The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-09
WHAT sTUBBs DIDN'T KNOW

WHAT STUBS DIDN'T KNOW.
Il have been accused of knowing all
about Kelly before the election. I did
/ not know a thing about him any more
than that l was told he was good fell
low and was perfectly square. If I had
| known what 1 do now it would hardly
/ be expected that 1 would have support
ed him as I did.'-W. r. Stubs.
This reminds one of a story Judge
Steve Osborn tells.
I'm the early days used to be located
out at Ness City, Judge Osborn's story
runs. II pretended to practice law, but
about the only business had was an
occasional land office case over at Wa
Keeney. The only way 1 had to get
there was to walk across, for was too
poor to go by stage.
"One time another man and were
going across to Wa-Keeney~ and we got
pretty tired, so we stopped at settlers
house and asked if we couldn't stay all
night instead of sleeping out on the
prairie. The woman at the house said
we could stay, so we settled down to
wait for supper.
while we were waiting we got into
a discussion and I said something about
| a horse thief being as bad as a Mis-
sourian, OF something like that. That
woman f1ared up right away. I'd have
you know that Pm a Missourian,' she
said, and won't stand any such talk
as that in my house I saw that
diplomacy was necessary to keep me
from going supperless and sleeping out
on the prairie, so I told her that Mis-
souri, women were all right-it was just
the men I objected to. Well my hus-
bands a Missourian and he's just as
good as you are or anybody else,' she
said, and could see that she was get
ting madden than ever.
TT didn't take me long to calculate
that heroic measures were necessary to
keep me from being put out of the
! house, so I just denied it. I told her
never said it,
Mr.. Stubs seems to have been profit
| ing by Osborns story.
Mr.. Stubs denies knowing anything
about Kelly's Miami county record,
Notwithstanding the fact that he said
months before the election that he did
not see how man could act as Kelly
had and be straight-that Kelly's rec
ord looked mighty bad.
Mr.. Stubs denies knowing anything
about the Garden City shortage and the
draft for over $1,700 returned to the
state treasury by the mysterious "A. r.
Brown a year after the money was
sent to Kelly personally by the state
fiscal agency in New York. Mr..
Brown" it will be remembered, sent
this money in a mysterious letter to the
state treasury when Kelly discovered
that the state accountants were hot on
the trail of the Garden City shortage.
AND BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE
| OUTSIDE OF THE TREASURY AND
THE ACCOUNTANTS KNEW IT WAS
MISSING.
| Mr.. Stubs denies knowing anything
about the other shortages which were
afterwards discovered, in which Kelly
received the money at the same time he
did the Garden City money, but which
has never been accounted for.
Mr.. Stubs denies knowing anything
about the Abilene shortage, which Roy
Richie, Kelly's assistant, was forced
to take responsibility for because the
entry of it's receipt was made in
Ritchie's handwriting Richie
was made to put up only one-third of
the amount that was short. Somebody
else supplied the rest.
Mr.. Stubs never heard of the large
|
Rowett-Moxey report uncovered in the
treasurer's office.
Mr.. Stubs denies knowing anything
about KeIly's resignation in escrow
when Kelly was cornered and COM
PEELED to do something to keep from
being overwh elmed.
Mr.. Stubs denies knowing that Mr..
Hoch promised a full investigation of
the state treasury If the people would
re-elect Kelly.
Mr.. Stubs denies issuing Immediately
| after KelIy's resignation in escrow g
formal statement as chairman of the
Republican state committee, in which
he says: II have no disposition or desire
to conceal or ignore the charges OF
| wrongdoing that have been sprung il
the last days of this campaign. Some
of the offenses charged are trivial il
character and can be easily corrected
Others are of the gravest nature, an6
if established as true the offenders
should and must be prosecuted and
punished
No, Mr.. Stubs has learned from
Judge Osborns story to just deny it all
Il did not know he says, anything
about Kelly any more than that 1 was
told that he was good fellow and wa;
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