The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Carr W. Taylor mails a Cam
paign Lie"
No Missouri Pacific Money Used
in Reno County.
EXPECT "A STATEN ENT.
Believed That Mr.. Stubs Will
Have Something to Say.
May Tell Real Facts About Rail-
road Contributions.
Expect A STATEMENT.

Carr w. Taylor, of Hutchinson, for
mer attorney for the board of railroad
commissioners, and a prominent MEM
Der of the Reno county "boss buster
legion that enlisted under the banner
of W. r. Stubs and helped to turn
the tide of battle in his favor by elect
ing a Hoch delegation in Reno county
in 1903, was in Topeka today.
Mr. Taylor denied vigorously the as
sertion that w. r. Stubs used any
Missouri Pacific money. as charged by
the Democrats. to carry Reno county
for the boss busters.
THE money which was used in the
Reno county fight says Mr.. Taylor,
was used for legitimate campaign
purposes. 1t was collected by contri-
buttons from about 80 or 40 men who
were interested in defeating the Bailey
administration. Mr.. Stubs himself
contributed $500. Mr.. Stubs need have
no hesitancy in making public de-
tailed statement of just where that
money came from and how it was
spent, if he happens to have such a
statement. I don't know that he will
care to enter into controversy with
the Democrats in this matter. What l
have said has been entirely upon my
own responsibility. 1 was right in the
thick of that Reno county fight.
know how hard we worked, and know
how much money was spent. 1t was q
comparatively small amount"
The charge of the Democratic central
committee, made in a circular which
they are distributing broadcast over the
state, is that the Missouri Pacific con-
tributed $4,000 to Stubs and the boss
busters, and that $4,000 of that sum
was used in swinging Reno county.
To square the account with the Mis-
souri, Pacific the Democrats claim that
in 1904 the Missouri Pacific assess
ment was reduced a million dollars,
thereby saving that company 100000
in taxes.
The Democrats are also circulating
as a campaign document the charge
that after Hoch's nomination, w. r.
Stubs, as chairman of the Republican
state committee, accepted $1,000 each
from the Santa Fe, Rock Island and
Union Pacific railways as a contribu-
ton to the Republican campaign.
Some Imprinted History.
While Mr. Taylor emphatically de-
MES the charges of the Democratic
committee, there is a story about the
Missouri Pacific contribution to the
boss buster campaign which has never
been made public. Even Mr.. Taylor
might find news in it for him. and
Mr. Stubbs is said to have been only
recently informed of the facts.
There were two crowds" fighting
for the defeat of Bailey in the boss
buster campaign. One crowd was COM
posed of Stubbs and the square deal
ers;' the other crowd was composed
of Tom Kelly, Joe Burrow and a clique
of their friends who didn't like Bailey,
and were willing to cooperate with
anybody for his overthrow.
The -Burrow crowd claims
that it spent $4,000 in Reno county,
entirely independent of the work
which was done there by the boss
busters. and without the knowledge of
Mr. Stubs. The Kelly crowd also
claimed to have spent $4,000 more in
other parts of the state, helping out
the boss buster movement wherever
Kelly thought some money would do
some good.
The Missouri Pacific railway was