The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-27

| and it seems at this distance as If there
was no excuse for it.. Mr.. Hoch'S can
politics and lower taxation-not for the
purpose Of booming some one else fol
Office.
Greeley County Republican: Rush
county has candidate for state treas
urer, and he should make a strong race
He is H W. Grass. the banker at La
| Crosse, and very popular in his county
lie IS a nne business man and would
make as good a treasurer of the state
| as could be found any place. It does
| seem to US that with the fight there is
| on I. T. Kelly, and the convincing evil
denee that he was guilty of almost
| highway robbery when he was clerk OF
Miami county. that the Republican par
ty cannot afford to renominate him for
| this responsible office. 1t is imma-
terial that he give a good bond and
there Is not much danger Of him stealing
prove that kind of man. We hope
that Mr.. Grass will go after this norni-
nation IN earnest and that he will
make it.
Beloit Gazette: Jewell, Republic and
Cloud counties, all in this part of the
STATE, nave declared against Tom Kelly.
AT Belleville he was present but the
| convention would not listen to him.
Sabetha Republican: Two years ago
the great body of Republican voters
| suspended judgment on Tom Kelly and
supported him, because he promised to
d1spfove the charges against him. 1t
is now approaching two years since he
made that promise, and it is yet unful-
filled He has failed to keep his pledge
to the voters, and the voters are under
no obligations to stand for him longer.
Sabetha Republican: If you depend
upon anti-machine dailies for your
news you may not have heard that H
w. Grass, of Rush county, has been
drafted" by the Republicans of his
county, as candidate for state treas
urer. Such is the case. however, and
he is recommended as a first class man.
Mankato Monitor: 1t is our candid
opinion that Tom Kelly will be defeat
ed at the polls this fall His nomina-
ton will also cost Ed Hoch 10000 votes,
but Ed will still be elected by $4,000
votes while Roosevelt will get Kansas
by from $4,000 to 100000 majority.
| Nickerson Argosy: A candidate to op-
pose Z. T. Kelly for the Republican
nomination for state treasurer has been
found in the person of H. w. Grass a
successful and highly respected banker
| of La Crosse.
Walnut Valley Times: And now ex-
State Treasurer Frank Grimes is out
!
urer. The whole Hoch machinery is
| defending, explaining, caucussing, plot
ting how to compel the Republican
party of Kansas to renominate that
rascal That's all there is to the holier-
thou-thou movement, to keep 'tour''
fellows in office, "our'' looter in this
case, for he robbed Miami county.
Atchison Globe. If Ed Hoch had two
or three months more time. we believe he
would be at himself for governor The
! sentiment in his favor is rapidly chang
/ ing. We heard an old-time Republican
farmer say the other day that he
would not vote for Hoch because Hoch
endorsed Kelly.
Hays City Republican: Ellis coun-
| ~ should and probably will give it's
! four votes to H. w. Grass at the state
convention for state treasurer.
Atchison Globe: Here is one thing
you can depend upon as the truth:
There is very much more opposition
to Tom Kelly now than there was two
years ago. The Republic county Re
| publicans instructed against him last
week, and refused to listen to him.
Dozens of newspapers are opposing
Kelly this year, whereas only a few
opposed him two years ago. The great
trouble is that so many honest, worthy
people regard Kelly as a martyr; they
| do not understand the case, and, as the
| Newspaper Bosses deceive them, they
have no way of finding out the truth
! This was exactly the way in which w.
J. Bailey, one of the most creditable
men Kansas ever produced, was hu-
inflated and disgraced, simply, to
amuse a few cranky, mercenary and
selfish editors.
Mcpherson Freeman: The Kansas
American has finally admitted that t.
T. Kelly is a little ''off color says ev-
erybody admits it. AN open confess
they have openly admitted it the Amer
lean editor no doubts feels better. If
T. 7. Kelly is fit to occupy the office
he now holds, the worst thief in ten
states is fit to occupy it and the very
fact that he refunded the $1,000 to the
commissioners of Miami county is a
self acknowledgment of the theft. Now
| here is Hoch, 1.-The purifier" who is
helping no one into office but himself,
and who says he sees no reason why
the entire Republican ticket save gov
ernor should not be renominated. In
that very utterance does he not sane
ton the keeping in office of man who
| is as guilty as he can be, and II he
doesn't sanction it, why did he make an
address before that Kelly trump" con-
vention? Is this the way to purify
Kansas. politics? According to their
fight the whole business is rotten to the
core and they are going to purify 1t
by leaving in office one of the worst
characters that ever held public office.
Holton Recorder: Ed Hoch has al
ready begun to show his weakness.
While at Topeka recently he gave as a
reason for favoring Tom Kelly's NOM
nation, that just before Bailey retired
from the race. the governor was report
ed as favorine the denomination of all
the state officers. Now don't this jar
you? and he is a reformer, too. We
certainly had right to suppose that
Mr.. Hoch would try to do all the good
things Bailey had failed to do and try
to avoid doing all the bad things
Bailey had done. And just think. he
starts by favoring a bad thing just be-
cause Bailey had said he was IN favor
of it.