The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
He GOT THE CASH
SsFarmer" Smith Collected Mile
age in Topeka Last Week.
State Paid for His "Trip from
Mcpherson and Return.
CAREFUL OF OTHERS.
Denounced Legislative Grating
at Public Meeting.
Mr.. Kelsey Talks of Coming Con-
test in AtchisOn.
CAREFUL OF OTHERS.


Farmer A w. Smith, whose name
may perhaps be somewhat familiar to
those who know anything about Kan
sas political aspirants during the past
twenty years, is a member of the State
Board of Agriculture. He is likewise
department commander of the G. A.
r. with an office in the state house
and part of his salary as such is paid
by the state.
Delegates and members of the board
of agriculture are entitled to have their
railroad fare paid and their expenses at
the rate OF two dollars per day. Not
Withstanding the fact that Mr.. Smith
draws q salary as semi-state official
and has an office in the state house,
he drew his mileage from Mcpherson
and per diem for attending the meet
ing of the State Board of Agriculture
last week.
And this is not all. 1t will be re-
membered how Mr.. Smith stood up be-
fore the boss busters meeting last
Wednesday night and eloquently ar
raigned Governor Bailey for not guard
ing the interests of the state, but al
lowed the grafters in the legislature to
place an army of employees in the state
house to rob the state treasury. And
while he was making this speech the
board of agriculture was in session and
Smith drew mileage and per diem Tor
attending it.
Adjutant General Kelsey, who is
chairman of the Republican county CEN
trail committee in Atchison county, says
Atchison Republicans are not anxious
to have the same kind of q fight In
Atchison county that was made four
years ago when Atchison was the battle
ground in the contest between Bailey
and Curtis. For that reason the con-
vention in Atchison county will not be
held very early-or not until after most
of the other counties in the First dis
trict have held their conventions. Cen
eral Kelsey will go over to Atchison
Saturday and win call the county COM
Inittee together for action at that time.
"Atchison was the battle-ground four
years ago." said General Kelsey, and
the Curtis forces ran in a lot of out
siders to vote at the primaries. Among
them were lot of Topeka cOlored men.
1 saw one man trying to vote that L
knew I had seen at Topeka, and told
him he had no right to vote there, but
he insisted that he had moved to Atchi-
son. I asked him where he lived and he
gave me the street number didn't
think there was any house there so L
went around to see. I found a little
two-room shack down in a hollow, and
I afterwards discovered that % colored
men had given that one two-room shack
as their place of residence in voting.
That is the way things were run. They
ran in lot of outside colored men the
day before the primaries. 1 saw one of
them in Topeka afterwards and asked
him how much he got for going to
Atchison and voting, and he told me
five dollars.
That sort of thing is demoralizing
and l am glad Atchison isn't the cen
ter of the fight this year. I understand
A.. J. White is still in the race in Atchi-
son county Notwithstanding reports to
the contrary, and that he will ask for
the Atchison county delegation. I think
.~f4 ho a hn11f
coubt. The county central committee
stands two to one against him. And
while We have lost three or four men in
the past four years, we have gained
fifteen or twenty influential men from
the other fellows"
Word comes from Clay county that
u E. Need sheriff of that county who
Is prominent in the boss buster move
ment, has already picked out his job in
case the anti-Bailey movement is sue
cessfui Mr.. Need, it is said, has an
ambition to be warden of the peniten-
tiary, which is about the best paying
appointment a governor has in his
power. Mr.. Need is a good politician,
and it is expected that he viii round
UP Clay county for the anti-BaiIey
forces, no matter whether Attorney
General Coleman desires it or not. Mr..
Coleman is more of a lawyer than he is
a politician-in fact, Mr.. Coleman
doesn't know enough about politics to
hurt. 1t is quite likely that he would
want to join the anti-Bailey movement
of his own free will, although it is
known that he has a high personal re-
gard for the governor and that the two
have been working together very har-
moniously officially
And since the job-picking business
has commenced, it may be continued.
1t has been suggested that some of the
places may be parceled out about as
follows:
Bank commissioner, Frank Grimes, of
Wichita county and Topeka.
Chairman board of charities, w. Ross
Stubs of Lawrence.
Member board of charities, T. Benton
Murdoch of Ell Dorado.
Another member of same seBill'
Higgins of the past.
Adjutant general Farmer A W.
Smith of Mcpherson.
State house custodian, John Dudley
OF Topeka.
Private secretary. Clyde Miller of
Usage.
Another member of the Burton ma
chine has been added to the working
force at the anti Bailey headquarters.
George Findlay, for whom Senator
Burton secured a $4,000 contract for
feeding prisoners in the Indian Terri
tory, is home and is putting in consid-
cradle time at the anti-Bailey head
quarters in an advisory capacity.
EMPRESS AILMENT.
It Causes Great disappointment in
Berlin Social Circles.
Berlin, Jan. 2O-Empress Augusta Vic
b. tOria has varicose veins in one of her