The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-27
1T WAKES WARM.
DayhOff-Lyon Controversy Nears
Critical Stage.
They Almost Call Each Other
Naughty Names.
RADGES TAKES A HAND.
He Got Caught With Agricul-
tural Chart Warrants.
Text of the Letters Which ssPass
in the Night"
RADGES TAKES A HAND.

call meeting of the text book com
mission to rescind the endorsement
given by the commission to the $3.50
T agricultural charts recently sold in
Kansas is because Mr.. Dayhon is per
sonally interested in their sale.
1t is also limited by Willard Z. Lyon
i Of Lincoln, one OF the members of the
text book commission, that the reason
mr.. DayhOn has delayed calling meet
ing of the state text book commission is
4 because pe may have some connection
with the company.
/ OF course 1t would be hard to prove
I the charges intimated by Mr. Radges
and Mr.. Lyon, but Mr.. Lyon is said to
be trying to secure evidence on that
point in his letter to Mr. Lyon. Mr..
+ Radges says in his letter to Mr.. Lyon:
referring to the enclosed article
published in the Topeka Daily State
/ Journal on Wednesday eve5linP, Nereh
IA, and having personal interest In
+ The matter. i lee1 1t lay duiy 10 p4lt 5-4
I in possession of the facts pertaining to
] my experience with them, and throw
/ little more light on the subject that you
are so justly ventilating, and in apprec-
iation Of the stand which you have ia
ken to wipe out one of the worst gratis
that ever gained legal foothold in the
state of Kansas.
My Investigations some months since
/ of this gigantic fraudulent concern
show that they have had trouble in 9TH
er states and have been driven out Of
4 one or two. also know that I. L.
Dayton and John L. Little, are per
/ sonal friends, the latter being an ex-
Kansan and former resident OF Usage
/ City which probably accounts for the
I personal letter of recommendation from
4 DayhOf already referred TO- You
I nav draw your own deduction, but to
a man up a tree, It looks very much as
/ If the graft was not confined to the
I Chicago outfit. I had two interviews
nth Dayhon regarding the Nemaha
/ county warrants, and he wrote several
/ letters officially in an effort to have
them paid by the district but failed
Il wonder now III any other school
! supply houses have official letters from
the state superintendent Of public in
structiOn booming their publications
and supplies and # the American Book
company has not valuable ally at
this time holding public trust IN our
state administration %
Mr. Radges goes on to explain his
dealings with the Omitted State Agri-
cultural society, which is the publisher
of the charts endorsed by the state text
book commission. He was approached
in January, 1905 by John L. W1lllatns
formerly principal Of the Topeka High
school who informed him that he was
manager for Kansas for the L. s. Agri-
/ cultural society. He showed Mr.. Rad
ges the endorsement of the state text
/ book commission, and also personal
letter written by State superintendent
Davhoff in which Mr. DayhOm highly
recommended their goods, and urged
their use in the schools. MI Williams
wanted to make a contract with MI
Radges to buy a lot Of county warrants
which his company expected to secure,
and 1t was agreed that Mr.. Williams
should furnish Mr.. Radges with SlOoOU
worth of warrants prior to July l.
Some of the warrants which were fur
nished to Mr.. Radges were not en-
dorsed by the treasurers of the districts
/ which had issued them, and he sent
them back for the endorsements He
then learned that there was trouble in
the air Some of the districts even re-
fused to return his warrants, and one
treasurer wrote that he would resign
his office rather than sign the warrants
Thus a lot Of worthless warrants were
left on Mr.. Radges' hands, and he can
lcehed his contract with the chart peo-
Dayhof Stands Firm.
State superintendent l. L. Dayhoff, in
a letter to Mr.. Lyon at Lincoln, de-
clares that it is his intention to con-
tinue running the advertisement for
the agricultural charts in his paper, the
Kansas Educator, according to the
contract.
Il have nothing to do with making
contracts for advertising, says MI
Dayhoff in his letter to Mr.. Lyon. That
is left entirely to my business manager,
and I have enough honor about me
when a contract is made to stand by it.
The company, while 1t is responsible
for the acts of its agents, are not the
IawIess parties that you are trying to
make of them. Some of the best
= things that have ever been sold in Kan
sas have been sold in an Illegal and
outrageous manner I asked them to
I with draw from the state, pending an
investigation of the state text book
7 commission They did so. How do
know that they have left the state2
have enough manhood in me to believe
a man when anything is signed over MS
written signature that he is honest UNI
less believe him to be otherwise. I
have none of the sulking, suspicious
Indian nature in me that makes me
believe that all men are dishonest
! Judging from your letter I would sus-
pect that It was a case of sour grapes
with you.
IF you live a little longer you viii
find out that your bluhing does not do.
If you VIII spend as much time attend
ing to your private business as you are
trying to run this office you viii be bet
ter off in the long run, and viii not
have to draw on your dad so often. "
superintendent DayhOm also sent to
Mr. Lyon couple of typewriter pages
of nice notices copied from some die
tionary Of quotations. all relating to
Lyons Hot Reply.
Mr. Lyons reply to Mr. Dayhon's
letter was fierce attack He said in
part:
You say that you have no RESPONSE
bility in the making Of contracts for
advertising IN your magazine the
Kansas Educator, but that you are in
tensely responsible that they be full
hued-that they be paid for. You start
ia with nothing and you end with
something. No matter how badly your
manager is deceived by Inscriptions
companies you are going to carry out
the contract and let the public SUI
fer. You can never make a sane ger
/ son believe that you don't know all
about the making Of such contracts as
we have mentioned. AS matter of
fact, didn't you arrange It yourself?
DO you suppose you could convince a