The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-08
mr.. STUBS ONCE MORE.
Writes Chapter III in His Controversy
With Henry Allen.


Chapter Three of the Stubbs-AIen
controversy has just gone to press
from the pen of W. r. Stubs. Stubs
makes some vicious swipes at Allen
with his trusty steel. And yet Mr..
Stubs says he is taking no interest in
the Second district fight and has not
spent more than a day considering
that matter all told Here is Stubs
latest piece:
Mr.. Allen seeks to deceive and mis-
lead the public by his false and mis-
leading statements in last Sundays pa
pers- He lodges, eVades and entirely
ignores the questions of supreme In
terest to the voters of the Second dis
trlct. viz Did Allen trade votes in the
legislature for partnership in the
state printing business Next after
he secured this business, did he lobby
and work against the interest of the
state while in the employ of the state
on this point I wish to say that Mr..
Allen does not pretend to deny that he
had such partnership interest. on the
contrary, he admits to his friends that
he did have such interest. I know
positively that he worked to defeat the
senate binding and stitching bill which
would have saved the state had it be-
come law, several thousand dollars.
An old reliable employe of the state
printing plant told me that the net
profits on the binding and stitching
amounted to not less than $4,000 dur
ing the Clark and Allen term.
Can an honest man sell his time
and energy to the state and then use
that time and energy against the state?
Mr. Allen was an OfficehOlder OF the
state His time was paid for by the
state, and yet he was using his time
against the state and for his own
benefit secretly sharing in another Of
fee. If this is patriotism. if this is
honesty, if this is loyalty, then I have
no conception of the meaning of these
words If the next session of the Kan
Loo Lot F1z
Viding THAI @ay person who Hobbies and
works against the interest of the state
while in the employ of the state shall
be forever disbarred and disqualified
from holding public Office it viii fail
to perform a perfectly plain duty.
This is question of public policy,
a question of common honesty; a Ques-
ton of whether public Office is
public trust or a private graft. The
greatest curse of our day and time is
the public officer who places personal
interest above public service. The
Greek and Roman republics fell be
cause their public men lacked com
mon honesty. lacked patriotism and
placed personal interest above the in
terest of the people
IF our nation shall endure. then
our national representatives must be
public spirited. honest men, men who
will not swerve a hairs breadth from
the right; men who will inspire our
young men with high ideals; men who
viii stand for the noblest, the best, the
purest things in life; men who are
above suspicion of Wrongdping.
"The truth is Mr.. Allen does
dare deny the charges. and seems will
ing to go to any extremity. right or
wrong. to attract public attention from
them.
Mr. Allen might also explain on
what theory he. as chairman of the
state board of control. authorized the
superintendent of the school for feeble
minded children at Winfield to secure
from the state $147.63 under false
pretense and by a fraudulent voucher.
to take a trip back east.
wv. r. STUBBS."