The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-15
B. Roosevelt preside ns Uncle Who Died thursday

doesn't know what sort of a set of
resolutions 1t wants to introduce
Councilman Swendson has got one set,
Howe another and Councilman Mont
gomery, who is chairman of the COM
mittee, has drafts of two different res
olutions.
Holidays resolution. which is q
Whereas, on the 18th day of June.
before regularly called meeting of
the streets and walks committee of the
council, of the city of Topeka, L. E
Myers, president of the Edison Elec-
trical Illuminating company of To-
pekas read what purpOrted to be an
affidavit signed by one James J. Moller,
a spotter in the employ of said L. e.
Myers.
''And whereas, said so-oaued affidavit
contained among other Iibe1ous and
scandalous matter, a vicious, unjusti-
fable and indecent attack upon eleven
members of said city council,
And whereas, although said L. E.
Myers Dretends to disclaim all personal
responsibility and knowledge of said
attack, in said AFFIDAVIT, claiming that
the language used. the diatribes,
abuse, the mud, the dirt. the slime and
filth, are the words his spotter is sup
posed TO have heard from the mouths
of others, still it cannot be forgotten,
that the said L. E. Myers was the en-
plOyer of the sDotter who is supposed
to have written and signed aforesaid
affidavit
And whereas. the said L. E. Myers
stated, while personally reading said
affidavit, before said council, that he
had cut out and eliminated a great
deal Of other abuse and vicious Ian
guage, in said affidavit but did not
eliminate or cut out said attack upon
the city council, although he stated he
did not believe it was true,
And whereas, the said L. e. Myers
stated before the committee that If he
frt a
said affidavit before the committee
that he would have it published in the
daily papers. plainly showing his
animus in the matter.
And whereas, said L. E. Myers,
while reading said affidavit before the
committee, read it with various com
ments of his own, showing that he was
acquainted with the contents of said
affidavit, if not the actual author.
Therefore be it resolved, that
while we have nothing but pity and a
! loathsOme contempt for the poor
I miserable, degraded hirelng of a
! spotter, who for few pieces of silver,
/ sold his manhood and attempted to in
! jure his fellOwmen. by perjury and
/ lies. still as before stated, we must al
ways remember that the aforesaid
/ spotter with all his baseness, was but
| the tool of his employer, /. e. Myers
And be it further resolved, that we
/ condemn the aforesaid affidavit as far
! as the council is concerned, as being a
! mass Of falsehoOds and tissue of lies,
and that we also believe that the at
/ tacks in said affidavit made upon 9th er
! prominent citizens of Topeka are also
/ false.
And be it still further resolved.
/ that we condemn in unmeasured terms
/ said L. z. Myers for his unwarranted,
/ uncalled for employment Of said spot
i ter; for the brazen reading of afore-
/ said spOtter affidavit before the said
/ committee and for his conduct gen
i orally in connection with his opposf-
1 ton toward the granting of a fran
/ chise ordinance to the new Topeka
| Electrical company. a company com
/ posed largely Of our most prominent
! citizens,
And be it still further resolved,
that we believe that the opposition to
/ any public service. company or corpo-
ration against the granting of a fran
/ chise ordinance by the city council to
a competing company or corporation,
should be limited to seeing that the
competing company or corporation,
/ obtains no better terms in its fran
chise ordinance than that already held
/ by the company or corporation whose
monopoly Is threatened by competi-
ton
The city treasury is going to resem-
/ bic old Moth er Hubbard's cupboard by
the first of July. Nearly 100000 of
bonds and interest on bonds falls due
on that date.
There will be enough in the city