The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-29
EXPECTS FUSION.
David u. Dale, Probable NOmi-
nee for. Governor, Talks.
Says There Is No Hope for
Parker i'm Kansas.
ON STATE ISSUES.
Would Make Rate Question the
Campaign Slogan.
Think Opposition to State Tick
ct Is Pronounced.
STATE ISSUES.

viii be nominated Dy the IuSlOnlSlS
next Wednesday for governor, probably
by reclamation. was in Topeka last
evening talking with local fusionists.
He left late last night. returning to
Wichita, where the Sedgwick county
Democrats and Populists hold their
county conventions tomorrow.
Judge Dale will accept the nomina-
ton for governor if harmony prevails
among the fusionists, and he believes a
satisfactory fusion arrangement can be
made. He has his own ideas on the
subject OF the best way of effecting fu-
sion.
THE Democrats cannot, of course,
hope to carry Kansas against President
Roosevelt said Judge Dale We
might as well face that proposition and
admit it. I believe the Democrats and
Populists ought each to put up an cleo
toral ticket to be placed under their
respective party headings The state
ticket should be divided between the
two parties and placed under the Dem
ocratic ticket.
4 do not exactly take to the idea Of
an independent state ticket, for the
reason that it would be placed on the
official ballot to the extreme right
while the electoral tickets would be
over towards the left OF the ballot.
with an independent state ticket the
voters would have to vote the electoral
ticket of their choice, then cross over
TO the independent column to vote for
state nominees, and back again to vote
for the county nominees of their choice.
This would be apt to cause confusion
and spoiled ballots
What do you think should be- the
chief planks in the PLATFORM" Judge
Dale was asked
THE question of railroad rates is,
believe, the principal issue in Kansas
today" he replied. That, to my mind,
ought to be emphasized. My idea on
state issues I tried to make clear in
the speech I made at Cheney several
weeks ago, and i hope to see those
ideas embodied in the platfrom.
From what I hear from over the
state 1 believe there will be no diff
Guilty in effecting a fusion on state is
sues and state ticket which will suit
the great majority of both the Demo-
cratic and Populist parties" continued
Judge Dale ''Of course there are GER
tain influences which come from outside
of either party that will try to create
dissension and they may make con-
noise but that is about all.
We will make the Republicans a whole
lot of trouble on their state ticket. too
There are many Republicans over the
state who will vote for Roosevelt but
who will not support the Republican
state ticket. In fact. / find consider
able opposition to their state ticket
right mere in Topeka, where I did not
suppose there is any at ALL
Judge Dale will return to Topeka
Monday and be here until after the
state conventions on Wednesday. He
will probably have his headquarters at
the Throop.
The Democratic state convention will
be held in the auditorium. The Popu- |
lists will have their convention either |
in Representative hall or the council |
chamber They will probably take the |
latter unless they have too large a |
crowd. 1t will be in the same building |
he nd will har n
handy for conference committees.
Secretary of State Burrow is exoner- |
ated of the charge that he short-chang-
ed the state out of $751; when he used |
his official position to sell the state |
school fund lot of Smith Center bonds |
thing over 81, 900 worth of interest cou-
pons- An error was made in the state /
auditors office in recording the num-
Der of coupons attached to each bond /
at the time the deal was made
When bonds are purchased by the
state school fund commission they are
registered in the state auditors Office
and the number of coupons on each
done with the bonds themselves, this
register is the official record of the
bonds at the time of their purchase,
and that is what the State Journal
went by in reporting Mr.. Burrows
bond deal.
The first of these bonds had no cou-
pons on at all. All of those which had
not been paid were clipped off and re-
tanned by Mr.. Burrow, or the Home In
vestment company. of which he is the
principal owner The second bond had
two coupons on. worth $25 each The
third bond, or No s. had four coupons
on, but is recorded three. The last sew
en- all run the same length of time and
are recorded as having 80 coupons on
EACH There was a miscount, however,
and two of them have "a coupons. On
one of these bonds the extra coupon
had heen cut off and has at some time
been pinned back on the bond
Instead of receiving s., 125 in interest
coupons on this bond deal. therefore.
Mr.. Rurrow receives only $1,000. The
State Journal, believing that the rec
ords in the auditors office were cor
rect. insisted that a mistake had been
made and that, figuring the bonds on
a 4 per cent basis. he had taken from
the state $73.22 more than he intended.
This is not true since the extra coupon
has been pinned back on one bond. In
'act, there is $1.7s coming Mr.. Bur-
-oW's way.
Mr. Burrow still stands charged, how
.ver, with having used his official posi-
ion to put through a bond deal where
~ he would make S2.050 as a commits
lion which came out of the state school
und- President Roosevelt summarily
William Jenkins as governor
Il Oklahoma for a much less offense
although it is conceded that Governor
Jenkins was the victim of a trap set by
lis enem1eS- his OuenSe was IlaI ne
purchased for some of his friends some
took in a private insane asylum which
las a contract for keeping Oklahoma
insane. The territory was out nothing
N the deal, and it was explained to
President Roosevelt. but the president
ecfded that il was not legitimate bur
n the nature of graft and the scoring
e gave jenkins in removing him was
he subject of comment throughout the !
ation-
Yet Mr.. Burrow, only nine days af-
er he got into the secretary of states
flee, used his position as a member I
( the school fund commission in buy
Of Cantor IL