The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-06
ALBAUCH'S IDEAS.
He Discusses Bailey's With
draWal at Length.
Blamed for the Acts of Kelly and
Others.
HAS A CLEAN RECORD.
VIII Retire to Private Life
without Ill Feeling.
Contrast of Kelly's Public Acts
With Bailey's.
HAS A CLEAN RECORD.


length the withdrawal of Governor
Bailey from the gubernatorial race edi-
to-ially in the Kingman Leader this
week. Incidentally he makes a few IN
teresting remarks about State Treas
urer Kelly.
After publishing Governor Bailey's
statement in which he withdraws, Mr..
Albaugh says:
TT is useless here to enter into a
discussion of the reasons that led the
governor to this step; suffice it to say,
that no cleaner man in his private life,
nor no more conscientious man in his
public acts ever occupied the governors
chair in Kansas. His administration,
like that of Geo. T. Anthony, who was
treated by his party in the same out
rageous manner. will go down to his
tory free from blot or stain, a monu-
ment to his honest and faithful per-
Torrance of public duty.
lover a year ago a systematic news
paper war was inaugurated on the gov
ernor. 1t had for its inspiration the To-
peka Capital, upon which the Mulvanes
hold an Indebtedness of $40, 000 and the
Kansas City Journal, which is owned
by two well-known railroad directors
and which is generally understood to be
the railroad organ of the west
The governor had to stand all this
abuse. He had to bear the blame for
an expensive legislature, for which
senate bitterly opposed to him was
most largely responsible and for whose
large appropriations the leader of the
movement IN opposition to him, Mr..
Stubs, was one of the strongest ad
vocates.
BLAMED FOR KELLY'S ACTS.
HE had to bear the blame for in
creased state taxes in many counties,
which were occasioned by raises made
by the board Of equalization, which in
the state aggregated twenty-five million
dollars on the property of the people,
while the assessment Of the railroads
was not raised penny, and to further
make up for a reduction of two million
dollars in Shawnee county and reduc-
lions in other counties, which Mr.. Kelly
and other members of the board were
particularly anxious to favor, including,
of course. each of their own counties.
With all this. of course, the governor
had no more to do than had the man in
the moon. Yet by these papers and his
enemies in the state house he was held
responsible for it all. In addition the
cry Of machine was echoed and re-
echoed from one end of the state to the
other and that in the face of the fact
that Governor Bailey from the day of
his inauguration has acted independent
ly and upon his own judgment and done
those things in the management of the
states affairs which he believed to be
for the best interests of the people and
taxpayers generally, and in the face of
the further fact that the real animus
of the opposition to him came from the
Burton machine, the most compact and
perfect political organization ever found
doing business in the state Of Kansas.
So thorough is it that in the face OF
the indictment under which Senator
Burton now rests, in Dickinson, in Reno
and other counties where they have
control resolutions of endorsement were
passed relative to him, when the names
of such clean, distinguished, capable
and conscientious public servants as
Senator Long, Secretary Bristow and
Congressman Murdoch were left unmen-
toned.
NOT IN KELLY'S CLASS.
Governor Bailey. at the close of his
term. will retire to private life He IS
not a politician by profession and will
return to his farm the same big-heart-
ed, whole-souled. high-minded, honor
able gentleman that he was when he
left it. He may regret the turn OF
affairs that has led him not to press
for the second term usually accorded
a Kansas chief executive, and yet when
he stops to think that the convention
that would probably have turned him
down would have renominated thief,
a man who by his own act in refunding
over one thousand dollars, acknowledged
to the theft of the same from Miami
county; a man who, it is known today,
is drawing interest in violation of law
upon one-half million dollars of the
states funds; man who never held
being satisfied with the salary there
from but who has expected and has,
in violation of law. made his office
holding the means of public robbery,
it is more than likely that the pang
will be greatly lessened and that there
will be greater measure of comfort in
looking forward to a voluntary return
to his friends and neighborS.
WHAT STUBBS KNOWS.
Mr. Stubs undoubtedly knows that
Tom Kelly is a thief. If he does not,
a few hours with the records of Miami
county will prove 1t to him beyond a
shadow of a doubt and if he is in this
movement. as he says, for better gov
eminent. he should take the time to
acquaint himself with this situation
Mr.. Hoch, who will undoubtedly be
nominated for governor at the Wichita
convention, knows that Tom Kelly is
q thief. He discussed it freely in pri-
vate a year ago when he was on the
stump IN Kansas, and il he is not
thoroughly convinced of the fact now,
a few hours of his time spent with the
records of Miami county cannot fail to
settle the proposition in his mind.
Mr.. Hoch and Mr.. Stubs will be very
largely responsible for the action of the
coming convention at Wichita
THE opposition to them and their
movement has been abandoned in the
state. If thieves are placed upon the
ticket, with their full knowledge and
approval, the Republicans of Kansas
will hold them responsible for it
THE Kansas City Journal eighteen
months ago sent q representative to
Miami county to investigate the records
there and he reported that Tom Kelly's
guilt was unquestioned. and, notwith-
standing the fact that Mr.. Kelly was on
the Republican ticket, he could not and
would not vote for him and stated after
the election that he had not
A SUPPRESSED REPORT
Strange though it is, no report from
this representative was ever published
IN the Journal. But some strange in
huence has kept its columns from that
day to this not only friendly to the
state treasurer, but particularly vim
dictive toward Governor Bailey. It
should either publish that representa-
tive's report or send another one to
Miami county for s1lnnIenental in