The Topeka state journal., 1906-03-26
Municipal Campaign There Is
Warming UP.
Councilman Holiday Must Fight
for His Seat.
L. HEERY is ACTIVE.
His Friends Have Been Securing
Registration.
Republican Incumbent Is Doing
Some Hustling Himself.

where the contest for councilman be-
tween the Democratic and Republican
nominees has ali the symptoms OF be-
ing interesting.
Already there is sufficient excite
ment attached to it to cause the cir
culation Of scurrfIous stories on the
candidates in an attempt TO hurt them
politically
Mike Heery, the Democratic nomi-
nee. and C. X. Holiday. Of the Re
publican party. who is asking for a
second term, have been engaged in
getting their following registered. The
Republicans had six hacks in service
carrying voters to the commissioner of
elections Office for the purpose Of reg
istratiOn.
Precinct meetings viii be held In
the Second ward in the interest Of both
candidates. The party managers have
not arranged as to the number or the
places where the meetings viii be
held. but the announcements VIII be
forthcoming I'm a few days. Advert1s-
ing of the dOdger class will be resOrted
to by the Democrats to further the in
terests of Heery- This is about the
extent Of the arrangements which
have been perfected so far Holiday
has two workers in each precinct and
upon those much of the dependence
IS placed to see that a large vote of
maintains that they VIII not spend
very much money in the campaign.
Considerable talk exists to the effect
that Topping Will be done by the Re
pubhcaus in the Second ward Man
ayers for Holiday credit some of this
talk and say that they believe the
Fourth precinct viii probably go
against Holiday 81 understand
large number of Republicans will flop
iu the Fourth precinct, said c.. j.
Jewell, who is one Of committee look
ing after the interests of Holiday. /
'But that is the only precinct which
seems TO have a tendency in that direc-
tiOn- In the Sixth precinct which we
thought would probably go against
Holiday we find that everyone is for
him strong. 1t seems from this tina
the law and order crowd won't do as
much scratching as anticipated be-
lieve Holiday viii be elected by a good
majority"
a story which has been going the
rounds says that Beery is not in the
race for the purpose Of winning but
simply took the nomination because
no one else would take 1t. This Heery
emphaUcaliy denies. II am in 10
win he said this morning. 81 don /
know what sort of chances I have.
though I understand that there gre
quite a number of Republicans Op-
posed to Mr. Holiday, for some sort
of reason; / don't know why exactlV''
=
Fourth precinct said: Most of the
people 7 understand around here are
for tIeery, from law and order stand
point L don't believe there are any
other precincts which viii go that way.
At least ] haven't heard OF any rumor
along that line"
on the other hand. a number of
Democrats who are strong personal
friends of Holidays are working in
quiet way for him. The whole is some
what complicated as can be readily
seen from this.
over ia the Fourth ward the Demo-
Gratis claim that they will make good
showing with W. H. KemDer against
f. Montgomery, the Republican nomi-
mes kemper is the secretary of the
grand lodge of the I. o. o. 2. and
strong capable man. He is very popu-
lar and if the Democrats become very
active they may be able to poll a pretty
heavy vote.
No interest attaches in the contests
In the other wards and the Republican
nominees will have a walk away.
A free medical dispensary and bet
ter salaries for the school teachers of
the city are two of the principal items
in the plank OF the local Socialist party
platform.
In a resolution adopted by the Social
lists in a party caucas these two items
were prominently brought to thet front.
Ins resolution adopted follows:
I'VE, the Socialists in convention as
eembled, do reaffirm our allegiance to
the principles of socialism set forth in
the international national and state
platforms and we earnestly urge every
VFcrlrin gman to give his attention 10 the
great socialist movement that proposes
to wipe out the present savage c0npe-
titiva system which produces long
hours, low wages. child labor, tyranni-
caI bosses. poor houses and other evils,
and reorganize society in the interests
of the working class by having the
whole people own and operate the
means of production and distribution
We fully realize that the city officials
have nothing to do with the evils aeore
enumerated, but If our candidates are
elected they viii stand and guard the
interests of the working class such as
establishing a free dispensary where the
poor can obtain medical service and
medicine without cost We stand for
paying better salaries TO assistant
teachers in the public schools and the
Improvement of our educational system
as brought forth by the Socialist
party.
"Ve don't expect to make much of
q showing this year. Of course" said
Frank Curry. q leading member OF tha
Socialist party we ONLY desire to
keep our party spirit alive and build up
slowly. We can only expect to gain
recruits slowly hut with the passing of
every year we are gradually forging
ahead There are about 400 votes cast
by the party in the city"
The following are the candidates on
the Democratic and Socialist tickets re-
spectively:
For counoilmen. First ward N. 3.
Arnold; Second ward, M. Heery; Third
ward II. A. omen; Fourth ward. w
81 Kemper; Fifth ward, Joseph Mar
shali- Sixth ward T. A. Ridings.
For member of the board Of educa-
tion. First ward, o. c. Neiswander;
Second ward, G. NJ. Brown; Third ward,
II c. Fraser. Fourth war7 s. =. Bar
her: Fifth ward Wesley Lloyd; Sixth
ward H. P. Miller
On the Socialist ticket the candidates
for c0uncilmen are. First ward, G. T.
HousIog; Second ward J. N. Davies.
Third ward. G. 3. Murphy: Fourth
ward, George f. Burgess; Fifth ward,
"A. a. Avery; Sixth ward. J. NJ. Parr.