The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-18

| were speaker of the louise, and that
you never opened your mouth in oppo-
| sftion to the Standard Oil company
until very recently and after you had
! disposed of a large portion of your
| oil holdings.
THAT it is openly charged and wide
| ly believed by oil producers that your
| oil was always bought by the Standard
| Oil company and run when they were
refusing to buy from other producers
and it was common belief that you
were paid from two to five cents a
barrel more than other producers re-
ceived.
THAT. so close were your relations
with the Standard people, they did
not appoint Sam Fitzpatrick as their
attorney until his appointment had
been referred to and approved by you.
And L inquired what were your rela-
tions to the Standard Oil company
and what services had you rendered
them?
Il also charged that while you pub
licly claim that you were converted
at the age of II and dairy pray to AL
mighty God for help and guidance,
understood that you have for years
been an habitual user of profanity,
employing, in anger, language unfit to
print.
These. governor. are the most Sc
rious charges ever made by respon-
sible citizen against a governor of
Kansas.
Immediately after the publication
of this address, the Topeka Capital de-
MED that you ever told improper
stories. Inasmuch as I made no such
and absurd. The Capital also stated
that as soon as you returned from
Denver you would reply personally.
You returned. Undoubtedly, you read
the charges You went away on your
campaign, and. as soon as YOU were
Dave Leg denied n III O
for you. 1 did not ask any questions
of Mr.. Leahy, make any charges
against him. or address him at all. 1
do not know how he gets into this,
or, is it part of his duties. for which
he is paid by the state, to deny
charges against YOU when you are
loath to do it? Doubtless. Dave is
fully equipped for either denying or
asserting. He is known. and prides
himself on the fact. as the most ar
tistic newspaper romancer in the west.
am not concerned with Mr.. Leahy.
He is p Democrat. He is YOUR APP
pointee, although I help to pay him;
but 1 trust he performs his other du-
ties more efficiently than he does your
denying. Dave. as the official denyer
of your administration. does not salts
fly me and other Republicans. We want
to hear from you. Neither do l care
for denials like the Capitals that re-
In the same letter I called your at
tention to the fact that on January
16 in the Capital you declared that you
had spent a half million dollars less,
during the first year of your admins
tratiOn. than Governor HOch had spent
the previous year. When the books
show that you had spent $322,4O5 more.
A trifing misstatement of 1922, 4O5. Now,
governor, do you want the people of
Kansas to understand that you were
deliberately trying to deceive them. or
do you want them to understand that
YOU. the business governor, did not
know, by $500, 000 how much was act
ually spent? Is that the way you look
after the states business? Il you know
so little about it, as this would indi-
cate. how can you assert that there has
been no extravaganza in your admin
istratiOn? How close a watch do you
keep on expenditures in the peniten-
tiary and other institutions, when you
miss the total as wildly as this?
''One thing more: Your appointees-
Messrs. Bowman. Mercer. Schemerhorn.
LongshOre, and others-are putting in a
large share of the time for which the