The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-04
TOLD TO RETRACT
Gov. Stubs Thinks That the
Tax Fight Is All Over.
Senator Curtis Should Retract
and Retire.
QUOTES THE AUDITOR.
QUOTES THE AUDITOR
Then Adds Tax mission
Budget to Burden.
A Most Remarkable Statement
From Chic I Executive.

Senator Curtis is sparring beautiful
| ly; Governor Stubs is fighting like a
demon. This paraphrase of the message,
sent in the sixth round of the Corhett-
FitZsirnmons fight at Carson City II
years ago best describes the present
status of the political controversy in
this state between the governor and one
of the United States senators.
The governors last contribution to
the melee oozes self-satisfaction in ev-
cry line. The fight is all over and they
are carrying his excellency to the dress
ing room on their shoulders, according
&c the governors statements. He quotes
from State Auditor Nation and the
state tax commission and then wants
the referee to count ten over the I'M
conscious form of the chief of the
Shawnees. More than this he expects
the senator to retract. apologize, give
up the belt and retire humbly to his
tepee. Adm all this, mind you, while
he lies on the ground full OF arrows
with his boxing gloves stuck UP in the
air.
He refers to the senator's last state
ment as weak and cconciliatory eff
fort and in the same breath brands II
as an Outrageous Misrepresentation OF
facts Then he wants to know whether
or not the senator has the fairness
and moral courage to retract his
charges"
The governors most remarkable
statement in full is as follows:
Says Curtis Is Backing Up.
Those who read the last statement
OF Senator Curtis on the tax question
will have noted that the senator mani
tested u dispos it.on to retract from the
&C ntroversy; expressed himself as not
heirg out of sympathy with reform
government and wished this administra-
gratifying to the friends of good gov
eminent, yet the charge which Senator
Curtis published against this admins
tration has not been withdrawn, and
il is not sufficient that he merely drop
the subject with this charge still stand
ing as Misrepresentation of the state,
the party and the administration.
I'm a public speech at Eskridge, KAN
Senator Curtis recently said:
The state taxes this year are nearly
one million dollars over that of last
year; if you want to know the cost or
reform in Kansas look at your tax
bills this year. We have real re |
form government in Kansas now
In answer thereto the state tax COM |
mission in an officially signed statement !
published last week. said:
- The increased tax levy for 1909 was
-ot made because Of increased appro-
oriationS for the present biennial period
II 1910 and 1911 over the biennial period
If 1908 and 1909, but was made for the
sole purpose Oh pldcl11e llAS @~S
lbove stated on a solvent basis
Quotes State Auditor.
ION the same subject, the state au-
1itor says:
In answer to your inquiry concern
ng the condition of our finances at the
of your administration,
will say that on the first day of Decem-
Der, 1908, we had in the general revenue
'und about 100000 AT that time the
expenses of the state for November had
lot been paid. All the taxes of 1907 on
which the state relied for the payment
lad been drawn. AS the running ex-
1enses of the state at that time ap-
$500, 600 a month. it is APP
parent that there was a deficit of about
900 900 which had to be paid out of the
90S levy.
1.-The state auditor further says:
:" The statement, however, furnished
you by Mr.. Davis few days ago ,
hows that the amount of money avail
bile for the two years of your term
will be practically the same as the
mount available during the two years {
# the term of your predecessor. t
Governor Wakes Wroth.
No more outrageous nisrepresenta-
ion of facts concerning any important c
ublic question has ever been made c
uring the political history of Kansas s
han the charge that this administra- =
ion will require nearly one million Z
oilars more to pay the expenses of the
tate government during this year than c
THE COLD CIR