The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-12
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
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Stone Replies to HARRINGTON.

Robert Stone Of Topeka has replied
to the statement of Grant Harrington
of Topeka in which the governors pri-
waite secretary recently declared that
The Hodges administration had reduced
the number OF employees on the
states pay roll. Stone charges that
the Democrats are spending 11.653.49
more for help in the various state de-
partments than was paid under the
last year of the Stubs administra-
ton and that the number OF employees
has been increased rather than re-
duced.
Declaring that Harrington 1uzgle1
his figures mis- statement as to state
employees, Stone said in part:
There are q number OF mistakes
in your list" declares Stone. For in
stance. you give only two employees
for the fish and game warden depart
and three for December, 1913. The
vouchers in the auditors office show
vouchers issued to ten persons in De-
cember, 1912. and twenty in Deem
| Der, 1913.
THE employees at the university for
December, 1912 and 1913, you give as
262 and 275, respectively, while they
should be 444 under the Stubs ad-
ministration and SCI under the
Hodges administration.
The number of employees at the
Agricultural college and its auxiliaries
you give as S83 in December, 1912,
and 8O7 in December, 1918, while the
| records in the auditors office show
der the Stubbs administration was 674
and under the Hodges administration,
J71O
You show the number of employees
in December, 1913. att the Normal
school at Fort Hays as 20, when in
fact there were 81.
You show the number of en-
ployees at the Normal school at Pitts
| burg as 61., when in fact there were
80 who drew money from the public
| treasury in December, 1913.
I'm your statement you show the
Republican Characterization with 125
Oil -inspectorsta who weTesn04 drawing
salaries but 'U0tained-r fees for the
work performed. There were in fact
only 118. They Were not drawing
! money from the public treasury, but
| it is proper to charge them up as an
item Of expense to the people because
| their services are paid for either by
direct or indirect taxation. II, how
| ever, the oil inspectors are to be
charged to the Republican admins
| enough to have charged the Hodges
| administration with the deputy fire
| marshals that work upon q similar
basis. There are 465 deputy fire mar
shals Of whom you took no account
| whatever.
| 1.-THE L.arned hospital was estab-
| lished by the last legislature. and you
have very generously charged the
Hodges administration with three en-
ployees. while in fact there were
twenty-eight vouchers issued in the
month of December, 1913, to en-
ployees of that institution, which is
still in an incipient state.
In the same way you have charged
the Hodges administration with Ave
employees Of the Tubercular sanitar-
ium. while in fact 'wenty-seven per
sons in the month OF December, 1913,
drew money out Of the public treas
ury on account Of that institution,
which has not yet rendered any sub
stantial good to the state"
More Political Spells.
James Dobbs has lost his job. For
eleven years Dobbs has been superin-
tendent OF the penitentiary brick plant
lat Lansing. He drew a salary of 1926
a month. Now the spoils system has
been applied and Dobbs has been sent
| to his wife and babies in Atchison job
and corrupt practice that caused the
Democratic state administration to put
politics above efficiency.
An investigation of the Dobbs case,
however, reveals the fact that Dobbs
is q Democrat contributed regularly
J. N. Dolley's per cent. salary assess
ments: and Is said to have been sue
ceeded in his job by a Republican.
Davidson for Congress.
Charles Davidson, q well known
Wichita banker and a member of the
state legislature during the 1905-07 SEES
sions, may become q Progressive candi-
date for congress In the Eighth dis
trict. Davidson is strong in Sedgwick
county and the Eighth district. has for
a number of years been active In poll
tics and Is widely known among bank
ers and public men in the state Since
the Bull Moose uprising in Kansas
Allen forces In Wichita and 1t is now
probable that he will be induced to en-
ter the congressional contest.