The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-27
MAY BE STRIKE.
State House JanitOrs Talk Of
Resisting.
Can't Be RecOnciIed to Kelly
Hold Up Order.
AY LOSE PLACES.
Have Positions at Pleasure of
Executive Council.
Five Per Cent of the Yearly
Salary is Exacted.

- ZIG AAOitAAAy pay GeAS uAAWS AScAA /
at the state house again the rumor of
the assessment for the private cam
paign fund, which State Treasurer
Kelly and Secretary of State Burrow
started out to raise a month ago, is |
revived When the State Journal
made it public last month that the
assessment was unauthorized by the
Republican state committee, which
alone has authority to make an as
sessment, most of the employees re-
fused to pay up" and as a result the
Kelly-Burrow campaign treasury did
not receive the contributions expected. |
After the State Journal announced
that the assessment was unauthorized
a Kelly organ stated that it was not
for the general Republican campaign
but for the purpose of defeating ma
chine" candidates for the legislature.
Yet Governor Baileys department
was called on to contribute to the
funl
1t is probable that the employees in
the offices of Treasurer Kelly, Secre-
tary of State Burrow, superintendent
Dayhoff. and possibly a few others win
contribute to the fund. but some Of
them will do 1t under protest. The levy
was first made on the ianitors in the
state house, who receive the lowest
salaries of any of the employees. Some
of them objected to it, and it is report
ed that they have now organized
against the assessment, although Mr..
Kelly and his friends control the exc
cutive council, which employs the
janitors. The State Journal has recetV-
ed a communication from some one,
evidently a state house empIoye, but
his name is suppressed for obvious resr-
sons:
ITO the Editor of the State Journal:
Il wish to say that the janitors of
the state house have taken a decided
stand against Tom Kelly and his Gus
todian in regard to mis- assessment fees.
The custodian has notified all the boys
that they must pay UP to the assistant
secretary of state or else . The
They do not believe Kelly will be here
next year to say whether they shall
hold their jobs, while some of them do
not care either way, for they do not
expect to stay under the present cir
cumstances. They fact is, they cannot
get along with the custodian. Kelly
has told Captain Collins to fire any
man who does not do as he tells him
to do, so he has good chance to fire
the majority of the janitOrs next pay
day"
The KelIy-B -Burrow private assess
ment was placed at 8 per cent of the
yearly salary OF the employees, while
heretofore no assessment has been
made, even by the state COMMITTEES, at
more than 2 II per cent. The states
pay roll is approximately 100000,
taking in all departments and instftu-
tions. which are usually called on for
contributions, so that the Kelly-Bur-
row private assessment would raise
about 5000 If it had been success
ful, a sum sufficient doubtless to have
defeated quite a number of machine"
legislative candidates. But as the
majority of the employees will not
contribute until the state committee
makes its regular assessment, no such
amount will be raised.
The Kansas delegation to the Repub-
lican national convention will be quar-
tered at the Chicago Beach hotel Ma
tionaI Committeeman Mulvane has en-
gagged rooms there for the delegation
and other Kansas visitors He tried to
get nearer the center of the city but
found all the rooms engaged The
Kansans will have headquarters, how
ever at the Auditorium.
Judge w. d. Atkinson. now on the
supreme bench, may be appointed as
one of the new four federal judges
which will probably be created in the
Indian Territory One Of the tour Will
likely be given to Kansas, and Senator
Long will have much to do with nam
ing the appointce. Justice Atkinson
was turned down for nomination be-
cause he was an appointee Of Governor
Bailey, and it left some sore spots
among his friends in the Third district
The Emporia Gazette in commenting
on the decision of the contest board in
the Second district row and the oppOr-
tunity now presented to the supreme
court, says:
board over the protest of Seth Wells,
in the Second district case, checks up
to the supreme court of the state an
unpleasant duty, which like all duties
bears with it great opportunity 1t
may treat the appeal of Henry Allen
as a piece of politics.; or it may treat
1T as a law suit. There is ample legal
justification for either stand If the
supreme court follows in the footsteps
of the factional board that refused to
consider Allen S case on It's real merits,
the people Of Kansas may know that
factionalism which has run riot IN
Kansas for the past two years has
gone to seed in the supreme court. If
on the other hand, the supreme court
fairly, gives him an opportunity to be
heard above factional clamOr, the
faith that the people have in the court
will abide.
people of Kansas sincerely believe
that there was fraud in the Second
district from start to finish There IS
no question but that the people realize
that under present conditions, and
from the present delegates to the dou-
BILE barrelled convention there was no
legal nomination. The people are not
easily fooled. For Mr.. BowerSOck to
get nomination by fraud and 70
have that nomination certified to by
even the silence or supiness of the su-
preme court, viii give the people OF
Kansas such a contempt Tor law as
they have not had for many gay
The supreme court has duty IN
this matter which is above factional
consideration. It has the opportunity