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

that L know its contents I want my
name taken OF at once.
c. W. Taylor of s2s Branner street
telephoned in last night and said: MY
wife signed my name to the petition
presented by the carriers and I want
it taken Off.
Mrs. Hiram Higgins. Twenty-hrst
street. west of Washburn college,
Please take my name off of that car
riers' petition. I did not understand
its contents when signed it"
A. NJ Harvey: mo, I didn't sign
the petition. The State Journal viii
win Of course"
W. L. A. Johnson. state labor COM
missioner. II did not sign this petit
ton, and I consider it doubtful
whether the carriers have much cause
for complaint. On a purely legal
proposition, it seems to me that Mr.
MacLennan is right The real ques-
ton is one of equity; whether or not
the carriers will get enough pay at
the new rate I don't know how that
is, but I imagine that tie increase in
the subscription lists will make up
in part for any loss"
John Dawson. assistant attorney
general: "I can't see how the carriers
have single legal leg to stand on"
John F. Stanton. state architect:
There are things to be said on both
SIDES OF this case. I did not sign the
petition. How would it do to let the
boys charge u cents a week for the
paper2 People don't like to do the
boys any injustice, and yet it must be
admitted that Mr.. NacLennan is GO
ing to very heavy expense to put a
seven-day paper on the market"
a business man from Kensington,
Kansas, writes; wish to congrat uIate
you on your new Sunday paper. Have
I always considered the State Journal
one or the best papers in the state and
think you have made about the only
Improvement possible. This carriers
I fight is all foolishness and will die a
natural DEATH Was at Washburn from
/ SO to Oh and always thought the boys
well paid for their work. I never car
ried papers, but know that the paper
/ boys had more money than a great
many who didn't Am in full sympathy
I with your method of showing I'D their
/ class scraps which always considered
a relic of barbarism and have no Dlaee
1 in any college.
"A great many at the college often
I thought that the State Journal put
I too much stress on their fights, but
/ I've been in enough of them to know
I that the stories were never exaSgera-
/ ted. This always seemed to be the
/ college fight on your paper. Keep it
I ~ ~ e WANT the news mere ana We
want the State Journal every day and
/ Sunday too"
Eugene S. Quinton, lawyer: you are
absolutely right and there is no getting
/ around it. Although I am lawyer, 1
! do not always advise people to go to
/ law. The carriers case is a point in
question"
J. NJ. Brier: Yes, I find my name
was on the petition, but ! did not sign
( it. When I got home one evening Mrs.
! Brier told me the Journal carrier had
/ been around there and got her to sign
/ a petition. She did not know much
about it, but the carrier said that they
wanted to get better wages from Mr.
/ MacLennan, ana she thought she was
in favor of good wages. The carrier
4 wanted my name, but Mrs. Brier told
/ MIN / wasn't at home. The carrier told
/ her that that didn't make any differ
ence, and that all of the women out
in Potwin were signing their husbands
names,-that it was just the same; that
/ Mrs. Willard had signed her husbands
/ name. MIS-. Brier and I are very sorry
4 that our names are on that petition,
and we now want them taken off
/ quick"
J. F. Rowley Pioneer Druggist: 7
unintentiOnally did the State Journal a
great injustice. I was reading the State
Journal one evening at my home when
( MRS. ROwley said a boy was at the
door asking that 1 sign a petition. She
| told me that she thought injustice was
being done to the carriers, and that I
/ ought to sign the paper. I signed it
without any further question, but I
/ want my name off now. We did not
/ understand the situation at all
Samuel T. Howe, councilman, man
/ ager of the Bell Telephone company:
Il did not sign the petition and would
not sign it
William Taylor, agent for Rambler
automobiles; mo, I did not sign the
petition. I think Mr.. MacLennan is
capable Of running his own business.
T. B. Jennings, government weather
/ bureau: mo, I didn't sign that car
riers' petition and will not. The mex
thing I know the school children viii
land up here with a petition asking fol-
skating, and possibly a Christmas tree
They could get plenty of signers tc
such a petition"
Fred Nelson: ct signed my name
and also that of the Southwestern
Fuel company The carrier repre-
scented to me that it was just re-
quest that Mr.. MacLennan pay their
the same wages they had been getting
I asked him if it would stir up any
trouble or if there was any trouble
between the carriers and Mr.. MacLen-
nan. He said no. I then signed it
and I a msorry now I did. You car
take both names off.
Mr.. Felix, of Felix & Son: st didnt
sign the petition. don't do sucl
things"
]. H. French: MY wife signed tn
petition, and when I came home sh'
told me about it. She is sorry sht
did, and you can take her name OF
We do not pretend to tell Mr.. Mac
Lehman how to run his business"
Mr.. Gatlin, of the Gatlin Drug Co
''The carrier came in and asked M
if I would sign a petition to Mr.
MacLennan asking him to pay tn
carriers the same wages they had beeI
! GETTING. I signed the petition. bu