The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-21
JOB FIXED UP.
Plan to Control City Central
Committee Discovered.
Secretary Fulton Tries to Keep
Names Secret.
HAS AN AXE TO GRIND.
Wants to Keep His Faction i'm
Office.
N A
HAS AN AXE TO GRIND
Ed Halves Pays Assessment
Council Contest.

city central committee is being worked
by Secretary w. S. Fulton and some
others of that clique. An effort is be-
ing made to spring a made-to- order
slate on the Republican voters at the
primary March 5. Fulton today refused
to make public the list of names of
those who have signified their intention
of running for places on the city cen
trail committee. The list closes at p.
m. tomorrow
Why won't you give out the list?"
was asked.
''Oh, we want to keep out factional
fights replied the embryonic boss
Where did you get authority to re-
fuse to give out this list?" was asked.
Some of the members of the execu-
tive committee thought we ought to
keep it out of the newspapers until it
is complete
did the committee give you any in
structions to keep it out of the papers"
NO, there was no motion, or any
thing like that"
Evidently the dark and mysterious
methods of the youthful secretary are
inspired by some other source than the
commit by which he was elected.
Never before has any effort been
made to keep from the public the names
of those who pay their money to run
for city offices. 1t is an unheard of
thing.
Fulton even attempted this morning
to keep secret the fact that Ed Halves
has paid his $50 assessment to make the
race for councilman in the Second
ward. Fulton does not like Halves, and
is working all in his power to do him
up" He thought that it would hurt
Halves to have it kept out of the State
Journal that Halves had actually paid
his money and entered the fight against
Elliott.
Have any paid the assessment to run
for council today?" was asked of Mr..
Fulton this morning in the presence of
four or five witnesses.
mo. there has been nothing come in
said Fulton.
Fifteen minutes before that Ed
Halves left Fulton's office, after paying
Fulton $50 Mr. Fulton has a very
short memory. He is hardly competent
to serve in the responsible position of
secretary of the city central committee
of the Republican party. 1t is unwise
to forget to keep track of the $50 which
candidates for council put into the sec
retarys hands.
The plot to steal the, city central COM
mittee has fortunately been discovered
in time to prevent its full accomplish
ment. A plot of this sort does not
thrive when the light is turned on
1t was the plan of Fulton and his
friends to keep the list of nominees
secret until too late to make any addi-
tions. In that way they would know in
which precincts of the city no candi-
dates were entered, and get man of
their own selection to enter in that pre-
list of people who are already in the
race, this gang of dictators think it has
sewed up the contest, and will control
the next city central committee without
any difficulty. They will keep out fac
tional fights" by allowing only men of
their own selection to run for Office.
Fulton and his crowd represent the
anti-administration faction. Fulton
was dropped from the city pay roll by
Mayor Parker and hopes that by getting
in control of the city central committee
he will be in position to punish
Councilman James S. Warner, whom he
considers responsible for his dismissal
The fact that the scheme of this gang
is to control the central committee is
shown by the Willingness which Fulton
exhibited in telling the names of the
candidates for the nomination to the
school board, who have paid their as
sessments Fulton's failure to an
nounce that Ed Halves has laid his as
sessment is no doubt due to personal
spite, and is not Endorsed even by his
own gang.
The list of nominations for the city
primaries will close at o'clock Satur-
day afternoon. 1t is expected that be-
tween that time and this there will be
an investigation made by members of
the comm ittee, which will cause 1.-The
boy politician" to make public the
names of the men who have been placed
on the slate by the anti-administra-
ton gang.
1t was stated in the State Journal of
Thursday that resolutions were adopted
concerning the political policy of the
lodge by Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity council No. 2, at its meeting
last Wednesday night This statement
was made on the authority of w. P.
Horne, president of the council.
1t appears that no resolutions were
formally introduced, but that the dis
cussion of the question occurred other
wise stated.
There was very little opposition to the
4l,s,% a. H..
keep out of politics. The lodge mem
bers do not want the interest of their
organization jeopardized by political
fight for such an office as councilman.
L. T. YOunt denies emphatically the
statement of T. H. Balm in the morning
paper that he made a, speech against
the pfopriety of the lodge urging that
its officials keep out of politics. Mr..
Yount says:
Il have the highest regard for Mr..
Kirkpatrick as a man. but I do not
want the lodge in which 1 have been
investing money to get into politics. We
we do not want our officials in politics.
The m embers of the lodge almost
unanimous on this point, and L believe
that Mr.. kirkpatrick should withdraw
from this fight"
On Saturday evening mass meeting
of lodge members will be held at the hall
of the society in the. Security building.
Resolutions will be introduced asking
Mr.. Kirkpatrick to withdraw from the
fight for councilman in the Fourth
ward. This is a meeting for all K. and
L. of S. members in the city.
HALVES Is IN THE RACE.
Ed Halves set at rest all doubt about
his intention of getting into the fight for
councilman in the Second ward this
morning by paying his assessment of $50
to the city central committee.
Mr. Halves expects to make a clear
and fair fight for the place.
If am nominated he says, II will
try to do my duty. Mr.. Elliott is per-
sonal friend and neighbor of mine. and
the contest between us will be perfectly
friendly. 1 did not want to run against