The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-03

schoch and yourself were the speakers,
the following points have been made
| against me.
.Second-That made a deal with
Chief OF Police Stahl.
"Third-That am a corporation law
yer.
I than 500 per year taxes in the city of
Topeka.
LAS to the second point, J. never spoke
l to Mr.. Stahl in my life and do not be-
/ Iieve he knows me even by sight.
'As to the third point, I plead guilty,
/ lust as you would have to do if accused
/ of being president of the Parkhurst-
Davis Mercantile company or the Gyra-
4 tor Milling company, both Of which are
/ corporations.
'.Since these issues have been raised
/ by you I am willing to discuss them, or
any other issues that may properly
/ come before a public meeting, and now
give you the following challenge:
1--WE will hire the Auditorium for next
Monday night. I viii pay half of the eX-
pense and you pay the other half VIII
give you 80 minutes to open the discus
sion, and I will take an hour or any
part thereof I desire to reply, and give
/ You 30 minutes to close. If you feel dis
inclined to debate with me personally
I am willing to allow Mr.. Holiday 80
minutes to open and give Mr.. W. r,
SchOch half an hour to answer Ihey
are two of your most active supporters
and are accustomed to public speaking.
I This challenge to be accepted by writ
I ten notice given to me personally before
10 o'clock Monday morning, and If ac-
/ cepted each party is to advertise the
meeting in his own way so as to get
out as large a crowd as possible. Very
/ respectfully, r. w. BLAIR.
Today the indications are that the
Z -T,r41a L1r,v,r sa15 H~Iyn
ception of two councilmen, Kutz in the
First ward and VOight in the Second,
will be elected.
There may be quite a lively tilt for
the office of city attorney but F. 6.
/ Drenning will probably go in with the
! rest of the Republican ticket. Dren-
ning's opponent, John F. Switzer. is
/ a good lawyer, and a gentleman of
| high stal.zing, and everyone admits
1 that he will get a big vote
There are two reasons why the fight
1 is being made on Dreaming. In the
/ first place, the rabid whisky crowd is
against him because he had trained
with the law and order element. There
is also some opposition to him be-
cause he had not been in the law busi-
ness very long, and may not have the
/ confidence Of the city officials and
/ counciImen when it comes to deciding
some of the multitudinOus points Of
law which are constantly coming up.
Where to Vote.
The voting places on Tuesday will
be as follows:
First ward-First precinct, S14
North Kansas avenue; second precinct
! 235 West street; third precinct, 1904
! North Kansas avenue; fourth precinct,
1884 North Kansas avenue.
! Second ward-First precinct, 500
East First street; second precinct, San
/ ia Fe hotel; third precinct, 9O4 Y East
Fourth; fourth precinct, 1904 East
Sixth avenue; fifth precinct, Auditor
ium.
Third ward-First precinct, 921 Kan
! sas avenue; second precinct 507 West
I Tenth; third precinct, 1874 Western
avenue; fourth precinct, 1115 Huntoon
Fourth ward-F'irst precinct, 2Os
West Seventh; second precinct, city
prison; third precinct, Sumner school
/ house; fourth precinct, 1921 West
Fifth ward-First precinct, 1903 Bu-
/ chanan street; second precinct, 1928
Kansas avenue; third precinct, 1901
/ washington.
Sixth ward-First precinct Aliens
carpenter shop; second precinct Low
man Hill school house.
Through an error it was stated in Satur-
/ DAVIS Journal that Geo. H. Smith was the
! Republican nominee for member OF the
/ board of education in the Second ward
] w. III. wilson Is Lne nominee oiA4tAl was
the man who was nominated on the race
of the returns, but who was thrown out
on a recount of the ballots.
The way the Republican city. central
committee has been pouring the re
/ serves into the First ward during the
past week indicates that 1t realizes the
/ desperate need which its nominee for the
council, S. r. Kutz, has for assistance
Everything that a liberal application of
/ campaign funds can do to smooth the
4 path of Mr.. KuJz has been done. In every
precinct the workers have been busy and
/ the Republicans are. confident that they
have pounded enough voters into line to
land their candidate, though it is stated
that he has hard fight before him.
( When the polls are opened Tuesday
morning the Rpublicans will have a large
flock Of carriages at every voting place
/ and will work early and late getting their
| voters to the polls.
4 If the Democrats are defeated in their
/ ight for councilman in this ward it will
| vbe because they We're over confident of
! success and did not work hard enough to
counteract the effect of the vigorous Re