The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-09
a Few Astounding Developments
Are Made.
That Petition We Are not Per-
mftted to See.
FULL FORGED NAMES.
State Journal Overwhelmed with
Interviews and Statements.
Attorneys for Both Sides Agree
to Postpone Injunction Case.

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to Postpone Injunction Case.
The State Journal is still coming out
every day, as our readers will observe.
and 1t is delivering a paper every day
in the year, including sunday
Yesterdays paper was pronounced one
Of the best Sunday papers ever issued in
this city.
Not line was said about the carriers
business in any one of the twenty pages.
We thought our readers would like a
rest and gave it to them.
The carriers incident is now largely
thing ce the past.
They viii pay a cent a copy for
every copy we deliver them. seven
cents for seven papers, or we go out
Of business.
Many of our carriers realizing that the
Sunday edition WIS the greatest sub
scription getter they could possibly ever
have, and realizing. too. that we could
not sell it. for less than a cent a copy
by wholesale. and realizing. too, that
subscribers would not pay eleven cents,
ana realizing further that the sentiment
in this town was in savor of the man
who for twenty years had stood by To-
peka. and i'm fG~-en years had paid out
for delivery of the paper over 500 10000
out of The ten cent subscription price.
and realizing that no carriers in the
United states had probably received
kinder and more liberal treatment than
those Of the State Journal, and further
realizing that so per cent Of the gross
receipts Of the subscription price q the
State Journal. paid for merely deliver
ing the paper, was certainly liberal COM
pensation, are carrying the paper now
under the plan inaugurated by MI Mac
Lehman October LIST, viz: the same price
for seven papers as previously paid for
six that fs,seven papers for seven cents,
instead of six papers for six cents-but
the same price to subscribers-1O cents
for the week.
Dean Conant. a lawyer, and dean Of
the law school of Washburn college.
was the lawyer to whom the carriers
went for conference and who governed
their early actions. Dean Conant
came to the editor of the State Journal
sunday and said:
j am greatly distressed. I like the
bcFH and tried to help them, but I
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dose things cannot endorse and they
mast look in the future for other
counsel; that L have gone as far as I
can or VIII. I think the fact that the
carriers got up a petition and would
not let you read it. was a very, very
bad thing for the carriers before the
public. That petition was addressed
to you and was yours absolutely"
The reader viii understand that we
had never any more than been per
mitted to glance at this petition We
saw mass of names, but the only two
names which we recoIect of seeing, in
the haste Of gIancing over the docu-
ment that was presented to us just as
the paper was going to press and be-
fore we had time to read it, are the
names Of w. W. Manspeaker and D. o.
McCray. Those names were there.
There were other names. but whether
they were forgeries. the names Of re-
spectacle people, the names of live
people or dead people. the names Of
people who live here now or lived here
years ago, we do not know excepting
as the people have telephoned and
written and come into the State Jour
nal office to tell US to take their names
Off
The carriers have said they were
names they procured from their sub
scribers, but the carriers have made
so many misrepr esentations-we regret
to say this of a generally nice lot Of
boys-that we would have to see this
petition and look at the names before
we could be assured of the genuine
ness OF the document. But this we do
know-and we have the evidence in
our possession to prove that that docu-
nent contains one forged name after
another. This evidence has been offer
ed to us and we have it in our posses
sion to use. but we do not intend to
use It.
In this whole business the carriers
have pursued a course which will most
fnjure themselves. We have never
sold a carrier a route, and, SO far as
we nov feel, never intend to. Our
business is selling newspapers and adj
vertising space. We sell newspapers
by wholesale to carriers. We prefer
to have the present carriers deliver
our papers in Topeka. if they viii DO
the hualness in a manner for the best