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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
Her Ideal of 1t.

An official of one of the telegraph
companies tells an amusing story of a
young woman in Pennsylvania town
who wished to send a telegram to a
New York firm ordering a supply of
dress goods.
After some inquiries as to whether the
line really and truly" did connect
with New York" the young woman
finally decided to afford the company
the benefit of her patronage. Opening
her hand bag, she took therefrom var
ious samples which she consulted from
from time to time as she undertook the
task Of expressing her wants in the
usual ten words" When she had ap-
parently completed the interesting OPP
GRAFTON, she attached two of the samples
to the telegraph form and handed her
message to the man at the window.
Her telegram read as follows:
Blank and company. Send express
four yards sample A and six yards B.
Success Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
THE MATTER WITH GRIMES.

The State Journal yesterday made
an inquiry in these columns as to what
is the matter with T. f. Grimes Why
the State Journal-aud incidentally
many other people-would like to
know. is Mr.. Grimes so anxious to
pay back to the state S7,215 and have
no questions asked?
This morning the Topeka Capital
says the State Journal should give
Mr. Grimes a square deal. This the
State Journal most earnestly wishes
to do. It believes it has done so.
Although large shortage is charged
up against Mr.. Grimes by the states
records, as shown by the Morris re-
port. the State Journal has repeatedly
made it plain that it has not believed
that Mr. Grimes got the money.
The point that the State Journal
has made is that Mr.. Grimes course,
and his apparent anxiety to pay back
S7,215 without waiting to have the
responsibility for it fixed, does him
self a great injustice if he had moth
ing to do with taking the money. Mr..
Crimes course indicates an anxiety to
avoid a legal determination of the re-
/ spOnsibility for taking not only the
1925, but also the $4,000 or $50
600 of other missing coupons which
may or may not have gone to bond
brokers.
In fact. as the state Journal point
ed out yesterday, Mr.. Grimes action
is on par with the man who desires
to restore stolen property and have no
] questions asked.
Mr.. Grimes asserts that he is not
/ legally liable for the shortages
{ cha. 4
the statute of limitations has run on
his bond. If this be true he should
OF course. be entitled to credit for
offering to pay any loss to the state
for which he is only morally liable
( but he is also all the more in a posi-
/ ton to ask that the responsibility be
I fixed.
A far more creditable thing for Mr..
/ Grimes to do would be to make some
such statement as this: 81 am not
legally responsible on my bond for
any of these shortages. but inasmuch
as the accountant has found short
ages in my administration, and 1 do
not know who got the money, stand
ready to make good any shortages
! charged to me or my employees as soon
as the state fixes the responsibility
| therefor"
Somebody apparently desires to be
shielded in this matter. and the public
cannot help believing that Mr.. Grimes
is trying to shield someone in his
anxiety to pay back small portion
of the shortage and have no questions
asked
We trust this is not unfair to Mr..
! Grimes.
The explanations that have been
issued by Mr.. Grimes do rot thoroughly
explain. He has letters from some bond
dealers saying that they were allowed
sometimes to clip some coupons. but they
are not sure just which ones. The
only cases i'm which Accountant Nor
ris' report charges shortages are those
in which it is apparent from the records
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News1
Too many people mistake dignity for
wisdom
A prophet is a person who expects the
unexpected.
Learn to labor while you wait il YOU
would work wonders.
An honest man thinks that q pretty
woman is also a noble work
You can't convince a stubborn man
that it is impossible to convince him.
Some people try to hide their ignor-
ance by saying that they are supersti
tous.
Our idea of a. society man is one vino
neglects to say anything when he
speaks.
Before raising the dust with an an
tomobile it is usually necessary to raise
the dust for one
A diplomatic woman is one who ia
able to keep the same hired girl for
three consecutive weeks.
Just because a man is all right TO-DAY
it isn't a safe bet that he viii not Re
all wrong tomorrow.
A writer says: Nothing is hast
achieved by indirection.' The workings
Of a corkscrew would seem to refute fisis
otherwise plausible theory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Conditions in Kansas and those in
Indiana are so much alike in some
respects that Governor Hoch would do
well to note the prompt and decisive
maner in which Governor Hanly of
Indiana acts.
on the same ticket with Governor
Hanly a man by the name Of Sherrick
was elected state auditor of Indiana
The auditor in Indiana handles state
funds. Sherrick started his official ca
reer by asking the railroads to let him
dispense their passes to members OF
the legislature and others, and offered
in return to do what he could for the
railroads in any way that came handy.
There was nothing to signify that he
would misuse public funds in his ca
reer, however, and when it was dis
covered that he had loaned something
like 100000 of the states money to a
friend. there was considerable surprise.
Sherrick held notes and securities put
up as collateral for the loan, but that
did not count. Some of the securities
were worthless anyway. Sherrick's
hackers, certain railroad officials, Of
fered to to make good the loss to the
state if the governor would allow
Sherrick to retain his Office instead of
prosecuting him, but that was not the
Hanly way.
The governor demanded Sherrick's
resignation.
Sherriek failed to give it.
Governor Hanly declared the Office
vacant and appointed a successor for
Sherrick. The same night he had
Sherrick arrested for misuse of the
public funds.
This was Sherrick's only offense,
but in Kansas T. T. Kelly has repeat
eddy violated the laws. He loaned
S123,0OO of the states money to
finance a notorious bond deal He de-
posted more than half million dol
lars in a local bank for the purpose Of
loanfng it to a bondsman, and the bank
failed. He deposited large sums in
Hutchinson, Wichita and Kansas City
banks when the law expressly stated
that such action was embezzlement
He took $4,000 out of the state treas
ury illegally under the pretense that it
was to reimburse himself for a surety
bond, and it has since developed that
he never paid for the bond.
All of these things are in addition to
what the state accountant finds con-
corning the handling of the school
fund.
Another thing the accountant found
in examining the cash in the treasury
was that Kelly was accommodating
one of his newspaper hackers and his
brother and others with the states
money. which the accountant takes the
pains to point out was in violation Of
law.
Kelly's violation of law has been
going on for months and months, yet
Governor Hoch has neither prosecuted
him, nor demanded his resignation.
Had Harly been governor of Kansas
instead of Hoch, T. T. Kelly would
either have been out of the treasurer's
office or he would be facing prosecu-
ton, or both.
Governor Hoch promised the people
of Kansas that if they would re-elect
Kelly state treasurer he would investi-
gate Kelly and take steps to remove
him if his record were not right. How
much law does Governor Hoch intend
to allow Kelly to violate before he
fulhlIs that promise?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

