The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-01
ONE ON DOLLEY.
J. d. Kramer Says Official Has Admit
ted 1t YVES Illegally Used.

The field of activity in the letter
writing campaign has shifted from the
former principals to J. n. Dolley, the
&.ailt hand man of the governor, and
YJHlsi Kramer, secretary of the Wagstafr
Campaign corr mittee. Two letters nave
already passed between these gentle
men, and now Kramer comes forward
with a charge against Mr. Dolley IN
relation to the manner in which ne
spends money for postage stamps in MS
capacity as state bank commissioner.
MIR. Kramer's statement is as 1oHoWS.
Hon. ]. n. Dolley.
Dear Sir:-In an open letter address
ed to you last week, / charged ina |
during your incumbency in the office oL
state bank commissioner, you have reg
uiarly drawn $3.50 from the state treas
ury, each month, for postage; that dur
ing the first fiscal year OF your term
In Office you have drawn from the state
treasury, ostensibly to reimburse you
for money expended for postage to be
used for state business, $1,000 more than
was drawn by your predecessor for the
same purpose for corresponding per
iod. and I called upon you for an ex
planation- II response to this demand
for an explanation, you say in your let
ter to me:
And now with reference to the $3.50
Per month to which you refer; i ms
money comes out of my contingent
all the incidental expenses of this de-
partment, including the compensation
paid an extra stenographer,
by your statement above quoted
MI. Dolley, you are convicted OF per
Jury as it is ordinarily understood. The
records in the Office of the state and
itor discloses that you have monthly
made sworn statements that the state
' as indebted to you, each time IN the
Gum of $3.50 on account OF postage
that instead of using this money to
pay postage. YOU have used 1t for IN
cidental expenses, including the COM
pc nsation paid an extra stenographer
Ii your latter statement be correct,
rVere not your sworn statements false?
when fling vouchers with the audi
tor and making sworn statements
thereto, latent on drawing the people S
money from the treasury you we're sys-
tematically silent as 10 your intent to
Use the money for the purposes for
which you now say it was expended.
OF the truth of this assertion, the
vouchers themselves. are the best evil
<dence. They are alike but 1 choose
for the purposes of illustration the one
to which you subscribed your name I'M
,-aer zach March 81, 1910. 1t reads as
follows:
The State of Kansas
TO ]. N. Dolley, DR..
March 81. To postage. $3.50
SLaIS Oh Kansas, shawnee county, S. ]
g I do sulelnnly swear that the above
bill is just, correct, and remains due
and unpaid; that the amount claimed
therein is actually due according to law. |
(Signed) j. n. DOLLEY.
this 31st day of March, A. D., 1910.
tscaD ANNA F. sPECK.
Notary Public
when the diversion of this money
from the uses to which you swore It
was to be put, was uncovered, you
sought to excuse yourself by a state |
n ent that you have used the money for
Incidental expenses and salaries. If |
you were putting this money to honest |
rses. why did you make sworn state |
nients which you now admit to have |
been false? Would it have been any
more trouble to state it was for an
extra stenographer?
You say that the expenditure of this |
$3.50 a month, in the manner in which
you excuse it, has proceeded with the
consent and approval of the state
auditor Is that true? When YOU first
began to draw money from the state
treasury under the postage pretext,
you made your vouchers read postage
ETC. You were informed that the |
vouchers could not be audited in that |
form, and that if you used any norton
of the amount claimed for expenses
other than postage you must set out
the specific purposes for which it was
used. You, or your subordinates, then
caused the etc to be erased from the
vouchers. The vouchers themselves
show these erasures. But you did not
tell the auditor that you were paving
salaries out of your postage fund.
Neither did you amend your affidavit
that the state owed you $3.50 for post
age.
And now as to your statement thai
you have used a portion of this fund to
pay all the incidental expenses of this
department. In making this assertion