The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-22
KELLY is SLOW.
Has Made No Report of Treasury
Condition.
Does He Fear That Albaugh
Will Be Justified
THROWS DOWN GLOVE.
kingman Editor Says He Was
Right.
THROWS DOWN GLOVE.
Money Was There to Bring In
terest for Treasurer.

| 1t has now been almost two month.
since the fiscal year closed, but thus
far State Treasurer Kelly has made
no statement concerning the condition
of the treasury at the close of the
fiscal year on June 80. Such a state
ment would necessarily have to show
the amount of money in the treasury
unless the figures should be very
much juggled. 1t is known in general
however, how much money is in the
treasury.
A year ago Mr.. Albaugh made the
statement that State Treasurer Kelly
had manipulated matters so as to
raise a half million dollars more
state taxes than was necessary for the
purpose of getting interest from it for
himself. In the current issue of his
paper, the Kingman Leader-Courier,
Mr.. Albaugh publishes the following
on this subject:
''Kingman county people have never
had cause to doubt statements of facts
found in the Leader-Courier. Had it
been different, year ago, when the
tax controversy was on in the state,
their faith might well have been
shaken. This paper charged the state
treasurer with deliberately planning
to raise one-half million dollars more
than the needs of the state demanded
in order to have the same upon which
MARY profit. The charge was attacked
with such venom and persistency by
certain Topeka and Kansas City pa
pers that it would not have been sur
prising had our OWL people questioned
the correctness of the Leader-Couriers s
statements. 1t has required less than
year to thoroughly verify ever state
ment then made by this paper relative
to the tax matter. On July 1 of this
year there was over one-haf million
dollars actually in the state treasury
and in six counties in the state, where
the state treasurer was able to reach
and influence county treaSurerS, al
most three hundred thousand dollars
in state taxes had been held back at
the state treasurer's suggestion. Had
it been paid, the law requires, it
would have sweIled the state treasur-s
er,s balance on July l to- over eight
warranted and unlawful efforts made
by the state treasurer to prevent
money due the state from reaching
his office, in order to apparently refute
those statements. shows the force at
tached to the merits of the controversy
by the state treasurer himself and
those figurerS whom he had at the
time attempting to disprove them.
"Of course the money is there. 1t
has not been lost to the taxpayers. The
state treasurer has had his interest
upon it, no matter how unlawfully he
secured it, but the taxpayers of the
state, in order to give him this inter
est, simply had to pay a year in ad-
vance of what they should. Not one
word has the Capital, the Kansas City
Journal and the Mail and Breeze had
in defense of their figures of a year
ago. Time certainly refuted them and
they have not had the manliness to
it.
Attention at this time is called to
the outcome of the controversy for no
other reason than that we desire tina
EnOVE
his matter the paper was correct, IT,
in the face of the venomous attacks
made upon it's statements at the time,
that less than a year has more than
proven their correctness.
Along with William Allen Whites |
editorial on the bolt of Oscar u. Smith
from Hoch, which was noted IN the
state Journal several days ago. an edf- |
.orial by Morton Albaugh on the pres |
ant attitude of Governor Bailey is at |
a great deal of attention in |
political circles. Here is what Mr.. |
says:
''The dignifed silence that Cover
nor Bailey has maintained since his |
Unjust and unwarranted turning down
asst spring has increased the aftect1on |
'elt for him by his friends throughout |
he state and has nonplussed and sur
orised his enemies who were reSpon-
;ible for the outrage done him. The
rovernor was the victim of hue and
he 1903 legislature and the unwar-
-anted high state taxes of last year.
He was to blame for neither, and,
strange as it may seem, the parties
O the people of the state were the
most active in consummating his de-
eat. Members of the state senate and
members of the house who worked
hardest for the appropriations made
md tried to have them made even
arger than they were, were most en-
rgetic in opposition to the governors
Tom Kelly. who to-
ow, fixed the state levy at GA mills
asst year, when time has proven that
was unnecessary, and who juggled
nd raised and lowered the assessment
weet will, Wed with each other in
Ieaping calumny upon the governor,
nd yet they. themselves, We're re-
dominated. 1t is this dethrOnement
f Governor Bailey. an honest, upright,
apable public servant, and the en-
hronement of the men who We're re-
ponsible for the things that were
lade the excuse for his overthrow that
-ould be expected to embitter the or
mary man. II
But Governor Bailey is not an or
mary man. He is one of the broad
auged, high-minded, patriotic citi- ]
ate life alike, he commands respect !
nd esteem Even the injustice done
i'm has not and will not embitter his {
fe, make him a less valuable citizen {
or less intense or earnest Republi- s
an. He Will dG~aIl in his power to {
oil up an overwhelming majority for J
roosevelt in Kansas. He may feel t
nat Hoch'S nomination was secured I
Y unfairness; by a public cry for /
eform that was backed by more mon i
Y and more corruption than ever be- /
ore attended primaries in Kansas;
lat. while he was turned down, dis t
onest men were left on the ticket,