The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-29
He RAPS STANLEY
John Gilmore Charges That He
Isn't Consistent.
Criticised POstmasters for
Working for Long.
USE OF STATES TIME.
Says Mr.. JeWett Has Devoted
Half to StanIey's Campaign.
Charges Stanley With Personal
Motives in Appointments.

John Gilmore, editor of the Wilson
County Citizen. takes a fail out of Gov
ernor Sldnley and Warden Jewett be-
cause they criticised the action of the
postmasterS and rural delivery carriers
in Sumner county in taking a hand in
the supplemental postal card election"
down there in the interest of Congress-
man Long. 1t appears that JeWett has
no reason to complain of little employees
of the government working for Long
when he has been spending a good share
of his time for several months working
for Stanley. It says:
The Topeka dailies and correspond
ents OF other daily papers quote Cover
nor Stanley and Warden E b. JeWett
In connection with the socalled supple
mental election for senator in a Sumner
county legislative district as complaint
ing because some fourth class postmas-
ters and rural route carriers interested
themselves in behalf of Chester 1. Long
IN that contest, or affair. Jewett's name
IS even linked with talk of charges be-
ing sent to the department against the
offending mail dispensers-the perni-
cious appointees of Longi Ed Jewett is
q mighty nkable sort of a man-blunt,
and candid and we believe honest but
he ought not to be too hard on those
subordinate, small salaried mail officials
for helping Long. Their duties and sal
aries are minor in comparison with his.
He is the head of about the most i'm
portant institution in the state and re-
ceives four times the compensation of
a rural mail carrier, and then some. For
six months he has been deVOting prob
ably One-half his time. labor and mind
and absenting himself from the state
penitentiary (going hundreds of miles
away for no other purpose than to pro-
mote the interests of Stanley as a can
didate for United States senator Ed
should be less severe on the men who
buffet storms and bad roads for $500 per
year for themselves and horses and no
expenses paid, Just because they rem
dered a little postal card assistance t.
some Sumner county Republicans. In
stead he should feel that they manifest
ed a cOmmendable spirit-emulating the
example set and policy followed by him
for months.
''As for Gov. stanley's slurs at Longs
postmasters, or anybody's postmasters
for that matter. they are too suggestive.
No governor of Kansas has ever. in MAX
ing appointments. been influenced more
than he by self interest in respect to
the actual or experienced benefits to ac-
crue to his own personal political aspira-
tons
Congressman Calderhead has arrived
from Washington to remain until the SEN
atorial fight is settled. He will stay in
Topeka until tomorrow, when he will go
on home to MaPysviile to spend New
Years, returning the last of the week to
remain until the senatorship is decided.
The court stenographers do not propose
TO take any chances on the legislature
adopting the suggestions of State Aud tor
Cole that their salary be cut down 500
a year. They have already formed an
association one ofthe chief objects of which
the coming winter will be to fight any
move by the legislature to reduce their
salaries. They say they receive less pay
now than the court stenographers of any
other state except Arkansas, and they
don't propose to be cut down any more.
c. ". Twickett, of Kansas City, Kan,
frsfa
pointment of assistant attorney. general
As nobody ever heard that ne had been
appointed this will be news to the poll
tteaans. As far as he ever got, SO far