The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-24
SATURDAYS PRIMARY.

We trust the readers of this paper
fully understand the meaning and inn
portance of the primary election to be
held on Saturday between the hours
of ten and seven o'clock, at the places
named elsewhere in this issue.
The State Journal has endeavored to
present the issues fairly and Impartial
ly from the simple basis of what is
best for the people of this city.
The issue is not really a political one,
although the primary, of course, is one
of the Republican party. To be sure.
il Mr.. Drew should not be nominated,
1T might mean a division Of the strength
among the Republicans which would re-
suit an bitterness and disappointment
This will be true for the reason that
there are hundreds and hundreds of Re-
publicans in this city who believe the
issue is not a party one, but an econom-
ical one, in which the men and women
of this city have the say.
1t means much to the Republicans,
to Democrats, to Populists, and to every
citizen of Topeka, regardless Of politics
To every man, woman and child, it is
important that the water supply of
this great and beautiful city should not
be shut off with valve in the hands
of the servant of a corporation which
was afraid to charter itself under the
laws of the state in which it is doing
business.
Also that having granted the people OF
this city the privilege Of using Kansas
water through New Jersey conduits, the
price shall not be controlled and regu-
lated at the whim OF a foreign corpora
ton which has bonded and stocked the
Topeka Waterworks company for $S.-
b. rfA Of
Topeka have voted $44O, 900, which shall
give them better plant and better
service at lover rate than the SO, 400.-
600 enterprise now represented in a con-
Germ whose fra nchise, if it has one, ex-
pires in two years, and which is obliged
to sell its property at its actual value
as fairly appraised.
While there is not a single reason why
any Republican in the city of Topeka
should not vote for Chas. J. Drew there
is a most weighty reason why no one,
be he Republican, or Democrat, man or
woman, should be asked to vote for a
candidate who represents the New Jer-
sey end of the Topeka Waterworks
company.
The State Journal ia been abused
and maligned in this campaign, but we
sonaI, and have been willing for the
sake of what we believed to be the well
fare of Topeka and the people with
whom all our interests are identified in
common, to ignore the abuse that has
been so unjustly heaped upon this pa
per, and upon the friends of the cam
didate, Mr.. Chas. ]. Drew, who stands
for our people on the important issues
at stake.
Not a word can be said against Mr..
Drew, his ability, his character, his in
tegrity. His record is an open book as
councilman during the past four years.
He has never held an office of profit
in the gift of the people. What he has
made, he has made by his own exer-
tions and abilities and mental and
manual ability.
The people moreover owe him consid-
Grafton. He has served faithfully as
councilman for four years at the mu-
niicent salary of $50 per year. He has
served ably as president of the council
promotion to the office of mayor
would be the handsome thing for the
people of Topeka to grant. He is never
a disappointment; was not when with
Dewey at Mobile, or in the council with
Fellows and will not be a disappoint-
ment as mayor of Topeka.
Mr.. Brooks, on the other hand, served
for four years in one of the most lucra-
tive public offices in this community.
Since retiring from that office, we may
say, using his own words, that he has
not been very successful in business.
He even stated to a friend, and we
think we may repeat it in all candor,
that he was seeking the office of mayor
as a bread and butter proposition
Now the people of Topeka do not care
to put a man into office as mayor OF
the city principally on a bread and but
ter proposition for the mans own per-
sonal welfare. We want a mayor OF
Topeka, just now, who will go in there
on Topekas bread and butter PROPOSE
ton, for the whole city and the citizens
thereof, and not his individual bread
and butter. Drew will go in there on
the water proposition, too, for good
water, plenty of it, and at a fair rate.
based on the actual cost of the plant
and it's maintenance, and not on water
ed stock and bonds, foated all over this
country by the New Jersey people. We
want water and lots of it. Jersey wants
"watered stock and lots of it. Give Jer-
sey over her stock and let US get back
the water and water supply which
should belong to US. Vote for Drew and
Topeka, not for Brooks and New Jer-
Sey.