The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-03
MARTIN MAKES REPLY
Gives DoIIey Chapter One on Compare
son of Candidates.

Chairman Henderson Martin of the
Democratic state committee today
met the challenge of Chairman ]. N
Dolley, of the Republican state COM
mittee, when he jumped with both feet
on the record of Governor Stubs and
accepted Dolley's defy to compare the
records of the opposing candidates.
Martin greets with joy the challenge
of Dolley. He urges Dolley to get
right busy with his discussion of rec
ords and is willing that the voters may
dicide the contest.
In his opening chapter of compari-
sons Martin not only charges that
Stubs was holding the job of COVER
nor of Kansas but at the same time
he was running for the United States
senate and was urging Roosevelt to
become a candidate for president in
q third party ticket. Now, Martin
wants to know on which one of the
three jobs Stubbs was holding. that
the Republican state chairman Will re-
ly for proof of good faith with the
people. Martin also quotes from At
torney General Dawson's charges
against Stubs and most cordially in
vites Mr.. Dolley to make reply.
He Accepts the Challenge.
see that DOlley says he is going TO
deal in comparisons during ;his cam
paign, says Martin in a statement
made public today. He says ne is GO
ing to compare the Republican candf-
dates with their Democratic opponents,
and he talks like he will use strong
armed methods if we re1G'e to t. ke
part in these comparisons. lie SPEAKS
with such determination, ltat L sup
pose we might just as Wei consider
the discussion closed and begin 70
compare. T.
Dolley says the Republican CAN'T
dates have stayed on the job. we'll
let's see about that Suppo~e we t2ke
the case of Stubbs- What particular
job is it that Stubbs has STAYED on
He has had three jobs thai we know
inh Of
Roosevelt and third termerS' he mas
had the Job of getting himself noInl-
mated as United States senator, anu
lastly he has mad the job OF holdlhg
the Office of governor. w nen Dolley |
saws Stubs stayed on the job, which
of these three particular jobs does he
mean? 1 can hardly believe that ne
means the job of governor
I have not had much chance to know
how Stubs has filled the ofi.ee of gov
ernor but John Dawson mas been at
torney general for two years. he mas
been intimately associated with Stupps,
and Dawson ought to know what kind
of a governor Stubs has rlGde. MI
Dawson has expressed his orinion pups
liclv upon this matter NUMBER Oh
times For instance on the 2Sro Gay
spoke his mind very freely. and among
other things ne charged Governor
Stubbs as follows;
Those Dawson Charges.
s.Ffrst-You have encouraged join
fists and saloon-keepers, and nave
aided and abetted them TO escap pc 3I,,-
ishment by fore,3arning them OF pro
secutions in Concordia, Kansas CITY,
Wichita and elsewhere.
..Second-Within the last few days
you have forewarned the bridge trust
of projected prosecution, and nave
given it a chance to get under cover
and conceal its crimes.
s.rThird-You have wilfully conceal
- = M l.
ed crimes and criminals by VIII l'i
ing evidence and information IN your /
nossessfof from, the-eountY attorneys
IF Cloud, Atchison, LeaVenWortn,
Crawford, Cherokee anu
Sedgwick counties.
.'Fourth-You have flagrantly neg
ected your public duties at every turn
and Ioafed around the city of Law
renee for several months.
s.Fifth-F'or many weeks toSether
you have Ioafed in your office hatch-
ng political mischief against state ana
ederaI officers, and for long spaces
If time you have continuously neglect
ID the duties of your oft1ceLna tIlea
,our duty to examine the state treas
Irv. to meet with the executive coun-
ii, to sign patents to school lands anu ,
lotarieS commissions.
'.Sixth-That for two years-your
.ntire first term-you tolerated the
men notorious, and fragrant viola
ion of the prohibitory law In CraW
ord and Cherokee counties
ssSeVenth-In view Oh IneSe anu
MANY other wrongs. derelicttons, OPP
1ressious tyrannies and usurpatlons,
,ou have forfeited your right to the
,ffice of governor, and ought TO De !
mpeached and ousted therefrom.
Charges SIanderous or Stubbs Unfit
confidently assert that no such
Indictment has ever before been mace
gainst an officer in the state of Kan
as bv a responsible party, and l pc s
eve the good people of this state VIII ]
gree with me when 1 say that either
ohm Dawson has slandered Governor
tubbs or Governor Stubs is UNIT ID
old any office of public trust
Mr. Stubs is the candidate OF the
bird termers for United States sena- :
Dr. ard the Democratic candidate Tor
United States senator is Judge William t
I. Thompson of Garden City. judge +
thompson during his primary cam ,
align stayed at home and attended to {
is duties No word has ever been said
erogatory OF his character either as (
IAN or Judge, and we gladly submit I
, a comparison of the public life of i
udSe Thompson ard Governor Stubbs. S
Mr. Dolley if he chooses, may con- e
der this the first chapter in his book
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