The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-09

ton was in Colorado few months ago
to make a speech he was sued for over
$4,000 for unpaid obligations.
Again, among the records of the
state insurance department you will
find a record of note for $4,000 made
by Burton and listed as assets by the
Shawnee Fire Insurance company, of
Topeka. In 1895, George T. Anthony,
then superintendent of insurance, ap
pointed a committee to examine the
affairs and standing of the insurance
company. The committee reported
that this note had been charged off by
the insurance company, but that there
was no evidence that the company had
received anything of value when it was
done. Following this, the superin-
tendent of insurance went for the com
pany and said to them in a letter dated
July 81, 1895: You can wipe out the
past comedy of errors by e new char
ter as a stock company with full paid
up capital. I can only say this de-
partment can not afford to assume re-
sponsibility for the continuance of the
present conditions one hour longer
This advice was needed, and the
company reorganized on sound basis.
Il think it will also be found thai a
certain bank in Topeka now holds Bur
toms obligations for many thousand
dollars.
Burton's debts. a significant question
is, How can his creditors expect him
to pay upon his election to the United
States senate and pay honestly? Bur
tons past career shows that his cleo
ton must be their only hope of collect
ing their claims. He claims his home
in Abilene, but for years past has failed
to pay his taxes, real or personal.
Even now there are tax warrants out
standing against him for his personal
taxes for the past ten years. These
things can not be accounted for on the
ground of poverty, for Burton travels
much. dresses well, and lives like a
prince. He has money to wager with
but none to pay his debts or taxes. No,
do not think that the people of this
state will ever elect him United States
senator.
1.-THE people recognize that there is a
great difference between a statesman
and an elocutionist or a dancing mas
ter who tries to excel in the number of
different suits of clothes he can wear
in a daW.
There is nothing in common between
Burton and the great mass of Kansans.
He is not in sympathy with them nor
his political promises as in his promissory
notes, and one is just as good as the
other. In the senatorial contest of 1895
he promised every office in sight, includ-
ing, to my knowledge, three cabinet posi-
lions, that of secretary of the treasury,
attorney general and secretary of the in
terror. I myself could have had the sec
retaryship of the interior at his hands,
but circumstances would not permit me to
accept it Burton plays upon the avarice
and credulity of his followers. He makes
promises of places and positions that he
very sad, he makes one place do for sew
eraI men. Sometimes these men get to-
gether and compare notes, g they did in
1895. Most of the gang and strikers that
are supporting Burton in many counties
in the state are more interested in secur-
ing the fulfillment of his promises for fat
Jobs or the payment of past due obIiga-
lions rather than the advancement of the
state by the election OF some worthy and