The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-04
STRANGE INDEED.
Anti-Machine Managers Take Up
Tom Kelly's Cause.
Trying to Help Him Carry
Miami County.
KEEP UP THE FACTION.
That Now Appears to Be the
Plan.
Kelly Also Writes Personal Let
ter to Miami.
KEEP UP THE FACTION.
This is the Tale of TWO Letters.


These two letters are only SAMPLES
of several hundred or more that have
been sent from Topeka into Miami
county. Kansas, within the past two
days. Each of these letters appears to
be printed instead of typewriter, al
though they are printed with type
writing type. One is printed on the
letter head of THE Anti-Machine Re
publican League" and the other is
printed on the letter head of the state
treasurer's office.
Dozans of letters have got into the
hands of the opponents of State Treas
urer T. T. Kelly in Miami county in
the past two days, and it is said that
hundreds of each have been mailed into
the county. One is signed by Clyde w.
Miller. secretary of the Hoch move
ment. and the other is signed by T. T.
Kelly. The object of the letters is the
same-to help Tom Kelly carry Miami
county in the primaries there next Sat
urdax.
Anti-Machine League" reads as fol-
lows. The capital letters are ours:
Topeka, Kas., Feb. 2, 1904.
MY Dear Sir-The Republican eau
cuses for the purpose of electing dele
gates from your precinct to the county
m. Saturday of this week. the 6th of
February
You have, no doubt. observed that
Governor Bailey has withdrawn from
the contest as a candidate for gov
ernor. This makes it apparent that E.
W. Hoch will receive the nomination,
probably by acclamation, as will the
balance of the state ticket. IT IS THE
DESIRE OF MR. HOCH AND HIS
FRIENDS THAT THE BALANCE OF
THE TICKET NOMINATED TWO
" nc ~ d TN y
MATED.
Since the governorship question
seems to be settled, it is the desire of
Governor Hoch and his friends to con-
troll the organization of the party ma
chinery in the state.
1T is to be hoped that you will at
tend the caucuses to be held in your
precinct on next Saturday and see to it
that friends of Mr.. Hoch are represent
ed from your precinct in the county
convention. The county convention viii
be held at the opera house in Paola on
Thursday. February II, and Governor
Hoch will be present to address that
convention. Very truly yours.
(Signed) CLYDE W. MILLER -
And the other is like unto it-in pur-
pose. This is the one that is printed
on the letter heads of the state treas
urer:
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 2 1904
MY Dear Sir:-The Republican eau
cuSeS for the nomination of delegates to
the county convention will be held in
your precinct at O'clock p. m, Satur-
day, February 6.
I very much desire to have you at
tend these caucuses. and ask your
friends in your immediate neighbor-
hood to do So So far as state politics
are concerned. by the withdrawal of
Governor Bailey from the race as a can
didate it means that F. W. Hoch and
the balance of the Republican ticket
nominated at Wichita two years ago
Will be renominated by acclamation. 1
--s- A--s.-
troll the county convention in my own
county.
There is no candidate against me for
denomination, and it is my judgment
that there will be none. I do not want
to suffer the humiliation of having an
unfriendly delegation against me in my
own county, and, for this reason, 1 wish
to urge you to attend the caucuses and
see that delegates friendly to me are
elected from your township. Very truly
yours
CSigned) ''T. T. KELLY"
The promoters of the fight against
Governor Bailey have said time and
again that it was not factional; that it
was opposed to both the Leland ma
chine and the Burton machine, and that
1t stands for purity in politics.
Yet now these same promoters are
putting forth extraordinary efforts in
behalf of one of the worst men in Kan
sas pohtics-a man who was found
guilty of forgery and embezzlement by
county and compelled to diSgorge a
thousand dollars: the man who bossed
the senate in the last legislature far
more than Governor Bailey even at
tempted to boss the house. the man
who is responsible more than any other
for the raise in the assessments on the
farms OF the state amounting to thirty
thousand dollars, While the railroads
were untouched; the man who defea ted
the recommendations of Governor
Bailey IN his message advising that the
law regulating depositing state funds
be changed so that the state will get
interest on them instead of the treas
urer-
Does Mr.. Hoch personally stand for
kellys candidacy and Kelly's acts?
The first of these letters would indicate
as much It saws: 1T is the desire of
Mr. Hoch and his friends that the bal
ance of the ticket nominated two years
ago should be renominated."
That means that only Governor
Bailey IS picked out for defeat, and the
sending OF these letters into Miami
county Just now indicates that a spe-
eial effort is to be made to keep Kelly
in the state treasury. How is that
reconcilable with the idea that this is
movement for purity in politics2
The State Journal has contended from
the start that the Burton faction is be-
hind the Hoch movement and this is
one of the rewards which falls to the
lot of the Burton machine-the aid of
Tom Kelly through Hoch's popularity.
The next big political event in Kan
sas will be the Republican CONGRESS
sional convention in the Fourth district
1t viii meet in the Whitley opera house
at Emporia on Thursday. February IS
at o'clock in the afternoon.
There viii be no big contest before
the convention. Congressman J. NJ
Miller viii be renominated without op-
position There will be a scramble
however. to see who shall be delegates