The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-16
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Replies to Charge of the Stubs
Men.
He and Nation Threatened With
Official Extinction.
DEFINES THE OFFENSE
Two Sten0graphers Worked Out
OF Hours for Leland.

/
Incidentally He Tells Why He
Fayors Veteran for Governor.
John @. Royce, state bank commits
sloner. whose Office is involved in the
charge Of ''butting in" preferred by the
Stubs campaign managers, today gave,
out the following statement concerning
the situation:
To the Editor Of the State Journal:
In an article which appeared in your
! paper last evening, it is stated that
/ the managers of Mr.. Stubs campaign
Tor the gubernatorial nomination, are
i to make war upon Auditor Nation and
assigning as reason that certain en-
ployes in his Office have been putting
IN their time sending out literature for
Mr.. Leland. who is also a candidate
for governor. The same article says
that the same charge is made against
employees in the bank commissioners
ONCE. The article quotes Senator J. N.
Dolley, Mr.. Stubbs' manager as fol-
lows: 1--WE will find somebody to run
for auditor against Mr.. Nation and
closing his interview as follows: I'VE
won't stand for interference by other
state officers in this gubernatorial
fight. 1t is perfectly fair inference
to construe this statement into a
threat that if the present bank COM
missioner does not order discon-
| tinuance of any future services by his
clerks. for Mr.. Leland that his head
\ will come under the official axe when
Mr.. Stubs is made governor. 1t is
| also reasonable to suppose that other
appointees of the governor are to take.
| warning from this threat that they too
| will meet the gubernatorial headsman
| If they do not clumb into the Stubs
band wagon and report very early in
| the campaign that they are in.
Not with desire for notoriety, but
only that the facts may be known to
the readers of your paper, do 1 make
this feeble effort at a reply.
Women Who Have No Votes.
i The only reason that Mr. Dol1ey
4 or any other person, whose name ap
pears upon Mr.. Stubs pay roll, has
for making any such charge, is, that
commissioners office, and Mrs. City
eat. clerk in the auditors office.
have been doing some stenographic
/ work for Mr.Leland, outside OF their
| office hours, for such consideration
as they have agreed upon, and as they
| have often done for others who may
need their services. These women are
both fine stenographers and depend
upon their own labors for their liv-
I ing. Mrs. Gilyeat is a widow with a
young daughter to support and edu-
! cate and in my judgment, it ill-be-
| comes men who are spending money
4 as they are at the Stubs headquar-
tiers to object to two women, who can
neither vote themselves nor have hus-
| bands or brothers to influence, to at
| tempt to Interfere with their earning
a few dollars in what consider per-
fectly legitimate business These wo-
| men would respond as quickly if their
services were asked for at the Stubs
headquarters and any information
] they might obtain in such confiden-
tial employment would be as safe
with them as though locked in the
| breasts of the managers of that head
/ quarters, and Mr.. Dolley knows that
neither Mr.. Nation nor myself would
offer the least objection to their rem
/ dering such services.
This is absolutely all there is to the
charge above made. There is not a
single deputy or clerk in the bank
commissioners office who has rem
/ dered one single minutes time at Mr..
Lelands headquarters, except as
above stated and Senator Dolley
| knows it as we'll as I do. I have no
i personal knowledge of what the other
employees of the auditors office are
doing. but Mr.. Davis, the assistant au-
EDITOR informs me that the same Is
| true of all of his office force.
| = Won't Be Frightened.
The piled threat that I am to
| lose nv official head will not serve to
| frighten me into any dark corner. nor
cause me to refuse to support VINO
ever, in my judgment, is the best
| equipped man for the high office OF
| governor of this state, nor will such
| threat prevent my loyal support or
| Mr.. Stubs, should he be made the
nominee of his party at the August
primaries. In my judgment every Re-
| nuhIican should so conduct himself
| in the preliminary campaign that
when the majority speak he can sup
port the nominee. I always have
done this and always la,ns, expect TO TO s ana
coed myself will not deter me from
| doing so this year,
| No single deputy in my office has
been appointed because he was
| s,1nporter of Stubbs or OF Leland, but
| they were all appointed upon their
! own merits and I am proud to say
| they are all making good. They are
as ready to render proper service to
| Mr. Stubs and Mr.. Dolley as they are
| one of them has ever been called
nnon the carpet to inquire who his
nersonal choice is for governor nor
| will they be. I am informed that
| some of my deputies are favorable to
Mr.. Stubbs's nomination and some IA
| vor Mr.. Leland, but think can
| promise that none Of them will ever
neglect their official duty to render
service to any candidate Tor once,
and so long as they do not, they are
| All at perfect liberty to support
| whom they please and in such man
! ner as they please without losing
| their Jobs, SO. long at least. as mine
why He Is for Leland.
/ Personally. have been an admirer
of the sound Republican1sm OF MT;
| leland for a quarter of century and
know something Of the great services
| which he has rendered his party. I
am somewhat acquainted with his
1 great business ability and his wonder
| ful- knowledge of the affairs of this
| .+,+a ond heIieve he would make an