The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-27
NOT ALL SERENE.
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When the question concerning Mr..
Rowett's salary was raised, however,
Governor Bailey promptly checked it UP
to Attorney General Coleman for an Of
fetal opinion on the subject. At that
time it was not known that the assist
ant attorney general is allowed great
er salary by statute than by apprOpria-
tfon- OF course this would make no
difference with the legal opinion in the
case.
The Burton and Kelly crowd has been
raising the cry that Governor Bailey is
trying to defeat the Republican state
state accountant. Just how this is, is
not apparent. If everything is straight
in all departments of state the investi-
cation of the state accountant ought
simply to strengthen these officials
Governor Bailey himself insists that he
simply intends to give the present ad-
| ministration a clean bill of health.
| Il don't see as there is any call for
anybody TO get frightened about this
| investigation" said the governor. If
| there is nothing wrong in any depart
ment the officers in charge ought not
to fear an investigation. The crowd
that fought my denomination made
charges of fraud agaist my admins
] tration and am going to find out
about it. How can the Republicans
make a state campaign in the face of
all the charges that have been made
bottom of things and if there is nothing
wrong / will give the Republicans
clean bill of health that they can go
before the people with. If there>is any
thing wrong 1 believe it is my duty to
find it out"
Carbondale, Kas., July I'll. E.
BisSeIl, who has been for many years
a resident of Carbondale, has been
for some time a rural route solicitor
for the Topeka Capital. The Capital
seems to have been deeply interested
in the recent fight on Speaker Pringle
against his candidacy for renomina-
ton to the legislature. Mr.. BiSsell is
a warm friend of Pringle and he
came home last Thursday to work for
the denomination of Pringle before
the primaries which were held Satur
day. Some one reported him to the
Capital management, and he was
called up by telephone Saturday and
severely reprimanded for working
against the Capitals interests, as they
put it, He protested that he had a
right to follow his own convictions in
moned to go to Topeka, which he did
Saturday night, when he was sum-
marily discharged.
Hutchinson, Kas., July pa. H. |
Johnson and H. S. Thompson were |
nominated for the legislature by the
Democrats in convention here Tues |
day afternoon. In the county con-
vention, Claude DuvaI and friends as
supporters of the "stalwart" Democ- |
racy, won at every point and Mr.. |
Duval was elected to head the dele |
cation to the state convention. He |
will vote for Judge David Dale for |
governor. Two commissioners were |
nominated and a full county ticken /
chosen. excepting four trustees of the |
county high school, the convention in
dorsing the Republican nominees for |
these places.
The Hutchinson News has lined up
in the support of P. J. Gale for dis
trict judge in the Ninth district, al
though it admits that Reno county
was disappointed in not securing the
The Efingham News, in speaking of
the nomination of Seneca Heath for
state senator in the Atchison-Jackson
district, prints the following:
Seneca Heath was nominated for
state senator purely for Curtis benefit.
1t is true there was no opposition to
him in the convention. but what
ham, G. Curtis $4,000 manager, would
have taken his crowd and pulled off
and nominated Heath even if there
had been enough votes in the conven-
ton to have selected delegates favor
able to some anti-Curtis man. The
woods are going to be full of boilers
this fall and they will be men who are
lust as honest, just as honorable and
lust as loyal to the Republican party
as any man who dances at the bidding
of G. Curtis.
Ottawa Herald: The attention of
the Topeka Mail and Breeze, the Kan
sas City Journal and other pictorial
newSpa pers is called to the fact that
Mr. Pringle is apparently reclining on
a cot of considerable ease. in Usage
county
The Republican county convention
in Ottawa has been called for August
81. At the meeting of the county CEN
trail committee Tuesday spontaneous
boom for ]. C. Gafford was started for
representative
The Democrats have asked for six
special policemen for their state con-
vention next week. From this it looks I
as though a warm time, even for Aug
uSt, is looked for
Hutchinson News: The denomination
of ]. T. Pringle by a larger majority !
than he received two years ago and
over a fierce fight made by all the lead
ers of the Burton faction is a good
thing for Kansas politics. Becaus Mr.
Pringle ran for speaker and beat the ,
candidate supported by Mr.. Curtis and
the railroads, he has been abused by
every organ they could reach. The vote 5
Of confidence given by his constituents
shows how he stands among the peo-
pie who know him.
One of the catch plays in the fight :
on Pringle was that he accepted a
cot a gift from the house at the I
close of the session. We don't believe t
in this giving away of state property, '
but it has been so customary and I'M
criticized that it has become a practice.
Mr. Hoch was speaker pro tenn once 6
and was given a cash donation. Every 7
speaker and lieutenant governor in |
Kansas has been given a present of 8
state property or state money. 1t is I
wrong, but it was a good deal worse {
10 jump on to Pringle and say nothing
about the others. /
]. T. Pringle is one of the ablest law '
yers in Kansas. He is a man whose