The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-24
THE TURNING DOWN OF BAILEY.

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Kellys methods.
THE TURNING DOWN OF BAILEY.
As history grows older the action of
the last Republican state convention
shows more and more as one of the
greatest pieces of injustice that ever
disgraced the state of Kansas. The
injustice consisted in the turning down
of Governor W. ]. Bailey and the ex-
altation of man like T. T. Kelly; and
that, too, through fraud and dis
honesty.
Governor Bailey undoubtedly made
some Observation-Disclosures has never had
a governor who has not, but his ad-
ministration was clean and it averaged
up high. Yet because he demanded a
reform in the state treasury, I. T.
Kelly and his pals made people be-
lieve he was responsible for evils with
which he had nothing to do, and they
invented other imaginary ones.
And Bailey was turned down and
Kelly was exalted
The legislature of 1903 made appro-
priations somewhat larger than the
care for the states public institutions.
raise the states assessed valuation
nearly twenty-five million dollars and
to make a big raise in the state tax
levy so that he might have more than
half million dollars extra money to
deposit in the banks. That is the
money that he has been loaning to his
chief bondsman, Mr.. Devlin, through
the First National bank!
Yet this man Kelly and his pals
raised the cry that the legislature had
been extravagant in its appropriations
and raised the taxes, and that Cover
nor Bailey was responsible, although it
was an actual fact that Kelly's senate
tried to make far larger appropriations
than did the house, and it was the
house that held the senate down.
Taking advantage of the feeling that
this created, Kelly, Burrow, Dayhof,
Coleman ct al encouraged Bent
Murdock, Stubbs, and few others
who were dissatisfied for personal rea-
sons, and started the boss buster move
ment They must have a man who
was popular with the people and SO
E. w. Hoch was drafted to run for
governor against Bailey.
Hoch believed that he, too, had felt
the sting of injustice. Many thought
that Hoch had been entitled to the
state Partnership in 1903. He would
have got it had not Cur
tbs tried to ride into the United States
senate on Hoch's popularity. This
fact drove votes away from Hoch and
he lost. 1t was the fortune of war
and that was all.
Although Burrow, Mackey and other
boss buster leaders had done far more
against Hoch for state printer than
Governor Bailey had done, Hoch was
persuaded that Bailey caused it by the
use of his patronage. Hoch asserted
that Bailey ought not to have done
anything for his friend, George Clark.
that Hoch had fought
Bailey's nomination, while Clark had
stood ready to make any sacrifice for
it. Bailey was denounced for aiding
the defeat of Hoch for state printer,
yet Hoch had not been governor six
weeks before he was doing far more
to legislate Henry Allen out of office
than Bailey did to defeat him for state
printer.
But this is only a side issue, al
though it enters into the injustice done
Governor Bailey.
The Kelly Stubbs Murdoch Hoch
had the aid of most of the
big daily papers, which circulate in
the state except the State Journal.
Bailey was abused in season and out
of season. Then disgusted with the
injustice of it all he announced that he
would not be a candidate for renomi-
the boss busters had it
all their own wayi
Then came the Wichita convention
with the outrages that were COM
mitted by throwing out the legal dele
cations from Miami, Wyandotte, jack
son and Atchison counties, so that
Kelly and others of the boss buster
gang might be nominated. Bailey
was turned down and Tom Kelly was
exalted!
How would you feel, Mr.. Kansas
Man, if your neighbors abused you
and turned you down and praised and
exalted a man whom you knew to be
a thief?
How would you feel if you realized
that the foundation of their action was
caused by your trying to safeguard
their interests?
Governor Bailey in his message to
the legislature OF 1SVS recommended
that a state depository law be passed
similar to the one which passed the
last legislature, and that is what Kelly
and his crowd did not like. They
could not run Bailey, and that CALLED
them. That is why they started the
urrection-simply because Governor
Bailey refused to let the Kelly-Burton
element run the state, and because he
asked the legislature to fix it so that
the state treasurer could not loan the
states money for his own profit.
If you were treated this way, Mr..
Citizen, do you think you could dener:
yourself with the dignity and good
sense that has characterized w. j.
Bailey in the face of the injustice done