The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-14
MAYOR MAY WIN.
Now Believed That He Can Defeat
Twelfth Street Paving.

IT now seems almost certain that
Mavor. Bergundthal has won MS nghl
seainst the West Twelfth pavement
He saws himself that he has won, ana
that his veto of the contract viii De
sustained 1t is all due to the mop
which Councilman 7. a. Ryder OF the
First ward executed at the MONDAY
evening meeting. Dr. Ryder has Deeh
in favor of the pavement Monday
-1ia-Tt he voted against it. This change
offsets the flop" made by Colohel
The East Twelfth pavement seems
to he considerably in doubt, nut II Is
pretty likely to go Whleh ever ""'
West Twelfth goes
There has been such lot OF mop
ping done on the Twelfth street pay, pan
ing matter that it is time the councll
asta bIished a flop exchange, ana
started things off straight again
It requires nine votes to override
the mayors veto At nrst ~ lookeu
as though this could not be done pc
cause Kutz. NeIlis, Howe and HugneS
an voted against the west IwelItn
pavement. and Kutz, Green, Nells
and Rice voted against me ne 15--s.
Twelfth pavement But rev udy
ago Councilman Hughes announce
that he had "fopped" ana WouIo not
oppose the West Twelfth pavement
any longer. This made the friends OF
the pavement happy. They tnought
they had the mayor up a tree
At last nights council meeting,
however, Councilman Ryder, VINO nao
voted for the pavement up to TINS
time Topped and voted against Doth
West Twelfth and East Twelfth when
the question of advertising for BIDS
Il propose to stand pat said Coun-
/ Gilman Ryder today. i am opposed
to this pavement now 1 shall vote
against it from now on"
why did you changer he was
4 a cd
7 haven't anything to say about
that" replied DR. Ryder Il Will ex-
plain my vote when the time comes
/ Some of those who understand the
situation say that Dr. Ryder
/ switched" because of his friendship
| for the mayor. He was Mayor Ber-
! gundthal's appointee and felt under
some obligations to support his friend
He was willing to stand aside so long
as the mayor was certain to be sus-
| tanned anyway, but when he found
/ that the mayors policy was in danger
he came to the rescue. Besides that
/ it is said that he is a little bit put
out at the way the paving contractors
/ threw up the fight for the West Fifth
/ street pavement. after he had done
| considerable to help them The same
| contractor who is backing the Twelfth
street job was also backing West
Fifth.
Mayor Bergundthal was feeling
very good about the new turn in
affairs this morning He said:
This settles the fate Of West
Twelfth. Ryder viii not go back
on his present stand He is not that
! kind of a man. And the other three
have pledged themselves to stand pat.
I am not afraid now that anything
/ will happen to defeat my veto
Mayor BergUndthal says he has not
done anything to influence Council
man Ryder's decision.
Some of the people who have been
working for the West Twelfth street
pavement admitted this morning that
/ things look rather gloomy for them.
1T was a surprise to US" said one.
We did not think Ryder would flop.
| But we still have two plans under
considerat ton for the purpose of saw
ing the pavement, and getting enough
votes to turn down the mayors veto. -
In regard to East Twelfth the sit
uatiOn is still more complicated. be-
cause Rice and Green, both of whom
voted against the pavement a month
ago, switched last night and voted for
that proposition. It may have been
merely a temporary shift and that
when the final test comes they will
both return to the defense OF the
mayors veto
troduced the resolution calling for the
paving of a block on West Sixth
street for trading purposes" 1t is
regarded as being prolific in possible
ties for some sort of a dicker by
which some artistic log rolling can be
managed.
In spite of the fact that it now
seems tOlerabIy certain that the
Twelfth street paving plan has gone
glimmering for this year. the city viii
Z have to go ahead with all the expen-
sive preliminaries of an appraiser ent
and the necessary legal publications
Then If the pavement is knocked out
after the contract is let, all the money
I spent ina the appraisement viii be
wasted.