Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-26
A FAMILY ROW.

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Charges and counter charges are nu.
merous in the republican camp at To-
peka. State Accountant Rowett lately
examined the State School Fund ac-
count in twelve counties and reported
to Gov. Bailey that he had found short
ages of over Sc, 600 and one item was
81 ,4O2 so, being interest coupons No.
on 66 bonds issued by Finney county or
otherwise known as the Garden City
bonds. These bonds were purchased
by the State School fund commission.
The broker who sold them states that
all coupons were intact when the bonds
were delivered The practice of the
treasurer when bonds are purchased is
to stamp each interest coupon prop
erty of State" Coupons No. on
these bonds were not so stamped.
Shortly after the Rowett report T. T.
Kelly, State Treasurer and candidate
for re election on the republican ticket,
received mysterious letter mailed on
a railway train and in said letter was
draft for 81 ,412 so, the amount of the
Garden City coupons, plus $40. The
letter was signed "a. r. Brown" said
money was applied to make good the
shortage and the extra $40 was mailed
to the mysterious A. r. Brown and in
due course of time was returned mark.
ed mot found.''
T. T. Kelly, to play even with Coy.
mi m oit
Ing numerous instances wherein Gov.
Bailey and other officers have technical
ly violated the law concerning their
settlements and uses of state funds and
consequently were as guilty as he
kelly was. Gov. Bailey then sent
Rowett to the State Fiscal Agency at
New York to investigate the books and
report his findings. Rowett returned
from New York Tuesday of last week
and among other matters being the
following:
mo. b 697S.
New York, Aug. 8, 1903.
The National City Bank of New York
Pay to the order of Il. Il. Kelly,
Fourteen hundred and two, 80 100
uOlldLos (YltU1OU.
(Signed) III. w. HOWE, Teller"
Endorsements: ct. T. Kelly" PAY
to the order of any bank or banker, T..
L. Kelly, State Treasurer. Pay to
the order of Merchants National Bank,
Oank, Topeka, Kan: Endorsement
guaranteed, F. w. Freeman, Cashier -
Received payment through N. Y
Clearing House, August "a. 1908, Mer-
chants National Bank of the City of
New York"
So it will be readily discovered that
T. 7. Kelly received the $1402.50 and
that only one Inference can be drawn
as to the identity of the mysterious IA
| r. Brown" In the face of all the stink
that republican papers are raising
about the corruption in their own ranks
the republican speIlbinders are travel
ing over the state proclaimiug that
there is no state issue in Kansas this
year.
Let it be remembered that all these
charges emanate from republican
sources and vote for the republican
[ ticket this fall is an endorsement of all
the frauds that republicans charge re-
publicans with.
A vote for the democratic state
ticket means vote for clean men and
If elected the democratic attorney
general will probe the reported cor
ruption and prosecute the evil doors
Therefore vote the Dale ticket.
Attorney General Coleman OF Kansa
says there would be no basis for Grim
inal proceedings in those peculiar stu
atiOns in the states fiscal admins
tratlon where the shortage has beer
made good. II this is good law. why
may not highwayman escape punish
ment when be makes restitution aftel
being caught?
1t has always been supposed that tht
act of stealing constituted the offense
If this is not true, then embezzlemen
is the safest way to make money-stea
and if you are not caught keep the mon
ey; if you ARE caught return 1t ant
save your bacon.
This doctrine does not reckon will
the factor of an accusing conscience
an omission which appears to be &C
counted for by the style of ethics which
makes light of such irregularities a.
have been brought to light in the offic,
of the state treasurer in Kansas.-Edi
torial in Kansas City Times, rep.
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