The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-03
BROWN To DOLLEY
Lawrence Democrat Answers
+. Republican Chairman
In Matter of Charges of Elec-
ton Frauds.

Lawrence, KAN, Jan. 3.-BurI II.
Brown of this city, candidate on the
Democratic ticket last fall for secre-
tary OF state, has made answer to
Chairman Do1ley's charge of fraud in
the election of Hodges. He defends
Hodges election an dhls course of ac-
ton and goes into the political record
of Mr.. Dolley at the same time. In
his statement Mr.. Brown said:
~I have read with considerable in
terest your letter of last week con-
corning the manner of the election of
George H. Hodges, as governor of
Kansas, and which was given much
publicity in all the newspapers L
happened to be interested in the late
campaign myself, because I was de-
feated for secretary of state by a
combination of circumstances that
probably will never occur again in
Kansas.
You as chairman of the Republi-
can State Central committee donned
your war paint early in the campaign.
and with chip on each shoulder, like
Don Quixote of old, set forth to fight
imaginary foes in your own party as
we'll as the Democratic party. 1t is
q matter of fact well known that you
used all the shrewdness at your COM
mand to defeat the man who was can
didate for president upon the RepublI-
can ticket, but did all you could to
elect the state officers who were on
that ticket, and all of them but three
had no moral right to De placed on
the Republican ticket.
sit is a well known fact that three
of your candidates on the state ticket
were regular or ''stand-pat Republi-
cans and the balance of them were
Progressive or Bull Moose This
and you did not hesitate to do all in
your power to elect the whole bunch,
and yet you say in your letter, that,
Mr.. Hodges has demonstrated fully
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believes that any method of winning
is excusable in politics. To what
school do you belong? And who
taught you the game to fight the pres
idential nominee because he was a
.Standpatter' and at the same time
fight for three 'Standpatters on the
state ticket? Does not that look like
you were willing to win by airy meth
Cd? You make an awful wall about
the ballots which you claim were for
Mr.. Capper that were thrown out by
the election judges. Who is it that
is responsible for the law that made
it possible to throw out those bal
lots you claim should have been
counted for Arthur Capper? And
please tell me, Mr.. Dolley, why such
Jaw was passed ? Is it not fact that
this law was passed to prevent fusion
between the Democrats and Populists?
And did not you Republicans. Cand
you were one of them them chuckle
to yourselves about what a smooth
trick you played on the Democrats
and Pops? What school of politics did
you belong to then? Do you not know
that the many thousand Democratic
votes that were thrown out by the
election judges defeated John w.
Bridenthal? And is it not a fact that
the same thing caused the defeat of
Col. w. A. Harris? 1t was not a very
bad law then. was 1t, Mr.. Dolley?
Again ask you, who is responsible
for this law, that permits the election
judges to construe it in such a man
ner that they may throw out ballots
when it is perfectly clear what the in
tention of the voter was when he
marked his ballot? You know very
well the Repu blicans were responsible
for it. and you were a member of the
party at that time too. There is no
doubt but what John w. Bridentha1
and Col. Harris were both honestly
elected governor of Kansas, but were
counted out of it.
That Horde of Hungry Henchmen.
You say, "a horde of hungry hench-
men are clamoring for pie, regardless
of efficiency and the best interest of
the state Well. now wouldn't that