The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-07
CAN'T STOP IT.
Efforts of ObstructiOnists to
Choke OFF Topeka People
From Having a Big Auditorium
Will Fail.
Progress Killers Had Better
Get Out of the Way.
PEOPLE GETTING MAD.
May Yet Build an Auditorium
Worth 100000,
Fit It Up With Scenery and Do
as They Please.
SOME VERY BAD WORK
Reported to Have Been Done
With Auditorium Bill.
Tampering With Laws May In
VOIve Serious Punishment.

The auditorium will be built! The OBJ
structionists might as well get out of
the way. The man who carries an in
junction in his pocket for every enter
prise is not in it when the auditorium
is to be considered. The people of To-
peka have said by vote of almost four
to one that we must have the auditori-
urn. The people are the sovereigns.
When it was found that there was
no possibility of defeating the auditori-
un at the polls, men We're put to work
to find some flaw in the bill authoriz-
ing the city to appropriate the money
in accordance with the sentiments
of the people. L. NJ. Crawford
employed Quinton & Quinton, at
torneys, to be prepared to bring an in
junction suit as soon as it was found
that the proposition had carried. The
papers are already to file, but the enc
mics of the project hope that the Com
mercial club and other organizations
pushing the auditorium will surrender
now that they have announced that the
bill passed by the legislature is not val
id.
In this they will be disappointed, for
a Journal reporter found today by in
terVieWS with prominent members of
the Commercial club that they have no
intention of abandoning the project,
even if the bill should really be found to
lihOOd
Mr.. CrawfOrd's attorneys will, there
fore, be called upon to- file the injunc-
ton proceedings.
The people are awake to the situa-
ton and they will build auditorium
without the $4,000 coal hole money, if
necessary. One prominent citizen sug-
geStS that since DR.. Hamilton and Mr..
Crawford do not appreciate the dispOsi-
ton of the people to build the auditOri-
um in the city park where it would not
injure their amusement halls at all,that
it be built on the corner or seventh ana
Quincy streets and equipped with seem
cry and stage so that Topeka may have
a commodious place for holding large
balls, and all manner of entertain
mentS.
A building in an uptown location
would give Topeka an opportunity to
see famous actors who seldom come to
Topeka now. W. H. Crane is now play
ing at the auditorium in Kansas City
and if Topeka had a large and cOnVen-
lent amusement hall, Mr.. Crane would
come to Topeka and the people could
see him at popular prices, The same
gentleman said that If the auditorium
is built with the object of securing good
plays in view that $4,000 or even $780,
900 might be raised.
OF course there was no intention of in
terfering with the renting of either the
Grand Opera House or Hamilton hall
when the auditorium was proposed 1t
was merely to provide place for vast
assemblages which now have to meet
outdoors and to secure conventions /
which will not now come here at ALL |
There was no occasion for any citizen
f Topeka to make himself an obstacle |
to the city progress, but if such citi- |
zens are going to make themselves dis |
agreeable, the people of Topeka can |
also be mighty disagreeable.
r. S. Brigham who is chairman of |
the auditorium committee of the Com |
nlercial club said today: IF any one |
tn nix, t lat we are going to give ,lp the |
fight they are mistaken. We Will have |
an auditorium and you may mark my |
words. Mr.. Crawford nor any other |
one man can stop the project now. The |
people want an auditorium and they !
will build one. If it is found that we |
cannot get the $4,000 coal hole money |
we will raise the funds in some other |
way. I am not a bit doubtful as to the /
c. S. Elliott, secretary of the Com
merciaI club salt: 4 guess that the |
fact that the coal hole money cannot |
be used, if it is a fact, is not going to
keep US from securing an auditorium
I believe that the project will he car
ried out all right The people have said
that they want the auditorium and |
they should have it"
Senator W. z. Sterne said: 'I do not |
understand why there are so many mis-
takes made in enrolling bills. 1t looks
very peculiar and 1 have no doubt that
there was some dirty work done: Topeka
needs an auditorium and should have one
l did not watch the bill after it left the
-eglsIature TO pc enrolled because II was
short and did not suppose there would
be any trouble about it. I was greatly
to hear that there was some
flaw in enrolling the BILL
Representative E. D. NIcKeever said:
Some one tampered with the bill. I am
sure of that. 1t went through all right |
and was sent to the enrolling clerks and |
rom there to the governor. 1 went to the
office of the governor and saw the bill
but did not examine it closely. I saw
It was there and made a personal request
hat the governor sign it,
Representative McKeever says that he
5 of the opinion that the bill will stand |
he tests of the courts even if a mistake
vas made bY the enrolling clerlks |