The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-20
STRONGER THAN WE PUT 1T.
The Emporia Gazette (Rep.) Hits a
Terrible Blow att Kelly.

The State Journal is accused of be-
ing harsh and severe in handling Off
cia1 matters connected with Ques-
tionable Comanche county bond sale
to the school fund; accused of being
a Democratic organ for criticiZing a
man on the ticket proven to be an
embeZzler of state funds in his charge:
the paper is called all sorts of names
and the meanest motives attributed to
it because the truth is spoken. We
confess to not ''mincing matters"
What sort of an opinion do you
suppose Chairman Stubbs and other
party leaders have of these shameless
papers when Stubbs and the rest of
them know those papers are shielding
guilt for the mistaken sake of the
party and to the shame of the state
Men who are strong enough to be
campaign leaders and conductors in
this state are not ignorant and unso-
phisticated.
They know the truth.
They know their candidate for
treasurer disgraces them and their
ticket.
President Roosevelt, whose kind of
Republicanism we believe in and ad-
vocate, has no warmer admirer nor ad-
vocate in Kansas than the State Jour
nal, an independent Republican pa
per, and if the Republican organs
choose to say Topeka State Journal
CDen.) every time they quote some
thing, and that is pretty often. be-
cause we believe in the Roosevelt doc
fraud obligates no one" we can stand
it and thrive under it.
But we wanted to say that the State
Journal is not saying things half. SO
hard as some of the stricteSt Repub-
Hcan party papers are saying them.
What do you think of this?
Why do not the Topeka Capital and
the others quote the Emporia Gazette
and say Emporia Gazette (Dem.) !;
whose editor is as strong and as good
a Republican as the state holds.
We have never said that J. R. Bur-
ton took money out of the state treas
ury to bet with. We don't know It,
and don't say it now, but the Emporia
Gazette says it and here it is:
Here is a man (kelly) who beyond
any question has been misusing the
public funds. He lent a bond broker
for two weeks S1E2 geo of the states
money On which the interest at the
current banking rate should be three
hundred dollars; the state actually
paid almost this sum as accrued in
terest on the bonds, to the same brok-
er who was privately borrowing the
states money of the state treasurer,
interest free, and in rank violation of
the law And yet some people are so
bind to facts that they minimize this
crooked deal and make a hero out of
the man who did it.
THE present state treasurer'S chief
reason for being the party nominee was
that he had been in full charge OF the
treasurer'S office for four years, ard
had actual charge of every detail of
the office. He was charged with being
dishonest as a county officer, but his
record as assistant treasurer for four
years was pointed to as proof that he
had reformed While he was assistant
treasurer some one stole over a thou
sand dollars in coupons in an interme-
date payment and when the shortage
was discovered and shown to Treas
urer Kelly two months ago, Kelly's as
sistant paid back the money and re-
signed, and gave out a statement that
he did not take the money. In Kelly's
own term of office a year ago, some
one stole another thousand dollars
worth of interest that was due to the
state. and mailed the treasury an an
onynous draft for the amount of the
thieving, after the theft had been dis
covered. Kelly is directly responsible
for this stealing, yet he has never tried
to find out the thief, and has claimed
that people who suspected who . the
thief, were trying to hurt the Republi-
can ticket
l. I'm the same way when he was