The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-07
Less Than 1900 People Attend
the Meeting.
WAS ALMOST A FROST.
Many People Left Before Meet
ing Adjourned.
Effort Made to Catch Real Law
and Order Votes.

anu OLUCL EOlCSs
Colonel Hughes rally was held in
the Auditorium last night. and it was
made a delightfully."- informal affair. The
speakers OF the evening were called up
In a go-as-yOu- please manner. and their
talks were of the patchwork variety:
Not a word was breathed about the
Wood brothers and their occupancy OF
the building at lie East Fourth street
owned by Colonel Hughes Cor his
wife).
Frank r. Lindsay was the authorized
chairman of the meeting and he intro
ruced the speakers. but in the parlance
of the street, James $. Troutman was
the whole cheese Troutman broke the
Zee with few remarks covering
twenty-five minutes time. Ills rev re-
marks were in the capacity Of intro
ducing the chairman of the evening, Mr..
Lindsay They proved to be The longest
speech Of the series Mr.. TroUtman was
much worried lest the State Journal
would underestimate the size of the
crowd.
He sided down from the stage seats
TO whisper in the reporters car;
How many people will the State
Journal say was here2'
About 1900 was the prompt re-
Spouse.
wen. just remember there are 2.4oo
seats on the first floor, and they are all
filled"
So they were. all but couple of hun
dred in scattering rows on the out
skirts and rear Of the floor level tiers
So tie accommodate Mr.. Trnutman the
reporter lifted his estimate TO 1-l0Os
which was too much. because Mr. Trout
man is wrong in mis- statistics There are
more seats in the gallery of the Audi
torium than on the first floor; 1887
seats are on the first floor
In his speech Mr.. Troutman acknOwl-
edged that the State Journal. edited by
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Mr. Warner was the only candidate who
need not make pledges and he spoke
very highly about Colonel" Hughes,
but omitted mention of his paradoxical
opinions before and after the time he
appeared in the lists and fought against
Hughes appointment to the council.
DR.. Mcfarland talked as much for J.
s. Warner as for Colonel" Hughes.
Judge Carver discovered personalities
OF personal kinds in the campaign
Colonel Hughes came in late out Of
the dampness of a night made brilliant
out Of doors by a splendid moon, and
speech. as they could well see, on &C
count Of bad weather.
James Troutman said If he could
properly discern the signs OF the times
this campaign would end at O'Clock
Saturday night with a sweeping law and
order victory III have always main
tained there is preponderance Of good
and intelligent citizens IT political rings
control and bad men are nominated it IS
the fault Of the good citizens
The presence OF this majestic audience
Of men and women from all walks Of
life indicates that this primary measures
up TO the standard
For fourteen years have lived a
neighbOr TO Col" Hughes In a little
street only four blocks long every woman
is going to vote and vote for Hughes,
and fifteen of the men TO one for his Op-
ponent- His integrity and character is
maintained in that community for four
teen years and it is this integrity and
Htaunchness that has commended him 10
them.
If Col. Hughes is elected mayor I
want to tell you there win be no joint is
sue in the politics of this county. be-
cause there will be no joints and no
1ointists.
Hughes has the backing Of all these
temperance societies without any dis
sent in their ranks. while Warner has
the backing OF the jointists.
Troutman next asserted, as If he be-
1ieved the above, I'd rather stand with
Bishop Millspaugh and DR.. Mcfarland
than with Frank Murphy. Sylvan Kline,
Lon Townsend, Pat Grove and Crook
Wright I'd rather stand by the
churches than by the calaboose and
Smoky Row.
I have heard about white blackbirds
and the devil rebuking sinners, but
when Chiles papercone out with its plat
form every wooden Indian in front of a
cigar store stood on its head and kicked
Its heels in giee.
about candidates that make pledges It
11d1cules every issue Of the law and or
der forces Because law and order sup
port a candidate who makes pledges they
sneer- Mr.. Bryan made pledges, 50 did
Stanley and Breidenthal- But mayors
are higher than governors and president
Al seems and are exempt The only can
didate whom the Journal insists doesn't
need to make pledges. is Mr.. J. s. War
nsr- Col" Hughes has made pledges
tbs Will keep them when elected
Troutman finally gave up to the real
chairman Of the meeting, f. p. Lindsay
whom ne had been introducing in these
Few brief remarks.
Frank p Lindsay said that three
weeks ago he looked upon a meeting
similar to this. They were unanimous
FOR law and order. There was resolu-
fions and there was votes On the next
Sunday morning there was "a little in
discretion The officers were on hand ard
Stark is now awaiting sentence for vi
oiation Of the law Mother Nation was
arrested and now lies in jail. The officers
were ready to enforce law. Yet for years
there were joints and dives flourishinz
and no enforcement Of the law
For thes axe of argument we will
concede that we have no right to close
up joints except by due process Of law
and we VIII go TO the booth and by bal
Cot elect good men who viii close Ip the
Joints by due process of law
Lindsay would rather ride in a rick
ETY. bandwagon with Old Jim Trout
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