The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-09
HERE'S THE FIRST.
Socialists Nominate a Complete
City Ticket.
Adopt a Platform Setting Forth
Their Views.
PRIMARY HERE
Bergundthal's Success Depends
Upon Getting Out Voters.
His Election Safe if People Go
to Polls.


for the spring election. 1t was placed
there last Saturday by the Socialist par
ty of Topeka. The following are the
nominations:
For Mayor. NJ. Parr.
For City Clerk-W. D. Gilpin.
For City Treasurer. F. Petrik.
For City Attorney-Otis s. Allen.
For officers of the City Conrt-Judge
e. H. Black clerk, B. P. Colville; mar
shall, o. F. Olmstead.
For Members of the Council-Firat
ward, William Frye; Second ward. Ralph
Vanzant; Third ward, Louis Knott:
-Four ward, c. B. Powell: Fifth ward. J.
E. Holmes: Sixth ward. P. E.#Vickland.
For Members of the Board of E1duca-
tion-First ward. r. K. Peck: Second
ward. Mrs. T. Schulz: Third ward, Jas
Brown; Fourth ward. G. F. Burgess;
Fifth ward. Mrs. H. W. Roby; Sixth
ward, NJ. Hamilton
The convention which nominated this
ticket also reaffirmed the national and
state socialist platforms The national
platform favors union labor and has
resolutions relative to negro rights.
In addition the convention adopted
the following city platform for the COM
ing campaign:
Municipal ownership-Weh hold that by
municipal ownership and public opera
ton OF the purely public utilities in To-
pelSa the city's taxes may be raised en-
tirely by direct methods. We are against
any giving over of that which all the
people must use for the benefit of any
part of the people. We do not believe
it is just for private monopoles to have
unlimited power to tax the citizens of
Topeka for their private gain. We there
fore demand the public ownership and
operation through Democratic manage
ment of all municipal monopolies as a
step toward municipal socialism.
"EducatiOnal-We favor the greater
emphasis in our public schools on the
teaching of manual training for the
labor.
I'VE favor the making of all text
books in use in our public schools and
colleges as free as the tuition itself.
I'VE call attention to- the fact that
our schools are overcrOwded and the
teachers in many instances underpaid.
We believe that less attention to com
mercialism and more to the higher du-
ties of citizenship viii remedy this and
ike evils and we call attention 10 the
fact that the incentive under socialism
makes for this remedy
WET or Dry-The wet or dry ques-
ton has been made an issue for years
in the city, Of Topeka. Neither the
method Of the prOhibifiohist nor that
of the i-prohibitionist is able to
minimize, much less eliminate, the evils
method entirely takes out the profit,
thereby cutting out the root of the evil.
.I.abor-We believe that while the
present competitive system exists the
/ la borer should get the largest amount
possible for his product. Under social
! ism the Iaborer would have his entire
/ product. There are but two classes
] the worker and the non-worker. Under
socialism all would be useful workers
az Observation-Disclosures CHANCE TO
WIN.
Bergundthal's success in the We'd
/ nesday primaries now seems to depend
mainly on two things: First, whether
the law and order people can get out
j their vote: second, whether fraudulent
voting can be stopped.
4 Getting out the vote is mainly
question Of organization The Bergund-
] thai organization is not as strong as
/ If might be It did not have enough
1 money to perfect its organization IN
the few days which were left for that
work I'd to noon today 80 carriages
have been donated or rented for cleo
ton day besides what viii be used IN
North Topeka. 1t is expected that at
least ten more will be used over there.
/ fsa4.r1a ges. however, to work effective
" must be backed up by a good or
eanizatson; the managers Of the cam
T97isn must know what voters to send.
their carriages for, and who TO leave
alone
&
organization in almost every precinct
+ There is a captain in every ward anu
a lieutenant in every precinct, with his
force Of workers. And Lewis has hired
about 100 hacks
The prevention of fraud at the polls is
ianother serious problem for Bergund-
thai to face. At primary election es-
pecialIv. there is grave danger OF re-
heaters and illegal voters. It is claimed
4 that there are thirty-five Illegal voters
in the Sells circus gang at the fair
grounds; that there are twenty-five
more Illegal voters among the coal min
/ ers who are now employed IN working
the mines west of town; that great
many joint sympa thizers from Kansas
i Citv are to be provided with free passes
TO come to Topeka and vote There IS
ALWAYS danger Of repeaters, Of course.
| and the only way to stop 1t is to have
/ good men on guard at the polls ana
have election boards organized by
friends Of Law and order.
The organization of the polls IS the
| crucial test, and the BergundthaI man
I ayers ere trying to get their friends out
/ bright and early to prevent Lewis ffoGfs
taking possession of the voting machlll-
COLLEGE STUDENTS DENOUNCE
BAUER
There was a fnass meeting Of all the
/ students at Washburn college this
morning to take action on the attitude
| which the Washhurn Review seemed to
have assumed by printing in its news
columns the advice to the students TO
Vote for r. A Lewis for mayor
The editor and manager of the college
paper both denied responsibility for the
presence of the item in the paper. They
said that it had been inserted without
their permission by a. D Bauer the
printer who gets out the paper, and who
is also Lewis manager.
Resolutions We're adopted denouncing
Bauer and generating the editor and
manager of the paper. Quite number
of the students voted against these res
olutions.
S. c. MILLER EXPLAINS.
Frank Beach, the North Topeka ne
gro politician who was accused Of being
the man who engineered the p Street
Baptist church sell out which the
pax- II " White a4te1nrfed denies