The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-05-04
.e0Y. R0gH TRIED 10 KIss HER
EMBARRASSING STORY OUT ON
THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS.
Sweating Under the Collar, for Mrs
w Z. Stanley, Whom HOch Tried
TO Embrace-Says It's True


A Topeka press dispatch, sent out
Saturday, says that a new feature
has been injected into Kansas republi-
can politics by the story made public
that Governor HOcn had last winter
attempted 70 kiss and embrace Mrs.
Stanley, wife OF W E Stanley, ex-
governor OF the state The story IS
by no means new 1t was given wide
private circulation during the winter
and early spring, but it is given ad-
ditOnai color at this time for Mrs
Stanley IN an interview Terthes the
rumOr-
How the story happened to be
made public Just az this time, three
/ days before the state convention, is
not known but the common SuppOs1-
/ ton is that the governors political
! enemies may have had a hand in it
I The newspaper which published the
article here today has been unfriend-
Z " TO the governor almost since his
/ election and on the editorial page OF
I this afternoons paper there is a re-
commentator that HOch be not re-
nominated What eject the revival
/ Of the story viii have upon the gov
/ errors candidacy for denomination is
difficult to tell, but his friends say
l that il is so palpably a move Of his
enemies that il viii act as a boomer
I ang to those who inspired 1t, rather
I than a boon It is also stated by the
/ governors friends that Governor
HOch meant no wrong, even il he did
attempt to careSS Mrs Stanley. The
/ governor belongs to the old time Ne
I y the outward manifestation OF
brOtherly feeling, and IL is insisted by
those who are apparently in a posi-
ton to know that Mrs Stanley mis-
construed HOch's actions
Occurred Last December.
Mrs. Stanley was a member Of the
board Of lady visitors appointed by
| Governor HOch. 1t was her duty, with
Mrs James Lewis, to visit several
state Institutions and make recon-
mendatiOns to the governor Of need
ed improvements for the comfort Of
the inmates.
Last December Mrs. Staney came to
Topeka and called upon the governor
at his executive Office While there
il is said the governor attempted to
embrace and kiss her. She left the
Office in Indignation Later Mrs.
Stanley cOnfided TO a To Neka woman
what had happened ana inside Of a
few days the story had travelled BY
state to the other. Few took the in
cident seriously, and the matter was
dropped when Mrs. Stanley, at the
time Of the Kansas day banquet, jan
uary %, was one Of the receiving par
! ~ at the governors mansion Ever
since that, HOch'S enemies have been
working to get Mrs. Stanley to verify
the rumOr. About three weeks ago
she resigned as member Of the board
OF lady visitors. The following in
teryiew is quoted as Mrs. Stanley's ex-
PLANTATION:
Mrs. StanIey's Statement.
q was asked to Withhold my resig-
nation, but this 1 could not consist
entity do have been asked to deny
the reports about Governor Hoch's
action towards me in his Office, but
/ have told every one who made the re-
quest that 1 would not tell false
= IL -
would much rather that the facts
would not have become public. I
| realize that such report places a
woman in an embarrassing position,
/ but I think that my long residence
/ here in Wichita has been such that
| I am proof against SANDER. I do not
see how I could have done anything
/ else than I did. This report is I'M
/ fortunately true. I realize that the
/ story Will be published after the state
convention and I have appreciated for
/ some time that it could not be sup
/ pressed
/ Governor HOch's Statement.
Governor HOch does not deny that
I brace and kiss Mrs. Stanley is true,
| but he says that the story is grossly
unkind and unjust The statement
! Of Governor HOch follows:
/ ''I do not care to discuss this mat
/ ter except to say that the story which
/ has been whispered around by scan
dal mOngers and has finally found ex-
! travagant coloring in print, is gross
/ " unkind and unjust to me 1t has
/ been circulated by people who have
/ no interest in or regard for the feel
| ings Of either family. I have commit
| ted no Intentional wrong and hold the
/ person in question IN the highest eS-
/ TEEN. Did I not occupy the position
| I do this story would have never been
| peddled or published. 1t is the part
/ Of hyena politics altogether too COM
/ mon in Kansas"
It is said tonight that Ex-Governor
! Bailey's friends are thinking seriously
Of starting another boom for him for
/ governor The last boom for Bailey
I was sprung at the KanSaes day ban
Quet but it was a short lived affair,
for before the meeting was over
Hoch's denomination was freely ad-
/ mitted by the friends Of Bailey.