The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-11
THAT PARALLEL
Chairman DOIley Answers Hen
derSOn Martin
In Regard to Comparison of
Stubbs-ThOmpsOn Records.
HOLDING OF MANY OFFICES
Does That Constitute Record
Public Service?
DOIIey Thinks Not and Gives
Reasons and Real Records.

the deadly parallel issued by Chair
mar Henderson Martin, of the Demo
cratic committee. Now Dolley not onl,
accepts the challenge but reminds thu
chairman of the Democratic committee
that While Judge Thompson was busy
seeking and holding public jobs tina
Stubs was busy earning living anc
, performing a real public service.
The deadly parallel issued by the
Democratic committee shows the fol
lowing achievements of the. two Sena-
torial candidates. For Thompson-At
age 16 years, deputy register Nemaha
county; age IS years, deputy treasurer
Nemaha county; age 20 years, county
reporter Twenty-second district; age
p years, admitted to the bar; age So
years, elected judge Thirty dis
trict; age SO years, reelected district
judge; age 40, nominated for United
States senator For Stubbs-''So busy
making money to become millionaire,
! that he neglected the greatest duty of
| citizenship according to his own state
ments having failed to even vote be-
fore he was 40 years Old
And now, Dolley challenges that rec
ord and consents to submit the case to
| the voters on the real evidence. This
is the reply that Dolley makes to Mar
| tins claims for the Democratic senA-
| torial nominee:
DOIIey Accepts Challenge.
Il want Republicans who took
i
gals and the matchless utility of
| Plumb to read it. 1 want Dem ocratS
who loved the high public ideals of
John Martin and admired the courage
and usefulness of Colonel Harris to
ponder over the achieveme nts of him
who aspires to the glory of their sue
cession. I want every proud soul in
! Kansas to know the calibre of the
man who seeks to represent the
thought of cur beloved state in the
spotlight of the nation.
when 1 spoke of public service 1
presumed, of course, that you would
understand me to mean the rendition
of some unusually good service of
lasting and permanent benefit to the
people of Kansas by a public officer
or a private citizen. If I had the re-
hottest idea that you would measure
it by the standard of office holding l
would never have pitted Mr.. Stubs
against man who regards it as a
great distinction to have been a dep
uty register of deeds at sweet six
teen. 1 could not think of matching
him against a Political Boy Wonder
who makes q plea for the highest hon
or of the state on a record of holding
three public of1ces-two of them
clearly lIegally-before he was even
voter 1t is a record sufficient to
evoke the admiration of the old time
politicians who are supporting him,
for many of them had to wait until
they were almost ready for the Man
with the Soy the before their lifelong |
quest for a place at the public crib |
had been rewarded with anything
worth while.
ITO be deputy register Ct deeds at
sixteep and deputy county treasurer at
-ighteen-under family friends-are
surely worth modest boast, but to |
be a court stenographer at twenty
especially when his father was the
courts indeed an achievement /
which will strongly appeal to the
n RI of hOVS-and
some town boys for that matter-who
20 not happen to have strong and in
duer1iaI friends who can take them
from the cradle to the court house
and attach them to the public teat.
when Mr.. Stubs was sixteen he
had tc earn enough money at fifty
cents day in sumner to carry him
through school between chores in the
winter and when he was twenty he
was on the railroad dump with a span
of borrowed mules innuring himself
to that long and strenuous industrial
life that enables him to understand
the needs of the men who toll and to
have sympathy for the young fellow
who must make his own way in the
world without influential fathers to
help them along.
when you placed TO the credit of
Mr. Stubs only the one solitary
Achievement-that of making money
to the neglect of civic duty-you did
a real public service in the way of
opening the eyes of the people of
Kansas to the dishonesty of your plan
Of campaigning. You know, and the
people know, that the falsehood cir
,ulated to the effect that Governor
Stubbs had not voted before he was
forty has been not only cCntradicted
out apologized for long ago, and the ]
only people trying to make it 90 ser
vice for them in this campaign are ,
your standpat allies-The Anything ,
20 Beat-StubbS' league. I
Stubbs' Real Record.
To give Mr.. Stubs no credit for gem !
line public service is something that will |
'eveal to good men in your own party
he utter injustice of your conduct. be-
ieve many of them will repudiate it and
hat some of them will resent it. There !
ire thousands of Democrats in Kansas | '
who took equally as much pride as Re
oublicans in the way Stubs made George ,
iouId put his railroad property in Kansas
n reasonably decent shape for the trans !
)oTtation Of their commodities. One OF !
he best Democrats Kansas has produced =
n thirty years-John Atwood-will testify
% the great public service the governor
endered to the people of the state-Demo-
rats and Republicans alike-when he
vent to Chicago at his own expense ard /
made what Commissioner Lane regarded I
Is TIE best fight ever made before the Z
erstate comrerce commission, by single !
nan, in the interest of the western ship :
Ter Many Democrats who believe in tire
supremacy of law and order will not deny {
hat Governor Stubs has honestly ana {
-aliantly done a public service for the f
ZONES and the people of Kansas. The
Democrat who saves four or five dollars I
IN his round trip. ticket every time he r
-oes to Kansas City is not apt to DENY ;
hat Stubs rendered some public service, :
when he put his whole energy behind q :
s-ogram of the progressive people of this c
tate to get a two-cent railroad fare The '
Democrat who walk up to the poliS a
leases without any dictation from a loci
osS may not be entirely dead to the fact I