The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-07
SPEAK IN PARK
Governor Hughes Topeka Wis.,
it Grows in Importance.
Will Be Expected to Have 80
Minute Stop.
HARVEY TO PRESIDE.
The Taft Committee Will Be in
Charge.
Democrats Begin a Back Fire
With Nsw~-I~
HARVEY TO PRESIDE.
Democrats Begin a Back Fire
With Circulars.

Arrangements are being made to
bring Governor Charles E. Hughes into
topeka Thursday at 1915 p. M, in
stead or 1880 p. m, as first announced
furthermore, it is now planned that
Mr.. Hughes shall be taken from the
train in an automobile to the city park
Two docks north, and that he will
there deliver his address.
Inlrty minutes will probably be given
10 topeka by Governor Hughes 1t
was nrst planned that he should talk
only 10 minutes.
The committee on ARRANGEMENTS
which had charge of the Taft celebra-
ton in this city will also look after the
Hughes meeting. This committee held
a session Tuesday night, and it was de-
clded to try to arrange to have Hughes
speak at the park instead of from the
train. The band stand at the park will
be decorated and Major A. M. Harvey.
one of the Republican candidates for
the legislature. will preside.
BY unanimous resolution it was by
the meeting earnestly requested of the
managers and superintendent of the
railroad shops, offices and other indus
tries of our city, to arrange to give to
the employees wherever it might be con-
sistently done, half hour extra at the
noon hour to enable them to listen to
Governor Hughes speech at the City
park.
Here is the schedule of the Governor
Hughes train through Kansas next
| Thursday and Friday:
| Leave st. Joseph 10 a. m, October S,
1915 p. M: Mcfarland, 1:45; Herring
ton, $40; Marion, 4:30; Wichita 700;
also stop at Alma, Alta Vista, White
City. Peabody. White Water.
| Leave Wichita, arrive Yates Center 8
a. M, October 8; Neodesha, 9:20; indie
| Q.E0 n. 40 Che
| topa, IL :35; Cherokee, II: 30 p. M; Pitts
burg. 1851. Also stop at Altoona and
| Mineral.
The following is the resolution adopt
| ed by the committee Tuesday night:
1.-The Republicans of Topeka in meet
| ing assembled bearing in mind the
| large number of laboring men having
homes in our midst, knowing their de-
| sire to hear Governor Hughes of New
| York. and realizing the disappointment
| to them if the present programme is
! strictly adhered to. unanimously re-
quest State Chairman Dolley to secure
! such a change in the governors sched-
| ule as will enable him to be heard in
| our city park from 1915 to 12:45 p. M,
October Sth, 1908. Such an arrange
ment will enable the men employed In
| the railroad shops, offices and other IN
| dustries of our city, to attend the meet
| ing and will give them an opportunity
to greet the governor whom they re,
gard with personal esteem and special
confidence"
The Democratic state central COM
mittee does not consider itself under
any obligations to treat Mr.. hughes
with such distinguished consideration
as il did Mr.. Taft. Instead the Demo-
Gratis are fixing to queer" Mr.. Hughes
| as far as possible at each of his Kan
sas stopping places by circulating
pamphlet making charges against him
II is said that 100000 of these
pamphlets will be distributed along
| Mr.. Hughes Zine of march" through
| Kansas. The pamphlet is as follows:
Charles E. Hughes is governor OF
the state of New York. He was elect
sworn statement made by Mr.. Sheldon,
treasurer of Mr.. Hughes campaign
committee, the following gentlemen
!. contributed to Mr.. Hughes campaign
fund: 1900,
r Pierpont Morgan. $40, 600
John D. Rockefeller .-....-. 5,0Ou
Andrew Carnegie .-........'. o'Uoo
Charles NJ. Schwab ......... 2,OOu
Iobn w Gates 2,00C
w n Corey 2,00C
w 2 Havemever soc
, NJ nuke SOC
These men control every great trust
in America ASK Mr.. Hughes about
these contributions. After Mr.. Hughes
became governor, the legislature OF
that state passed a bill requiring the
railroads of New York to give the peo-
pie a 2-cent passenger rate Governor
Hughes vetoed the bill. Governor
Hughes. like the trust magnates who
| contributed to his campaign fund, Is
supporting Mr.. Taft.
T. d. Botkin, who has claimed fol
some time that he would get the sup
mort of CYRUS Leland and all of Le-
: lands friends, is now making the as
sertion. it is said, that there is com
pact between them by which Leland Is
to help Botkin this year, and that TWO
wears from now, Botkin is to retire
and allow Leland to have the job, the
; defeat of Stubs having eliminated
him from future consideration.
This story was brought to Repub'
, lican headquarters by w. D. Rippey,
Doniphan county farmer whom Botkir
; met recently at Troy. Botkfn though
that Rippey was friend of Leland
AS Rippey tells it, Botkin met MIN
early in the campaign. and after ex
changing greetings as old friends, re
! marked that he didn't think he hae
much of a show to beat Stubs. Re,
Gently the two met again and Botkir
was feeling differently. He expressed
the opinion that he would be elected
Ripley asked him what had changed
his opinion
Then Botkin, he says, unfolded the
Botkin-Leland alliance. The compac
as related by Botkin, according t.
Rippey, provides that Leland should
. help elect Botkin this year, and in two
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