The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-31

to propel our triumphal car and give
captives, like Yount. reserved seat on
the front bench More hot air was set
loose and the triumphaI car came back
across the kaw again Il feel Ike
fool" giving away to the immortal Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight
Slzirmishers drummed up more than
half Of the original thousand when the
train rolled into the grand terminal at
the transfer station at 10 o'clock. It
was getting late but the center Of the
town had to make a showing when the
people in the suburbs sat up half the
night waiting for just a glimpse Of the
blazing train. Here the star numbers
of the programme were sprung. John
Dawson sang the song of Tuscaloosa
sam, who was an ArkanSaWer that
Just fit and fit and fit" Then G. c.
Clemens earned his retainer and ex-
ploded his portion of hot air. He told
how he had fit the octopus. IT fought
the octopus before there was any octo-
pus,' he asserted i've been fighting
the octopus ever since. I'll keep on
fighting the octopus. With all the times
that I've made the octopus Wriggle and
squirm, he's never offered me a retainer
to quit" He pointed out how the Shaw
nee county political trust was now
part of the octopus because it was try
ing to make Col Jeltz pay for printing
along with the other fellows. This
country is now an empire, suppose,
he said, land the glory is departed from
it. Time was when a candidate did not
do was to hang up some printer for his
cards and he got his place on the ticket
the same as the other fellows"
Tom Doran read kilograms from Tom
Anderson and Tom McNeaI expressing
their sorrow at not being able to be
present.
just as the car was moving off David
OVermyer was discovered and was in
troduced. His speech was brief.
Tom Doran said it would be an ever
lasting brand of ignorance to Intro.
duce Dave Overnyer, 50 I'll just present
him." Overmyer said: Fellow citizens.
the thing that surprises me the most as
I stand here with all these good Re
publicans is that it was SO easy to get
on this platform I'll do like the fellow
in Indiana for these candidates-give
them all hist - He told the story
of a voter who said he had put a mark
on his ballot for two candidates for con-
greSS because he wanted to give EN-
both a hist"
A quick trip was made to Thirteenth
and Lincoln streets Judge Magaw made
a speech for Matt Weightman in his
Travelled through forty-six states in this
luxuriant palace car when the car started
the trolley pole Captain Philips made a
short talk to his constituents. Jim Lari-
mer led a man up to the shouting
Here, captain, is the fellow that runs
the ward he said
do you?" asked the captain.
.'Betcher life
'Good Do it,
There boys sung out the captain,
swinging on to the moving car. that's
the kind of a speech that counts
A. l. Williams Joined the party on its
trip through his ward, assuring them that
he was still zone of the boys"
The flyer shot over to Parkdale for its
last stop. Al Bauer'S heelers had crowd
waiting at NeWland's despite that late
hour. They cheered up when Harry Bone
sang them an Irish song and reeled off
his speech. Bone talked for Jeltz. He
said It was an outrage that the county
committee had acted in so high-handed
a manner. Il call it disresDectable and
dissatisfractionable,1 he yelled.
Tom Doran had hard time curbing the
Impotence of Dick Hayden who miscued
IN starting his maiden speech before the
announcer had given his pedigree in full
Hayden told the assembled multitude to
vote Tor their neighbor and my lifelong
friend, Al" Then he stopped What's
his manner" he queried agonfzingly-
Bauer" yelled some one in stage whis-
Eyes, my old friend Al Bauer" contin-
he could. This is MIR. Bauer. He will
tell you why you should vote for him.
made flying leap for the car as it spun
Thus ended the famous tour of the orig
inal and only trolley political special
The hot air specialists and their guests
6. c. Clemens, DR.. H b Hogeboom.
Warner, r. F. Hayden, John Dawson, A.
p Shreve, w. S. CLANCY, D. T. Gregg,
Philips. George Eagle, H J. Bone. H. A
Hodgins, Eugene Latimer. John T. Cha
ney, A T. Williams, Charles 0,Neiu.
Bunker, Thomas Bunker, T. f. Doran,
E. D. McKeever, Phil Eastman, James
z. Larimer, L. L. Kiene, ,, Jesse Leach.
Giese, Fred Gordon, L. S. Ferry, l. T.
Yount, r. B. Semple.