The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-15

tempt to answer you, my letter is cut
to pieces, garbled, so as utterly to de-
stroy it and hidden away on an inside
page, concealed so far as possible from
public view. Am to understand that
the Capital is SO far under your in
huence that it has ceased to be Re
publican newspaper. giving all the Re
publican news, and has become a
Stubs newspaper?
The Charges About Taft.
And, by the way, you must have
read my Independence speech very
carelessly when you say that charg-
ed you with denouncing Taft. What
said was, and I repeat it here. that
through your personal organ" you
had denounced Taft. And L am con-
firmed by the recent course of the
Capital in my conviction that it is
your personal organ"
In my letter I called your attention
to the fact that you expected to be
renominated by Democratic votes,
which you could only obtain through
perjury at the primary, and 1 asked
you if you favored such conduct, and
if you favored the control of the Re
publican party by Democratic votes?
You did not answer this charge. Evil
IDENTIFY you do.
From the report of your press agent
at Dodge City, published in the Capt.
tal Sunday, June 5, 1910 we are in
formed that a number of prominent
Democrats assured the governor that
in the primaries" Evidently you were
much pleased with that statement.
The fact that these Democrats would
have to commit perjury to vote for you
did not excite any conscientious
scruples in your mind. The fact that
each of these Democratic votes cast by
men who have fought the Republican
party and Republican principles for
years would counterbalance the vote of
a Republican who has for years helped
the Republican party to success,
counts for nothing with you as COM
pared with your personal triumph.
You are perfectly willing that at the
next primary the choice of Republi-
cans should be overborne by Demo-
cratic votes and this primary election
polluted by perjury if it will bring you
success.
New Boards.
In my last letter charged that you
advocated the creation of seven new
boards, whose total cost would amount
to a million dollars. You admit this.
You asked me how it would be pos
sible for you to increase the taxes of
the state million dollars. You are
the responsible head of the govern
ment; your influence was paramount
with the last legislature until the time
came when your domination, your ex-
travagance and your prescription drove
the house away from you. With your
influence you could have decreased ap-
propriations instead of advocating
their increase which you did in every
instance. For example, the increase of
your own contingent fund, which you
now say was to take care of the fish
hatchery and to enforce the law. You
know that when you got your in
creased contingent fund the fish hatch
cry was never thought of, nor was it
supposed that the legislature would
fail to make the proper appropriation
for that institution. I asked you to
show how much you had spent out of
this contingent fund in enforcing the
law and to whom. You are silent;
wisely so.
In all your long letter there is just
one specific claim of saving, when you
state that on your recommendation
the legislature cut out five political
jobs in the oil inspectors department,
thus saving $4,000 to the state, and
that the increase in earnings from that
department under Mr. Longshore over
the previous year was sc. $40. I OBJ
does anything economical you take the
credit for it: whenever it is eXtrava-
CANT, it is the fault of the legislature,
but you are as much mistaken in this
statement as in any other that you
have made to the voters of Kansas.
The Inspection of Oil.
The new system of inspection under
Longshore went into effect June, 1903;
and it cost for the first ten months
$21,04s.08,. down to April, 1910. For
the ten months beginning June, 1908,
and ending April, 1909, a correspond
ing period, under L. T. Hussey, the
cost was $14,S10.66: in other words.
instead of saving anything, Mr.. Long
shore has cost the state $1,000 more
than Mr.. Hussey and for the last ~
months Mr.. Longshore has turned in
$2,400 less than Hussey turned in for