The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-28
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Politicians Having Trouble to
Find Hall for Speeches.
State Overrun With Stock and
Vaudeville Shows.
LETTER TO TROUTMAN
S. S. Reynolds, Veteran Demo-
crat, Writes One.
Gives Some Pointers on How to
Reduce Rates.
LETTER TO TROUTMAN

Kansas is so profitable a field for
amusement companies this fall that
the managers of the Republican and
Democratic speakers bureaus are find
ing a good deal of difficulty in getting
the use of opera houses in which 10
hold the political meetings during the
month of October.
There are scores of stock companies
and vaudeville shows touring the
state and they have engaged the opera
houses in advance for so many dates
that the political spellbinders may
have to talk in the open air
The Democrats are having the most
trouble about getting accommodations
for their speakers. Up to this time,
there have been very few speeches
made BY anyone except W A, harms, ~
but il is planned to start out the other
spellbinders within a few days. }. W
Morphy, who is looking after the
Democratic speakers says.
4 have found in a number OF towns
that the opera house has been engaged
/ for weeks in advance, and that II we
have a meeting in those towns, we will
either have to find other accommoda-
tions or else buy off the company Tor
some night. 1t is going 10 make
good deal of bother for US
John c. Brown. chairman of the
! Republican speakers bureau, says tnar
at several places the RepubHcan
speakers have been obliged TO appear
4 in the court house, because the opera
/ house is occupied by shows.
1T is impossible for US to make any
/ change in our present plans, said MI
/ Brown Eve must go ahead and place
/ our spea kers where we want them,
and trust 10 the local committee on
arrangements to get a place Tor the
meeting to be held. 1 don't see how
! fhe Democrats can be bothered much
! bv inability to get the use of the opera
| houses because they have not had any
body making speeches for them except
Harris
| W. A. Elstun of Elk county. one of
the popular members of the last house
of representatives, was in Iopeka
Thursday attending to some private
business
been checked up to me, but have 1aet
I answered them and have not decided
that 7 will answer them. Political
conditions in our county are very good.
and [ believe that Hoch will be elected
by a good majority. There IS no sign
OF trouble in our county.
seNho are you going to vote for III
/ the senatorial fight2' was asked
/ Eve have a candidate in our district,
Phil Campbell and I am for him" re-
piled Mr.. Elstun.
! s. Reynolds. a real estate man at
C4rainfield, Cove county. Kan, has writ
! ten an open letter to James A. Trout
man concerning the revolt or Mf '1eS-
\ ner Republican nominee for the legls-
/ lature in Barber county. against the
/ anti-pass movement. Mr.. Reynolds says
/ in part:
Having noted the efforts of yourself
at the head Of committee demanding
/ that men who seek to be pubic ser
wants shall define where they stand on
public questions and in the Topeka
State Journal finding recorded that one
I candidate for the legislature. a MI
| C4esner of Barber county has the con-
sistency Though better name for his
candor would be galD to oppose the
| anti-pass law. from the narrow, seflsh
position he assumes It Is fair to con
clude that if he got freight free on his
( stock shipments he would not favor
/ lower freight rates either. oh, shame
that one so little should aspire TO be a
/ law-malxer for the people of this state
Now sir, some 25 years ago, this wri-
ter was in the contest in Nebraska for
/ the same thing you now call the square
deal in Kansas. Railroad passenger
fares were then 4 cents per mile, but
when the astute railroad people saw the
/ handwriting on the WALL that the people
were determined to have 3 cent fares,
/ our railroad friends voluntarily reduced
/ the rate. The railroads don't like to be
/ forced. The writer made it his business
/ to investigate several average points in
+ Nebraska just one year to q day after
/ the ? cent fares went into effect and
I found that the increased earnings or re-
[ ceipts al these stations were from IL to
! q. per cent more under the 3 cent a mile
rate than they were under the 4 cent a
mile nate. and men like Mr.. CSeSner were
not hit by this new departure for free
! passes were not cut off. If rates are
4 reduced to 2 cents per mile, traffic will
increase not 13 to % per cent, but 25 to
/ 50 Der cent.
Much better if the railroad people
would make this reduction voluntarily
/ give no free passes and reduce freight
rates as low as win pay a fair return on
4 the actual capital invested. nothing for
LOTT OIL
( Capitalization will be WTTIng out This
| f1ctitiously imposed burden upon COM
/ rnerce and labor must be removed, else
/ the square deal will fail 1t is not enough
! to say that innocent holders of this wa
I tered stuff will suffer If the bungs are
/ opened up Were their investments bad >
/ Who makes good the bad Investments
| of citizens in other vocations of life
/ Who paid forsthe four billions of prop
erty actual property under the constitu-
ton. which in the name of humanity
and Justice was swept away a little more
I than 30 years ago2 The owners of that
I property held the sack and bore the loss.
Barber county people should attend to
Mr.. Gesner. s. S. REYNOLDS
The Democrats are hitting back at
/ Horace A. Keefer. the Populist nominee
! for governor who has been making such
/ vicious attacks upon Harris, Ryan and
/ FarreIlv the Democratic leaders. The
| following is an item sent out today by
the Democratic press bureau to be print
ed in all the Democratic papers in tbs
state;
THE so-called middle of the road Pop
! ulists are having trouble trying tc
place their candidate for governor.
Horace sKeefer for speeches. Sobo6S
wants to hear Keefer. He is a dead
one, SO far as the campaign is concerned.
Even the Republican newspapers are
| cutting cut his interviews. He is can
didate without a party. without a fol-
I lowing. When his managers ask fQr