The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17

no more mean that than the reappoint-
ment of Judge Moore would mean that
his townsman and friend, j. r. Burton
l had sold out to the machine The three
candidates. Messrs. O. L. Moore, r. l..
| King and j. T. Dickerson are candi-
dates on their merits, and not on any
! body's dicker. Mr.. Moore is a fine gen.
tleman, personally. and has made
! good judge, so far as we know. Mr..
| King is an able lawyer and fine gen
| tleman- He is one of the most con-
scientious lawyers we ever knew. He is
county attorney and good one. Mr..
Dickerson is a graduate of the uni
versity law school, was county attor-
ney four years, and good one He
has worked his way from poverty, IS a
| fine lawyer with a big practice, is the
most generous man we ever knew, ana
in every way one of the noblest men on
earth. On general principles we favor
a Marion county man, and on relation
| ship, Dickerson, but we are not In the
dicker business.
while we are at 1t we want to kill
| two birds with one stone. We desire to
refer to the extensive 'rumor, that the
appointment of our son, Homer, to po-
sition in Washington has political sig
nificance. We want to saw in the nrst
| place, what few men in public life can
| say, that during the 80 years of our life
| in Kansas, in which we have contribu-
ted our mite to Republican success
without money and without price we
| nave never asked, until 1aSI WlulSEs VI
any United States senator or any con-
gresham, or any governor or any ott1-
| cial of any kind, any favor for ourself
| or for any member of our family. we
| have carefully worded this statement
and challenge its refutation. On the
contrary we have refused many politi-
! cal positions of honor and emolument
| rendered to US, including several posi-
! tions on state boards. the Marion post
| office, etc. We have also refused to be
| lot all two n
governor. lieutenant governor, and es-
pecially congressman when the chances
| of election were most excellent. This is
not egotistical boasting. 1t is plaln
truthful statement of facts known TO
| many. Last winter after our defeat for
state printer-which had been expensive
to us. we asked our old and good friend,
Congressman Scott-our congressman
| if he couldn't get our boy Homer a po-
Sition in Washington which would en-
| able him to attend law school and pay
| his way while doing it. 1t was the f1rst
favor we ever asked. Lelands boy had
a good job, Jim Simpsons boy had a
good job-both worthy young fellows
and other Republicans had boys in pub
lie service Our boy had sacrificed a
year of his precious time running our
paper while we were campaigning fUr
state printer. He had made campaigns
himself for the party, in Marion county
| and out of it, and had some personal
claims himself Mr. Scott kindly agreed
to get him a job. He took Mr.. Long and
Mr.. Bristow into his counsel (without
| our knowledge) and they kindly did the
rest Now, we have never belonged to
any faction of our party. We do not
now belong to any We are opposed 10
factions We have friends in all of
them. We are opposed to some OF the
fellows who are now dominant in our
party wholly and solely because they are
factional. Mr.. Bristow, whose secre-
taryship has been given Homer. has al
ways been our friend. and we have al
ways been his friend. We like him. We
are proud of his record in office. And
there is no reason known among honor
able men why he shouldn't have favor
ed our boy or why we shouldn't appre-
| ciate the favor We do appreciate It
The boy appreciates it, and we have a
fathers faith to believe that Mr.. Brls-
tow nor Mr.. Long nor the Republican
party will have occasion to blush for
that boy. But that these things will in
fluence us an iota in our personal atti-
tude toward Kansas politics has already
been kindly resented by our brethren of
the Kansas press, in both factions and
| we thank them for 1t.
Morton Albaugh. state chairman of the
Republican party, publishes the follow
ing editorial in the Kingman Leader
ssThe Kansas City Journal refers to
the attempt to pass the Francis amend
| m6nt last WlnIGT, WHICH PlONAOCO III
| leaving state taxes in the hands of the
! different county treasurerS until actual
| " needed by the state treasurer, as an
effort to punish a politician who is
| fighting the ring The logic OF this
seems to be that any man who attempts
to have the tax payers of the state re-
ceive interest either in the different
counties or the state at large from the
accumulations of state money is simply
desirious of Furnishing the state treas
11rer. 1t might be we'll for the Journal
to explain wherein the punishment
comes.
'By the way this recalls the fact that
Mr.. Gleed, the supposed owner of the
Journal. along in the latter part of
September, 1902, sent a personal repre-
sentative to Miami county to investigate
the charges that were made there by the
county commissioners against the pres
ent state treasurer. Mr.. Kelly. The re-
mort was to be for publication in the
Journal. This representative came back
with an awful tale of woe Said that
the charges were true and that 1T was
an outrage that Mr.. Kelly should re-
main upon the state ticket and that his
voluntary or enforced withdrawal was
necessary. 1t may be impertinent to
ask why this report was suppressed; !;
/ why it has never to this day appeared
in the Journal; why from that time to
this the Journal has been the most
earnest defender of Mr.. Kelly