The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-24
DOLLEY COMES BACK.
Outwrites j. d. Kramer in Letter
Writing Contest

state bdnk commissioner OOIlCy IA
answering the Vegetarian statement
of ]. d. Kramer yesterday says 1t re-
minds him of a drowning man grasp
ing for a straw. The commissioner
takes up the penitentiary, banking
department, and primary law issues
in the following reply:
Mr. J. D. Kramer, Secretary,
Wagstaff Campaign Committee. To-
peka.
I note your statement of June 23rd
and take pleasure in reply. What
you have to say only emphasizes to the
people of Kansas your already unen-
viable reputation for making state
ments that are misleading and I'M
true
You refer, first, to the four extra
bank examiners under the guaranty
law and charge that continued them
on the pay roll after the law became
involved in the courts. You knew
when you made this statement, Mr..
Kramer, that it was false. The facts
are, as you could readily have ascer-
tanned if you were seeking the truth,
that a few days after the friends of
Mr.. Wagstaff and Senator Curtis sue
ceeded in getting an injunction
against the peoples guaranty law,
that I removed three of the deputy
bank commissioners. This is the first
instance of your wilful ignorance or
malicious falsehood.
AS to your second charges, you know
as every other man knows who has
taken the trouble to inform himself,
that there is no comparison between
the penitentiary under the manage
ment of Warden Codding and the
same penitentiary under the manage
ment of Warden Haskell. You know
that the penitentiary has been raised
from the lowest level of penitentiaries
in this country to the highest standard
Of excellence along the lines of hu-
mainly and business methods.
You state that there are three employees
at the penitentiary from Maple Hill.
You are wrong again; there are but
two, and I am glad indeed, that you
mentioned them as there are no better
employees in the service of the state
These two men were employed by
Warden Haskell, and one of them, Mr..
Lindsay, is now deputy warden and is
one of the best deputy wardens the
state has ever employed. Warden
Haskell told me that Mr.. Lindsay was
the best officer he had in the institu-
ton and that Mr.. Gilbert, the other
party from Maple Hill, was also a good
officer. E N. Barlow was employed
by Warden Codding and does not come
from Maple Hill but comes from Har-
veyville. These men are all big, strong,
young. robust officers and credit 10
any institution of this kind. They are
not old, broken down. wornout politicians
that were removed from the COM
munitv where they resided because
they were a charge upon the public as
many of the guards supplied by MI
Wagstaff's friends were at the time
Warden Codding took charge or the
penitentiary. AS before stated, 1t gives
me real pleasure to have you call at
tention to such able and efficient en-
ployes as the above named.
In regard to the third item; there IS
no comparison between this depart
i. ,se-4r %ffNra a ND ~
der that of Mr.. Royce, as is Wal
known by all who are interested me
department is doing more than double
the volume of business 1t dld uhoer
Mr.. Royce's administration, ana IN
addition has established, during the
mast wear credit and advisory depart
ments in regard to stock investments
and all other business matters that are
of interest to the people of Kansas
You seem to be unaware that the
Kansas banking department has open
ed it's doors to serve the deposltorS anu
ness way and is not used as poItlcal
machine to bring meat into camp as II
has heretofore been constituted
And now with reference to the $3.50
per month to which you refer; rms
money comes out of my contlngehI
fund and is used to pay postage an
all the incidental expenses of this de-
partmeut, including the compensation
Maid an extra stenographer Temporarily
employed on account or the large Eoi-
rme of increased business. The Iund is
under the care of Miss Anna Speck, one
of NV assistants, who has been con-
rected with the department for the
mast eight years. She keeps complete
record of the account and taxes re-
ceipts for ever item, all OF Wnlch Is
dome under my supervision, with TIE
consent and approval of the state aud
itor. and is subject to investigation by
anyone who cares to make an eXam-
nation My contingent fund was pro-
yided to pay just sCrn items as >are
being paid with this $3.50 per montE
End IL the needs of the department de-
| nand an expenditure of twice that sum-
| I would not hesitate to meet the en-
| Urgency.
Do you not know that it is fact
| that the standard of the state banks as
| TO soIvency has been raised very ma
! terialIv during the past year? 1t may
| be. news to you but it is neVertheless
! time that when 1 took charge OF this
! department, more than a dozen DAMS
| we're irsolvent and in a failing conol-
ton and some of them had peen lhso o.
vent for more than three years ant
their capital stock depleted severa
| times over. These banks otday are al
| good, Sound, solvent substantial lf1Stl-
| tutions and several hundred Thousand
| dollars of the Kansas iepoS1tors money
| has been TeTQONOd llOli a NNAS
o'1s Dosition to one of absolute SAFETY
Probably you are not aware that the
Kansas statutes provide that this de-
| 1lartment shall examine anu supervise
! bt.itding and loan associations ana ina
! those laws make it mandatory that this
| be done, and further that my predeces'
sors have ignored these laws. Millions
F.! of dollars of the people of Kansas are
| deposited in these institutions ana TINS
! department has not heretofore known
| their true condition. During the pas
| wear we have made an exhaustive re.
search of the different banking AM
building and loan departments OF the
| United States, gathering Information
| from all sources, and we have alsS
! had thu matter up with expert account
! ants and have mapped out plans to ex
/ anime the Kansas institutions closely
in fact. expert accountants have al
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