The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-29
GO AT IT. RIGHT.
Petitions for Commission Form
Of Government Are Ready.
Will Be Circulated in Every Sec
tion of City.
Do NOT UNDERSTAND
People Will Be Informed on
Provisions of Law.
Recall and Franchise Referen-
dunn to He Explained.

At a meeting of the municipal legisla- |
ton committee of the Commercial club |
today in the room of the Commercial |
club it was decided to circulate through |
the city Of Topeka scores of petitions |
for the commission form of government |
and from now until the time for the |
election in September these petitions |
will be placed in prominent places in |
the city for the signatures of those |
who desire the new form of govern |
ment
1t was also decided today to postpone |
the red hot campaign which has been |
threatened for such long time. 1t
was thought at first that series of
speeches would be made in the Audi |
forum this summer. But at the meet
ing today it was thought that simply a
campaign with petitions would be con-
Quoted during the hot summer months
and when the weather was cooler the
speakers brought to the city. 1t may
be planned. however, to bring a num-
Der of speakers here to give speeches
before the Commercial club and the
campaign conducted with a more thor
| ough knowledge of the form in this
manner
Some time the last of this week the
committee decided to send out through
Inc business district OIL Topeka Twelve
young men, members of the CONNER
cial club These young men would
have in their possession forms of the
petitions and secure as far as possible
the signatures Of all business men. 1t
| is thought that once the business men
| take a hold and push the reform move
ment-the rest of the people in the city
will fall in line.
These young men will gather in the
Commercial club rooms tomorrow and
\ Sc -n-fr Mt
| the Older heads and then they will
start on the streets with their line OF
| talk and their influence 1t is planned
| to have these young men go up ana
down Kansas avenue and through the
| Santa Fe offices. All the business
| houses on the side streets will also be
visited. Some of the larger office build
| ings in the city will be solicited-and
| their contents registered.
1t is known in Topeka that large
number of the laboring men in the
| Santa Fe shops and among the unions
are against the. com17iesion form OF
| government. 1t has been presented to
them in poor form and they are under
the impression that to do away with
| the city council is to do away with
| their representative rights. The colored
people of the city are also radical IN
their condemnations of the new FORM
All that is needed is a little informa-
ton on the subject and the municipal
| legislation committee proposes to let
them know of the real good of the new
municipal government The commls-
sion form really gives the laboring man
| Just what he is looking for-the pr1V1-
| leges of the recall and the close grant
| ing of franchises. When they are IN
| formed of these facts it is hoped that
| there will be little trouble with their
| vote Men from the shops. and from
the unions will be chosen to give the
correct information to the respective
| classes. OF course, when the real
| campaign is on the public meetings al
| the Auditorium will give these men a
| good chance to see what they are vot-
| inc for. What the committee wants to
do now is to have the petitions, signed
| up properly and make their influence
| felt.
When the petitions have been circu-
| lated actively among the business men
and the offices it is planned to place
them in all the banks in the city and
in the newspaper offices. Here they
| will rest permanently for the Sig
| natures until the real campaign.
The committee decided one thing
that will be a treat to the people of
tie city who have been wondering about
this commission form of government
for some time John Dawson, secretary
to Governor Stubs, F. G. Dreaming,
ex-city attorney and City Attorney
Ralston will get together. boil down the
Kansas law and get it up in such a
manner that it can be read easily ana ana
then be furnished the newspapers.
.Then we can have the whole thing in
black and white said ]. B. Larimer.
1.-The people over the city want to know
all about this law and the newspapers
can not afford the space for its reprint
ling 1 think this committee could get
out a mighty readable article" and the
committee thought the same.
| Those who attended the meeting to-
day were J. B. Larimer, Mayor William
Green, Councilman c. E. Jordan, Albert
IT. Reid, City Attorney Ralston. H. A.
iScandrett, L. S. Ferry, Clad Hamilton.
c. D. Hamilton. A. A. GODDARD and F.
&C. Dreaming were appointed to confer
with the women in Topeka concerning
their ideas on the commission.
At Wichita the Commercial club not
only serves a noon day luncheon which
lasts from 11:30 until 2 o'clock in the af-
afternoon but from o'clock in the af-
ternoon to midnight the club serves a
short order lunch that is the best pat
ronized and the most popular in the
city with reputation for serving the
finest meals and the cleanest orders.
It is patronized by everyone with no re-
strietions whatever.
In Topeka the Commercial club serves
but once a day and that a very short
tine at noon. The lunches are only pat
ronized by the members of the Com
inercia1 club and their friends. AS a
general rule the men who come to these
lunches are men who never ate down
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