The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-24
LOOKING AT BUILDINGS
Deal For Location For Factory
Nearly Closed.
What the Enterprise Would
Mean to Topeka.

On Wednesday. May 8. a sham cleo
ton will be held at the Commercial
club rooms. 1t will be for the purpose
of testing the convenience and advan-
tages of the automatic voting machine.
The demonstration will be with two
machines. one made by a Wisconsin
firm and the other invented and manu-
featured by L. r. Winslow, a Kansas
man.
The ballots used in the last presiden-
tial election and the last municipal
election will be used. The machine is
so constructed that both men and Wo-
men vote on it, and when woman IS
voting the mechanism of the machine
is locked for the Offices and PROPOSE
tions on which a woman is not allowed
to vote.
The regular monthly meeting of the
club will be held on the evening of the
Sth of May, and after all who desire to
try the new machine have done so dur
ing the day, the members of the club
will each cast a ballot on the machine,
after which the club will sit as an cleo
ton board and the returns viii be
chine is constructed so that the total
vote of both male and female voters
is given after each vote has been cast,
for each office or proposition.
You may say said Major T. J. An
derson this morning to State Journal
reporter, that everyone who wants to
may come up and vote, and that they
may tell their friends to come also. We
want to give the machine a thorough
trial.
.'Repeaters may on this day be in
their element he continued, for We
won't care how many ballots have been
cast
The WinsIow machine will in all
probability be manufactured in Tope-
ka. L. T. Yount, accommodations OF
elections, who is one Of the StOckhOld-
Of 17n iz 77x r
fort to bring the factory here
I have an option Oh a building that
will be suitable for the purpose OF 3
factory said Mr.. Yount today, and !
have instructions to close the deal fer
the purchase of it if the Commercial
club gives the matter a favorable hear
ing
The location of the plant in this city
means a considerable addition to the
population. The foreman and the ex-
pert machinists have already been en-
gagged at Columbus, and all these men,
to the number of at least 100, together
with their families, Will be brought here
to locate.
The reason that the men would be
brought here from the east is that ex-
perts are required to make the working
parts of the voting machine. The parts
are as delicate and intricate as the
parts of a watch and Il sufficient NUM-
Der of expert workmen could not De
procured in a western city
be contracted for at one of the planning
mills here said Mr.. Yount. The ma
chine would have great sale from the
start and would keep the factory busy
all the time The machine has been
adopted by Canada and II. states of the
union, and has the approval of con-
gress It will eventually find its way
into use in every voting precinct In the
United States. as well as other coun-
tries where ballots are used
Mr. Winslow has been making ar
rangements to locate the plant for the
manufacture of the machines at Column
bus, O., but through the influence of
Mr. Yount and others. taken with adj
vantages that would accrue to the CON
pany by being located in the west, he
has made proposition that if Topeka
will subscribe to the capital stock Of
the company to the amount of $4,000,
the plant will be located here. over So
600 of this amount has been arranged
for within the past few days and Mr..
Yount is confident that the remainder
will be raised and the plant located
here within two months.
L. r. Winslow was formerly a rail-
road man and has worked on the ma