The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-02
POLITICAL GOSSIP
New Charges Against RadfOrd
Includes His Clerk.
Both Men Must Answer For EN-
beZzIing State Funds.
EXPECTED HAPPENS.
w. S. Glass ReappOinted on Tax
Commission.
Action of Governor Will Give
General Satisfaction.

Attorney General Jackson has dis
missed the old case against John
Radford, former head of the Kansas
grain department, and has fled six
new charges of embezzIement against
him. The amount of the embezzIe-
ment in these specified charges is
$1,366, but it is intimated by the at
torney general that the total amount
of the shortage during Radford's
term of office is close to $4,000, most
of which has been outlawed from
criminal action. A. D. Crotts, chief
clerk under the Radford administra-
tion, must also face six similar
charges. Both men were released on
$1,000 bond.
Radford still protests his innocence
of wrong doing and declares that the
shortage was not his fault and will
endeavor to prove his assertions at
the trial in the Wyandotte district
court
AS forecasted some days ago, Gov
ernor Stubbs has re-appointed w. S.
Glass of MarysvilIe as the Democratic
member of the state tax commission.
Judge Glass term expired yesterday
and when he called upon the COVER
nor to pay his respects before leaving
the state house, Gov. Stubbs reap
pointed him to his place on the COM
mission The only knowledge Judge
Glass had of the governors intentions
in this matter was contained in the
State Journal story some days ago in
which it was intimated that Judge
Glass would hold over until a better
man was found for the place, and the
latter supposition was not a likely
thing to happen
Last winter the governor appointed
Lot Ravenscraft, Democratic repre-
fa ~
place on the commission The west
ern farmer and ex-Popu1ist leader de-
clined the place. The re-appOintment
of Judge Glass to this responsible
place will cause general satisfaction
over the state in both parties and in
business circles. Kansas is proud of
her present tax commission and its
work of administering the new tax
Law.
A Lawrence dispatch states that all
the banks of Douglas county have or
ganized a private bank deposit guar
anty company among themselves and
will sidestep both the state guaranty
and national bankers guaranty asso-
Citations. Now Governor Stubs is in
terested in a couple of Douglas coun-
ty banks and it is passing strange that
these institutions should not come up
close under the wing of the state guar
anty law.
The Wichita Eagle does not see the
necessity for Governor Stubs going
out of the state of Kansas for a prison
expert to take charge of affairs at
Lansing and in boosting Judge E. B.
Jewett, representative in the last leg
islature from Sedgwick, for the place,
declares that Jewett won golden opin-
ions while serving as warden under
Governor Stanley, and Warden Nc
Claughry of the federal prison, whom
Stubs thinks is authority
on prison matters, was among those
who commended Judge Jewett's ad- |
As a result of the investigation by
the tax commission of the falling off |
IN the property assessment in Leaven- |
worth this year, the assessor of Leav- |
anworth county has resigned. 1t de- |
velopS that the assessor was an old |
man. and untitled by sickness for his |
strenuous duties. A new assessor has |
been appointed and this official will |
go after the several hundred taxpayers |
Of that city whose names are not now !
inscribed on the tax rolls.
A short time ago the Shane case |
was reopened by the declaration that |
the governor had declined to pardon |
the old soldier from the penitentiary. |
The governors secretary later inti- |
mated that this report vas premature |
and that the Shane case would be con- |
sidered further. The Lawrence World, |
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