The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-10
MUST PAY FOR IT.
Right to Run for Councilman
VIII Cost Honey.
Central Committee Fixes As
sessment at $54.
MIR. CARVER OBJECTS.
Didn't Want Board of Education
Assessment Increased.
An Effort will Be Made to Have
Clean Primary.
MIR. CARVER OBJECTS.

The candidate for the Office Of
councilman on the Republican ticket
this spring will find that the assess
ment to the party viii be more than
one-fourth of his yearly salary of $500.
The assessment levied by the Repub-
lican city central committee at its
meeting last evening is $54. almost
twice as much as last year, when it
was $50.
Il presume that there will be big
roar from those fellows who want to
run for councilman. said H. G.. Lar
inner, chairman of the committee.
But we can't help it. This money
will have to be raised some way, and
the only way we can meet the ex-
penses is to place the assessment on
the candidates for councillnen. The
committee is now in the hole Is cents,
and we Will have to raise $3.50.
This is the off year in municipal
politics, and as such it is always q
hard tug to raise the full amount Of
the expense of holding the primaries
by assessing the candidates for office
The $3.50 this spring must be raised
from 38 offices, and of these 81 are
honorary with no salary attached
The remaining six, the cOunciimen, are
weighted therefore with the burden of
Y
custom, the members of the board of
education are assessed IS and the
members of the city central commit
tee 81.
A motion to increase the assessment
of the board of education from IS to
$40, making it possible to place a more
equitable assessment upon the candi-
dates for councilmen, brought forth
a protest from T. F. Carver, member
of the board of education 4 don't
see S0N sense in assassin o. the h7a ri r,f
education" said Mr.. Carver. 1T is
unreasonable. They give a great deal
of time to the city and they do it for
nothing, too. There is not any money
IN it and there is great deal of work
It's unreasonable, 1 say. to make any
assessment on the candidates for the
board of education
THE board is about the most ex-
pensive set Of officials that the city
mas and / rather think it would be a
good idea to raise their assessment -
calmly remarked one of the members
of the committee.
A counter proposition was then sub
mitted by the friends of the hoard Of
education to increase the assessment
of the candidates for the city central
committee from 81 to So. The effect of
this latter motion was to kill both of
the suggestions. The assessment of $50
against the cOuncilnen was permitted to
stand.
There is a chance thouss1 that re-
bate viii be coming to the candidates
for couneilmen after the expense ac-
count of the primaries has been set
tied.
An attempt to reduce the cost will be
made by combining two or three pre-
cincts where no contest exists on mem
bers Of the city central committee.
/ Where the contests exist the primaries
must be held in each precinct.
Entries on the city Republican ticket
close. on February H. week from to-
day. This action on the part of the
committee viii force the would-bes cam
didates to come out Of the brush where
they have been hiding.
A strong stand for publication of the
primaries was taken by the committee
when they instructed the executive
committee to meet and confer with the
Republican county central committee
for the purpose of securing copies of the
registration books to be used in the
primary election.
THE purpose in having registration
this year" said H. g. Larimer, lis such
that there can be no legitimate objec-
ton by the candidates and to see that
we get clean, pure primaries If It is
possible We have had trouble with
people who have voted and who are not
entitled to vote at the Republican pri-
maries. If a man is allowed to vote at
every booth that he happens to pass
there is no chance for an honest pri-
mary and the purpose is to secure the
support Of you gentlemen to guard our
polls and keep them free from this sort
of thing"
There is not an element OF doubt but
what the city central committee stand
ernphatieany for the use of the regis
tratfof books at the primary election
Not a dissenting voice was heard when
the motion to instruct the executive
committee along this line was put
The cost of copying the registration of
the female vote IN the city viii be borne
by the city central committee alone but
they ask that the county committee bear
ore-half of the expense of copying the
registrati1a of the male vote,
Appended to this motion was the fol-
lowing. THE date for the city primary
election shall not be fixed until the ex-
ecutfve committee reports to this com
nittee the result of its conference with
the Republican county central commit
tee in regard to the cost of securing
copies of the registration books
The recommendation of the executive
committee that the vacancies in the city
! central committee be filled with the
following names was adopted:
First precinct. First ward. David
Bowie.
Fourth precinct. Second ward, Win
field Eaton.
sixth precinct. Second ward. George
/ Po1linger.
First precinct, Fourth ward, Charles
! o. Knowles.