The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03

whether the school fund commissioners
had any right to pay the broker ar
advance of two cents on the dollar ovel
what he paid for the bonds. The
brokers' profit on the whole deal was
only $500. yet the court decided that Mr.
Hehebower could not be compelled &c
pay the warrant. because the bonds
were purchased at more than the mar
How would the Conanche county
deal look II measured by similar stan
dards2
1t has been many a long day since
any publication in Kansas has attract
ed public attention and caused news
paper comment so much as the state
Journals statement Of facts concerning
the Comanche county bond deal Re
publican newspapers especially are
commenting on it. Some Of them blame
Instead of covering it up but many are
demanding some sort of an explanation
from the Etate officers involved.
The newspaper comments are ex-
the State Journal as saying things
which II did not say Others get the
facts and figures twisted and blame the
State Journal for things it never
Governor Bailey ought to make an i'm
mediate investigation Of the matter
and make report forthwith The En-
poria Gazette is leading in this line.
The Gazette also seems to think that
the State Journal secured its informa-
ton concerning the deal through
sleak'' from the state accountant.
This assumption is not correct. How
much the state accountant does or does
not know about the Comanche county
deal the State Journal is not informed.
Tt was watching the deal since about
the time the bonds were refunded in
Couanche county several weeks before
the contamination of the deal 1t was
Informed at that time that there was
q scheme on foot to unload the bonds on
20 the state school fund 1t is not at all
likely that the state accountant knew
anything about the deal at that time,
because he was busy with other mat
tiers.
For all that the state Journal knows
the state accountant may have made
an investigation of this matter or he
may not Mr.. Rowett doubtless knows
all that the State Journal does know.
and he probably knows much more, for
he has access to books to which the
State Journal is denied.
The following are some of the COM
rents which are being made by the
press of the state:
Concordia Blade (Rep);
Many of the best Republican papers
IN Kansas among them some that were
inclined to or did favor the boss buster
element last spring. have united IN
demand for a thorough investigation of
the COmanEhe county bond deal. ana
no honest Republican can afford not to
l.
Journals charges and the state has
been given the worst of it by officials
who are sworn to protect her interests,
the people should know it.
The mere bringing of a libel suit by
these officials against the State Jour
nal disproves nothing They are either
Innocent or they are guilty and If the
former they cannot afford to do aught
but demand-and that at once-the
very fullest and closest investigation
Into their acts.
These men few months since were
posing as reformers and as such Joined /
in the movement to retire Gov Bailey.
whom everybody knows is honest If
they fail to ask that their acts be in
vestfgated before the people are again
called upon to express their preferences
at the polls, they can hardly blame
honest men if they conclude that there
was some Interior purpose in aiding In
Railey's retirement
The people want the whole light OF
truth flashed on this affair.
Parsons Sun CRep):
The Topeka State Journal does not
oronose to be blurred by those SIS. 600 |
damage suits instituted by members of
the state school fund commission. In
stead of falling back in an attitude OF
trembling fear, the Journal is still after
'eu. with an evident determination to
sift the whole thing to the neither bot |
tom. Yesterday, the Journal came out
with additional rather startling disclos- |
ures or rather exposures, in which the |
fagrancy of the bond purchase is con- |
EiderabIy rnagnified. The Journal shows |
in this that the commission, purchased |
the s123.0O0 refunding bonds, when the |
records in the auditors office show that
the state is already in possession OF
Comanche county securities |
That is bonds that are long past due
ana which have been repudiated by the |
county.
rJor+o-, C,or,r,arcfal Tnen \.
The Topeka State Journal, acknowl- |
edged to be the leading daily paper In 1
Kansas, deserves praise from every I'M |
biased citizen of the state for the fear /
less manner in which il assaults hood |
iers and thieves and attempts to pro- |
tect the state treasury from public loo I
tiers. Its fearless expose of State Treas /
urer- Kelly will easily defeat that graf |
ter for reelection. Now the Journal /
makes a bold charge of crookedness on
the part of the state school fund COM
mission in the purchase OF Sl23,OOO or
Couanche county bonds The commis- ,
sion is composed of c. c. Coleman. at /
torney general; J. r. Burrow, secretary 1
Of state, already arraigned by the Jour |
nal on another serious charge, ana l.; l. |
Dayhoff. superintendent of instruction |
Now these three illustrious gentlemen. |
who all ask reelection on the RepubIl-
can ticket. have brought suit against /
Frank MacLennan, editor OF the jour
nal, for the modest sum of $40,OOO-Sl0.-
900 for each. OF course. the case is set
for a date after election, as the COM
plainants don't dare have it tried be-
fore. But after election of course. they
will drop il. 1t is an old gag worked /
over. The present state administration,
with the exception of Governor Bailey,
is the rottenest Kansas was SNer dis
sraced with. Bailey showed DISPOSE
tfon to be square and honest, and was
turned down by the gang of reorganiz-
ed gTafters. The Journal SLOWS facts
and figures to prove its position. and
every law-abiding citizen of Kansas
should stand by IL.