The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-24
TWO, OR ONLY ONE
Question About Pay of Judges
and Clerks.
viii They Be Compensated for
Two Elections.
COST WOULD BE $500.
This Would Have to Be Paid by
City.
List of Judges and Clerks Is
Completed.

G1CClIOll commissioner =. w III
Jams won't express any opinion in the
matter, but his announcement of the
appointment of judges and clerks, to
be issued Friday, makes it appear that
two separate elections are to be held
the same judges and clerks presiding
at each.
Last year the same question came
up. There We're then, in addition to
the regular city ticket, two bond pro-
positions to be voted upon. When the
election had been held, the judges and
clerks claimed pay for three different
elections. which at the legal rates
would have amounted to about so TO
SIS apiece for each of the three, max
ing every judge and clerk receive the
truly munifcent sum of from $50 to $50
for his days work.
The city council, which had to decide
the matter. compromised with the
judges and clerks last year, by paying
them IS apiece extra for serving at the
two extra elections. 1t was very
good compromise for the city, but this
year the judges and clerks may de-
eide that they will demand full pay or
nothing. Then there will be a law
suit.
Last year the judges and clerks hired
lawyers, and the Democrats We're
nearly all in favor of making a fight
in the courts, but the Republican
judges and clerks did not want to en-
barrass the administration that way,
and the suit was dropped
If the city has to pay double this year,
once for the regular election and once
for the school bond election, it will prob
ably increase the expense of the cleo
ton by at least $500 There are Ito
judges, clerks and supervisors employed,
and they would probably average about
IS apiece.
Election Commissioner Williams proc
lamation, which will be issued Friday.
is as follows:
Notice is hereby given that I have
this day appointed the following named
legal voters of the city of Topeka to
serve as judges and clerks at the city
election to be held on Tuesday, April 8,
1904, between the hours of a. m. and
p M, at the following named places,
and also to act as judges and clerks for
the purpose of submitting to the legally
qualified voters of the city of Topeka
the proposition to issue school bonds to
the amount and for the purpose as fully
set forth in the proclamation of the
mayor of the city of Topeka
H. G. Larimer,E chairman of the Re-
publican city central committee, today
announced the list of Republican
judges and clerks who are to serve at
the coming election. The list of DEM
ocratic judges and the list of super
visors, appointed by Election Commits
sioner t. S. Williams. was printed in
Wednesdays State Journal.
The judges will qualify on April D..
Election Commissioner Williams to-
day located the voting place for the
first precinct of the Fourth ward, in
regard to which there has been SoE1e
doubt. 1t will be at 921 Kansas avn-
nue.. 1t has usually been at 931 Kan
sas avenue.
The Republican list includes five wo-
men. who will serve as clerks of the
election. This is to reward the women
for supporting the Republican tickat.
G. T. Mattingly has withdrawn as
supervisor in the first precinct of the
Fifth ward, and James Hughes has
been appointed to the place.
The vacancies in the list of the
Democratic Judges and clerks were fill
ed today by the following appoint
ments:
Fourth precinct. Third ward, H. 1.
Monroe, clerk.
First precinct, Firth ward Lee Sh-
vernail, Judge; c. M. White, clerk.
First precinct, Fourth ward, A.Burk-
hart, clerk.
J. T. Ward has been appointed to
take the place of w. f. Atchison. the
Democratic judge selected for the sec
ond precinct of the Fifth.
The following is the list of Republi-
can judges and clerks announced to-
day:
FIRST WARD.
First precinct-David Bowie, R. M.
Second precincts. C. Miller. W. H.
Caldwell.
Third precinct-O. G. Page, J. w.
Priddy.
Fourth precinct. H. Allen, Addie
60 SECOND WARD.
First precinct-L. Marker, Ben
Adams.
second precinct. E. Baldwin, Mrs.
Third precinct-H. F. Slower, C. E.
Trimble.
Fourth precinct-Joseph Harris, Geo.
Layne.
Butts.
THIRD WARD.
First Observation-Disclosures Miller, Mrs.
second precinct--J. A. Renwick, Eta
Third precinct-w. C. Ralston, H E.
Fourth precincts. w. Pasker. P. R.
Mitchell
FOURTH WARD.
First precinct-F. G. Dreaming, Robert
Second precinct-Carrie E. Cope, J. E
Manley.
! Third precinct-H. A. Sturgis, ]. K
Bair
Fourth precinct-C. L. vanderpool. R
E. BuckmasteT.
FIFTH WARD.
First precinct-G. Bedell. E. A. Ed
wards.
Second precinct-w. L. Osborn, Mollie
Hunter.
Third precinct-Charles cambridge
Henry Wade.
SIXTH WARD.
First precinct-Henry Goddard, S
Pitcher:
Second precinct-Joseph Bass. G. w
Miller.
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