The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-12

low, MEAN TRICK"
Commercial Club VIII Try to Locate
Responsibility.

There were plenty of funny things
at the Commercial club meeting on
( wednesday night, but about the fun
NEST was the proposed investigation
suggested by W. A. S. Bird as to who
had the tickets printed and kept the
plain, common people out of the in
auguraI reception at the state house
on Monday night.
p I. Bonebrake awakened the sub
ject. He said he thought that a state
ment before the body was fit and due.
He disclaimed all responsibility on the
part of the club for the blunder, and
trick"
That brought Mr.. Bird to his feet
He IS member of the legislature. 81
believe this thing ought to be investf-
gated he said. Three or four news
paper reporters and about rs legis-
lators have approached me within the
past three days and asked me why it
was that the people of Kansas had
not been allowed to go into their own
building. I had to tell them 1 didn't
Know This business ought to be in
lvestigated; it ought to be looked into"
Turn it over to the grand jury"
came a mum bling voice from one cor
ner. But President Mills pushed on to
the remainder of the business on the
programme.
A number of the soldier guards say
that they received their instructions
from Captain H. NJ. Philips, and that
for tickets.
Captain Philips said this morning:
Il had nothing to do with the ar
engagements for the tickets. When
number of the stock breeders were
unable to get upstairs to their meet
ing and likewise the telegraph mes
sengers seemed unable to get up
stairs.
when I saw that condition of af-
fairs I knew it was not right and
looked around and found the secre-
tary of the Stock Breeders associa-
ton and had him stand at one of the
stairways and identify the members
of that organization SO that the SOL
diers would let them in. John Dudley
gave me half a dozen of the tickets
or passes and told me 1 might have
need of them. Farther than that I
know nothing of the arrangements for
the tickets"
A reporter for the State Journal
saw Captain Pattison of Battery B. 1t
had been originally planned to use the
members of Battery B for the purpose
of regulating the crowds at the state
house and at the last minute the
plans were changed and Company A
was used.
From what I know of the plans"
said Mr. Pattison 81 believe the
original idea about the passes was all
right. 1t seems that a big blunder
was made and the passes were not
used for the purpose intended. There
was one particular balcony which it
had been planned to keep reserved
for guests and people of notable i'm
portance and the passes were to have
been used by those whom it was de-
sired should be admitted to that bal
cony. Evidently the instructions were
misunderstood or else they were
wrongfully given"
1t is a fact that the passes were used
in a manner which shut out the people
from enjoying their rights, and it is
quite likely that the responsibility of
the blunder will sooner or later be
found out and placed where it belongs.
Collins, Custodian, denies that he
had the tickets bearing his name
printed. John Stanton, another MEM
Der of the committee, admits that the
committee ordered the tickets and it
seems that the responsibility must
rest between Collins, Custodian, John
Stanton and John Dudley, the mem
bers of the committee who were in
charge of the arrangem ents 1t seems
that all those who secured tickets got
them from sources which are traced
hack To Stanton and Dudley.