The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-03
THE AUDITORIUM.
Something Which May Prove Inter
esting but Yet Has Nothing
to Do With It

So far as personal abuse is concerned
it may relieve the fdgetty young gen
tIeman who sits in state on the edi-
torial throne of the Capital to know:
that the editor and proprietor of the
State Journal, although a young man
himself, is still the oldest editor in point
of service on any one paper in Topeka;
that he considers it no disgrace to have
started with nothing in Emporia, af-
terwards putting his entire savings into
a Topeka paper thirteen years ago, bid
ding for it at auction at receivers sale
a higher price than any Topeka man
was willing to go; that while the editor
and sole owner of the Journal still lives
in a small rented house, there is no
mortgage on the State Journal newspa-
per, that it pays all its bills as they be
come due and has no debts; that the
State Journal building erected two
years ago when the times were so hard
that no individuals in Topeka were put
ting up business blocks, has a small
mortgage on it-much smaller than
even the record shoWs-and which will
be paid off entirely long before it is
due and which is not lien on anything
connected with the State Journal ex-
cept the real estate; that the editor of
the State Journal is one of the largest
depositors in Mr., MuIvane's bank and
considers it a first class bank-none
better in the state. We sometimes
think Mr.. Mulvane knows more about
banking than he does about newspapers
but then the Capital is a very good
newspaper too-in it's way
We really don't see what all this has
to do with Topeka's auditorium, nor
why the Capital has dragged it into the
subject.
In connection with the Capitals au-
ditorium article the reporter of that pa
per makes the statement that John R
Mulvane does not own the Capital and
never has owned it, the Journal knows
that the Capital reporter misrepresents
Mr.. Mulvane and does him great inius-
tice. 1t is no disgrace to own the Cap
ital, although some few people may
think so. Mr.. Mulvane ought to be
proud Of the paper and probably is.
The Capital reporter, who made his
mistake, is referred to the following
testimony of record in the recent case
of J. E. Baker VS.. J. K. Hudson, No.
7.214 in the United States circuit court
in the government building in this city:
Court convened pursuant to adjourn
ment John r. MulVane,- a witness,
called on behalf of the complainant
being first duly examined, cautioned and
whole truth and nothing but the truth,
in answer to direct interrogatories pro-
pounded to him by E. S. Quinton, esq,
counsel for complainant, testified as fol-
lows, to-wit:
Q.-I will ask you if you are acquaint-
ed with what is known as The Topeka
Capital company?
Al used to be.
Q.-What do you mean by that?
Al am acquainted with it.
Q.-That company is editing what is
known as The Topeka Daily Capital at
the present time, isn't it?
A.-No, sir.
Q.-I will ask you if, in every issue of
The Topeka Daily Capital this does not
appear: Topeka Daily Capital, by the
Topeka Capital comT cay. Harold T.
Chase, editor; Dell Aeizer, business
manager?''
Al expect it does
Q.-The Topeka Capital company then
is not editing that paper, is it?
A.-NO, sir.
Q.-Who is editing it?
Al am.
Q.-You individually?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-What has Harold T. Chase got to
do with it?
Ale is my hired help.
Ole signs it as editor?
A.-As my emplOye.
Q.-Who is paying the debts of that
paper?
Q.-All the debts, then, you are liable
for?
Al think so; am paying them at
least.
Q.-You get all the profit or revenue
that comes from it, do you?
Al suppose so.
Q.-You know whether you own that
paper up there or not?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-You get all the revenue and profit
from it, do you?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-You don't appear anywhere in the
paper as being individually responsible
in this paper?
Al don't know whether I do OF not
Everybody knows that. Etc, etc.