The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-26

the common human sympathies must
feel sad over the fate that has be-
fallen Senator Burton Only ghouls
rejoice in such catastrophies. Only
those capable of worse crimes than
they condemn are glad when such
fate befalls an erring fellow-being-
All of which is the veriest rot. Burton
got his deserts. He was known to be
for years, just like Kelly is known to
be now, corrupt and dangerous, and
was finally caught at it. Burton was
caught just as a gambler is sometimes
put under the ban through conviction
for a misdemeanor. A faro dealer
who debauches the youth and Drawn
of city is sometimes brought to JUS
tice because he violated an ordinance
covering penny in-the-slot" ma
chimes
The speakers of the Republican
campaign are not holding before the
public the record of the present state
treasurer neither do they condemn the
criminally negligent and disgraceful
conduct of the four state officers
Treasurer Kelly, superintendent of
State Dayhoff, Secretary of State Bur-
row and Attorney General Coleman.
for their participation in the outrag-
eous Comanche county transaction out
of which their friend. a broker. Mr..
A. A. GODDARD. got over $4,000 for
few weeks work and this paper got
$4,000 Libel suit for one days work in
exposing the political crime.
T. T. Kelly on the state ticket rep
resents graft, a disgraceful graft, that
the Republican party should cover its
face in shame that it has endorsed.
Kelly is smart and shrewd and clever,
and has defeated legislation to check
graft in his office. He is the man
whom the State Journal believes is
back of and a participator in the
Comanche county bond deal which
has been SO clearly and forcibly ex-
POSED in these columns. Kelly and
Burton are "erring feIlow'-grafters.
Burton has been found out. Kelly will
be some day when the Republican
millennium comes
If the leaders of the Republican party
in Kansas right now had nerve and
were not trimming" they would make
T. T. Kelly, c. c. Coleman, Dayhoff and
Burrow say something, or do something
in their own defense to explain the
blackness of the Comanche county trans
action and other deals in which one or
more of the same quartette has been
engaged, or cause the surrender of
funds they have diverted or endangered.
The Comancne county bond purchase
was either a good thing or a bad thing
for the state. Which was it Mr.. Cam
paign manager, Mr.. Campaign speaker?
If it was a good transaction, let all the
intricate details involving it's consum-
ationbe published and republished, stated
and restated that all voters may know
them by heart and vote intelligently
Something beside court evidence will
be needed to supplement forthcoming
testimony and something necessary be-
sides abuse and misrepresentation of
ne State Journal in pursuing, even
through the courts, the delinquent the |
or corrupt official, |
wen if he happen to be on a ticket
which Roosevelt is expected to uncon-
sciously drag to success with corrup- |
ion daubed upon it
There are some good men on the !
Republican ticket and the editor of |
this paper is going to vote for them. |
but il will be a scratched ticket, and |
there will be thousands and thous-
ands Ike it in the ballot box on the |
night of November Sth.
A good soft lead pencil will greatly |
improve the state ticket.