Barton County democrat., 1914-03-13
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The Topeka Capital and the me-
too weeklies have announced with
@ea flouhish of trumpets that ex-a
! Warden Codding end Ex-Bank Commi
/, sioner Dolly will support Mr. Capper
for governor. Inasmuch as both OF
these gentlemen supported Mr.. Cap
| per before and lost their jobs there
Is nothing surprising in the announce
meut. The friends of Governor Hod'
gas scarcely expected that these g n
tlemen could support him.
Ex-Bank Commissi0ner Dolly's Sup
port of Mr.. Capper Is not only nat
ural but eternaTy fitting. 1t recalls
an incident to which the Press Bu-
reau called attention something Ike
a year ago.
A good many thousand people in
Kansas have cause to remember the
Independent Harvester Co., which
sold its stock throughout the state
under permission granted to It by
Mr.. Dolly, under the Blue Sky Law.
For eighteen months Mr.. DoGey per,
mitted this company, whose stock is
now worthless, to do business in Kan
sas, although for good part Of that
time he had reports on file in his Of.
lfice from his own inspectors, showing
the untrlstworthy financial condition
of the company and there a large III
Der of Mr.. Dolly's letterS TOW en- file
IN, the office of tha Bank commis--
fsioner marked strictly confidential,
in which he advises certain paople
not to invest in the stock of this
company, which he was permitting tc
II cell stock to the public generally.
= While all this was going On, Mr..
III Capper was reapiDg a pIentkuI har.
> vest by selling large chunks Of ad-
gertising space to this same Indepea.
tIdent Harvester Company, and Nj.
l. Capper's Mail and Breeze was cert.
el Tying to THE Solvency and trustWor-
% thiness of this company, nUtw;thstaud
ing reports showing lis unsatisfactory
5tcondttion were on file IN Dolley's Of.
d flee. os
:, Yea, verify, Mr.. DOlIsys support d
)! Mr.. Capper. is a sight uSeasing to the
3 independent Harvester Company anf
I" al other schemes OF like nature.
How do the people who have Nust
~ their money like ~
d Ms. GOdding's support Of Mr.. Cap
y per IS also about as fit as that d
y Mr.. D0lleyo Perhaps some will re-
- member that Mr.. Codding was war
III den Of the penitentiary but it is no
us generally known that under his 'busi
9e ness administration of the affairs o
n' that institution, he created a detici
le of a good many thousand dollars
= which was covered UP by buying sur
le lplieS ON cTsdst and having the bill
u dated so that they would come in o.
lthe next fiscal year, thus using th'
d. money which should have been avail
4 able to Warden Botkin to run the i'm
he Stitution.
Ne Notwithstanding the fact that a dis
ne AStrouS fire under the Codding admin
an iStration required the expenditure Q
u many more thousand dollars for tn,
to replacing Of shops and supplies in ad
ddtion to and which have nothing t
o with the Twine Plant, the present at
re ministation will come out at the enl
bs OF thefiScal year with a deficit of on
OILY ten or TWELVE thousand dollars.
eS This is a remarkable showing ur
u der all the circumstances of the cas-
ON By good business management tn
IN. Hodges administration has replace
I'm buildings and material destroyed b
it fire which were worth at least thre
Ar. hundred Thousand dollars, and in tn
'eu end finds it will only have to ca
ice On the legislature for ten thousan
raj dollars to settle the whole bill.
The AS to the actual maintenance CO.
ay-' Of running the institution, the a
Jbs count stands sixty Thousand dollau
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