The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-06
READY TO VOTE.
The City Election Will Be Held
Tomorrow.
Lighting Proposition Is Up to
the People.
THEY MUST DECIDE.
Question of Turning Lighting
Over to a Corporation.
Six Members of the City COun-
Gil to Be Chosen.

Gil TO be CnOS0n.
The Topeka city election will be held
| tomorrow. The polls open at 6 O'Clock
| in the morning and close at s o'clock in
| the evening.
Six members of the city council are
| to be chosen and six members of the
school board. These are the only Off
GERS to be chosen at this election. The
| interest centers in the lighting ques-
| ton, however. The people are called
| upon to decide whether they wish to
| rebuild the city plant SO that it will
accommodate the growing REQUIRE
| ments of the city or farm the business
out to corporation known as the Edi-
i son Light company, owned principally
| by Chicago and eastern capitalists at
an annual cost Of $4,000 for ten years.
present poles and wire. The Chicago
people want the contract and want it
bad and they can not be blamed Tor
that. 1t is up to the people to say
whether they want to give it to them.
The amount to be voted for is $65, 900
but the light commissioners say that
only about half this sum will be re-
quired. Only the amount necessary
will be issued and the work of re-
building will be in charge of the light
and Herbert Hackney.
The women may vote on the light
question.
Following are the candidates for all
parties:
First ward, councilman-Republica
c. E. Jordan; Democrat. w. E. Scot
ten; Socialist, w. E. Kearns.
First ward. member board of edu-
cation-Republican, c. c. Nicholson;
Democrat, G. F. Kimball; Socialist, J..
E. Yarroll.
Second ward, councilman-Repub
can, c. K. Holiday; Democrat. II. p.
Miller; Socialist, o. F. Olmstead.
Second ward, member board Of edu-
cation-Republican, Rev. F. f. Nal
lory; Democrat, DR.. Eva Harding; So
cialist, Carl Schultz.
Third ward, councilman-Republic
Charles G. Blakely; Democrat, w. F.
Logan; Socialist, Micajah Hamilton.
Third ward, member board of educa-
tion-Republican. Elisha Il: Anderson;
democrat, Benjamin G. Walker; So
cialist, E. M. Larsen.
Fourth ward. councilman-Republi
can, Edwin Montgomery; Democrat,
Louis E. Fraser; Socialist, Charles d.
Brouyette-
Fourth ward, member board Of edu-
cation-Republican, Jonathan D. Nor
ton; Democrat, George S. Allen; So
cialist, A. George Bernat.
Fifth ward, councilman-Republica
u.
Skeene; Socialist, Albert A. Avery.
Fifth ward, member board of educa-
Charles F. Hardy;
Democrat John o. Lungstrum; Social
ist, Thomas A. Curry.
Sixth ward, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
James w. +. hughes, SOCIALIST, Ernest
Brencisen.
Sixth ward, member board of educa-
tion-Republican A. B. Poole: Social
ist, John M. Parr.
Records OF Councilmen.
Councilman Charles E. Jordan Is
asking for a second term as repre-
sentative of the First ward. He has
made an excellent record and was
largely responsible for uncovering
the Fifth ward sewer scandal. He is
active and gives the business of the
city his closest attention. He is not
in favor of turning the city lighting
over to the Edison company.
Councilman C. K. Holiday of the
Second ward is asking for re-elec-
ton. Mr.. Holiday is a Topeka
boomer. He favors anything that he
thinks will result in benefit to the
city and has made good record as
councilman. He has been especially
solicitous about the interests of the
Second ward and better representa-
tive in the city council could not be
found. Mr. Holiday has a strong
hold upon the people of the Second
ing it's light plant and rebuilding it
along modern lines. ~.
c.. E. Blakely who is asking to be
returned to the council from the
Third ward, has served only part of
one term, having been appointed to
was elected mayor. Mr.. Blakely has
shown a remarkable interest in city
affairs and both before and since his
appointment as councilman has been
on the trail of the sewer CRAFTS in
the Fifth ward. He is in favor of the
city retaining its lighting system and
has made an excellent record and
shown unusual ability as a repre-
sentative of his ward and the city.
In the Fourth ward E. Montgomery
is asking to be reelected to the
council. He has lively fight on his
hands but his friends say that he will
win. Mr.. Montgomery is one of the
older councilmen, having already
served two terms and is especially
qualified. being familiar with all the
details of the city's business. He has
pushed the investigation of the sewer
scandals and has done a great deal
as chairman of the ways and means
committee to keep down expenses and
save the peoples money. He doesn't
favor giving a corporation the job of
lighting the city.
Mr. Montgomery and his associate
councilmen will push the exposure Of
the sewer graft and outrage through
the courts as a civil matter. notwith-
standing the failure of the grand Jury
to indict ex-City Engineer McCabe.
The council has evidence, the grand
jury did not get.
Councilmen Tandy of the Fifth ward
and Hughes of the Sixth have little
opposition and both have made good
records as councilmen.
The list Of polling places, judges.
clerks, etc, will be found in today's
paper. fifth column, ninth page.
The Viaduct as the People Desire 1t.
To the Editor of the Journal:
Permit me to make a statement
through the columns Of your valuable