The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-21
Progressive People Are Neg
lecting Their Duty.
Only a Few More Days Left to
Register.
is NO TIME TO WASTE
Every Public ESpirited Citizen
Should Begin a Campaign.
City Hall Must Be Built For
Good of Topeka.

"A few people drift into the office Of the
commissioner of elections each day and
register for the city hall election but
there are not nearly as many as there
ought to be. When election day comes
there will be whole lot of people who
will be mad because they have not regis
tered. The registration books viii close
on August 80, Wednesday of next week.
For fear you do not think of it again you
had better register Immediately, or you
may be one of those who will not be able
to vote on election day.
The great danger to the city hall prop
ositiOn lies in the fact that the people viii
be careless about registering and voting
They will say, "Oh, well, there viii be
good of the city will be lost The OBJ
structiOnists will not leave a stone un-
hail proposition, and the friends of pro-
gress should not forget that fact.
the proposition is shown by the fact that
one Iopeka man mace personal caIVess
and found only one man IN the four
posed to the proposition.
About half Of the people of the Sixth
ward are registered so far. During the
last two days that the registration books
will be open, those for the Sixth ward
will be taken to .Trueblood's store in
the accommodation of the people of the
Wednesday of next week.
r. s. Brigham of the Commercial club
1.-THE construction of the proposed city
building Is OF immediate interest and aO-
vantage to the Workingmen and mechan-
les of the city, and while some influences
prompted very largely by selfish and per-
sonal motives, 1 do not think that the
workingmen are blind to their own
best interests as to permit themselves to
be influenced to vote against the propo-
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are its bone and sinew, without which
and the mechanics of Topeka are very
largely an educated class that are too
fV1f re- m ms ar
means employment for them and conse-
quently money in their pockets and added
comforts in their homes.
prosDeritV and to defeat the citV hail
bonds means set back that will very
s'The clement in the First ward that has
seen fit to differ with Us because the IOca-
ton is not to their liking do not deny the
traTy they acknowIedge that we need
it, and state that even with the present
proposition defeated that we can still go
ahead and put up an auditorium in the
city park, by private subscription or
good share of their time during the past
three years IN an d effort TO secure a con
Vention haH for Topeka, hrst IN the city
park, which was only abandoned after an
effort because the people would not SUB
scribe sufficient money to construct the
how futile such talk is.
There seems to be no law under which
a city can proceed to vote bonds for the
first a city building with the hall feature
cation of the city hall in the park is not
contemplated by even the most enthus-
fastic of the park location advocates it IS
readily seen that the park as site is out
of the question.
There are none so blind as those who
will not see. There are a few people an
swering that description in the First
ward but I do not believe that there are
enough of them to defeat the proposition.
even in that ward We are all interested
in the upbuilding of Topeka, but in order
to accomplish it we must all put our
shoulders to the wheel and help push, we
must work in unison, we must show the
people of the state. who have laughed
at us. and that too not with out some
reason. that we can get together and
work for, rather than against our best
interests.
The. First ward will benefit in common
with the other wards of the city in its
prosperity and it must also partake of
its full share of adversely if adversely is
forced upon by the action of those who
must have things their particular way or
they will in retaliation block the pro-
press of the entire city
There are enough votes to carry the
election for the bonds if the voters will
only realize that each individual vote is
essential. and make it their first duty to
see that they are registered and that they
do not fail to go to the polls on election
day. It requires a tWo-thirds vote to carry
this election and the opposition is making
the most of the fact that they will re-
Quire but thirty -four votes out of every
hundred in order to win their point