The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-03

defensive way. to explain and otherwise to eucdate
the ridiculous Misrepresentation syphoned up from the
gabladder this esteemed drugstore organ Of Carrie
Nations bailiwick quoted for railway facilities
and through lines" the railway which is the principal
source Topekas daily bread and butter has through
line Chicago to Galveston over which lire it
two daily through" passenger and mail trains, bot
ways. Wichita This road called the Fev for
short through" daily train to the Panhandle
of Texas via Wichita as also one to Englewood The
Rock Island from Chicago Texas. and from Denver
to Texas runs three through passenger and mail trains
every day each way via Wichita The Missouri Pacific
train every day. way, between the Rocky
mountains and St. Louis. and anotehr daily train
through" Wichita the south line of the to
Kansas City The Frisco runs three daily through trains
through Wichita from end of its line at ST Louis
to the other end. connecting with the Union Pacific
These together with the Wichita and Western and its
connections give this city by the best railway
vice boosted by any city in the state delivering ana
ing out twenty-eght railway mails daily. The people
Of the state come direct into Wichita over ten lines not
counting branches That is one go of Wichita
ten different directions several times every day by
rail As for anything else along this line Topeka is in
one corner Of the state Wichita but few miles east
of its north and south center and less than fifty miles
from its east and west center line Topeka isn't in it
with Wichita for accessibility centralty, and
viii be.
In the next place in the state ever before
called upon entertain large state convention To
peka never had such convention and probably viii
have Besides the State Pharmaceutical convention was
in session at Wichita at the time to say nothing
of the state K P's and the Democrats but the week
previous
AS for hotels Wichita can accommodate more people
than can Topeka and he who asserts differently
know what he is talking about Besides Carey and
Hamilton first class the Manhattan, threestory brick
100 by 100 feet the Baltimore threestory brick of
like dimensons the Topeka Avenue hotel threestory
brick the Piazza, threestory brick. there number
Of others. Beds for upward Of two thousand pro
outside principal hotels and anybody sat
up it was because they did want to go to private
homes Wichita took care Of from forty-hve fty-one
thousand people, and for several days two years ago.
Speaking OF hail accommodations, the Capital can't
fool anyone Topeka's lack Of hail has been state
complaint for years. Up to the time Topeka built her
present auditorium which was but recently finished
Wichita had the most commodious auditorium the
state. The town small potatoes being too slow,
now has al elephant her hands The location for
state conventions by judicial districts and
Unless Topeka lets up her hypocrisy her convention
lays are over her auditorium and all hash houses
the contrary Notwithstanding Read the last state
platform and see if you can find any Topeka in it,
Unfortunately Wichita the weather proved exces-
ively wet and black and unexpectedly the dynamo-a
,rand $4,000 machine-which furnishes light for
he hotels broke down. But for these two happenings
he Republican delegates would as comfortable
nd happy time either the Democrats the Knights
f Pythias However, whatever may be said there is no
ity in equal providing hotel accommodations
or thousand and more politicians But Wichita soon
viii be while Topekas empty and desolate auditorium
s be trottng in the class with the auditorium
damned for the pleasure and profit of the Peerless Prn
ess
It don't cost any more to from Topeka to Wich-
ia than it costs to go from Wichita to Topeka What
urt Topeka is only the loss of the convention but
he defeat Of her candidate It cost pile to bring that
'routman crowd Of rooters down Wichita Yet that
Wichita convention wouldn't have nominated Topeka
lan for Governor in thousand years. 1t wasn't OF
be drugstore stripe We remember once taking seven
undred fellows Topeka special train to nominate
Wichita man for Governor and We not only fell down
wful hard. but We were compelled TO hire old empty
all in which our hackers packed like sardines to
eep and at a frightful That Topeka howl makes
S tired.
At New York Sunday automobile going mile in
'ryeight seconds broke from the jumped
ITO crowd and killed one man and injured several
eonle Speed IN America reaches the extreme OF in
lnity. Is
The Socialists France object 10 the President there
resenting 10 Washington the portraits Of Mrs Roosevelt
nd Hiss Roosevelt But the Socialists do really
lean anything They out Of other subjects talk
bout