The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-28
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everything agreed upon beforehand?
If there is any trouble, it will be be-
cause the rank and file of the party
does not accept the dictates of those
who are running the new machine and
they must expect to be run over as
those before them have been. What
right has the commercial and Indus
trial interests of the state to attempt
to dictate to those who have started
this movement for men and not meas
ures2' What right have these interests
to interfere with the plans made by
the leaders to select a railroad con-
tractor as chairman of the convention
instead of a Stockman2 Isn't this
railroad convention, for the railroads
and by the railroads. Didn't the rail-
roads furnish the transportation to the
delegates with the understanding that
certain men were to be nominated and
won't the goods be delivered2
The majority of the delegates will
be in the city by this morning and by
noon the most of them will have been
told what part they are to play in the
game of politics that is on There
won't be much for them to do. In fact,
the less they do the better and all they
will have to do is to watch the leaders
and be careful and not break the slate.
With the arrival of the delegates, the
whipping in for the caucus this even
ing commences and when they are
and the convention that is to follow
will be a perfunctory affair
This article was printed before the
convention met by one of the strongest
Republican papers in the state And
/ want to read to you from a few 9TH
ers what is thought of it after the con-
VentiOn had adjourned"
Judge Dale here read editorials from
a number of Kansas Republican news
papers denouncing the domination of
their convention by the railroads
The Burton Kelly Combine.
And who are these people known as
the boss busters railroad combination?
The Burton, Stubs, HOch. Kelly com
bination supplemented by some of the
state officers whose official acts DEM
Onstrated their absolute unhtness for
their respective positions All these
were simply the plant tools of the rail-
road companies, and ever ready to do
their bidding.
''Rurton. whose disgraceful conduct
causes every Kansan to blush with
shame at the thought of his represent
ing us in that great body of national
law makers and his partner in their
so-called religious enterprises, MI
Stubs this celebrated railroad con-
tractor whose open boast Is that he
has one hand on politics and the other
on the railroads. This man who IS
slated by the busters to be his part
ner's successor as Unletd states sen
ator in case Burton cannot hold longer
to the salary connected with the office.
This man that raised such a hue and
cry against Governor Bailey for the
extravaganza of the last legislature OF
which he, Stubbs, was member.
As to Mr. HOch.
And who is this man Hoch that the
railroads and boss buster combination
put up to down Governor Bailey. Claim
ed by Republicans to be a disgruntled
politician who had lost out on the state
printer job, one of the biggest political
gratis ever fastened upon the people
of this state. Do you suppose you
would have ever heard one word OF
protest. from him against Governor
Bailey or the last legislature if he had
been successful in landing that out
rageous printers graft? And Mr.. KEEL
". 1t is enough, ladies and gentlemen,
to know of a man, that his reputation
at home is such that he cannot even
carry his home county convention le-
gaily, but is forced to work up an II
regular convention and by such disre-
putable political trickery manage to Sc
cure nomination. 1 have not taken
the time to read all the articles pub
lished for and against him, but shall
have time to quote you only a few
lines of a pamphlet issued and signed
by the chairman and secretary of the
Republican county committee of his
own county, (NiamD, under date of
February Is, 1904, which is as follows
And Kelly Also.
'Thos II Kelly has added to his
crime of robbing the taxpayers of Miami
county, during his four years term as
county clerk, from January, $780, to
January, 1894, by means of raised, forg-
ed and duplicated county warrants, the
further crime of attempted larceny OF
the delegates from this county to the
state and congressional conventions of
1904 He has undertaken to accomplish
this by ignoring the regular Republican
county central committee, and manu-
featuring a committee of his own, un-
der whose call he held caucuses and a
convention of his own and elected dele
gates to the congressional convention
of the Second district at Garnett and
the state convention at Wichita.
And the people of his own county
passing the following resolution:
50 Resolved, That we condemn the ac-
ton of T. T. Kelly in boiling the call
of the county central committee and
holding a runp convention, and that
said action is a confession on his part
that he knew it to be useless to try to
override the great majority that turned
him down at the polls in 1902. and that
his action in trying to steal the repre-
sentation of this county in the state
convention is in keeping with his crimi-
nal record as county clerk of this coun-
ty which makes his denomination for
state treasurer. under cry of reform and
honest methods, an astonishing incOnsist- /
ency and a humiliation to the state of
Kansas Remembering the statement
of Kelly at the time of his nomination
at the last state convention that he
would disprove the findings of the Mi
ami county commissioners against him,
and finding that he has so far made no
effort to disprove said findings, but, on
the other hand, has so far acknowledge
ed the same as to pay back into the
county treasury a part of the sum
fraudulently taken by him, therefore
we ask the nomination of some COM
petent man of integrity for the office /
of state treasurer. and we hereby in
struct our delegation to Wichita to use
all honorable means for the accom-
plishment of this end.
GEO. L. ROBINSON,
Chairman Republican Central Com