The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25

| questions are ever presenting them
selves to the thinking members of any
| community In the last state campaign
| the press and many of the voters, not
only of Finney county, but of the state
I at large, were urged not to make any
/ fight on T. T. Kelly. It was asked as
| a personal favor in the general inter
| est of district and state candidates.
Those who have cared to keep posted
| know the result, and they now ask that
| the rules be suspended, that they be
permitted to think and act for them
| selves. Anent this topic a telegram
was received last Saturday from one
who stands high In the estimation of
the people of Kansas, asking that the
convention last Saturday should not in
struct against Mr.. Kelly.
| Now those who try to do little
thinking for themselves ask, why?
Is it that the sender of the tele-
gram is willing to stand for all the acts
OF Mr.. Kelly during his present term
of office?
Does he believe that it was for the
best interests of the party that he
should have been nominated with the
old charges unexplained?
Is the sender of that message able
to realize that at this time more than
ever before, the individual members of
the Republican party want to know
just how much we owe the present
state treasurer?
Ness County Echo: The boss busters
are still very busy organization and
although there are strong hints thrown
out that T. T. Kelly will not at all
loan strength to the organization of
party reformers, the powers that be
have issued the edict that all present
state officers except Bailey shall be re-
nominated and Kelly will have to be
swallowed no matter how bitter the
morsel.
To- E2an7IfR-
icans Will meet Saturday. March ;. to
elect delegates to the state, senatorial
and judicial conventions There seems
to be no fight for anything, although
| there is a strong feeling that Tom
Kelly should not have the support Of
this county for state treasurer.
Greeley County Republican: Does
anyone believe that Tom Kelly would
have voluntarily paid into Miami
county 1900 which the commissioners
said he owed if he had not been sure
| that ha could not have established his
| innocence before jury? Every week
/ papers everywhere are calling him a
| thief and sboodler. and no honest man
would rest under the charges If they
| could be disproved before jury He
needn't go to Miami county to have it
| tried He could have some one arrest
ed for libel in nearly every county in
| the state and take his choice of jury.
Lyons Republican,: 'If the Hoch
| crowd are really reformers they win
have to put Mr.. Kelly out of business
when the state convention meets. No
other action will so nearly prove their
| honesty of purpose. But will they do
it It's gumdrops to gooseberries they
viii not.-Ster1ing Journal"
That is the way great many Re
| publicans look at it-except the last
clause. Hoch and Kelly should not be
on the same ticket.
Wichita Star: The Republican party
of Kansas ought to clean up all around
while it is cleaning up. 1t won't do
much good to elect Hoch and send
| back the Pringelized legislature. It
| will be poor taste to run the wagon
over Cy Leland and Mort Albaugh and
let Burton and Kelly ride.
ottawa Herald: The newspaper opin-
ion that Hon. T. T. Kelly has reformed
from his bad habits Is hardly borne out
by the news that Kelly roundly cursed
his opponents in the Republic county
| convention when that convention
passed resolutions against him.
saIina Journal: The Republicans of
Lincoln county resent the report that
was placed in circulation that they en-
dorsed Senator Burton in their conven-
tion, and the Journal is one paper that
hastens to offer its apologies for the
offense- President Roosevelt. E w.
Hoch. Congressman Reeder, Secretary
Of State Burrow, JuGge Clark Smith,
J T. White and the late Senator
Hanna all came in for generous men
| ton by the convention, but nothing
was said regarding State Treasurer
Kelly or Senator Burton. The conven-
ton confined its mention of the dead
| simply to Senator Hanna.
Rossville News: There is no doubt
about Hoch. His Is a splendid char
acter. But just how Mr. Hoch can
stand for Kelly, who has record like
a convict, is beyond comprehension