The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-04
ROORBACK, NO. /.
Mr. BergundthaI Charged With
Refusing to Rent to Negroes.
Promptly Meets Charge by Fur
nishing a List.
THINGS LIYENING UP.
Many Meetings and More ResO-
IutiOns Passed.
Federal Labor Union Officially
Endorse Lewis.
THINGS LIVENING UP

Among other things which are being
done this week to prejudice the colored |
voters of Topeka against W. S. Der
gundthal is the persistent circulation of
the pernicious falsehood that w. S. Der
gundthal refuses to rent houses to col
ored people.
Mr. Bergundthal has 43 colored renters
on his books. and the statement that
he refuses to rent to colored people is
disDroved by the following list of col
ored men and women who now rent from
the Bergundthal agency:
Lena Thompson, 435 Lawrence street.
Foster Kelley, $500 Monroe street.
Geo. Bell, 517 Morse street.
". Brown, 1915 Madison street.
Clarence Long. 943 Norris avenue.
ice Walker. 1904 Norris avenue
W. H. Martin. 1911 Norris avenue.
Annie Taylor 1910 Norris avenue.
/ Stull. 1914 Norris avenue.
J. Anderson. Otis addition.
NJ Mcdonald. Philbins' addition.
Peter Rucker, Philbins' addition
L. Venable, 115 Railroad street
Vim. Murphy, 927 Railroad street.
sThos. Dixon. 404 Saywen street.
Richard Young, 701 Sixteenth street.
Sallie Hall. sos Seventeenth street.
Annie Marshall, sol North Topeka.
avenue.
Matte Ewing. 42O West Laurent
l. B. Russell. Topeka avenue and
Twenty-fourth street.
w Hardy, 1916 Washington street
J. Burch, 625 Bruce street
". Brown, 627 Bruce street.
Rosie Harris 420 West Curtis street.
John Clemens, 800 Center street.
Thos- Rouse, S02 Center street.
Irwin Mcdonald. 61ta Clay street.
Rich. Bagsby. S32 Clay street
Wallace Sneed family S34 Clay street
A. Mcmillan, SOB Clay street.
Griffith Baker, jefferson street
Elmer Reveley, 1125 jefferson street.
Geo. Sneed, S04 Jefferson street
Marcus Owens, 131 jefferson street.
P. Roberts, 1912 Jefferson street.
E. Owens 1873 Jefferson street.
s LangstOn. 135 Jefferson street.
John Hutchinson 355z Jefferson street.
m Ratten. 420 East Second street.
J. ". Jones, 529 Kansas avenue.
c. Lyman. 500 Railroad street
James Thompson. 431 Lawrence street.
H. ". Euler, who attended a Lewis
meeting at Mt. Zion church IN North
Topeka last night. stated that Frank
Lewis candidate for mayor in making
a speech, made the direct charge that
Mr.. Bergundthal-re refuses to rent houses
to colOred people. ThereupOn several
colored men objected to the statement,
and said that they knew it to be false.
This story is denied by j. ". Bird
whistel, president of the club under
whose auspices the meeting was held.
He says, however, that it is generally
believed to be a fact by colored people
that Mr.. Bergundthal refuses to rent to
colored men.
MEETING FOR COLORED MEN
TONIGHT
4 At the old court house this evening
/ there Will be a meeting for the cOlOred
men of Topeka, at which Mr.. Bergund-
thai will make a speech.
All colored people are invited to be
i present, as the meeting will be an inn
portant one.
WOMEN MEET THURSDAY.
Thursday afternoon the women will
4 hold their regular weekly meeting at
Lincoln post hall. Mr.. Bergundthal viii
be present and make a speech, and viii
explain his position on the law and or
der question to those women who desire
to hear it. Mr.. Bergundthal takes the
1 same position on this matter that Col.
the women Will get out and work for
him.
RAISING MORE MONEY.
A committee is now working to raise
more money for the Bergundthal cam
paign fund A bout $500 is said to have
the Hughes finance committee, and il
is thought that $500 more will be Sc
/ cured.
It is stated that not a single one Of
the people who subscribed money tC
the Hughes campaign fund has declined
to allow the money to be transferred t.
BergundthaTs interest.
WAS OFFERED 800
". S Eastman says that he was of
fered 500 two years ago by jOintis
if he would agree to simply refuse tC
serve as supervisor in the second pre-
cinct of the First ward. Eastman says
that he turned down the offer becaus.