The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-25

drunken loafers going uD and the stale
beer coming down stairs One morping
a we'll known citizen Of Topeka was
found dead in his room from Runshots
instantly hired detectives and spoilers
to establish the Sact that murder
had been committed. and to aDprehend
the murderer. After him there was
nominated by Democratic votes and
elected by Democratic votes the present
county attorney. He Is not responsible
for inventing that how not theory: that
was invented by man OF some ability;
by Jetmore.
Tn December 1900, the law and order
people organized. About a month after
Nichols had been in office went to him.
and as near as can will give to you
the interview which had with him. 1
said. 7 represent committee of efti-
zens which has in hand $500 or $500 and
good pledges for more There has been
complaint from the officers that the peo-
pie would not give them support We
now have sufficient organization to
assist you. Here is this money. and II
you need more assistance you can get
It. Speaking for myself. wish to say
that there was nothing personal in my
opposition to you for the nomination.
All that these people want to do is to
do what in your judgment is the best
thing to enforce the law. l opposed
your nomination and election but II you
will enforce this law shall gladly hire
the Auditorium and publicly make the
most abject apology for anything ever
have said against you And nothing
would have given me greater pleasure
than to have done it.
Mr. Nichols wouldn't look me In the
race. His eye got dull and watery and
sullen. He said: I will have nothing to
do with you, your committee or your
organization I then wrote a letter to
the attorney general and in day or
two Mr.. Nichols wrote an answer In
that answer there was not a, word deny
a ho hod xyfn tod To- =
contained however two personal charges
against me. One was that J. w. Gleed
was too anxious to get his name in the
papers; and maybe that was true The
to bride him. ~ his letter he wanted
1T understood that he could not even be
bribed to do his duty. Mark that propo-
sition for man who begins his term
of Office: that he cannot even be bribed
to do his duty
He is yours, Lon and Nick and Dick
He has proved to be your tested friend
OF if you reject that term will saw
serf Stand by him, Lon and Nick and
Dick The only thing I can say for
you If YOU want to be of service to
your party is to vote against him when
you go to the polls. If my party nomi-
mates that kind of man want nv par
ty to be taught better. Lincoln and
Roosevelt believed in the respect for
law; they said You can't do your party
better service than by fighting such
men,
Now the temperance and law and
order people have nominated L. A.
Stebbins for county attorney There
isn't an ADLER fighting attorney than
Stebbins. l admire the Capital for the
good it has done in times past and for
the good it may do after it gets to be
state printer, They say notifies makes
strange bedfellows; well it certainly did
when it put Lon Townsend and Nick
Chiles and Harold Chase in the same
hld fol ef1lS hAcr e ..1r~
bly, successful in his prosecution of the
Western Union Telegraph company.
They say StebbinS is expressing the
Western Union. Poor little Western
the state every day. The reaI anarch-
lists are those who teach that laws need
not be obeyed- He is enforcing these
laws ! know that enforcement of law
is as dear to his heart as 1t is to DIR.
Mcfarland or Mr.. Sheldon, And of
Stahl l will say that If ever there were
true-hearted Christian gentleman it
is Frank Stahl. He believes in driving
the whisky curse out of the community
I ask you to stand by these men and
cute the officers n .4es-
At the close of Mr. Gleed's address
Master Harold Parr sang with much eff
feet two campaign songs.
Gen. J. x. Hudson was then intro
duced by the chairman as the man who
had fought for Republican principles
for rs years. General Hudson's talk was
mainly of a historical nature, compar-
ing the conditions in the fight for the
prohibitory law of 1888 with those of the
present time. AT that tinae,, said he,
Judge Martin. Democrat, was elected
by majority of $500 votes in a district
personal against these men Nichols and
Lucas. Voting or not voting for them
does not make or unmake you a Repub-
lican. You can find hundred joints
ICrf 1f do,
suit to the state of Kansas. Here we
have a beautiful city, where the laws
are trampled down, where the mayor
sits in his chair and smiles at law
ers. We owe it to ourselves to make
Topeka a lava biding city. If Judge
Carver We're mayor of Topeka tonight
and wish he were-and would say to
Chief Donovan, Bring me report of
the location of every joint in the city,
don't you suppose Donovan would do it +!
If Judge Carver said to him to shut
these hell-holes. don't you suppose he
would do it?
Put any man of courage In the chair
which Parker occupies and he will enforce
the law. All over Kansas they are watch
ing Topeka and Shawnee county to see
what they are going to do. remember
back in the COS when the rebellion broke
have here in T Topeka on sa' small scale. There
Is nothing that goes over the saloon coun-
ter that helps to build up. men. The ques-
not one of men, they form the issue
whether or not this law is to be enforced
That is the question in Shawnee county.
/ This is only the beginning; we are told by
the morning paper that we should wait
until spring. Oh, we haven't forgotten
when we elect q mayor he will be mar
Of backbone to enforce the law, like Judge
Carver. We might as well understand
that we are in for the whole campaign As
long the flag waves, this constitutions
amendment against the gin-mil will re
main.
MR. STEBBINs INTRODUCED.
L. A. Stebbins. the Independent candi
date for county attorney, was then intro
duced and outlined his position He wen
over the statement which he made some
weeks ago in the State Journal regarding
what he would do if elected and showed
wherein Galen Nichols had placed wrong
Interpretation upon the law. In answer t,
the charge that he was socialist. he reas
this statement: II believe in the publi
ownership of public utilities As an illus
there may be mentioned municipal ga
: plans. electric lighting plans, street rail
Il WAYS.
"As illustrative of socialism in our ex
, listing institutions may be mentioned tn
r postoffice. including the recently creates
beneficent rural free delivery system. A
illustrative of the possible extension of SO
ciaiism nationally may be mentioned tn
! public ownership of the telegraph and tel
ephone. do not believe In the periodica
. division of property or that the state owe
: anyone living who is not willing to wor
Mr.. stebbins said in answer to tina
al.