The Topeka state journal., 1911-05-03
A SP PANKED BABY.
This Is MilIer's Idea of Tandy'S
Late Actions.
More Excitement From the City
Hall Battle Field.
HIS WORK A FAILURE.
Tandy's Department for Last
Year Criticised.
A BOne-Tandy Combination Is
Hinted by Miller.
is WORK A FAILURE.

Claiming that Mr.. Tandy has peen
acting like spanked papy ~ 4I,at
recent city comm isSioner war anu I1!1
as far as a combination betWeen oil DlI-
lard Miller and Stotts is concerned
Bone and Tandy are equally as ahA-
ious to run things in the clty hdl'
City Commissioner Miller auuS NV
fuel to the commissioner hre touay-
Mr.. Miller doesn't go lhto uir'itHo ~ tbo %
politics like Mr.. Tandy ala III III Z
State Journal last evening. instead
Mr. Miller shoots his guns with re-
serve shells. The Miller statement
printed below is full of promises 1or
more in case Mr.. Tandy sees NJ 10
return fire. 80
F'urthermore. Mr.. Miller hints that
in the last year the street and engln-
eering department under Commission
er Tandy has been very unsatisIac ctol '
to the commission, that II mas c@ost @
the city thousands of dollars ana one
mans life.
Here is the Miller battery:
I'm answer TO the charges that the
mayor, Mr.. Stotts and myself are un-
fair in our actions regarding certaIll
appointments and the many false
statements published, l desire TO say
that there is no combination OF any
kind and most of the allegations made
are simply rank falsehoods.
In the first place the only change
made in Mr. Tandys department. is
the appointment of Mr.. Baker in place
of Mr.. Snyder as street commissioner.
All other appointments of Mr.. Tandy s
were unanimously approved. l Tor one
had good valid reasons for demanding
a change. Mr.. Tandy well knows that
he can not point with pride to the
records of the engineering and street
departments during the past year, ana
l need only mention the Fillmore
street bridge and the accident at the
Twenty street bridge with the at
tendant loss of life and enormous cost
to the city.
"A new city engineer was appointed
some weeks ago and we deemed it for
the best interests of the city to make q
change in the street department. 1t
was made according to law and Mr..
Baker, the man selected is a good,
competent man and is willing to work
in harmony with the commissioner in
charge of his department. 1t is up to
Mr.. Tandy to do his duty as the law
requires and the people expect him to
do, and not whine around like a
spanked baby, saying, I won't do it,
Il for one, and I know the other
commissioners feel the same way, am
willing to work in harmony with and
cooperate with Mr.. Tandy to make
his work success.
with the exception of street com
missioner, all recommended by the
head of any department were cons
firmed and very few changes made.
Anyone looking over the list of old
appOintees retained and noting the few
changes made must concede that the
charge of politics is very, very far
fetched, and in my humble opinion it
is politics on the other side of the
fence.
There are men today in my de-
partmerts who openly worked against
me a year ago and I think my actions
in voting on appointments since the
past election have proven that politics
do not govern my actions as commits
siOner.
mo matter what happens, I. for
one, shall work in harmony with the
other commissioners to promote the
best interests of the city and trust
that all this noise over nothing will
stop and let us get down to business -