The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21

sent him a long list of the corrections.
The way the article stands I was in
business in Topeka four years before
1 came here and 1 paid tax of 81 in
stead of $74."
And this Is the way the candidates
all over the city are complaining about
the manner in which their ''pedigrees"
were handled and "fondled'' by the al
legged committee
j. K. Bair, secretary of the Commit
tee of Fifty. is preparing a denial of
the whole article.
want the people of the city to know
that we had nothing to do with the re-
port-it was not official and is not ap-
proved by the Committee of Fifty as
a whole. If a report of this kind had
been submitted to the Committee of
Fifty they would have turned it down
in a minute and would have had moth
President SvitZeP Indignant.
John Switzer, president of the Com
mittee of Fifty, was more vehement
than Mr.. Bair.
''I call this an affront and an offense
to the candidates as well as the mem
bers of the Committee of Fifty. This
committee had nothing to do with the
report and every one of us are sorry
that it should have been prepared and
pu ubliShed in such a manner
Originally, the Committee of Fifty
intended to look up all information
concerning the candidates. James A.
Troutman was appointed Chief of the
Smelling Committee and together with
E. L. Copeland and P. ]. Monaghan
they were given the powers of the
Committee of Fifty to gather mate
rial
Mr. Monaghan said this afternoon
that the material published this morn
ing was undoubtedly official. but he
didn't know
1--WE have been working on this
for some time" said Mr.
To- ~ &C m
report that appeared this morning
you will have to see Mr.. Troutman
about that-but I guess it is all right"
Mr.. Copeland. another member of
the committee said:
IT was appointed on some commit
tee, but 1 don't know just which one.
I knew that such a report would be
issued at some time, but I did not
have anything to do with this report,
Mr.. Troutman is at the
head of this matter and you will have
to see him.
Then came Mr.. Troutman. He said:
1.-The report this morning is just as
we got it, 1 guess 1 have not had
time to read it but 1 think it is all
right. All the information we could
get was embodied in the report"
Mr.. Troutman, Mr.. Monaghan and
Mr.. Copeland composed the commit
tee but it seems that Mr.. Troutman
and a reporter did the smelling" and
That report was ridiculous" said
Frank Curry ''It is not official and
the committee of fifty will not recog-
nize it as so. If it was secured by the
subcommittee it was not reported to
the committee as a whole and ap-
we want nothing to do
with it. But we want it understood
that it did not come from u.s.
Reporter Got the Information"
In calling up over the telephone,
over half of the candidates mentioned
in the published report it was found
that not one of them had been ap-
preached by a member of the COM ,
they had been interviewed by a rep
of the morning paper and
some of the material had found its ,
way into print through that source. AS
for the rest of the stuff printed-they
are unaware as to it's author.
When the committee of fifty started
it's campaign for a larger registration
the city for the purpose of giving the
voters a chance to meet the candi- !
dates face to face, the people of the
city and the candidates approved of |
their move. But when it was hinted
that they would dig deep down into
the personal affairs of all candidates |
and make the matter known through |
the newspapers the people in the city !
and scorned such an idea.
The sentiment over Topeka was |
that such an action was an injustice |
TO the candidates-and one that was |
unjust in every manner. 1t was con- /
tended that every man had his faults |
and there is always a time for reform. |
The report as published this morn |
ing came out without the sanction of |
the committee of fifty, the candidates |
and the people.