The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-07

Of a crank
Rev. J. T. Mcfarland struck out for
the state Journal at once for announe1nS
this meeting as a Hughes rally He TOOK
exceptions saying it was citizens as
sembly and larger than belonging TO any
one man. Individual candidates are
merely Instruments Candidates come
and go. They are taken up ana put
aside. but the people press on, using men
by eNalting them or putting them down.
THE candidates for office are ~ no
consequence Not too much confidence
Is to be put in the past record OF can
didates We may be misled by previous
records and Of family connections ~
I'VE intend to have law enforced who
ever shall be elected mayor. We VIII
not leave it to the VIII Of the mayor
hut We viii insist upon it being done
The audience clapped hea. lily when
DR.. Mcfarland spoke of having the
pleasure OF giving testimony IN a court
trial recently (Balf Stark casel tsalen
Nichols examination of Rev Elmer son
reminded him Of a dog after a rat he
said he thought they gave the court
more Information than it wanted and
it was too bad the court was snort OF
time to hear more.
He said he would vote the law and or
der ticket straight through. He said
he dfd not think that Mr. Warner would
stand in with w-breakers. He wished
Mr. Warner had given them an out and
out pledge He was not mere TO say lnat
Mr.. Warner would not enforce the laws
and make a good mayor if he was elect
ed. But he is for Hughes nc said, pc
cause Hughes does give a pledge. IT
voters voted for no men bur those with
angelic virtues they might as well go out
of business. I do not know Of any man
who can present a particularly clean Dill
Of health and without blemiSn- W want
men of conviction and purposes Dr.
Mcfarland broke off into a remlnlscence
about an X-ray experiment that showed
a man with backbone we want a man
that when the X-rays are turned on him
will show that he has backbone" ThlS
concluded DIR. McFarland's speech he
did not say to whom he was referring
as the ideal to be secured. If Col.
Hughes. certainly he would have said
so He must have meant Mr.. Warner
Whether Hughes or Warner IS elect
cd mayor Of Topeka, he viii be fallure
if he attempts to serve two masters,
Judge Carver said He remarked that
there has been a good deal of personal
ity Of a personal kind in this campaign
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter proniS-
ed to say what she had to say in a very
few minutes i represent the Woman $
League of Topeka, which IS organized
to help the Law and Order leagues, she
said. Its members are women VINO are
not ambitious for preferment, but are
women from all classes and walks Of
life This league honestly believes it has
found in Col. Hughes man of honest
purpose who viii enforce the laws il
put in Office. 1t did especially prefer
however. that J. W. Gleed be the next
mayor. but there IS nothing to be ashaln-
Mrs McCarter said 1t was time to put
Christianity into practice right now
when Nick Chiles and Eva Butler can
come I'D from Smoky Row and vote
against Topeka's best men and women.
Eifally Mrs McCarter said she would
like TO talk a long while since she was
so well started. She said the eyes of the
world are on Kansas and that means
on Topeka and you and 1 are the city
of Topeka"
Mrs. McCarter used up seventeen min
utes of time before she finished. Several
times she resented Lindsay's imputHtiOn
about being old. in the course of her
speech, which accounts for losing the
thread Of argument several times.
People began TO so home, and Chair
man Lindsay shouted and plead with
them to remain.
You want to hear Col Hughes,
don't you2 Everyone that wants to
hear Col" Hughes stand up he com
manded.
Those who were not already on their
feet arose in large numbers. A great
many others sat still.
col" Hughes was then called to the
front He said: My voice is not in
good shape, as you viii observe. because
Of the inclemency of the weather 1
want to say right here am not the
business mems candidate am not the
saloon mems candidate The jointists
dare not put up a candidate, but they
try to get up a pretext to hOOdWink the
people. For the law and order forces
on that platform
7 want to say right now" he de-
clared. that I don't want the vote OF
any jointist- would rather go down to
defeat with the good, loyal. church |
going people of Topeka than to be elect |
ed by 10000 majority by the saloon ele-
ment.
u have but a few words to say to |
YOU" he repeated. The oath of Office |
of councilman and mayor is the same |
When I took that oath as councilman l |
swore TO uphold the laws of the city and |
state. I have endeavored to do SO, and /
when am elected mayor I will do the |
same.
mo matter what you hear" he went |
on. there are paid agents Of the joint i
lists and some others from personal |
preference who VIII not hesitate to at /
tack a man or his family.
LAS I said once before. the 1aWless /
element viii have to fold their tents /
and get beyond the city limits and they i
will have to stay there as long as am
mayor of Topeka"
Col Hughes retired and Lindsay !
shouted at the crowd. Does he look
like a good candidate for mayOr2''
He's got lots of backbone answered \
a voice in the fourth row center aisle.
-Four or five people laughed Few of
the audience seemed to know what was
going on
Ben Perkins was asked to say a word
He had been suffering from grip. and he
merely told of seeing Mr.. Warner and
Nick Cn1ies together on the street.
Perkins faithfully detailed how Warner
told Chiles he couldn't stop his utter
ances in his paper. but to keep his
(Chiles) mouth shut about him on the
street. Perkins report of Mr. Warmers
talk with Nick Chiles was told very
fairly. to the credit of Mr. Warner, and
was so accepted by the audience.
DR.. Fisk said he was getting tired of
too good people who patronize truth but
do not go to the primaries. Deeds are
wanted as much as words"
Lindsay wanted to ask the melting
crowd a few more questions
will it be a Ratchet or q beer key
next Saturday. he roared. "Hold up
that emblem and go to the polls and
vote for law and order. ~
Then he bethought himself of the
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