The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-24

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The only personality INDUCED in by
the governor in today's reply is the
assertion that the Dawson charges
indicate "either a total lack of moral
perception or an unbalanced mind.
The governor says:
Governor Stubbs' Reply.
MIR. Dawson's proposition to have an
extra session of the legislature con-
vened is so ridiculous and foolish that
it is not worthy of one single moments
serious consideration. The sole pur-
pose it can serve is to attract attention
from Mr.. Dawson's own duphcity ana
official dishonesty. When the attor-
ney general of the state has come INTO
/ possession of an unconditional res1gna-
| ton of a justice of the peace, addressed
I to the governor, as Mr.. Dawson dld,
and then advises the governor to wait
4 seventeen days in order to give that
justice time to resign his office ana
/ represents that by waiting seventeen
/ days to get that resignation the justice
of the peace can be removed from OIL
flee quicker than by commencing custer
proceedings, then the counsel of the at
+ tOrney general becomes unreliable ana
valueless to the state.
This is exactly what Mr.. Dawson
! did, and when he was confronted with
an order to bring custer proceedings
against the justice of the peace, he
! confessed that he had the resignation
in his possession, turned it over to the
/ governors office, where it was accept
ed and a successor appointed within an
hour of the time of Mr.. Dawson's state
ment that we could not get the resig-
! nation for seventeen days.
| Mr. Dawson is paid by the state to give
counsel and advice, and if attorney
for a private corporation or client would
| use such duplicity and deceitful methods,
he would be dismissed at once and dis
graced forever. A lawyer who receives
| money for his services and then decelves
the parties whom he pretends to serve,
gets money under false pretenses, and
! certainly ought to be disbarred from the
practice of law.
The Memorial Building.
Mr.. Dawson charges that 1 was re-
| sponsible for the delay in the construc-
ton of the Memorial Hall building. AS a
matter of fact. the motion in the build
ing commission to delay that construction
for the purpose of securing an appropria-
ton that would enable the commission to
use granite and marble in this building,
rather than limestone, received practical /
" a unanimous vote, including that OF
the commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic. The state encampment at
Hutchinson voted for granite and marble
erect the building with this material
without an additional appropriation by
the legislature.
Not to Blame for Hospital Delay.
Mr.. Dawson charges me with the
responsibility of delaying the erection OF
the Rosedale hospital. when as a matter
| of whom had been appointed before
became governor-had absolute control
under the law of the erection of this
building The regents were in doubt
what action to take and waited for the
next session of the legislature to advise
them, which in my judgment was a wise
procedure.
IF Mr.. Dawson had the knowledge OF
/ the law which a man should have to hold
the office of attorney general, he would
not make the statement he does concern
ing the School of Mines If he had read
the act providing for the School of Mines
he would have known that entire super
vision and control of that school Is giver
to the board Of regents; and member OF
the board of regents, in a letter dated
July is. 1911, wrote me that on the ad-
vice of Attorney General Dawson, the
establishment of the School of Mines a
Weir City had been delayed, for the rea-
, son that the city was full of joints, ane
that conditions in that city then were not
, suitable for an educational institution
. This adds to the evidence already ac-
cumulated of Mr.. Dawson's duplicity anc
double dealing.
! 1.-The other charges in Mr.. Dawson's
! statement are equally silly and unworthy
) of consideration. and indicate either E
. total lack of moral perception or an I'M
haIa ind