The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-16
AN OPERA BOUFFE.
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naQ not rodCn0Q
Carey is. rabid standpat. Through
suggestions by Reed and Brewster, he
poured hot shots into the record OF the
administration. Carey said he support
ed Stubbs Two years ago and that II
was the only political action OF his life
for which he had been censured in his
home district. Carey found an opening
and made a speech in which he de-
clared that Stubs had made little pro-
gress with his jobs to legislators.
Leahy did not touch the pork barrel.
After he had dismissed the witness.
Brewster took up the Leahy-White al
legged pork barrel. Carey said he knew
of no such deal and denied he made
! trade to push the Hutchinson fair deal
through senate This was the tone of
Careys testimony and he found many
opportunities to drop bricks on the
heads of the administration crowd.
White Declines to Testify.
While Carey was on the stand, the
following communication was sent by
w. A. White to Richard j. Hopkins,
president of the senate:
To the President of the Senate:
1 have the summons of your SER
geant-at-arms to appear before the
senate and testify as to matters con-
tanned in printed statement made by
me yesterday. l shall be glad to APP
pear before your body when the Kan
sas senate by joint or concurrent reso-
luton is given the authority to sum-
mon witnesses, take testimony under
legal rules of evidence and enforce re-
plies corroborative of what I might
say. But to appear N the guise of a
mere conversationalist with no power
to compel your members to take the
stand, with no power to supply real
testimony, might be highly diverting,
but would have no real importance in
the record of the senate. 1t occurs to
me that the best way to demonstrate
the errors, If any were made in my
tan oh q
for the senate to get down to business
and redeem the promises made by the
Republican platform.
W. A. WHITE.
Reed Produces Letter.
When Carey left the stand, the gov
ant frame of. mind. He called that
bald headed. radical reactionary, J. T.
Reed, to the box and in the fifteen
minutes the Smith Center lawyer was
on the stand he spat fire.
You said there was a rumor cur
rent in the legislature" asked Leahy,
chat Jobs were being offered by my
self and Governor Stubs in exchange
for support %
ct certainly made that statement
s'Then I ask yousto prove it, said
Leahy rQ
"WelI, now, remarked Reed, 1T
may not be very good evidence. in fact
the only thing I have in my possession
is an ANONYMOUS letter but it is GER
tainly no more unreliable than the ar
ticleS written by the governors pri-
waite secretary and trusted officer of
the state
Lets see the letter. replied Leahy,
as he walked to the press table and
reached for the paper. Reed then read
the following letter, which. ne said,
had been received by him Wednesday,
following the former Leahy hearing in
the senate:
Dear Reed
You scared Leahy to death almost
when you were examining him in the
senate and 1 don't think you knew it
or would keep it up. He told me that
night that Brewster and Glenn were
that if you had mentioned one mans
name he would die of heart disease.
That man. 1 have learned. is Cliff Mat
son. 1t appears that Dolley through
Lahey and the Governor got Matson
/ to fight Stone and that he would be
made Judge of a new court at Wichita
when the bill passed. Lahey person
ally carried the promise of the Judge
ship to Matson and delivered it to him
in the present of Watson and Mercer
of the House. When you asked Leahy
if the Governor made any promise of
office to a member of the legislature
he thought you had him sure. That
is the reason he closed his evidence SO
hurriedly as he feared YOU would pin
him down in the matter 1t is a pity
you did not call Matson, Mercer and
Watson. They all run with Lahey and
are run by him. Cant you bring Mer-
Ger into it some way. He Is easily rat
tied and you could break him down.
Watson has cooler head until you
make him mad. Laheys dope is cut
ting hard among the rabble and it
ought to be broke down in some way
A word to the wise from friend.
do YOU mean asked Leahy, as he
stood on his toes and glared at Reed,
| ST say do you assume the attitude of
| libelling the governor OF the state on
the information contained in that let
ter?'
Reed, YOU asked me to read that let
ter. I did it at your own request The
| senate can take it for what it is worth.
! Now, I ask you to tell the senate If
the things contained in the letter are
| true?''
Leahy replied that he did not know.
| To this reply, Reed took advantage of
an opening and poured poison in the
wounds of the administration with the
ia pidity of a rapid fire gun
| "You stated you didn't know or
have any suspicion declared Reed.
| as he half rose to his feet, "of any
member of this senate being guilty of
corruption. Then with a brazeness,
never before euualled in the history
of this state, you worte that damna-
BILE article blackening the character OF
| every member of this body. 1 want to
ask you what do you think of such
tactics p and shook fat foref1nger at
| the newspaper correspondent as he
made the remark.
Izeahy did not finch.
| Insistently the secretary to the gov
] ernor piled the witness with questions
concerning the rumors he had heard.
| Just as evasively the witnesses lodged
them and pointed to Leahy's weak
ness in answering certain questions.
Reed said he did. not consider the let
| ter of great value, and would not ask
| to introduce it. He then started to
| put the mfssive in his pocket
Here, what are you doing that
| for?'' asked Leahy; I'VE want that in
evidence"