The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-16
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been done before for 20 years-what
would have become of that money when
Mr.. Kelly went out OF the treasury?
In view of Kelly's record in Miami
county and the fact the county COM
missioners of that county found him
guilty of taking $1.324.s9 county funds,
and in view of the Bourbon county case
in the state treasury, are the Kelly pa
more honest than he was ten years ago?
The La Harpe News has taken down
Kelly's name from its state ticket This
makes two papers in Allen county
which refuse to support Kelly.
The Green1eaf Sentinel should have
been included in the list of Republican
papers that are not supporting T. T.
Kelly. This with the Cawker City Rec
ord and the La Harpe News, which
have recently Joined the number, brings
the list up to 80 as far as the State
Journal has kept count.
The Kelly papers in their anxiety to
discredit the State Journals list of Re-
publican papers which are not support
ing Kelly, are publishing an item say
ing that the Mcpherson Opinion was in
cluded in the list and that 1t is rank
Populist paper. The Mcpherson Opin-
ion is not on the State Journals list and
was never so published.
John s. Gilmore. the veteran editor of
lie
Kelly's recent explanation" in plate
form and makes this editorial comment
on it: "On this page of the Citizen is
printed the full personal statement of
T. T. Kelly, Republican nominee for
state treasurer, concerning the charges
made against him as ex-cOunty clerk OF
Miami county. He refers to some inn
portant things in general way and
dwells upon others that are irrelevant
to the vital point. The correctness of
the specific charges, or findings, of the
county commissioners as to raised and
duplicated county warrants CAN in the
handwriting of T. T. Kelly they say
are not denied nor distinctly questioned
by him. Mr.. K. alleges that some rec
| ords were taken out of the clerks office
and intimates that they were doctored
to his detriment.
1.-The commissioners said in the report
of their examination that all records.
papers, vouchers. etc., were before them
and showed that they had In no wise
been altered, erased or mutilated- IT is
understood that vouchers and records
showing a list of warrants issued ana
their amounts were taken from the
| clerks office previous to the official in
vestigation to be photographed, to sup
| port the charges of forgery brought by
Kelly's enemies. But does that help
| to prove his innocence?
"Since the statement which apepars in
| this issue of the Citizen was given out
| a number of things therein have been
| refuted by persons named In the article
/ and others corrected by the county COM
| missioners
LAS to factional differences and post
| Office rows. they have been no more
strenuous in Miami than in score or
| two of other Kansas counties. Mr.
Kelly has probably done his part in con-
| tributing to the local dissension by pur-
suing course in county politics equal
ly as disturbing as the policy of his
party opponents.
-'It is well l-nigh iuconceivable thzt q
board of county commissioners of amp
county in Kansas SO long settled and
advanced as Miami county would from
i'll motives or at the behest Of any per-
son, cabal or political faction deliber-
ately- do wicked injustice to an ex-
county official or any fellow citizen
Take Reuben Smith. one member Of
| of three score and ten. who has lived
continuously in Miami county forty-five
years-since- 1857. He enlisted in the
| army in 1861, served till the rebellion
| closed and rose to the rank of captain.
He was elected to the legislature three
| times, has held state appointments and
| been chosen to fill other positions of
| honor and trust. With his long expert
! responsibility. would he likely be suff1-
| GENTLY influenced by personal differ
ences to sign that report against the
ex-clerk of his county unless he be-
| heved it to be true?
"a subcommittee of the Republican
| state committee or committee of fair.
minded, conservative and wholly disin-
terested men, living as remote from Mi
ami county as possible, ought to be dele
gated to probe this affair and report
| their conclusions"
w. H. Craddock, fusion candidate for
governor, has also formally repudi-
| ated E. E. Brown and his Observer. Mr..
Craddock has written a letter to Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon to smooth out mat
! terS with the Topeka Ministerial union
h6cQnSa nj Of ha
on the ministers. The letter is as fol-
lows:
Kansas City, Kan, Sept Is. 1902.
Rev. Charles Nd. Sheldon, Topeka. Kan.
Dear Sir: My attention has been
| called to recent articles in a paper pub
lished at Topeka called The Observer.
| edited by one E. E. Brown, in which at
tacks are made on you and some of
your associates at Topeka. I am also
informed that this Mr.. Brown is repre-
senting his paper to be the personal
organ of myself and the fusion state
| committees.
''I desire to say that Mr.. Brown does
not represent me in any way, neither
does he represent the fusion state COM
mittee. The articles referred to were
published without the knowledge or ap-
friends. I do not approve Of this class
of journalism and will not countenance
my name being connected with it in
any way, even indirectly. Yours truly
l w H. OftAOOOCA.
T. w. Moseley, fusion candidate fo1
district judge in the Stafford r Ice Bar
ton district, has notified Secretary o.
State Clark that he wishes to run OF
the Democratic ticket. and not on tbs
Populist He filed his nomination pa
pers as the Democratic Candidate yes
terday.
The Oswego Independent, whose edit
| or, Lee McGill, was secretary of the "a
bette county Republican convention
says that the resolution concerning Sen
ator Burton was adopted by the con
,-ention. The one concerning the ap
pointment of a Democrat as po5tmaste
st Parsons was the resolution whicl
was stricken out. The Burton resolu
| ton was as follows:
I'VE indorse the platform adopted b,
the state convention at Wichita In ever,
detail, and we hereby inform Hon. J
r. Burton that his course, antagonisti
| to the president and the principles o
our state platform, does not meet witt
cir approval and we urge him to lent