While the atmosphere is not exactly
as balmy now as it was last week,
Kansas can continue to brag about her
beautiful climate-by. comparison When
Missouri was covered with snow: when
ST. Louis was sleet-bound; then Chi
cago was cut off from the world by
binding sleet and its car lines were tied
up. when Oklahoma was suffering with
q blizzard and the Indian Territory was
receiving upwards of four feet Of snow;
when Iowa and Nebraska were suffer
aug with zero weather, Kansas was en-
soying simply am invigorating tempera-
ture Of twelve degrees above zero and
upwards, and was continuing business
with no serious difficulty whatever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
The Sllah.s Moods.

The shah OF Persia is a man of
moods, and his visits are not always
unmixed joys at the courts he hon
ors. On the occasion of his recent
stay in st. Petersburg his peculiarities
gave infinite trouble to Russian court
officials. One of his most trying lido
syncracies is his habit of occasionally
going to bed for twenty-four hours at
a stretch, giving strict orders that he
is not to be disturbed under pain of
death. More than once the days Sc
lected were those on which special
festivities had been arranged in his
honor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

that the coupons belonged the school
fund. When the school fund commits
sioners allowed bond brokers to clip
coupons they did not certify to the
auditors Office that those coupons had
been bought. OF course not Now if
any of these bond brokers confess to
having coupons which are clearly shown
to have been purchased by the state.
they should be compelled to show how
they got such coupons and compelled
to pay the money into the state.
However, there are some Of these
missing coupons which no bond broker
win stand for. For instance, there is the
case of the bonds sold to the state by
the Sterling board of education through
J. Z. Junlzin, which was made public
for the first time by the State Journal
yesterday. This is one instance in addi-
ton to those which Mr.. Grimes con-
fesses he cannot account for.
No man in the state stands higher
in personal integrity than John e. Jun
kin. editor of the Sterling Bulletin. His
word is unimpeachable. According to
the state accountants report Mr.. jun
kin makes a sworn statement that he
himself sold the Sterling bonds to the
state for the Sterling board of eduea-
ton; that no coupons were clipped and
that all should have gone to the state
school fund
Accountant Morris says that the first
two coupons on each of these bonds
were paid to the state fiscal agency in
New York and placed to the credit of
the state treasurer. Neither of them
have been accounted for in the school
fund
Who Got the Money?
We trust it is not unfair to Mr..
Grimes to ask this question, nor to in
sist that he help the state to determine
who did get it, instead of his paying it
back and asking that no questions be
asked.
All of this. however. is a diversion
from the main question now at imme-
date issue What connection did the
present state treasurer have with these
shortages?
It has been shown that T. T. Kelly
has violated law time and again since
he has been treasurer. It is known
taht he embezzled money from Miami
county, which was not discovered until
after he had been Mr.. Grimes assistant
for three years. and until after most
of the shortages charged to Grimes oc-
CURED. The Garden City $1,4O2.50
was traced directly into his hands.
Is not the public warranted in be-
lieving that Kelly had something to do
with these Grimes shortages?
Mr. Grimes intimates that C. R.
Richey was the cuIprit, but in view of
Richey's reputation for honesty and
Kelly's reputation for dishonesty, the
public demands to have it proven on
Richey before believing it. It is not
impossible that in several years close
association with Kelly, Richey may
have become corrupted, but it is i'm
portant to the state, and should be ex-
tremely important to all innocent par
ties that the truth be known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
REFLECTIONS or A BACHET.on

IFrom the New York Press
Wouldn't insurance against noofl,sr--
