The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-09


a paper there is no need Of printing it.
We have had dozen or more. com
plants today that our Sunday PAPER
was not delivered yesterday. hut we
presume this is due to some oversight,
as every carrier was on hand Sunday
morning early. Our entire edition. al
though an extra number was printed.
was exhausted ana we were compelled
to send a hack for the Dregsman to
print some more copies to supply the
demand.
This morning. by mutual consent of
Robert Stone. attorney for the carriers.
and Ferry & Doran. attorneys for Mr..
MaeLennan, the injunction case set for 9
o'clock this morning was continued by
Judge Dana for another week A state
ment was circulated by the carriers and
others in Topeka Saturday night and
this morning that the case would be
continued as MI. MacLennan was not
ready for trial" This is absolutely
false. Mr.. Stone. for one side, and Mr..
Doran, for the other, suggested that
the case better be postponed, and the
court at once granted the request.
The carriers last week engaged Ros-
sington & Smith and Robert Stone
and Troutman to helr them in their
case. The same lawyers are the ones
which have bounded the Journal on
four libel suits.
E. D. McKeever, now assistant United
States district attorney, in his college
days was one os the best carriers the
State Journal ever had, and is a young
man to whom the Journal has pointed
as an example of what a. hustler can
do for himself. Speaking of the carriers
petition, Mr.. MckeeVer said: 4 didn't
sign the petition, because 1 know from
experience that the boys can make good
money at the profit offered under the
new seven-paper plan, and if Mr.. Mac
Lehman is not to be permitted to charge
for his own paper whatever rate he be-
Iieves is right. he had better quit BUSH
ness. Who is a better Judge of what
the paper shall sell FOR than hep
Mayor w. H. Davis said: The boys
came out to the house to see me sew
eral times, but I refused to attach my
name to the petition because in the
first place, L always want to hear both
sides to a question before making any
decision, and secondly, didn't consid-
er it any of my business. I considered
the dispute a purely private business
one, in which had no right to in
trude."
E. A. CLANCY said: at didn't sign
the petition. I didn't see the paper,
but 1 would consider the whole ques-
nan and the carriers and not any one
else
James NdcCabe said: MY wife signed
a Tetition but she was sorry after
wards that she had done so. Z never
signed a petition and I wouldn't If it
had been presented to me because I
think that is a private personal bust
ness transaction which concerns Mr..
MacLennan and the carriers. don't
believe that I had any right to break
in on a private business matter or
difference of that kind any more than
I would have d right to break in the
difference of some other emqloye ana
his clerks. I take the Journal because
it is the only apper in which can
find the news that I am interested in,
and which has all the news. I am
sorry Mrs. McCabe signed the paper
but a woman usually signs a thing Of
that kind on the SPUR of the moment
without thinking further about il"
S. A. Swendson: Il didn't sign the
petition. I don't know whether it was
presented at the house or not for I have
not paid any attention to the mattar.'
J. H. sauires: Il don't remainder
whether I signed that petition or not.
There are so many things brought into
the city clerks Office that have often
signed them without looking at them.
If I did sign it I had no business 10
DO it."
,~aeaS~r a ~
did not sign the list presented by the
boys as I had heard but one side of
the difficulty and now that I have
heard both I will not sign it.
]. K. Jones, merchant: ''I did not
sign the petition and if those routes
sell at anything like the price that the
boys claim that they have to pay for
them. it looks to me like they have q
mighty good thing with the Sunday
edition in"
Sheriff A. T. Lucas: ct did not sign
the petition and see no reason why I
should be called on to do So"
capt. ]. r. NIcNary. assistant prose-
cutting attorney: mo, I would not
sign a petition of that kind. I have a
son who received his first newspaper
training in the Journal office and it
has been the means of making him a
successful newspaper man and con-
slider that Mr.. MacLennan has done
more towards starting young men on
the right road to a successful busin ess
career than any other individual in
the city"
Probate Judge Hayden: II just learn
ed from my landlady this morning that
she signed my name to the petition pre-
sented to her by the carriers and I i'm
mediately teleDhoned into the State
Journal to have my name taken of as
my signature was not authorized.
County Clerk Newman: ct did not
sign my name to the petition though
my wife signed her name to it. The
carrier always comes to this office when
he wants his pay but took the petition
to my residence. They seemed to have
found that il is an easier matter to get
the sigma lures OF the ladies than of the