The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-17
KELLY HAU NEkvE
Attacked Boss Stubs at His
Old Home.
Accused Him of Treachery and
Other Things.
HE MAKES A THREAT.
May Force State Accountants
Into the Courts.
Intimates That They Must Ex-
Onerate Him.
Senator Henley and G. A. Finch
Accompany Kelly.

State Treasurer Tom Kelly was in
the hands of his friends at the horse
thief picnic at Eudora Wednesday. A
hundred farmers with red c. 2. A
badges escorted him in a surrey from
the gates of Durr's grove to the speak
er's stand, the crowd cheered, and the
band played "See the Conquering Hero
Comes"
People crowded around the carriage
to catch a glimpse of the much adver-
tised custodian of the states funds,
and having satisfied their curiosity as
to his looks. went back to their red
lemonade, rubber-necks. baby-racks
and waternelOns. Mr.. Kelly began his
speech promptly after his arrival and
about fifty people who crowded close
up around the stand were able to near
it. A few thousand others in the park
worked overtime to keep uD an inces-
SAINT squalIing of toy balloons.
The first half of Mr.. KellyS speech
was SO loaded down with statistics
about Kansas that it dragged Then
Mr.. Kelly switched off into politics. and
delivered some pointed remarks ABOUT
Boss Stubs. He accused StubDS OF
being guilty of treachery; said Stubs
had laid in ambush and unmasked his
batteries on the people who had ele-
waited him to his present position OF
boss: and in his own behalf declared
state accountants. he would seek vim
dication in the courts.
After he had finished his speech,
which was only about ten minutes in
length Mr.. Kelly said to State Jour
nal reporter: There were some more
things that 1 intended to say about this
political situation, and forgot to put
them in. They were not in my manu-
script, and I intended to add them ex-
temporaneousIy I'm glad it's over
NIT I
speech; I'm not speech maker; but
when Senator Henley asked me to do
it, 1 consented. I would go through
fire to accommodate Henley
Senator Henley. of Lawrence, is the
man who voluntarily signed Kelly S
bond for $250,000 after Bowersock,
who was supposed to be under obliga-
lions to Kelly, had turned it down.
Henley came down to Eudora with
Mr.. Kelly, and made a little speech.
Henley said he always liked to step
IN and help a man who was being
"tromped on
Wednesday evening the Elks' Lodge
entertained a lot of people at the Elks'
and Mr.. Kelly and some of his staff
stopped off there on their way home
to Topeka
Kelly Had an Adventure.
State Treasurer Kelly had a narrow
escape from being washed away while
getting from the park back to the
depot after his speech. Wakarusa
creek, which apparently flows through
about nine-tenths of the picnic groves
in the state separates Durrs grove
from the Santa Fe tracks. There are
two routes from the depot to the
grove; one across bridge and over
a dusty road, which the natives have
the courtesy to say is only half a mile
long, but which the heat of Wednes-
day had caused to expand to about
four miles and half. The other way
to the park-the water routes a
cross-cut which had been fixed up for
the occasion. An old fat-bottomed
barge rugged out with a pulley and
rope across the creek afforded easy
transportation.
Treasurer Kelly came out to The
park in a surrey, in order to make the
proper kind of a grand entry" but as
speed was desirable in getting back
to the depot, he decided to try the
ferry route. The old scow had beer
making five-minute trips without acct
dent all day, but as fate would have it
the rope broke just as the Kelly party
started across. For a while it looked
as though Mr.. Kelly and his friends
were in for a voyage down to the Gull
of Mexico, for they had no oars. But
the scow finally drifted back to shore
1t was only five minutes till train
time, and things looked bad for the
treasurer's party until somebody cams
across from the other shore with
skif and transported the crowd BY
twos and threes. The train happened
to be a few minutes late, so everybody
got aboard.
Hot Day for the Picnic
1t was a beastly hot day for a pic
mic, and in the big grove of walnu
trees not breath of air was stirring
When the eastbound plug reached Law
renee, a couple of hundred people anC
Buch's band boarded the train. Barke
camp of the County Protective associa
ton otherwise known as the Anti
Horse Thief association is located there
w R Stubs got on the train at Law
renee, but went on through to Kansas
City.
On the depot platform at Eudora wer
two trucks. One contained about 4
cases of pop from Topeka, and the othe
"a cases of beer from Kansas City. 1
was evident that Eudora was going /,
do its best to please.
Eudora is a city on hill If claim,