The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Geo. A. Neeley Makes Hot Re-
ply to Dawson.
Resents InsinuatiOn That He Is
a Carpetbagger.
FRED QUINCY is HERE
Believes Judge Rees Will Win
Congressional Nomination.
He Admits CaIderhead Has a
Great Many Friends.

I The Dawson-Neeley dispute continues
to rage. The latest is statement re-
ceived today by the State Journal from
Mr.. Geo. A. Neeley, who is Governor
| Stubs brother-in-law. It follows:
To the Editor of the State Journal.
My attention has been called to a re-
cent issue of your paper containing an
effusion of Mr.. John S. Dawson, attor-
ney for the board of railroad COM
missioners, but a careful nerusal of thai
article disclOseS that he nowhere de-
MES writing the letter to Mr.. Eek, in
which he stated that the railroads and
the lumber trust are in together, and
that he, as attorney for the board Of
railroad comm issioners could give the
shippers of the state no relief; that he
nowhere denies making the trip to St.
Louis in company with Bale Waggener,
general attorney for the Missouri Pa
cific railroad. where a long conference
was had with certain leading railroad
officials; that he nowhere denies that
Immediately upon his return from this
meeting he announced himself can
didate for attorney general although
he then had over 18 months to serve
in his present position, at the same
salary he would get as attorney gen.
eral; cilat he nowhere denies senoing
that gratuitous telegram to Bale Wag-
gener, advising him that the state of
Kansas had no objection to the propoS-
ed bond issue, although Governor
Stubbs had demanded to know where
the money was to be expended, and for
what purpose: that he nowhere denies
his gallivanting around the United
States to see what other states are do
ing while the people of his own state
are clamoring for relief that his de-
rartment should give: that he nowhere
deEies that the assistant attorney gem
eraI by virtue of law. and that 1t is
his duty to bust this unholy combi-
ration that he says exists; that he
doesn't even deny that it is his duty
to get busy. or else resign his office,
but he attempts to dodge the issue by
the use of inVective and billingsgate.
The fact that Mr.. Dawson has not
attempted to answer any statements,
is convincing that his position is weak,
and his conduct since he became at
missioners not susceptible of satisfac-
tory explanation.
Mr.. Dawson tells of his endeavors
for civic righteousness, but the facts
are, that while Governor Stubbs and
Senator Bristow were making their
hardest fight against the "old ma
chine" Mr.. Dawson was very con-
yeniently on a visit to his old home
in Scotland.
He says that he has been giving a
great deal of his time during the last
six years to speech-making over the
state, and 1 guess that is true, but dur
ing the greater portion of that time,
Mr.. Dawson has had "his head in the
public crib" and if he has devoted SO
very much Of his time to his speech
making the people have received very
little service for the pay he has re-
ceived from them.
When Mr.. Dawson accused me of
being a carpet bagger, ne evidently
forgot that he was born on foreign
soil, and that he is now an American
only by the grace of a benign
and the charity of the con-
stitution of the United States, while
a native born American, no matter
from what state he may have come, is
entitled to citizenship in this state
after a residence of six months.
notwithstanding the fact that was
born in Illinois, and reared and edu-
Gated in Oklahoma and Kansas, being
a graduate of the law department of
the State University, and have been a
resident of this state for about one
ane one-half years since I left the
Mr.. Dawson is so incensed
and one-half years since I left the