The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-09
Gov. Bailey Advised Renomina'
tiOn of Whole Ticket, He Says.
STANDS BY MACHINE.
1t Wants Kelly Nominated, Sc
He FavOrs 1t.
Mr.. Stubs Trying Hard to
Check Anti Kelly Sentiment.

isn't fighting T. T. Kelly" But he has
not explained why he is allowing his
name to be used in an effort to land
Kelly in the state treasurer's office
again, and to secure for Kelly the dele
cation from his home county, which is
very much against him.
| This is where Mr.. Hoch is con1irg in
for criticism. Mr.. Hoch attempts to
excuse himself on the ground that Gov
ernor Bailey was not fighting Kelly
either but wrote a letter some time
ago saying he is in favor of the renom-
ination of the entire state ticket II
Mr.. Hoch is to follow Governor Bailey's
precedent in one thing he ought to fol-
low it in others and endorse the entire
state ticket including Gov. Bailey, also.
If Governor Bailey has ever attempted
to force the denomination of Kelly he
is subject to the same criticism as Mr.
Hoch. Gov. Bailey's so called ma
chine" has been and is outspoken
against Kelly.
Mr.. Hochs organization, which styles
itself THE Anti-Machine Republican
League" has gone to the extent of
sending 5000 letters into Miami county,
urging the Republicans of that county
to go out and vote in the Kelly pr1-
maries. In that letter was this SEN
| tence:
|
! friends that the balance 1f the ticket
nominated two years ago lie renom-
| mated"
This letter was sent out on the sta
| tionery of Mr.. Hoch's organization ana
signed by Clyde Miller its secretary.
The postage alone for sending it into
Miami county was $50. The letter was
deceptive. 1t did not explain that the
regular primaries called by the Repub-
| lican county central committee of Mi
| ami county would be held on February
/ II and that Kelly had organized cen
tral committee on his own account and
called nrinaries of his own for Feb
ruary 6. 1t spoke only of the primaries
on February 6, which were irregular,
land urged the voters to get out ana
vote at them.
In a letter concerning the Kelly mat
ter Mr.. HOch says:
IF I should assume to dictate who
should or should not be nominated at
Wichita I should at once be denounced
as boss"
Exactly That is just what the State
Journal is contending. But Mr.. Hoch' S
organization-his machine. if you please
4 spent $50 in postage alone last week
to aid Kelly to get the delegation from
his home county. and that, too, under
false OretenseS.
that Miami county letter was never in
tended for publication. but the people
of Miami county do not appreciate the
idea of outsiders asking them to en-
missioners have convicted of forgery
and embezzlement. and they made the
letters public.
Mr.. Hoch might be excused for keep
ing his hands off the Kelly controversy
entirely-although most people running
for office a platform of high morals
would doubtless have something to say
about nominating on the same ticket
a man who had been convicted of a
crime as a public officer-but from his
standpoint there can be no excuse for
the attempt to compel the people of
Miami county to endorse Kelly.
Mr.. Hoch is personally an upright and
honest man. Nobody has ever question
ed that. Why, then, should he be anx-
ious to have a convicted thief on the
same ticket he is running on?
The reason, in Mr.. Hoch's case, seems
to be because Kelly and the rest of the
Burton faction lined up behind the Hoch
movement to make it successful Mr..
Hoch, as the chief figure of this move
ment for purity in politics. and Mr..
Stubbs, his manager, will have to bear
the responsibility of the Hoch movement
forcing Kelly upon the people of the
state over the protest of a large ele-
ment. Mr.. Stubbs seems to be very per-
sistent in his support of Kelly. The
Atchison Globe commenting upon this
says:
met at Lawrence last Saturday, and in
dorsed Tom Kelly. What is the excuse
for Republicans indorsing Kelly? He
was convicted of forgery and theft. Why
should the Republicans of Kansas dis
credit themselves to oblige one man
and that man a dishonest one? What
is the secret of this loyalty to Tom
Kelly? If Kelly is not a particular
friend of Senator Burton and the Null
vanes, why this disposition to offend
thousands of good Republicans by re-
nominating him? W. r. Stubbs, at the
head of the socalled Boss Buster move
ment ran the convention at Lawrence
= Aa s7Ir ~
Kelly.
} ED Hoch has sent word to severa
counties that he desires the renomina
tion of Kelly. What is the secret O
it2 Why are not Hoch, and StubbS
and Mulvane, and the rest of them
J willing to punish a man who deserves
: it? 1t would help the Hoch movement
1 to turn down Kelly. It would be agree
l able to every honest man in the state
This being true, why are certain o
the leaders so determined to stand b!
Kelly Is there a defalcation to cove
up2 Is the profit from the office di
This loyalty to Tom Kelly looks sus
| picious. What is the explanation
| What objection can there be amoni
honest Republicans to nominating 81
honest man for state treasurer
Ewing Herbert, editor of the Hiawa
y tha World, and a spoke in the Hocl
!, movement, was in Kansas City Mon
day and is quoted by the Star as fol
q | lows:
Bailey had a chance to be the mos
# popular governor Kansas ever had. H
# is frank. good natured and common
y and, personally, is well liked by al
a most everybody who knows him. Bu
2 he made the mistake of tying up L
d the politicians instead of to the people
o If Hoch is elected and lets anybod
: run him he'll be thrown down just 2
n hard as Bailey was thrown.
The farmers are the big factor il
this anti-machine crusade. They wan