The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-27
THE STATE JOURNALS TICKET.

! THE STATE JOURNALS TICKET.
There are forty-three names on the
Republican ticket. Because the State
Journal has seen fit to oppose T. Il.
Kelly. the state treasurer who has
been proven an embezzler, a number
of partisan organs have classed this
paper as a Democratic sheet laboring
to defeat the whole of the Republican
ticket.
The best Republican this year is the
one who scratches the embezzler and
saves his party from further disgrace
and from endorsing corruption in
Office.
In order that the minds of some ex-
ercised people may be set at rest on
some questions. the state Journal today
presents on its eighth page a ticket
that it would suggest ala Shawnee
county Republicans may consistently
vote and retain their full party stand
ing. Cross marks indicate the names
to be voted.
AS for Mr.. Hoch. the State Journal,
of course, would vote for him. We
have never questioned Mr.. Hoch's in
tegrity. We believe he is an honest
man, and that goes a good ways with
vus. We think Mr.. Hoch lacks strength
in denouncing the embezzler on his
ticket, but there are many men not
on the ticket who are as weak as
Hoch in that respect. We would like
to see Roosevelt elected by an even
hundred thousand, and we would like
to see Hoch get through "by the skin
of his teeth; say by five or ten
thousand. 1t would administer a de-
served rebuke to Mr.. Hoch's managers.
We think Hoch is a trifle too senti-
mental when it comes to the late Sem
ator Burtons downfall and too silent
regarding Burton's friend T. T. Kelly.
The State Journal happens to know
that a great many strong partisan Re
publicans are going to vote a ticket
very close to the one outlined in this
paper. There are probably many who
will not vote for T. T. Kelly, who will
vote for Mr.. C. c. Coleman. There are
others who will vote for c. c. Cole
man, but who will not vote for Day
hoff and Burrow. So far as we are
concerned, we regard as disgraceful
and deserving of rebuke the Conan
che county bond transaction in which
the three gentlemen named constitute
the purchasers for the unfortunate
school fund.
This paper does not regard the COM
missioners as equally blameworthy. We
regard Coleman's position as one of
weakness, rather than of greed; that
his scandalous opinion to the auditor
that the state boards valuation should
be taken, instead of the always hither-
to county assessors returns, as an in
dication that he was more anxious TO
find a way to benefit his friend GODDARD,
rather than to personally profit by the
transaction. Coleman is also blame
worthy as his testimony shows for not
examining into the value of the bonds
and their fraudulent history, instead
of contenting himself with their mere
and unquestioned validity. There are
some things we could forgive in Cole
of embezzlement which he has in his
hands from the governor.
In regarding to the blank squares for
Wheatley and Walker for railroad
commissioner, it might be stated that
that office is more of commercial and
business one, rather than one of poll
tics. The nonpartisian federation of
commercial interests of Kansas advises
the selection of Ferguson and Chase
on the Democratic ticket, and Robinson
on the Republican ticket. In regard to
railroad question, the State Journal
has no desire to see the railroads treat
ed unfairly; nor do we wish to see the
railroads dominate the board as they
have in the past. There should be alb
solute fairness to the railroad corpora
tons and to the people. The railroads
in Kansas constitute the states great
est business corporations. They do I'M
told benefit to the state. They receive
untold revenues from it's citizens We
believe that certain freight rates are
unjust and unfair; we believe others
are equitable. This paper advocates
fairness to all interests In the case of
A. d. Walker, he was squarely defeat
ed in his home county, but so manipu-
lated politics that he secured a delega-
ton to the state convention to which
he had no right.
The only blanks on the ticket
marked in today's issue are the
squares opposite the names of Charles
Curtis and A. NJ. Harvey, candidates
for congressman from this district. The
State Journal has made no fight on
Mr. Curtis. 1t has also taken no par
ticular interest in his behalf. We
prefer to see those contestants fight it
out in their own way. They are both
prominent citizens of Topeka. In q
dozen years few papers have printed
more favorable notices of Congress-
man Curtis than has this one printed.
We have received little credit for it,
have asked none, and do not expect
any.
Congressman Curtis has done a
great amount of good for Shawnee
county and his district. He is an in
defatigable worker; stands well with
his associates in congress; has had
wide experience and practice in affairs
at Washington, all of which make
him of value to his constituents. There