The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-18
NEWSPAPER GOSSIP.
What Some Leading Kansas
Editors Think.

Atchison Globe: Isn't it too bad that
Atchison people will abuse each other /
un1ustIy, and do so much for Tom KEEL
" and Charley Curtis, who live out
side of the county?
Isn't il too bad that the Kansas City
Journal and Topeka Capital consider II
fair and honorable to invent charges
against W. J. Bailey, an honest man,
and then print columns in defense OF
Tom Kelly, who is not an honest man
The Kansas City Journal says the
evidence against Kelly was ''trunped
mn by an ex convict. The evidence
against Kelly is official evidence, ana
is signed by the commissioners OF MI
ami county. Copies OF the evidence
may be had by anyone who sees ut TO
send to the editor of the Republican
at PaoIa Kansas The evidence against
Kelly is of such nature that the Re-
publican convention of Miami county |
meeting last week. passed this reSolu- |
ton. THE action of T. T. Kelly IN
trying to steal the delegation of this
county is in keeping with his criminal
record as county clerk OF this county,
which makes his denomination as state
treasurer. under the cry of reform ana
honest methods, an astounding 1ncon-
sistencv. and a humiliation to the state
of Kansas Still. the Kansas CITY
Journal is defending Kelly, ana sayl.lg
the charges against nm were IEuihpeN
UP by bad man.
The resolution quoted above was
passed by the Republican convention
/ of Kelly's own county His own county
| heat him by more than a thousand
/ votes when he ran for state treasurer,
and was against his nomination IN tne
/ first place and is against helly now.
4 In the name of decency ana common
| sense, why should the Repuplcdll So -
| the other counties of the state support
such a man for state treasurer " ny
should the Kansas City Journal anu
| Topeka Capital support MIN are theS
Influenced by honest or dishonest mo
isn't It too bad that reputable papers
! viii consent to conduct a campaign
along such lines? The Kansas ClIS
Journal once sent a special correspond
emf TO Miami county to investigate
/ EeIly'sf record. On his return the paper
refused to print his report the rep
| resentative said privately tnat hehy
was guilty of the charge or forSIns
county warrants while acting as county
c1erl- and the representative further
said that he would not vote Tor such
a man for state treasurer Stlll' mere
is the powerful Journal supportlIi,s
Kelly without reason, unless II Is SCI
fish reason Isn't it too bad that d
, prominent paper is this kind OF q
paper? Isn't it too bad that the owner
, of the paper does not know that non
esty would pay him better!
/ charley Finch is another man VINO
hates abbey, an honest man, and al
|, / mires Tom Kelly. And the strangest
! mart of it is that Finch is getting
. nothing for his mistaken stand, Ne i
doing it through prejudice! There Is
no excuse for Finch not knowing pet-
ter than this; he is not just a common
, / clod, like the rest of US; he Went U
: college. and attended chapel every
morning, where he was ta9s1C 10 100 ~
fair and square, and stand by geoe
= men il preference to bad ones
t Wellington Mail: w. R Stubs is {
l,n
l work for the Rock Island railroad. H
is now building the Rock Island line Q
a part of it, between Kansas CITY an
ST Louis If NJ. A. Low crooks his III
tie finger. Stubs will jump clear acros
: a room. This was true last winter :.
; the legislature and is true now. M A
y I Low represents the railroads OF IN
: state in state conventions lie IS
+ mighty nice man and sInooth oIle -, I,
y is anti-macfine because he ana Lean
have been venomous enemies, barel
- speaking, for years
s we want to make a prediction On
of the things thai VIII come up
that caucus viii be the nominations f
railroad commissioners Mr. Stubb
- Mr. Miller and all their gang VIII
d found to be lined up for the men Il
a railroad commissioners that NJ A L.oN
- representing the railroads, want sue
~ a caucus would make their nominat1tc
iS certain if enough 'grays' can pc II
- duced to go into it Not only this. Of
the whole ticket Will De Ilduc tAleH d
there by this new machine eve
- though it be called a caucus
y. This caucus will do another thing
&c will ciuch the nomination of Tom kel
~ for state treasurer Why me san
a. Influences will do it that name the rai
III road commissioners Kelly, domInatll
the state board of assessors, raised t
~ ~ assessment of farm property IN ski
a three counties OF the state thirty m
~ lions and left the railroad assessment
u / untouched He suits NJ A Low a.
what suits Low suits Stubs and
IN crowd So Kelly will be renominat
. by that caucus
And in this connection it may not
arniss to recall the fact that the
peka Capital states that all of t
delegates to the state convention "
line up with the HOch management "
lat have their expenses paid Is TINS I
-, price the railroads are paying for
board of railroad commissioners and
lls state board of assessors OF their O.
he choosing? 1t would be a great barge
for the railroads
M Ottawa Herald: The Topeka Capt.
M and the Kansas City Journal have DC
ars discovered that the newspapers viii
are nov knocking on the renominati
= of Tom Kelly we've supporting him a
,,r the entire ticket with all their mis-
nv a short time ago Both these
too tinguished opponents of the art OF n
hat to make mistakes IN newspapers I
old better look again. The Herald Is cIa
ed with the papers which are n
to knocking on the denomination of 7
ted Kelly aud (which supported him "
"a All their might a while ago. The II
aid has no recollection OF naVlhg >
ior ported Tom Kelly for election or
est domination. The Herald's referen
an to Tom Kelly have been to this effe
nit That a man who is charged with I
| of gerry and stealing, who has falIed
vindicate himself, who has been G
~ ,v;[+ "a Nv his own board Of county &C