man with
Kelley's blunted sensibIlities, braZen
cheek and monumental gall. 1t is only
an incentive to delve the deeper into
the dark and devious ways of subterran-
can politics, employing methods that
condemn and damn and are abhorrent
to self respecting people everywhere.
1t would not matter to HIM that his
election could be secured at the expense
State ticket. of every Republican Legs
lative candidate. of every Republican
county and township nominee in every
county, and township in the State: he
would sacrifice them ali and then rejoice
at the result. Maimi.cO. knows him
and repudIateS him, and whatever the
rest of the State may do for him he
stands discredited among his home
people whose confidence he has outrag-
ed and betrayed.
He made personal canvass of the
county to elect a county central CON-
mittee that he could control, to control
the delegates to the county convention
which elects judicial delegates and to
defeat the nomination of certain county
candidates, but he failed utterly and
ANONYMOUSLY in all of them. Of the
twenty-five members of the county CEN
trail committee, be has not to exceed
three supporters.
His most signal defeat was in the
Fourth ward, Paola the strongest Kelly
precinct in tie county, where A. L.
Thomas was elected committeeman
by vote of almost two to one
Thomas filed the original charges
against Kelley which led to the examin-,
alton of his record as County Clerk and
the finding of his guilt of malfeasance
in Office by the County Commissioners
Kelly made personal appeals to the
voters in that ward to defeat Thomas
and wanted to stake 500 that Thomas
would not get twenty votes in the ward,
but when his bluff was called he would
not put up.
1t is time for Mr.. Kelley to subside.
lie should get off the ticket. His
presence there Is in defiance of public
decency and menace to party harmony
and success
In addition to this, we have supple
ment of the Republican showing the
findings of the republican commission
ers of Miami county in which they say
that Kelley got 81 3o4 so of the county's
money By forging and raising warrants
and other equally dishonest and disrepu-
table methods. After the finding was
made Kelley confessed his guilt by pay.
ing this amount back into the county
treasury.
Isn't he nice fellow to put in charge
of the state funds? Isn't it a sweet
scented party that will put him forward?
But these are the kinds of doses the re.
publican machine of Kansas is asking
the people to swallow