The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-13
ALLEN HEARD FROM.
Writes an Amusing Letter About the
DOOlittIe Expose.

Henry Allen has come back at Chas.
F. Scott with an emphatic denial of
any knowledge of the Doolittle story,
and this statement is confirmed by
signed statement given out by George
A. Flory, eX-county clerk of Douglas
county, and Senator A Henry of Law
renee.
Mr.. Allen, in an interview at Kansas
City. says:
Il cannot, of course, blame Mr.. Scott
fer believing that Mr.. DooHttle is an
honest man, and for praising him for
his stand in behalf of clean politics.
In the first place, Mr.. DoOlittle was
willing TO get up and say that he is an
honest man. He also showed good
spirit in explaining in public that,
after accepting this money to buy Al
len votes with, he heard that I was not
n proper man to send to congress, and
he therefore concluded that he could
not cOnscien6Ously buy any votes for
me His willingness to go to work for
Mr.. Scott would naturally deceive Mr.
Scott for the moment, and am in
clined to think that Mr.. Scott made
larger use of the incident than he
would have done had he taken some
time to think the matter over in all
its phases. So far as ] am personally
concerned, I am sure Mr.. DOOlittle has
been deceived as TO whose money he
accepted. I do not know him. I never
heard of him until yesterday morn
ing's papers Informed me of his exist
ence. j never gave him or any other
man $25, or any other sum to infu-
ence voters in Wakarusa, township or
elsewhere. No man in Douglas county
or anywhere else was ever auth Orized
to spend such money in my behalf. My
personal opinion Of the incident is that
it is a sensation worked UP by Mr..
Scott and his friends in the interest of
! clean politics of which Mr. Scott is
such a well known exponent"
The following letters were given out
1 at Lawrence:
II was surprised that Mr.. Scott
should lend himself into such scheme
as that sprung at the opera house
saturday night. I am somewhat IA
miliar with the circumstances, and
know that the money paid was for the
purpose of taking a poll of certain
townships and wards of Douglas coun-
/ ty- Several friends of Mr.. Allen con-
| tributed to that fund, as we desired
/ to know the feeling of the people on
/ the congressional question. I myself
contributed to the fund, and hired a
man to take poll of one ward in the
I city. paying him out of my own pOck-
/ ct for. doing so. I see nothing i'm
! proper in it. On the contrary. is an
/ absolute necessity in a political cam
/ paign.
Il hone that Mr.. Scott can show
/ that he was tricked into this and that
he is in no way responsible for the
false and dishonest construction that
I the enemies of Mr.. Allen are attempt
! ing to put on a transaction that was
/ in every way legitimate. If I had been
/ for MI Scott before, and IT was shown
+ that he indOrsed such a proceeding as
/ that saturday night could not after
ward support him. and I think every
/ fair minded man wyill take the same
/ view Of the case. Truly yours.
"(SENATOR) A. HENLEY"
Il heard the statement of Mr.. Doc
/ little read at the meeting in the Bower
sock oDera house on Saturday evening
and desire to say that I paid him the
] SZ5 he mentions. Mr.. Allen did not know
] mat the money was paid nor do I think
I he knows Mr.. Doolittle 1t was given
to him three or four months ago for the
/ specific purpose Of paying him for max
/ ing poll of his township, and neg to in
/ f1uence his vote in any way. Several
/ friends of MI Allen in Douglas county
contributed to the funds for making
/ the DOLL There was nothing secret
/ about it. nothing improper. as such
polls are made and paid for by candi-
] dates at every election. I did not con-
! suit Mr.. Allen as to the hiring of Mr..
/ DooGttle. The same poll was to be made
IN several townships and wards in the
| county, and men were paid for doing
/ the work. Mr.. Doolittle fully under
! stood the whole matter and the poll
was not even g. secret one, nor was the
fact that men were to be paid for max
I ing it considered a secret. The trans
action was perfectly legitimate in every
way and there is nothing about it to
/ conceal or deny. Mr.. DOolittle never
/ took the poll as he agreed. The poll was
/ to be taken at the time when it was
! supposed there WOULD be a delegate
[ convention and Mr.. Aliens friends de-
sired to work intelligently and to know
where to do the work. Very truly
"GEO. A. FLORY,
TX County Clerk of Douglas County
for Five Years"
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