The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-15
MONEY TO THE BIRDS.
That's Where Fellows Promises To
Throw Our Cash
WHEN he GETS INTO OFFICE.
To Secure votes 1ae Has Told His Fol-
lowers That the City Treasury Shall
Re Open to qhenn.

To Secure Votes He Has Told His Fol-
lowers That the City Treasury Shall
Re Open to Them.
Men who claim to know, say that
Mayor Harrison will be nominated to-
morrow with plenty of votes to spare
The Fellows workers have lost heart and
one of them said yesterday that nothing
can now prevent the nomination of Mayor
Harrison, unless the weather is very bad
and the business men and women will not
attend the primary. Another of his
"heelers" said that Fellows would be
nominated by 200 majority
The First ward has been considered
Fellows stronghold, but within the past
week there has been q great change and
the Harrison men say that they will car
ry the ward by a good round majority
As long as the people were Indifferent.
Fellows appeared to be ahead, but when
the voters were awakened to the situa-
tion and the danger that such nomina-
ton would entail became known, the cur
rent set in the other way and it is evil
dent that the people of the First ward
are in favor of good city government and
the denomination of Mayor Harrison.
In the Second Ward.
In the Second ward the Fellows boom
first found footing, and the Fellows
workers made a canvass of the ward
early in the campaign. They claimed
that the result was very gratifying, but
if they could make a canvass of the
ward now, they would not be SO well
pleased. They made the most unreason-
able statements imaginable, and worked
on the prejudices of the voters. but the
people cannot be fooled all the time, and
they are finding out they were deceived.
They were told that Mayor Harrison
saved $4,000 which should have been
paid the laboring men and which was
left unused in the city treasury. This
falsehood was believed by some, but
there were others who had read the
STATE JOURNAL and who knew it was
not true. Every cent of money in the
treasury was used to pay the street force
and the city would have had to GO in
debt in order to spend more money.
Mayor Harrison actually furnished
more employment than had been fur
nisheC when the city spent more money
and went into debt. He did this by CIV
ing work to men "week about" and
while the Individual income was not so
large more men were furnished the
means to support their families through
the winter.
In the Fourth Ward.
The Fourth ward is the home Of Fell
lows and two weeks ago he claimed the
ward two to one. Now his workers say
they will consider themselves fortunate
if they carry the ward by a small major
ity. And if the talk among the better
Element of the Fourth ward is any cri-
terion. he won't carry it at all
In the Third Ward.
The Third ward is Harrison's home
and it is conceded on all sides that he
will carry the ward by big margin.
In the Fifth Ward.
The Fifth ward is also conceded to
Harrison. There has been great change
in this ward and it is now said that it is
difficult to find single person in Martin
q Dennis addition who is for Fellows.
There is no doubt that the people of
Topeka want to see the city affairs con-
Quoted on a business basis, and that is
why they are for Mayor Harrison. No
one who is Interested in Topeka wants
to see the city crippled by the reckless
expenditure of money to reward politi-
cal services.
Promises of such reward are being
made by the supporters of Fellows with
a recklessness which must even startle
that gentleman himself if he would stop
to think.
It is different with Mayor Harrison.
He will not make q single promise. The
politician who goes to him for a prom
Use of position leaves disappointed. He
says that the interests of the city demand
that the hands Of the mayor should not be
tied by any ante-election promises. The
welfare of the city is his first considera-
ton.
An example of Mayor Harrison's meth
DDS of conducting the administra-
ton of the city is shown by
the folloEia&< xact: When he was
elected mayor, the first thing he did was
to take an inventory of the floating prop
erty of the city, and to see where useless
expenditures could be cut of. He also
ordered the sale of all the unused or re-
jected articles and the proceeds turned
into the citgAtxsasury. This is only an
example OF the business methods of
Mayor Harrison.
When man has made that kind of a
record during the portion of one term
that he has been mayor, what \ fearful
mistake it would be to turn him down
for man who is conducting his cam
paign on the basis of a reckless expen-
diture of money.
The people of Topeka should not make
that mistake.
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