in-law go like wTdhre?
When you tell a girl she is pretty T.
IS a sign she viii thinF she is nraftier
than she is. -ei4i
money is son1stl,i7,s- l ne mat making
overs and angel cake. Pup
It makes an employee feel he has bss.
cheated to have a relative die hefo-s -, y
baseball season opens. .''s
A man with ten children. brae
deal more about it than thew ~, - , -
they come to divide up his estate. = 1'-'.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
THE BURTON WAv.

After discharging his secretary. w.
W. Smith, Senator Burton has apnoint-
ed his brother, w. S Burton, instead.
As there will be no legitimate work for
his private secretary to do except draw
the 1,500 salary. this act has greatly
lncensed the members Of the senate and
a resolution may be intro luced cutting
Off the salary of both tie Burt 3ns pend
ing the action of the court for appeal.
with the proviso that should Burton
be set free he be allowed full pay.-Man-
haitian Nationalist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
COBURNs HINTS.

Secretary Coburn of the Kansas state
board of agriculture has sent out his
products of 1905. worth S2SS. s19. 900. to
which must be added s170, 100000 worth
of live stock. No wonder the Kansas
farmer is getting to be money loaner.
and that, as Mr.. Coburn hints, he has
cut out the race suicide" misery of
the ''effete east and is populating the
state.-American Elevator and Grain
Trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Don't exaggerate your handicaps.
If you have the desire. any handicap
may be overcome. John O'Grady of
McKeesport, Pa. was born without
arms. but when arrested yesterday
for throwing brickbats at his wife, he
whipped the two policemen who ar
rested him, and made his escape.
Still. he was badly Handicapped
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Attorney General Hadley of Missouri
who is doing the stunts with the stand
ard Oil magnates was born IN Olathe,
Kansas. That explain il. He begar
his career by questioning the PUPILS of
the deaf and dumb asylum there. Pa
haps H, II. Rogers WAS one Of the
pupils there.-Lindsborg Recor1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Listen to this cruel thrust from the
Chicago News: Nov that a shortage
of $4,000 has been discovered i'm the
Kansas state treasury. some unfeeling
people viii have the nerve to call the
attention Of the state to the old saying
that reforms should begin at home
And the News -rubs it in by printing a
picture of Kansas yelling through a
megaphone. I'VE want national re-
form while a mysterious Individual
wearing a mask on his face-possibly
ga. r.. Browns making away with
Kansas grip containing $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
FR0N OTHER PENS



The old methods of campaigning are,
in fact, obsolete. Strategy and secrecy
have lost their value in politics The
old-time campaign textbook and the
distorting party leaf1et have been tossed
to the ash heap. The voters cannot be
tricked and hoodwinked; they must be
Won by frankness and openness The
backstairs conspirator and the inventor
of campaign roorbacks and forgeries
find their occupation gone. Candidates
for the presidency must stand today on
their personalitioe and the records of
their parties. The traditional role of
our national committees has been sensi-
bly, diminished, and there is no excuse
for the perpetuation of a system which
permits these committees to disburse
without check or scrutiny, enormous
and virtually supeT1uous campaign
funds. If congress cOmpels
every national political committee to
open its books If viii at once restore
q sounder balance in politics and kill
a humbug industry which it is time to
extirpate.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Senator Beveridge's book i'm which he
guessed that Russia would eat up Japan
has been reduced from $3.50 to 81 cents
The trouble with Beveridge was that he
didn't write his book seon enough If
he had sprung it a year or two caller
people would nave forgotten all about
his prediction before the war came along
and dfsDroved if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

