The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-06
WON'T LINE UP.
Five of Seven Washington Re-
publican Papers Say No.
Refuse to Support Kelly for
Treasurer.
THERE ARE OTHERS.
Norton Courier Is Also In the
List.
Gaylord Sentinel Bolts HOch Be-
cause Of Kelly.
THERE ARE OTHERS.

Five out of seven Republicans pa
pers in Washington county are not
supporting T. T. Kelly for state treas
urer. The two exceptions are the
Palmer Index and the Washington Re
publican. The latter is the boss buster
organ of Washington county. 1t is
edited by L. a. Palmer, and Mr.. Palmer
is supporting Kelly not because he
thinks he is honest but because he con-
siders the election of key two years
ago as a ''vindication' of him.
The Barnes Chief is authority for the
statement that only two of the Wash
ington county Republican papers are
for Kelly 1t says:
THE Palmer Index takes exception
to our article a couple of weeks ago in
which we said that half of the Wash
| ington county Republicans did not
want Kelly renominated and will not
vote for him. Welsher thinks it is
Islander on decent Republicans to say
that they will not support a theft
Bless your innocent soul don't you
know that the party should put up
honest men if it wants the voters to
support them. The label OF the con-
venticn does not whitewash anybody.
And if you think we are sadly mis-
taken please invoice the Republican
papers of Washington county. There
are seven, and how many OF them are
for Kelly? Only two, yours and
Palmer's."
The Norton Courier is another strong
Republican paper in the Sixth district
which has bolted Kelly's nomination. It
I'VE place the Republican state tick
ct before the Republicans of the county
the Republican state convention; but
we want to be thoroughly understood
as not in any wise supporting T. L. KEEL
ly for state treasurer We have always
I ID L. a
supported every ticket nominated by our
party irrespective of whether all the
nominees were persona grata or not,
but when the party convention assumes
the prerogative of placing before US for
the second time a confessed criminal we
must draw the line. We cannot have
pure politics so long as we submit to
such outrages upon it. The late con-
vention was purported to be one of
purity and yet never was one so devil
ishly impure in its conduct of the bust
ness before it. Many members of the
anti-machine machine have Scourged in
scathing language the conduct of those
in control, The party conventions have
no right to throw common sense and
decency to the winds 1t has no right to
perpetrate fraud because of the power
to do so. The machine in control of the
late convention committed political
crimes never thought of or heard of in
the haIcyon days of the Leland regime.
We stood Kelly once but we Will not do.
so again. You can do as you like, but
the time has come, we think, when any
old thing that politicians may force
upon us don't CO."
Bert Headley, editor of the Gaylord
Sentinel, has bolted E. w. Hoch as we'll
as Kelly, because Mr. Hoch stood for
Kelly in the Miami county fight
The way President Roosevelt came
out for Jospeh L. Bristow and praised
him to w. r. Stubs and NJ. A. Low
in Washington yesterday leaves no
uncertainty as to the standing of the
fourth assistant postmaster general at
the White House, Notwithstanding the
attacks of congress on him. The
State Journals dispatch from Wash
ington Tuesday afternoon and the dis
patches in the morning papers show
out of his way to praise BristOW to his
Kansas visitors. A dispatch to the
Kansas City Times has the following
on the subject:
mo sooner had the president told
Mr.. Stubs how delighted he was that
he had called than he referred to
some clippings from newspaper
which circulates in Kansas. The ar
ticles referred to were a clumsy at
tempt to convince the people of Kan
sas that Senator Buttons indictment
sonal hatred of General Bristow and
the result of a fractional attempt to
discredit him.
''Mr. Stubs was then made familiar
to a Kansan on the subject, which will
help to clear the atmosphere if it is
printed. He likewise took occasion to
express his absolute confidence in
General Bristow's integrity in Ian
guage that could not be mistaken"
The newspaper articles referred to
were those published recently in the
Kansas City Journal alleging that
Burton's conviction was the result of
persecution" on the part of Mr.
Bristow.
The Holton Signal this week pub
fishes some facts concerning w. D.
Kuhn, whom the Democrats of Jack
son county have brought out for rail-
road commissioner on the Democratic
ticket It says:
ITO the people of Jackson county Mr.
Kuhn needs no introduction. as he is
we'll known. his business ability recog-
nized anu his character and integrity
unquestioned, but in presenting him TO
the state at large a brief sketch of his
life and work would be eminently pro-
per. w. D. Kuhn was born at Ere
mont, Ohio, March II. 1864, and as his
name indicates, is of German parent
age. He attended the Northwestern /
university at Ada, Ohio, and is a grad /
uate OF that institution. In early life
he taught school, and in 1856 became |
an instructor in the Normal school ct
Stanberry, No, where he taught for
five years. In 1891 he came to Kansas
and accepted a professorship in Camp
bell university at Holton. and a few
Of this school, In February. 1895. he