The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-30

Just before we started away, some
body suggested that we take one more,
and Wolf said he didn't want any
that he had taken all he could stand
Why does not the Committee of Two
Hundred talk to some of the members
of the city council and city officials?
They are not very hard to locate, and
some of them might give the commit
tee some interesting information None
OIL them were interviewed by the COM
mittee, of course. Their names may
be had at the State Journal office.
WOLF AT THE DUPREE DIVE
Wolf did some political work for Ber-
gundthal during the last mayor cam
paign. He undertook the job of lining
up the tough negroes in the Second
ward. One night some of Nthe Demo-
Gratis fixed UP a scheme to catch Wolf
in charge of a beer party which was
advertised to take place at the Joanna
Dupree dive down by the river. This
is one of the lowest and most disrep-
utable places in town. frequented only
by the most depraved and dissolute
negroes.
Several well known Democrats, whose
names can be easily iascertained, if the
Committee of Two Hundred wants
them, went to this beer party, after it
was well started. Wolf was serving
the beer and telling people to vote for
Bergundthal. One of the Democratic
visitors heard Wolf say to Joanna Du-
pres:
IF you don't bring out your crowd to
vote for Bergundthal, he will not let
you run your place"
"Oh, 1 don't care" replied the Du-
pree woman. 'Bergundthal will only
| be in office two years, and can stand
on my head that long"
When Wolf caught sight of the
three Democrats in the room, he was
much Disconnected, and left the place
soon after.
DRANK BEER WITH WOLF.
| A man who used to be in business on
Sixth avenue said today:
'Wolf says he does not drink, and
does not frequent joints. He knows
this is not true, and 1 would be willing
to tell him so to his face 1 don't want
to have my name printed in the papers
because he would make trouble for me.
perhaps. But if anybody wants to
know whether Wolf drinks. send him
to me. 1 am not afraid to talk, and
! I'll tell Wolf to his face that he IS a
drinking man. I have drunk with him
many times there on East Sixth, and
Wolf knows 1t. 1t makes me tired to
hear him trying to fool the people to
get their votes.
The Committee of Two Hundred
knows where it can get the mans name
if it wants it.
When Wolf was a candidate for
| county commissioner, his manager was
| Al Bauer Bauer told Wolf that beer
was needed Wolf went to local nr1n
and arranged with them to deliver
beer to Bauer whenever ordered, ana
charge it to him. At the close of the
campaign, Wolf paid Moeser Bros
s11S in settlement of the account for
campaign liquor. It was all for beer.
/ except a few dollars which were palo
i for two gallons of whisky.
WHISKY AT THE AUDITORIUM
The charge made against Wolf by
| Mark Mason has never been denied II
is very easy for the Committee OF Two
Hundred to secure from either Mason,
Jewell or Lee Carter some valuable in
forma ton.
Mason's charge is that Wolf was in
the habit of bringing bottles of whisky
to the Auditorium. Mason and Jewell
saw Wolf drink repeatedly during that
time. Once Wolf was so much under
the influence of whisky that he had
Mason hide his whisky bottle where he
could not find it.
OF course the Committee of Two Hun
dred will not investigate any of these
charge, or talk to any of these people.
That is not their style. They wanted
an investigation which would wash
Wolf whittier than snow; an investiga-
ton which would suit the Republican
machine in the Third ward. There will
be no disposition to change the report
prepared at the meeting last Sunday
But the people in the Third ward have
sufficient independence TO defy the crack
of the party whip when the issue is be-
tween a man like William Green and
one of the Wolf style