The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-12
CASH---S25,I75.
Big Fund Raised to Help Sup
press Joints.
More Than Half of the $50, 900
is Pledged.
MR.. GLEED GIVES $4,000
Topeka Lawyer Heads the List
of Donations
Five Dollars a Head the Price
Set Upon JOintists.

subscribers TO the fund started last
night to aid in the enforcement of pro-
hibltory law in Shawnee county will pay
that way. subject to the fund provisions
Some viii pay more. some less. Citi-
zcns intend to raise $50, 600 for this pur-
pose. and S35.175 was pledged at the
Auditorium mass meeting as a starter
SubscriWi and from tn am nafwy inn
Subscriptions are to be received by a
committee composed Of J. W. Gleed
Edward Wilder, G J. DevIin W w
Mills and P. L Bonebrake. They are
to be paid in assessments of not more
than per cent cash on the amounts
severalIy subscribed, subject to the fol-
lowing provisions.
l. The first assessment shall be due
on or before February / 1901.
? That after the first assessment not
more than one assessment for at least
two convictions in the district court
shall be called for
3. That not more than six assessments
shall be made in any one year.
1. That the removal of the subscriber
from Shawnee county shall make sub
seQuent assessments against him null
and void
s. The exclusive control in making
the above assessment and distributing
the same shall be vested IN the above
named committee. who shall have power
to fill vacancies This committee is linn
tied IN its expenditures to amounts alb
solutely collected
J. ". Gleed heads the list with
$4,000 subscription. Single thousands
followed and on down TO 800. With
w W. Mills g, GOO pledge it was an
nounced that convicted Jointists were
worth s. head.
Judge John Martin was one Of the
last to speak He was a fire-eater and
a sTnoke-belcher- His earnestness drove
out the blue mist that hung over the
1,500 people before him The blue mist
arose from the -varnished radi-
ators under their first warming up 1t
had hung over the crowd all evening
like a soporific- Judge Martin grew
red in the face He pounded the
speakers table. His words came in tor
rents He nearly lost his food-grinders-
This is not a cartoon, but an apprecia
tive snapshot Of how Judge Martin
wakes up an audience Last night ne
transformed the quiescent thr0ng that
had appIauded with due gravity and de-
corum a bold sentiment now and then
The sleepy burshers who had been doz-
ing along upon the Sta1d town meeting
plan, with a privilege, if they chose, OF
giving an experience were turned into
a live and spirited congregation that
leaped to its feet at Judge Martins be-
hest and shouted supporting approval
that shook the rafters-
Judge Martin out-talked the recording
propensities of a photograph in speed
and enunciat ton. but he broke up the
mutual admiration society
Last nights meeting goes on record as
different from others of its kind And
that is saying a great deal Trans
formed into a moving, spirited. acting
body, and with the sineWs of war pro-
vided Topeka now cOnfrOnts its Op-
portunity to crush the lawlessness with
in its confines
this meeting tonight" Judge Martin
opened up. The audience pricked up its
ears.
Prohibition or antf-Prohibition meeting
not a PopuIist. a Democrat or RepuDil-
can meeting; that the single purpose
of this meeting was the question 81
obedience to the laws Of the land We
have wandered in the discussion to the
four quarters Of the globe and from the
beginning of time to the present hour.
we have been told in glowing rhetoric
that Kansas is the most splendid state
of this glorious union
..Pllt the moral qualifications are left
out. I am here in the interest Of truth
to warn you You stand on the brink
of social political and moral ruin
Judge Martin was getting warmed up
and his face gIowed ruddily- The au-
dience sat up straight in their seats
disturbed napper rose, growled and went
out
cannot compare with others in decency
and sobriety- I won't lull you; want
to rouse you
He did. He went on to pledge himself
have them enforced in this city Like
a law or not. we have no right to uulllfy
it and the man that does II cannot De
classified with good citizens Unless you
stand together next spring when election
comes around you'1l repeat your expert
nent of November, and your present
administration viii go out WIN you
have it? VIII you take law or NULL
fcation2 A speaker made your city $
ran11tatfon co-extensive with the borders
of Christendom- Great God AiTnignty
Is it possible, with its 100 joints and
declaration for more within sixty days
Topelxa is not a sweet, clean town OF
oo-e.tensive reputation Dare any one
say il. bears that high and noble reputa-
II saw it doesrs Charles s. Gleed
leaned forward and said The crowd was
7 saw it does notr' said Martin
cit doesrs ret0rted Glesd-
1T does notr' echoed Martin
i've been in more cities of the United
states than ysu have and say 1t does
insisted Mr.. Gleed-
.Tnfge Martin went on with his de-
nuncfation of hypocrisy, pointing out
OF Kansas towns where the law IS motor
ia11sIx violated. Tell me the city Of
Topeka exceeds all other cities IN de-
cency and yet within sixty Gays you
elected to ONCE in this county the very
mon who give you sixty-Odd saloons,
omen in defiance OF the law Of the land
today.
THE RESOLUTIONS
Il am Democrat, but at the next
sprirsy election I have made up my mind
not to vote for any candidate. no matter
what his political belief, unless he pub
Iiclv promises to enforce the prohibition
law. All you who are with me stand
up
The whole audience stood up with a
shout They were wideawake and In
genuine accord
Mr. Martin then introduced the fol-
lowing set of resolutions which were
adopted unanimously by a rising vote:
Resolved. That the perpetuity Of Re
publican government and the main