To persons who are fair-minded it
goes without saying that the people of
the Filipinois. as of Porto Rico, are
entitled to be placed in the same favor
able position with regard to trade as
the states and territories of the Union.
If they are living under the United
States flag they should not be treated
as aliens.-Brooklyn Citizen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

The manager rushed into the prop
erty room excitedly
Where is the apple to put on Tells
sons head?" he cried. The audience
is waiting. There's not minute to
lose
The property man put down his news
paper and took his pipe from his mouth
Tell ate it," he said calmly. You
didn't pay him yesterday and he stew
ed it for his supper. II Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganizatton for exclusive evening pubn~
cation.
The state Journal receives for exclusive
Ruolicatiol the leased wire report Of the
publishers Press for the edition for sun
Qav morning
The news is received in the State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Dose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

IF we could only can UP all this energy
that goes to waste in hazing at Annapo-
lis and turn it loose on our enemies in
time of war, the United States would
become greater than ever. No army
would stand being hazed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

mat the action Of Harvard and other
universities and colleges. great and
small, must compel a change in the
game if it is to be saved at all seems
perfectly clear That it is worth saw
ing is the opinion of most old players,
but there can be no doubt whatever
that the reform must be exceedingly
thorough.-Chicago Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

The more that is discovered about
Tom Kelly's bond broker friends who
viii shield him, he says, from the
charge of stealing school bond cou-
pons. the more it looks as though the
entire outfit ought to be investigated
con sllsufci0n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

1T is pretty safe to guess that Tam
many won't put up such a hard fight
for Mayor Mcclellan rext time Tam
many probably feels like it had bought
gold brick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
QUIETING THE STAMPEDE.

LNCI see a nerd OF Texas SteefS
start on a stampede? Ever notice
how the cowboys circled round them
and turn them so as to get them under
control2 Watch Jim Troutman, w.
r. Stubs, ct al They are riding in
d circle and singing now. Watch EN-.
-Minneapolis Better WaY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Il seems that "a Frenchman is going
TO enter Walter WeIlman's airship race
TO the pole-only the Frenchman is
going south. There is plenty of room
Cor other entries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

Practically everybody, barring perhaps
the newspapers whom T. r. Kelly "ac-
commodated,' was justified i'm believing
that Kelly ought to be Investigated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

The foreign commerce of the United
States for 1905 amounted to nearly
three billion dollars which is about
twelve hundred millions more than it
was ten years ago. We are growing
some all right. all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
ABOUT THE TARIFF.

The introduction of a Joint resolution
to provide for reciprocity treaties may.
however. prove the hrebrand that will
infame the smoldering fire of tariff
revision. With the steady and increas-
ing pressure for revision among large
proportion of both houses. supported
by constituencies that are making their
demands more and more urgent, the
crisis may be precipitsted at any time
and through apparently inadequate
causes. 1t may be that the tug of war
will begin soon after the increased Ger
man tariff pinches the meat and grain
producers of the west. Some of the Re
publican members from the west are on
thin ice and they are not Oblivious to
the warning signs. They may turn
back at any time, regardless of party
whips. in order to save themselves
washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

It is barely possible that Kansas will
have sense enough pretty soon to
keep her insurance money at home
Smith County Messenger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

The transcontinental railroads not
only prefer a Panama canal of the lock
pattern, but they go so far as to favor
one Of the deadlock pattern.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23
TOUCH on LITERATURE.

Tom Lawson threatened % take 70
his uen if he lost his fortune. Former
Governor OdeIl never thought of writ
ing books till he lost his political power.
At this rate literature VIII soon be lit
tie more than a refuge for failures
Charleston News and Courier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

If it was "A. r. Brown" who broke
into the Merchants National bank,
very likely he viii send back that fifty
cents if the officers get hot on his trail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-23

An exchange speaks of americans
who bought property on the Isle of
Pines. Well they certainly didn't
buy much.