The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-05
PUNCH IN PLANKS
Frank Dreaming, County At
tOrney Candidate, a Scrapper.
Would Empty JaiTs, Putting
Prisoners on Road Work.
DEFINE LABOR COURT STANDS
Fisher Would Have Members
Elected by Popular Vote.
SchOel for Present Law-CIOse
Contests in County.
BY PERCY c. POWELL.

Emptying the county Jail of its
prisoners and sending them to the
state industrial farm to work on state
ROADS, refusing to parole wife de-
serteTs and sending them to the in
dustrial farm to work for the state
and refusing to continue the present
alleged promiscuous parole system in
Shawnee county are three planks in
platform built this week by Frank
G. Dreaming, candidate for county at
torney subject to the will of Republic
can voters at the primaries.
In building a platform and advo-
eating reforms in the present system
of conducting the county attorneys
office. Dreaming is the first of the
county candidates to depend upon
something besides personal solicitation
and political manipulation to put his
candidacy over. Probably Senator w.
F. Schoch and Hugh 7. Fisher, coun-
ty attorney. opposing candidates for
state senator on the Republican ticket,
might be excluded from this state
ment. as both this week defined their
ideas on the Industrial court. That,
however, was the result of labor's de-
mands for a declaration on the IA
nous Allen industrial court law.
Dreaming a Scrapper.
Drenning's bitterest enemies admit
he is a scrapper. They also admit that
If Topeka wants a ''-- raiser" for
county attorney, Dreaming can qualify
IN that particular.
In opening his campaign in Topeka
this week Dreaming lives up to ad-
vance notices of his ability to raise the
Clover regions" He tears into the
present administration of the county
attorneys office by accusing that Of
fetal of indiscriminate sanction OF
hundreds of paroles" paying little
attention to getting the county's end
of liquor fines and enriching his own
bank account by collecting $2,196 IN
liquor fines for himself in year ana
a half. Following is what he plans
to do and work for, according to
signed statement presented to the
State Journal today:
What He Plans to Do.
a more efficient enforcement of the
criminal laws so that the rich prof1teer
as well as the burglar will feel the heavy
Investigate every auto collision or
smash up aud check on reckless driving
and speeding by sending drivers to jail
III liquor cases collect the fines due
the county. Out of 129 liquor cases where
pleas of guilty have been received or con
victions mad, with minimum fines due the
county Of $12,9O0. only $3.50 in fines have
been turned into the school fund, while fees
collected by the county attorney for himself
amount to s., 196 in addition to the salary
of $1,000 per year This is shown by the
records OF the clerk of the district court
and covers only about one and a half years,
beginning with March 1918.
Several man accused of betraying school
girls have fled and escaped punishment
hunt down these men and send them to the
pcnitentiaEy. Also prosecute while slavery
without fear or favor.
Sentence and send to jail Immediately
after conviction all persons found guilty
OF crime instead of waiting until the end
of the term, some two months or more.
DO away with the granting of hundreds
of paroles practiced in Shawnee county
during the last two years.
Also sue all forfeited bonds promptly.
Also send all men serving time in the
county Jail to the state industrial farm to
do good road work and earn something to
support their families instead of compelling
the county poor commissioner to supply
food and coal for them.
Send all men guilty of child or wife
dcsertion to the state industrial farm for
two to five years and pay their families not
less that Sl50 per day in California, in
stead Of issuing conditional paroles as at
present"
Tinkham Veale. assistant county at
torney, and Judge Rad NJ. Lee. oppos-
ing Dreaming for the nomination, are
plodding along in their campaign of
handshak and fence fixing. The
aggressive campaign opened by Dren-
ming may call for a demand for a plat
form from these candidates.