The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-15
STATE NOT READY
Radferd Preliminary Will Prob
ably Be Postponed.
Accountant Gafford Has Not
Completed His Work.
PLACE FOR FRITTS.
Washburn Graduate Will Sue
coed Chaplain McBrian.
Gossip About the Congressman
Is Going On.

The preliminary trial of John Rad
ford, former state grain inspector, is
set for tomorrow at Kansas City, but
it is expected that continuance will
be given until June % in order to al
low the state accountant to finish his
work of examining the records Of the
grain department during the past six
years.
When Crotts. the former chief
clerk of the department was appre-
hended in Kansas City some days ago
he signed a written confession in re-
gard to the alleged shortage in the
grain department. This confession
tends to make the affair a serious
matter for Mr.. Radford as the clerk
claims that he was paid money by the
head of the department in order to
assist in system of defalcation.
John Marshall, assistant attorney
general, who had charge of the case
against Radford in the beginning,
has gone east to visit his relatives
and will likely not be back for sew
era1 days, but Attorney General Jack
son will be present at the Radford
preliminary and the trial will likely
be held on the 22d if the state ac-
countant finishes his laborS by that
time
1t now develops that the discharge
of Chaplain McBrian from the state
prison at Lansing by Warden Haskell.
was the result of an investigation
started in the governors office some
weeks ago. At that time Governor
Stubs sent Louis T. Fritts, a protege
of Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, over to
the penitentiary with a recommends
ton to the board that he be given
civil service examination for the place
of oh MI of the institution Mr.
Fritts made the trip to Lansing and
looked over the situation and would
likely have made formal application
for the place had he not discovered
that he would have to be ordained in
order to be eligible for the chaplaincy.
Young F'ritts is graduate of
Washburn college and was a mission
airy in Ceylon for three years. The
governors idea in selecting this
young man for the place was to Sc
cure a chaplain who would be fitted
by experience and inclination to per-
form a practical and effective work
in the penitentiary among the con-
victs.
The salina Journal says that "Con-
gresham Calderhead has been put
ting in his time since his return from
Washington for a two weeks
vacation, in travelling about the dis
trict explaining his attitude on the
tariff. and telling people that the
proposed tariff is all right, SO it is
claimed. So far as known he has not
been to Salina If he did, he came
in his overshoes or stocking feet, and
was not detected. When he was in
Clay Center. he summoned his Re
they why he had been voting for a
high tariff
The Salina Journal, (Bristow's
paper. then goes on to quote a
prominent Republican as follows:
aThere is one thing sure; and that is
that the Republicans of the Fifth
district will have to get progressive,
modern congressman into the race
this fall. or there will be Democrat
from the Fifth district. Calderhead
face of his attitude on the tariff in
the present session. He has put him
self out of possibility as a candidate
who can be elected. His own
friends realize that it is either a pro-
gressive Republican, or defeat at the
polls"
The Journal is authority for the state
ment that Judge r. r. Rees of Mime
apolis, who made the race for congress
last year. will resign his place on the
bench and enter the lists against Cald-
erhead again next year.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore. Already certain Kansas papers
are devoting columns of space to show
that certain Kansas congressman voted
and worked with the standpatters ano
lreactionaries during the present session
OF congress. And the Kansas states
men in Washington are explaining theil
votes. There is every promise at this
time of a fight next year in all the
congressional districts and in the state
at large that will make the campaigns
of recent years look tame and quiet in