The daily sentinel., 1912-05-08
A STATEMENT
TO THE PEOPLE
Scathing Denunciation of State Audi
tor Kenehan by Employees of the
State House.-They Call Him
an Ishmaelite.

To the People of State of Colorado:
Recent events in the domestic pol
icies of the state government made it
necessary that we, employees of the
state, should give to the people of the
commonwealth, whose servants we
are. a concise and explicit statement
of the conduct and attitude of Roady
Kenehan. state treasurer. This state
ment is wholly apart from personali-
Ties, and has to do exclusively with
Mr. Kenehan in his capacity of state
treasurer:
First: Mr.. Kenehan was elected
as a democrat, both as auditor and
treasurer.
Second; As auditor he maintained
a press bureau at the state house
for self advertising purposes. The
auditors records furnish abundant
testimony of the absolute insincerity
of his professions as self-constituted
guardian of the state treasury. The
state treasury needed no guardian
under the able and distinguished ad-
ministration of that sterling citizen,
Hon. w. j. Galligan. but Kenehan In
his avidity to hoodwink the people
of the state kept his name constant
ly before the public. In this wise
he sought, and. to an extent, was sue
cessful in securing coveted notoriety.
although the official facts prove that,
in nearly every instance when he
paraded his anxiety to protect the
state treasury. within As hours he
had honored the questioned warrants.
But he had garnered the advertising
and the actual results were suppress
ed from the public.
Third: Since his advent as state
Treasurer his chief concern seems
to be to damn and malign the whole
state administration No fellow
elective official has been free from
his raucous and dishonest criticism
and impeachment. He has, in turn.
attacked the official acts of Govern
or Shafroth, Secretary of State
Pearce. Auditor of State Leddy and
nearly all appointive officials in the
state capitol So far has he carried
his coarse, unwarranted abuse that
ne is regarded and designated as the
''Ishmaelite of the state house" His
hand is against every man who will
not bow to his semi-illiterate brutal
tiles.
Fourth: Both Governor Shafroth
and Auditor Leddy state positively
that there is an amplitude of funds
class appropriations, and, if suits now
pending in the supreme court. are
successful, as seems very probable,
the third class appropriations can be
easily met.
Fifth; Kenehan's structures on the
economics of the state administration
are utterly without honest foundation
in fact. We assert. without fear of
competent contradiction and notwith-
standing domestic differences in our
affiliations and membership in the
democratic party, that no state ad-
ministration has been so absolutely
free and clean from financial scan
dal as has the present. Graft is
unheard of and extravaganza un-
known. No one knows this better
than this alleged democratic state
treasurer. Still he is, from what mo-
tive we know not, but is sufficiently
important to merit his serious at
tention, engaged in the disreputable
tactics of furnishing campaign ammu-
milton to the republican party, whose
press bureau Is industriously circu-
lating his baseless ISLANDERS on the
administration of which he is an
integral part.
Sixth: We place the character,