The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-01
KELLY SHOULD aUr TOO.

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Governor Bailey has withdrawn from
the contest for the nomination for gov
erner. rather than prolong for another
day any part in his interest in the fac
tionaI fight growing so bitter within
his party Confident of his integrity,
his sincerity and his consci entious per-
Torrance Of the duties of mis- office his
friends We're willing, if nee essary, to go
with him to defeat. Gov ernor Bailey
has never cared enough or a renomi-
nation to put his friends to this kind
Of a test He has told them repeatedly
for months and before the Hoch move
ment came up, that if in the face of his
efforts to do his duties in the gov
ernor's office he could not get renomi-
nation without a fight tnat he thought
it might be better not to strive for it.
but to go back to his farm, where he
could do as he thought best without
being abused for it, and with profit
and satisfaction to himself and his
friends.
More than once has he been on the
point OF saying that he would not be
a candidate. His real frie nds have re-
allied the injustice that has been done
him during his entire term in office.
They resented it and would have reE
manned with him to victory or defeat
had the governor perm tilted them to
continue the contest. Many of Bailey's
friends believe that the re was a reac-
ton setting in and that he could have
secured the nominatio n. He already
had more delegates elected than did
Hoch. The people Were rapidly learn
ing that the instiga tors of the anti
Bailey movement Were the closest po-
litical and even bus jiness associates of
Senator Burton. AT ter Burton's indict-
ment, however, ST rong efforts were
made to disconnect the senator's friends
wit b the movement, but it was too
plainly evident. Except for the St.
Louis indictment Burton would have
had his revolution and would have posed
at the top of the, heap in Kansas poll
tics to day.
When the Reno county convention met
last we elk the convention refused to en-
dorse such good a nd decent men as J. L.
Bristow and Wet or Murdoch, but went
out of i IS way to specifically endorse
Senator Burton. Then the Burton con-
neetion W as more clearly seen than ever.
1t was Fseno county which gave the
Hoch NOV ement an impetus. Think of
the resolu tons it's convention adopted
after the primaries gave the Burton
crowd the delegates!
Governor Bailey has endeavored to
bring the IA etions of his party together
and to Great harmony, so far as he is
concerned, lby gener ously eliminating
himself from the contest; but harmony
in the party cannot be secured and vic
tory cannot be- assured unless Mr.. Hoch,
or the forthcos ming convention at Wich-
tia, repudiatess Treas urer T. T. Kelly
and refuses All tsOlutely to stand for his
denomination.
T. T. Kelly more than any other one
man is reSpon sib1e for the ills for which
Governor Bailey was blamed, and most
unjustly. Kelly was charged with for
gerry and enbez element in Miami coun-
". He denied the charges, but they
were proven ag ainst him by the board
of county com missioners of Miami
county, and Mr.. Kelly admitted that
he had taken money which did not be-
long to him by paying over to the COM
nlissfoners after the trial 81, 600.
It has been shown that Mr.. Kelly is
responsible as controlling the state
board of equal ization for the increase
of thirty million dollars of valuation of
farms, real efitate, and property in
general, with the exception of that of
the railroads.. which was practically
untouched.
1t is known that Mr.. Kelly defeated
legislation in the senate. controlled by
Kelly and others of the Burton ma
! chine which tended to stop the graft
/ in the state treasurer's Office, which
has been practiced for years and years
under various administrations.
1t is known that Senator Burton has
office for nearly dozen years, with the
exception of two years when Hefle-
/ bower was state treasurer.
It is known that the banks of Topeka
have paid the state treasurers interest
on money turned over by the state
I treasurers for collection and deposit in
/ the banks, and that this money so paid
has never reached the Golfers of the
state treasury. but has gone into the
private personal pockets of various
state treasurers in Office.
Why does the Republican party stand
for these things in it's state treasurer?
The alleged Leland machine with ali of
| its shortcomings knew Kelly's corrupt
pra ctices tried to defeat him for the
nomination, but was unable to do so in
the face of the Burton influence at Wich-
tia While Bailey was nominated for
governor, the Burton machine prac-
tically secured control of the executive
council, although some of its members
have since become ashamed of the SEN
ator and have tried to get away from
him.
If Hoch really means what he says,
he will reDudiate Kelly on short notice
and advise his friends to make it plain
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