The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-02
over THE STATE.
What Few OF the Papers Are
= Saying.
A Bunch of Clippings Out of
Bushel.
REPUBLICAN COMMENT
what the Dorfv Nn-auannra
What the Party Newspapers
Are Saying OF Kelly.
An Arrangement More Severe
Than State Journals.

People who read only Topeka pa
pers or their local papers hardly real
ize the severe arraignment T. T. Kelly,
the candidate for state treasurer. is
receiving from the Republican news
papers from one end of the state to
the other.
Such a demonstration of feeling
against a party candidate has never
before been so widespread, nor so Sc
vere-many newspapers going lengths
beyond the State Journal.
When it is considered that there
are 1900 precincts in Kansas and that
a change averaging ten to the pre-
cinct would make a difference of a.
600 votes, it would appear that Kelly
will be Overwhelmingly beaten, even
with a majority of a hundred thousand
for Roosevelt. In very many localities
there is scarcely a Republican who
will not scratch his ticket. The first
man scratched will be Kelly.
The best Republican today. is the
one who will vote to put corrupt men
out of office. The best Republicans
are in the majority this year. Read
a few clippings following, taken frOm
a bushel of them running day by day
and week by week in the Republican
press.
Such papers as the Leavenworth
Times, Emporia Gazette, SaIina Jour
nal, Parsons Sun and Ottawa Herald
all strong Republican papers-are
omitted from today's list because they
have been so frequently quoted in de-
nouncing Kelly's misdoings:
Plain MISUNDERSTANDING More to Be
Said.
From Topeka Capital (Rep).
The Capital has been unwilling to
see him condemned without direct and
unmistakable evidence. We have
hoped that the discrepancies might be
explained in way to relieve him of
the guilt that was freely charged upon
him. On the face of it, the charge
that Kelly stole ST. 4025O, unaccounted
for during his administration, seemed
unreasonable because of the fact that
the coupons stolen were not stamped
state property and consequently were
presumably off the bonds prior to the
time the bonds were delivered to the
treasury from the auditors Office. I'm
der such circumstances it did not ap-
pear how the treasurer could have ta-
ken them. But the circumstances that
seemed to favor the innocence of the
state treasurer are entirely upset by
direct proof now produced by Mr.. Row
EFT that it was Kelly who sent the
coupons on for collection and got the
money In the face of t!Rs plain evil
dence nothing remains % be said.
There is but one possible escape for
State Treasurer Kelly, and that is 20
show that he paid this money over TO
some other person sending in the cou-
pons for collection, and to produce this
other person.
[Rub your eyes, gentle reader, for the
above appeared editorially in the To-
peka Capital (Rep), October 18th.
thirteen days ago. Kelly has not yet
produced the ''other person. but since
that date many other shortages and
Irregularities have been discovered
That State Treasury Affair.
From the Mcpherson Freeman (Rep.)-
n great deal has been said about
the condition of the state treasury but
the Freeman is one of the many pa
pers of the state that is not afraid
to say that it openly opposed T. T..
Kelly for state treasurer in face of
slanderous attack from other papers.
The outcome is nothing more than
should have been expected from Il
man whose record is as vile as that
of T. T. Kelly. Although the Free
man is strictly speaking a Republi-
can paper it does not believe in sup
porting men on the Republican ticket
who are wholly unfit to hold an Office
of trust of any kind Now here is
Kelly once elected and twice nominat-
ed by the Republican party for state
treasurer, accused of defrauding the
state out of its funds What are we
going to do about this matter2 Shall
we simply pull around him the broad
cloak of Republicanism and help him
into office again in the face of this
terrible outrage? NO a thousand
times no. His actions have been
terrible blow to the Republican party
but what the Republicans of this state
is to demand that an honorable man
be elected to his place.
In the last election he ran way be-
hind the ticket and no other reason
can be given for it than his own past
record. He stoutly protested he was
innocent and the Republicans took
him at his word and the amount OF
evidence now aecumulating shows he
hardly assumed control until he began
his fraudulent work.
Here's n Case.
From the Effingham New Leaf (Rep.),
Suppose that the investigation of the
treasury, ordered by Governor Bailey.
had given Tom Kelly a clean record:
would that have been political perse-
cution or would the people have said
that Governor Bailey had Joined in
covering up a steal that people believed
existed? Suppose the investigation of
the accounts of the state bank exam
iner had found shortage: would that
have been political persecution?
Has Bad Flavor.
From the Arkansas City Traveller
(Rep.).
According to the newspaper reports
A A. GODDARD who engineered the
$123, 900 Comanche county bond deal
through before the state board of
bond commissioners testified in sub
stance when his deposition was being
taekn in the MacLennan libel case,
that 'she engineered the deal; he was
assisted by the county attorney OF
Comanche county who worked the
and he got good fee for his services;
and that Treasurer Kelly loaned him
the $123.000, just as an accommoda-