The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-27

or untrue. There is no excuse what
ever for using a public office as
private snap the Arkansas City edi-
tor declared in his paper. Il
While a number of Democrat papers
have discussed the state house ex-
pense accounts, Howard is the first
prominent Republican publisher to I
give the matter more than news space
consideration. The fact that he will I
have a hand in the law making next
winter indicates clearly that Howard
believes the Republicans themselves
should attend to their various tasks of |
housekeeping. His editorial asks for
both an investigation of the records.
If personal bills were paid with state
funds, Howard demands that the I
money be returned to the state treas
ury and satisfactory explanation given !
for the action.
Howard was a member of the house |
during the regular and special sessions |
of 1920. In his editorial Howard |
said:
Who Pays the Piper?
A very familiar saying is that which In
forms listeners that those who dance must |
pay the piper" 1t covers, or rather it once |
covered a very wide range of speculations |
and of peculations as well. But it doesn't |
seem to apply, exactly fit certain semi
official transactions in the state of Kansas !
On account Of the fact that a certain |
Luther, chairman of the Democratic state
al OF hdQSHS, mas seen fit |
to delTe into the accounts of the state ex-
eeutve departments. which he was right in |
doing, 1t has been disclosed that there is |
room for doubt as to whether certain state |
officers who have danced, have really
paid the piper" or have inadvertently
g miQed nj their Tt, purely personal accounts
fashion that they have. perhaps unwit-
tingly, passed the buck to the people at
sichorean exercises, and really know moth
ing or their happening until it was so
, Dolby alleged BY M. Luther that they
shoutu IN all honesty be charged to the
shaId al IexgPenses which, egitimate.y
whose benefit they were incurred
There is no excuse whatever for using
a,o Ptone nc. OFFICE as private snap" No
the amount fixed by law for his services to
the Iie., state in any such fashion. There is no
tween a public and a private account or
item OF expense and no excuse for getting
should pay the piper. The people of the
state of Kansas should, and do see to IL as
general thing that state officers are com
pensated adequately for their services
and, If. in any manner, these Officers or
any of them have footed their private hills
out of state funds they should be CABLES
the sums expended, and also, to make salts
factory explanation Of the manner of its
Top Notch Talent to Kansas.
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litical talent in the next two weeks.
This week the coming of Gov. James
NJ. Cox, Democrat presidential nomi-
nee, is the feature event. Next week
II IS Senator Warren G. Harding, Re-
publican presidential candidate, and
Franklin d. Roosevelt, Bourbon norni-
nee for vice president.
Governor Cox enters the state
Wednesday. He comes to Atchison
from st. Joseph and speakssi Topeka
at night. His Thursday dates include
Hutchinson, morning; Newton, after
noon, and Wichita, night. A special
train Will bring the Cox party to To-
peka. The special equipment, carving
the Cox party, newspaper men and
several prominent Kansas political
leaders, will be attached to regular
trains Thursday.
Roosevelt will make the trip thru
Kansas on a special train October 8.
He opens his Kansas bombardment in
Lawrence, where a 80 minute stop is
scheduled. A rear platform speech
for Topeka is listed and other short
ton City and Abilene with night
meeting in Salina.
Harding to Kansas, Too.
Senator Harding is seemingly GER
l tain to make trip to Kansas next
/ week = exceeding even the high
| hopes of Republican leaders in the
| state. The nominees visit to Kansas
city Tor the night OF october will
| doubtless draw hundreds of Kansans
to the meeting. Efforts are now being
l made to secure 1000 reservations for
Kansas Republicans desiring to hear
| the speech.
Following the Kansas City meeting
| Senator Harding will be taken to
Wichita for speech Saturday morn
ing. 1t will be his only talk to a Kan
sas audience during the campaign. But
it will be a shot at the bulls eye
fright in the heart of the Kansas battle
lground-the Eighth district.
Allen In the Sixth.
| Governor Allen will leave tonight
for a speaking tour in the Sixth con-
gressional district. He will return to
Topeka next Sunday and will then
| swing into the Seventh and Eighth
districts for a few days. H. H. Mot
tier, Republican state chairman, will
accompany Governor Allen on his trip
thru the northwestern counties.