The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-28
SPECIAL CAMPAIGN TRAINS
A Novel Method of Distributing Lit
erature at the Last Minute.

erature at the Last Minute
St. Louis. oct. 2s.-The Republic pub
fishes the following.
This morning between and 10 o'clock
five trains chartered to run on special
time all the way viii leave this city
over the Frisco, Missouri Pacific. Wa
bash and NJ K & T railroads. each
CARRYING five tons of Republican ntera-
ture, i've speakers, 20 men to distribute
the literature and $4,000 small Amerl-
can flags.
Each of the trains viii consist of
locomotive. baggage car, coach and
sleeping car-the latter of the most ap-
proved Duke Pullman pattern, finish
ed in silk and plush. They have been
routed 50 as to reach every important
county, city and town i'm the states Of
Missouri and Kansas taking branch
lines wherever necessary and running
regardless Of the regular trains. They
have been routed as follows.
Frisco traiu-Leave union station at
10 o'clock this morning, passing through
Pacific, Lebanon, Springfield Pierce
City, Joplin, Carthage and all inter-
mediate points iu Missouri, and going
thence to Pittsburg, Cherryvale, Wicn-
ita, Ellsworth and intermediate points
in Kansas. Short stops viii be made ia
each of the places named. as well as in
all others where time viii permit In
ain of these towns and cities the 20 men
On board viii be sent out to distribute
literature, and the interim viii be
filled iii with speeches by the speakers
Missouri Pacifc-Leave union station
al 1890 going via Washington, Her
mann. Jefferson City Independence,
Kansas City and intermediate points in
this state From Kansas City the train
Nill cross over into Kansas and pro
coed west through that state to Hutch
inson, Ottawa Topeka. Salina, Newton.
Mcpherson. Pleasant Hill, Rich Hill
and doubling back into the territory
covered from the other roads.
Wabash-Leaves Union station at
$500 stopping at ST.. Charles Mexico.
Columbia. kirksvile, Salisbury. Glen
wood Junction, Brunswick. Carleton,
AIaryVille and on to Council Bluffs The
train may even be picked up by the
flyer at the latter place and taken on
through Nebraska to Lincoln and be
y0nd.
NJ H. & T.-Leave Union station ar
$50 and making fast time through
Bonneville. Clinton, Nevada. Sedalia. and
small towns en- route, and going thence
on into Kansas, taking in Wichita. Fort
Scott. Parsons, Council Grove and in
termediate points The train viii re-
turn via Jefferson City and Hannibal.
ngton-Leave Union station at
$3.50, going by way of Hannibal, Macon,
ErOOkGeld, ChiliclOthe, LaClede, Union
vile, Cameron, st. Joe. Darlington and
over all the branch lines of the Burling-
ton system in the northwest part of the
state.
Each of these trains Will be kept out
on the road four DAYS All the expen-
ses-and they viii be very great-wiu
be borne by the Republican national
committee. which is sending out the lit
erature and speakers under the guise of
the commercial travellers Orga MIA tons
of Chicago and St. Louis. The train
that will so over the Burlington road
comes from Chicago and viii be man
ned by Chicago men who claim to be
commercial travellers
Among the literature that viii be tax
en- out on all of these trains are Carl
Schurz's speech on the money question
a large number of speeches printed in
German, and in the neighborhood Of
100 600 copies of the Evening Journal, a I
paper alleged to be printed in the inter- /
est of the Peoples Party and organic /
ed labor The latter were printed from /
the forms of last nights issue, and the I
presses of q large printing house We're /
kept running all night ia order to get /
out as many of them as possible.