The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-22

being asked the customary question, he
replied:
you feners can run the politics. and
III run my business If L should go to
register or to vote might lose the sale
of a pair of spectacles- If you want to
put in your time playing politics, all
right, but youth find that l will come
out ahead il the long run
One well known Topeka man, in
speaking of the probable effect OF the
telephone plan said:
IF anybody should call me up, and
interrupt my business just to tell me
that it is my duty to register, would
be tempted to tell such a person to
go to-"
It's all a matter of taste. No doubt
a good many people will feel cOnsid-
erably fattered that the Republican
city central committee considers them
of sufficient importance to call them
up and ask them to register.
p. L. Wise, who is doing the tele-
phone stunt for the committee, says:
Il find that there are a good many
people who have teleph ones who have
not yet registered. As general
proposition, people are very good ma
tured about being called up They
often take occasion to thank me for
calling them up and reminding them
when the books are to close
1t is onI ywithin the past year or so
that the telephone has been of any
value for such a purpose as that to
which the central committee is put
ting it. The old Bell phone system
had only thousand or 50 subserib-
ers, and it was a very difficult matter
to talk to any Of them. Now, with
almost perfect service, it is possible
TO talk to $500 different numbers over
the Independent phone and about
1000 more over the Bell Many of
these are duplicates, but it is prob
able that about 1000 different families
in Topeka can be reached directly by
telephone, which Is nearly one-half the
total population Of Topeka
Mayor w. s. BergundthaI denies the
report circulated pretty generally
throughout town that he is supporting
Blair for mayor.
Il shall support the straight Re
publican ticket" says Mayor Bergund-
thai That is the only thing ] can
do. I am Republican"
It was reported that Mr. Bergund-
thai had told a well known Democrat
that he would vote the straight Demo-
cratic city ticket with the exception Of
Simms, in the First ward. Bergund-
thai was credited with saying that he
would have to support Kutz because
Kutz had stood by the "administra-
ton on some important matters To-
day Mayor Bergundthal said:
I never made any such statement,
and I don't believe anybody can be pro-
duced who will say that I did so. AS
a matter Of fact, am taking no part
whatever in this campaign; I have not
said a word about Kutz or Simms; I
am simply out of it,
rs it true that a good many of your
supporters are going to vote for Blair %
Il don't know 1 have not talked to
any of them. I tell you I have not been
paying any attention to this cam
paign.'
The Democrats have, with great cere-
mony, pulled between themselves and
the public a, deep shroud of mystery.
The atmosphere of the Democratic
headquarters is that of a torpedo maza-
zine; one has an inclination to walk
around on tip-toe and talk in whis-
pers.
On the door of a small apartment
opening off the main Office, the Demo-
Gratis have posted a huge placard bear
ing the one formidable word "PRI-
VATE." It is supposed that in behind
that door lies the forbidden city; the