The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-30
is STILL TIME.
Registration Books Close at
8 O'Clock This Evening.
Be Sure Your Name Is Written
There.
THE NEEDS OF TOPEKA
Expression From John Breiden-
thai, the Populist Leader.
People Are Doing Some Think
ing on Their Own Account.

At 9 o'clock tonight the registration
books for one of the most important
elections ever held in the city of To-
peka will close and the prospects are
that several hundred Topeka citizens
will be caught without their names
written on them.
There are now $500 people registered.
This is only an increase of 100 in the
last "a hours and the increase should
have been 400. From present appear
ances the registration will fall con-
siderably short of 5000, the figure that
it should have reached.
If you have not registered there is
still enough time left to attend to it.
Your duty to the city that gives you
its protection demands it. Your own
personal interests, if you are at all in
terested in Topeka, demand it.
Do not imagine that you have no in
teFeSt in the outcome of this election,
because you may find out before cleo
ton day comes that you are interested
and that you want to vote. Make pre-
parations for voting by registering to-
night and then
Vote for Progressi
Secretary Anderson. of the CONNER
cfal club, has received a communica-
ton from John w. Breidenthal with
reference to the city hall proposition,
in which the bank commissioner de-
clares himself in the strongest terms
in favor of the proposition. Mr.. Breid-
enthaI says:
I certainly consider the erection of
public audience room, large enough
to accommodate any crowd that may
assemble in the city, a question of the
greatest Importance. In travelling over
the state it is quite common to hear
severe criticism of Topeka because of
the fact that we have no suitable place
for assembling large bodies of people.
The capital of the state is the natural
place for holding all large state gath
erings and the impression prevails to
a considerable extent in the minds of
many people of the state that our city
lacks enterprise and public spirit or we
would provide a suitable audience
room.
Aside from all other considerations.
it is due to the people of the state
that the citizens and property owners
of the state capital should provide
u9qM UI9ql 10y uo!1BpouuoooB sIqRaIns
they meet in our city. and 1 sincerely
hope that every effort possible will be
put forth to secure the erection of a
public hall at the earliest possible
date"
Vote for Progress!
An attempt is being made by a few
people to prejudice some of the labor
ing men of the city against the Com
mercial club, and incidentally against
the city hall proposition, because the
Commercial club has been working for
something of the sort for the past four
years. and it has only been through the
efforts of the Commercial club that it
has been made possible 1t goes with
out saying that the effort will fail be-
cause Topeka people think for them
selves.
AS a matter of fact the Commercial
club is the most representative body of
men in Topeka. Any citizen who is in
terested in the welfare of the city and
in making Topeka a better place to live
in may become a member. 1t takes in
all classes-laboring men as we'll as
nanufa cturers and merchants. The
merchants are directly dependent upon
the laboring men for their trade and
anything that is not for the best inter
ests of the labOring man is also not for
the best interest of the merchant.
The Commercial club also represents
the taxpayers of Topeka. An investi-
cation of the tax rolls in the county
treasurer's office reveals the fact that
the members of the Commercial club
pay almost one-third of the taxes of
the city of Topeka. The 100 members of
the club pay taxes aggregating $120,-
000 while the other So 900 people of the
city pay only $262. 600 The total tax
collected in the city amounts to $685.
574
IN other words the members of the
Commercial club, who are doing every
thing in their power to secure the new
city hall will have to pay almost one
third of it's entie cost.
Vote for Progress.