The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
REACHES The TOP.
State Fair Agitation Is at High
Tide.
Speakers at the Political Meet
ings Are Helping.
PEOPLE SPEAK UP.
Business Men and Others Tell
of Importance.
Means Much to Shawnee County
and State.

s5O, 900 issue of bonds, which if voted
will make a great state fair in Topeka
possible.
This afternoon speakers at political
meetings will tell Of the value of a big
fair to the business man, the working
man, and the farmer. Today the mail
carriers are delivering thousands of
post cards which furnish the voters
with information.
Among those who will speak in favor
of the bonds are George II. Hodges,
candidate for governor, and L. NJ. Pen
well of the Democratic county central
committee.
The merchants are having placed in
every bundle they are sending out to-
day circulars which give some of the
reasons why the taxpayers should vote
for the bonds.
Here is the order of the county COM
missioners signed by F. B. Simms, F.
L. O'Neil, and James Sinner, which ex-
presses their approval of the bond
proposition:
whereas, it is considered by the
board of county commissioners Of
Shawnee county, Kansas, to be for the
best interests of the county to further
improve the tract of land known as the
Fair Grounds in order to make said
tract of land more suitable for the pur-
pose of holding fairs and agricultural
exhibits and for other purposes,
Therefore, by vote of the said board
county, Kansas, it is ordered that
proposition shall be submitted to the
electors of Shawnee county, Kansas, at
the general election to be held Novem-
Der 8, 1910, under the provisions of sec
ton 309 of the general statutes of Kan
sas 1909, to authorize the board of
county commissioners of Shawnee
county, Kansas, to issue bonds for the
improvement Of the fair grounds suf-
ficient for the wants and use of the
-Oafofxv for the
pose of holding fairs and for other pur-
poses for the said society"
What They Say.
Following are a few expressions
made by voters in favor of the bonds:
T. E. Borman:- "a fair is a great
producers of farm products and stock
together annually so that they have
chance to see progress which has been
made in methods of breeding, and the
quality of produce in the year. 1t is
an eye opener. I am in favor of the
bonds"
George S. Badders: 1.-THE real bene-
fit of a state fair is not only expert
enced by the property owner, but also
by the workingman, for the reason
that the wage or income of the labor
ing man is based on the receipts of his
employer or on the increase in the
value of the latter's business or prop
erty. A state fair is conducive to in
SUI H. B. Howard: you bet your bot
tom dollar I am for the bonds good
and plenty"
helps them who help themselves, and
the state legislature is likely to help
those who help themselves. Shawnee
county should vote the bonds" =
H. A. Auerbach: 81 am for the
= BrownelI. "For the taxpayer
the amount is so small I don't think
we ought to complain"
T. B. oder of Berryton: ''If we
don't vote for the state fair in Topeka
that institution will go to Hutchinson,
much to the detriment of Shawnee
county"
G. E. Jordan: 'I certainly believe
that the state fair bonds should carry,
and I am going to do my share and
little more to bring about that end. 1t
is simply a case of the taxpayers of
shawnee county spending their own
money to improve their own property"
George w. Stansf1eld: Il am for the
bonds first, last and all the time
Arthur Mills, of the Mills Dry Goods
company: TT would be splendid thing
for the business interests of the city
and county"
Secretary H. L. Cook: "I feel, that !
this is such a great opportunity for !
Shawnee county to establish fair at
its own doors. that there should be no
question about the bonds carrying
H. P. Miller. city commissioner: cit
is in the interests of the working man |
that these bonds should be carried
J. C. Emahizer, of Emahizer & Spiel |
man: IT think the merchants are heart
lily in favor of the voting of bonds for
the fair. We are certainly advocates
of big fair
William Forbes: 1.-The people who |
are for building up the city and county |
can't conscientiously oppose the bonds"
H. W. McAfee, president of the To- |
7eka-Shawnce Good Roads association: |
We need a big fair in Kansas, in or
er to exploit the resources of the
ate"
Mayor J. B. Billiard: 81 am in favor
f the passage of the fair bonds"