The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-23

the Democratic nomination for repre-
sentative. Mr.. Orr lately retired from
the law department of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company. His oppo-
nent probably will be E. H. Johnson,
the present representative. However,
there is a rival Republican candidate
Charles Remsberg, a piano dealer. q.
B. Sharpless of Effingham will be the
Republican candidate in the country
district. His opponent will be c: f.
Kelly, the present member, who Is
Democrat.
Mrs. Kate r. O'Hare of Kansas
City, Kan, wants to go to congress on
the Socialist ticket from the Second
congressional district. Her nomfna-
tion papers have been filed.
The Socialists have complete state
ticket The candidates follow:
Justice supreme court, George w.
Puckett, Blue Mound; Jesse L. jack
son, Winfield; governor, 8. M. Stal-
lard, Fort Scott; lieutenant governor,
ney general, David E. Crossley, Clay
Center; secretary Of state, Verne g.
Oatford, Garden City; auditor, T. H.
Magill, Hill City; treasurer, M. ].
Wells, Woodson; railroad commission
ers, ]. B. Huffman, Peru; A s. Nc
Allister, Herington; w. Burnside,
Coffeyville; superintendent public in
struction, Perry Vincent, Girard; SUI
perintendent insurance, James H. Lee.
Garden City; state printer, Oliver L..
Rice, Mankato.
The congressional candidates filed
First district, E. B. Keck. Tonga
noxie; Second district, Kate r. O'Hare,
Kansas City; Third district, c. s..
Bender. Bartlett; Fifth district, j. R.
Johnson, Clay Center; Sixth district,
E. w. Stevens, Vesper; Seventh dis
trict e. H. Gates, Lacrosse.
Mrs. O'Hare is about 80 years old.
She is the wife of Fred w. O'Hare, a
cataloguer for the Richards & Con-
over company of Kansas City. The
art avenue, Kansas City, Kan. The pc
titions for the nomination of Mrs.
O'Hare were prepared and the sigma
lures obtained by John Cannon, a So
cialist leader of Rosedale. They were
sent to Arthur Briswell, congressional
committeeman for the Socialist party
in Kansas, who filed the papers. Mrs.
O'Hare is on a speaking tour for the
Socialistic party.
Secretary J D. Kramer of the Wag-
staff campaign has written a letter to
Bank Commissioner Dolley, in which
he says:
"I have just read your word of en-
couragement to VIM. Allen White,
handed him on his departure to the
heather city of Denver on his latest
mission to preach the gospel of purity
| in politics as practiced by the pure
and holy in Kansas, of which you are
one of the chief prophets and Mr.
White is the chief scribe. and in which
you give a list of all the good things
that you and your boss Stubs claim
to have done, and with most of which
you have had practically nothing to do
"My attention, however, was espe-
cially attracted to your generous praise
of yourself as a purifier of politics and
an eradicator of graft. I was espe-
cially interested in this portion of your
noble effort because of late I have
found some things that to my un-
trained mind looked like graft, and
am indeed glad to be able to lay g
small portion of what / find before sc
great an authority on the subject as
yourself
'@The first case I wish to lay before
you, Mr.. Dolley. for your expert judg-
ment is this: The legislature of 1905
passed what is known as the bank
guaranty law, under the terms Of
which four extra bank examiners were
visions of this law. These bank ex-
aminers were appointed by you, tool
oath of office and went on the payroll
| However, on the oath day of Decem-
| her, 1909, the federal court enjoine6
you from carrying into effect the pro-
visions of this law. This made nothing
| for these extra bank examiners to do
yet they were kept on the state pay
roll at a cost of $500 per month, max.
ing total to date of $4,000 from the
taxpayers of the state, when the Law
under which they were employed wa:
/ imperative, and there was no excuse
for keeping them except to pay politi-
cal obligations. The people of Kansa!
have usually called this kind of work
graft. AS an authority on the sub
ject, what do you call 1t?
1.-The second matter that 1 want tt
check to you for your expert judg
ment is this: The record shows tina
under the nreSent administration i