The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-07

/ GODDARD to carry through the iniquitous
| Comanche county bond deal. This is
admitted by Kelly'S friends, but they
say it was technical embezzlement.
Second-Somebody stole $1,402.50
j from the state which was paid on GER
Iteriously returned by "a. r. Brown" a
year after it was stolen. T. T. Kelly
personally collected it from the state
fiscal agency in New York, endorsing
the draft with which it was paid both
personally and as state treasurer.
Third-Many thousand dollars of
the shortages unearthed by the state
! accountants have been on coupons
which had long been owned by the
state and to which no one else could
have any claim. Many other coupons
| on which there have been shortages
were stamped as state property.
The state accountants do not name
| F. E. Grimes, T. T. Kelly or anyone
else in connection with these short
lagos. Kelly was assistant state treas
urer during the Grimes administration
and handled the states money. Since
| then he has been state treasurer His
record as county clerk of Miami coun-
| ty, which was so bad that he paid
| back over $1,000 which he had stolen
| from the county when confronted with
the proof of his crime, warrants peo-
pie in placing the blame for the short
ages in the state treasury at his door.
| A circular signed by E. N. Eby T.
j. Smith and J. E. Gilbert of Marion
| county has been issued to contradict
| the fusion circular In which it is stated
| that E. w. Hoch has repeatedly bolted
| old soldiers who have been on the Re
publican ticket Eby and Gilbert are
i two of the Republicans Hoch is accuS-
ed of bolting. Smith is one of the men
he is accused of supporting in opposi-
| ton to an old soldier.
| In two instances the statement con-
! firms the Democratic statement, but
each of these times the man supported
| by Mr.. Hoch was an old soldier. The
| following are the statements made by
/ the Republican circular:
In 1879, E. w. Hoch voted for Sam
| T. Howe a veteran of the 1S4th Ohio
volunteer infantry, who was then and
| is yet a Republican, and for four years
was treasurer of the state of Kansas"
The Democratic circular says that Mr..
Hoch bolted Colonel w. T. Hoblitzell
in 1879.
county and worked for the election of
D. H. Randall, an old soldier, the reg
| ular Republican nominee.
| "E. w. Hoch voted and worked for
the election of C. c. Bailey for sheriff
and against T. J. Smith, the Morgan
raider.
IN 1888, Mr.. Hoch supported E. N.
Eby, Union veteran, for register of
| deeds.''
Each of these paragraphs is denial
of the Democratic circular.
| I'm 1887 Mr.. Hoch supported a
Union veteran IOr JuugS OF the 1Wen-
| ty-fifth judicial district Both circu-
| lars agree on this. Judge M. P. Simp
| son was the regular Republican nomi-
nee, but Mr.. Hoch supported Judge
| DoSter, but both were old soldiers.
I'm 1890, Mr.. Hoch did not bolt J.
| E. Gilbert, an old soldier He opposed
| the Endorsement of John J. Ingalls, and
the selection of an ingalls, man by the
| Republican nominating convention of
| Marion county. Mr.. Gilbert, the In
gals man, was nominated and Mr..
Hoch supported him loyalty
| This is denial of the Democratic
circular The Republicans ciycular closes
as follows:
.eOf the parties named only E. N.
Eby, T. ]. Smith and ]. E. Gilbert are
now living in Marion county and
cheerfuIly attest to the truth of these
statements. In his candidacy for gov
ernor Mr.. Hoch has no warmer friends
or more loyal supporters than the ole
soldiers of Marion county"
F. E. Grimes. former state treasurer,
taxes exception to the following state
ment in the State Journal of Saturday:
"The last Oklahoma warrant that
remained in the state treasury until
paid was one issued October z, 1896.
| Oklahoma let's it's warrants run two or
| up on February 5, 1899, about a
month after F. E. Grimes became
state treasurer. From that time on
the speculation in Oklahoma warrants
banks
Mr.. Grimes objects to the "specula-
ton" part of the statement and de-
clares he never in any manner specu-
lated in warrants. Today he dictated
1.-THE following statement with reference
to it:
81 sold the first Oklahoma warrants
| that were sold at all to the Merchants
| National bank, after trying nearly
every bank to take them. I did it
after consulting with the executive
council. 1t was on the eve of time
when we would have had to stamp
warrants not paid for want of funds.
| These warrants were received from
Oklahoma for keeping Oklahoma
| prisoners in the Kansas penitentiary,
and they drew per cent. interest.
not paid for want of funds they also
drew per cent. interest then. Inas-
much as the money from them would
| go into the general revenue fund any
way, selling them was simply mat
ter of saving the state the humiliation
of stamping warrants not paid for
want of funds. When I sold these
warrants it was almost impossible to
dispose of them, especially at par
that 1 speculated in state warrants
during my term of office is a falsifier."
Mr.. Grimes statement needs no
comment. 1t should be stated, how
ever that since Mr.. Kelly has been
| state treasurer Kansas has paid only
| per cent interest on its warrants
not paid for want of funds, while it
received per cent. from Oklahoma
STORE is BURGLARIZED.