The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-24
NOW 1000 NAMES
YIN. Green Petitions i'm Third
Ward Stir Up People.
Has Been q Big Rush to Sign
Them.
DEPEND ON WOMEN.
Wolf Supporters Say They will
Stand by Him.
On Other Hand Liquor Men
Won't Oppose.

One of the supporters of C. V. Wolf,
in his campaign for the job of council
man from the Third ward, explained
today to a reporter for the State Jour
nal just how Mr.. Wolf expects to win.
He said:
There is no possibility of beating
Wolf. L never bet on elections, but if
did I wouldn't mind putting some on
Wolf
In the first place. Wolf has the wo-
men sewed up tight. He has an or
ganization cut there in that ward
which the opposition can't overcome.
know it to be a fact that this or
ganization could go into an election
tomorrow. if necessary, and put its
finger right on every voter who can
be relied on to support Wolf They
know where they live, and on election
day they viii have carriages enough
to bring every voter to the polls. That
is one thing which in itself is enough
to elect Wolf
But there is another resource of the
Wolf people which is counted on to
make the thing doubly sure. Wolf will
get 90 per cent of the liberal vote. They
know that William Green is liable to
be a whole lot mose strict than Wolf
has been, and they will throw their
strength to Wolf.
I'D like to know where Green will
land in the face of this combined OPP
position? Green is a good man, but
he is up against a ombination which
can't be beat in this election"
The word seems to have gone oft to
the whisky men to keep their hands
off in the Third ward fight. but to see
TO it, on the quiet, that the wet vote
is given to Wolf
VIM. Green's friends expect to get
his support from the people who want
a first class man and from the law and
order people of all parties, who are OPP
posed to sending beer-drinker to rep
resent them on a law and order
platform. There are hundreds of peo-
pie in the Third ward who can not un-
derstand why the joints are allowed to
run, when c. V. Wolf himself claims to
( have dictated the appointment of Chigf
McCollum, and when c. V. Wolf is the
most active member of the police COM
mittee.
/ c. Y. Wolf is man who is always
on the lookout for the almighty dollar.
This was shown eonclusively by his
manipulation of the funds for the relief
of the flood sufferers. He made out
and signed hundreds of orders for
/ hardware, negotiable only at his own
1 hardware store. He lowered like a
buzzaFd over the relief headquarters,
! soliciting. filling out and signing these
orders As a result, he corralled IS. 440
worth of trade, while most of the ten
or fifteen other hardware stores in
town got little or nothing. These are
facts which Mr.. Wolf can not deny,
and has not attempted to deny.
Mr.. Wolf is a business" candidate.
/ He is after the job of councilman for
the business there is in it. 1t seems
to be a profitable business, too, for one
would hardly think that it would be
possible for a candidate in pursuit of
an office which pays only $500 a year
/ to use the methods which are being
used in the Third ward.
J The William Green petitions which
are being circulated in the Third ward
are making a great record. Some claim
that 1000 names have already been
secured, but this may be too high. One
of the men who is circulating a petit
ton said that he had secured 100
names on his petition, and had found
/ only one woman who refused to sign
the paper. Some of the leading law
and order people in the ward have be-
come convinced that C. V. Wolf is
fooling the law and order voters and
they will throw their support to VIM.
/ Green. OF course the Republican ma
chine will back Wolf.
McCollum and Wolf are really the
men who run the Topeka police depart
ment. Mayor Bergundthal has very lit
tie to Go with it. The fact that Wolf