The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

ana Tour legs is a Parsons wonder: Its
each section desiring to go its own way.
KANSAS PRESS COMMENTS.
From the Emporia Gazette Rep).
A. A GODDARD who negotiated the Co
in the MacLennan libel suit first that
he borrowed 1923, 900 of the state's
money of T. 7. Kelly illegally for two
weeks; and second that he paid the
county attorney Of Comanche a liberal
fee to influence, public sentiment in
favor of the deal That is to say he
bribed the county attorney.
There is or should be law against
Lending the states money; particularly
as the man who got that money in
terest free was charging the state in
| terest on the same amount at the same
| time. :
There is or should be a. law against
bribing county attorney, and against
a county attorney accepting a "fee"
from any one else than the county in
a case wherein the county is vitality in
terested, as it was interested in the
| COmanche county deal
Far be it from the Gazette to tell
the state officers how to run this great
and glorious state Heaven forbid that
one word from this paper should be
read in the light OF a butter in. For it
| is all the writer hereof can do to dig
up the pay roll for this little old sheet
every Saturday night, much less can
4 he say now a great commonwealth like
Kansas should be conducted. But If
! there is law against these things, and
| 1T is not enforced some of these days
| there is going to be a gentle swell of
the earth, starting out near the state
line, and growing bigger and bigger as
| it moves east, and by the time it
| all those great and good men live who
manage this blessed commonwealth, it
will be as high as Pixies Peak and it
will fall on the Republican party in
1906 and keep these great and good men
ten years digging out. Now is the time
to get busy.
From the Hutchinson News (Rep).
There is an issue coming in this
country that will be paramount for
while. 1t will put the money cues
ton, the tariff. Imperialism and Gaze
sarism in the shade. 1t is the issue
for straightforward, common, hon
esty in public affairs. When you get
to the facts of the case the feeling
not afraid is the foundation for the ad-
miration which everyone has for the
president. The opposition may not like
Roosevelt's policies or ways-but he is
honest. The politicians may not like
his appointments-but he is honest. In
the minds of the American people
Roosevelt represents honesty as an
acute principle in public affairs and as
much as some men admire the person
ality of Teddy it would not give him
the confidence of the people If it were
not the principle for which he has
stood since his entrance into politics
and which he has carried into every
position to which he has been placed.
In Missouri the name of Folk is link
ed with this same principle, so that
people will vote for Folk believing that
they are voting for Honesty and not
because the candidate is named Folk.
The same belief sustains La Toilette
in. Wisconsin and nominated Deneen
for governor of Illinois. Public opinion
in Kansas is being directed to the sub
ject and the next, campaign in Kansas
will have for a great part of its issue.
honesty and decency:- When this ques-
ton comes before the people the Re-
publican party in Kansas must get on
the right side or get licked.
From the CORTLAND Register (Rep.).
1t seems to me that Mr.. Kelly could
explain at once his connection with
the Garden City matter by naming
the man of whom he received the cou-
pons which he sent to New YORK Tor
collection and to whom he paid the
money he received for the same. Until
he does do this he cannot blame the
people of Kansas for believing he has
violated his trust and that he is guilty
of embezzlement as shown by the rec
ords. w. J. BAILEY.
Some say the above plain state
ment appeals to us as being common
sense. We don't want to believe Mr..
Kelly is guilty but if he is not, it
should be very easy to tell who got
that money, and if he can't tell, why
can't he? Is he in the habit of col
lecting such large sums of money for
other people, absolutely without com
pensation, paying them the cash and
taking no receipt from them to show
that it was paid. Surely no business
man would do business in that way. |
He would at least pay by check so
that he would have the check for his |
receipt. Surely the state treasury is |
not run in such a way that 81, 400 can |
come in and go out with never a |
scratch of q pen to show when it was |
received or where it went. Let Mr.. |
Kelly explain.
From the Concordia Blade (Rep.). |
That the Topeka Capital is misrep-
resenting the facts in the Comanche |
bond deal seems undoubted. On |
Tuesday, in speaking of the testimony |
of A. A. GODDARD, taken the day be- |
fore, the Capital said: ssHe said that |
not a state employee or anyone but |
himself made anything from the
cent and did not offer to give a cent |
to anyone to assist in making the sale /
of the bonds" Mr.. GODDARD, in his |
sworn testimony said: 81 paid Mr..
county, literally for helping me with
the deal before the Comanche county
commissioners
From the Miami Republican (Rep.,
On October 81, 1904. T. T. Kelly,
election, in a letter to one Hi Dillon,
offers to resign an office to which he
hopes to be elected on November 8,
1904, by offering to put his resignation
in escrow with this Hi Dillon.
Should Kelly put his resignation in
the hands of this man Hi Dillon, it
could take effect only upon the hap
pening of all the following contingent