The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
ANTI-KELLY SENTIMENT.

ANTI-KELLY SENTIMENT.
The following extracts from Kansas
newspapers indicate that the anti-Kel-
ly sentiment is taking root and that the
people want a man in charge of the
state treasury with a clean record;
Clyde Republican: Will the honest
Republicans of Kansas. after turning
down a capable honest man like Gov
ernor Bailey. renominate a man like
Tom Kelly for state treasurer? His
record in Miami county is too well
known to need reproducing here. If
they are sincere in their reform
movement to purify the Republican
party, they should lose no time In in
forming Tom Kelly that he must with
draw from the race for state treasurer,
and nominate some honest man in
his stead. If they are honest them
selves, they will do it. Do they dare
stand by Tom Kelly?
Sydacuse Journal: Governor Bailey
withdrew from the contest over the Re
publican nomination for the governor
ship last Saturday, leaving E. w.
Hoch in undisputed possession of the
field. 1t remains to be seen if the cam
paign for civic righteousness that has
elimited Bailey against whose personal
honesty there was no suspicion will
leave State Treasurer Kelly undisturb-
ed. Kelly and Burton have been iden-
titled with the Hoch faction of the
party for years, and it looks to a man
up tree as If the last state of the
g. o. p. is worse than the first.
Barnes Chief: The state senators
spent $63S.55 per member. the house
$309.3O per member. Bailey who con-
trolled the house has been turned down
and now let Kelly who controlled the
senate get his.
Garden City Imprint: In this "spon-
taneous'' uprising among the Repub-
lican party for E. w. Hoch, to which it
is reasonable to claim the larger por-
ton of the Bailey faction now belong,
condition that will be peculiarly try
ing is to be met. inasmuch as among
the ardent supporters of Mr.. Hoch are
to be found several of the so-called
corrupt machine. who are undoubtedly
candidates for a second term. 1t will
probably be futile for the friends of Mr..
Hoch to ATTEMPT to steer or stop the
machine destroyer. Mr.. Stubs is on
record as saying he believes the pres
ent officials will be renominated. This
is equivalent on his part to an endorse
ment of the present administration ex-
cept the governor. That some of these
aspirants for denomination were objec-
tionable to MANY OF the rank and file
at the time they were nominated is
we'll established fact. That they still
remain so cannot be disputed. II Mr..
Stubs will consult the men at the
grass roots of the party regeneration
he will find four-ffths of the voters,
I
have belonged to-four- fifths will say
to T. T. Kelly and others: Your de-
stroyer has started; look outi
Lyons Republican: Thos. Kelly, state
! treasurer, ought to withdraw in the in
terest of peace and harmony within
the Republican ranks. Will he be as
brave and patriotic to his party as was
Governor Bailey:
| Liberal News: There are a good
many voters in this part of the state
1 who would enjoy seeing Mr.. Kelly, the
! treasurer, withdraw and henceforth
make his residence in the farthest cor
ner Of oblivion.
Belleville Telescope: True reform can
never be accomplished by simply put
ting an honest man like Ed Hoch at the
| head Of the ticket and then loading
| him down with a professional ma
| chine man and common embezzler like
i Tom Kelly. Sensible people will have
no confidence in that style OF reform.
| The denomination Of Tom Kelly will
| lose Mr.. Hoch not less than twenty
| thousand votes. Kelly ought to be
| turned down for Hoch's sake if for no
other reason. Republic county has no
| strings tied to her and she has no ak
to grind Why not start a boom for
| some man like Frank Nelson, who
would help the whole ticket a man
| whose fnfPUTlfU Y76 hnnnSfU M
| be questioned?
Emporia Gazette: E. w. Hoch was
| in Topeka Monday He went from
| ing of the Kansas Editorial association.
While in Topeka Mr.. Hoch, in response
to question, said he saw no reason
why he should oppose the denomination
of State Treasurer Kelly. He called at
| tention to the fact that Governor
Bailey, toward the close of his fight,
| wrote personal letters to Republicans
all over the state, urging that the en-
| tire ticket of 1902 be renCminated- He
also referred to the interview of w. r.
Stubs, president of the anti-Machine
league, urging that all the state officers
| be renominated except Governor Bailey,
who had withdrawn from the race. In
view of the fact that the machines
| candidate for governor and the official
head of the organization made to down
the machine had expressed a desire for
| the denomination of Mr.. Kelly, Mr..
Hoch did not feel called upon to side
with the faction which has it in for
Kelly. This however is begging the
question. Because Bailey was moral
| coward and feared to oppose Kelly is
no reason why brave old Ed Hoch
should lose his backbone thus early in
| the game.
Atchison Globe: Tom Kelly's own
county was against him in the conven-
ton that nominated him for state treas