The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-07
IN CITY POLITICS.
p. 1. Bonebrake New Candidate
IS for City Commissioner.
He Has Been in Topeka for Over
Fifty Years.
NOT OUT.
Bank President Has No Time
But Friends Have.
Other Candidates Out for Com
mission Rulers.
NOT OUT.

| missioner under the new commission
| form of government. and man who
will represent the financial and busi-
| ness interests of the city in the mu-
nicipaI control is p. I. Bonebrake. at
the present time vice president of the
Central National bank, and man
who is probably as we'll known as any
other man in Topeka and Kansas.
Mr.. Bonebrake has not announced
ms candidacy formally and he IS not
making campaign of any kind, but
| 1t is known that. a large number of
friends and supporters are behind the
movement and will carry his laurels
for him until the election day. The
banking and financial interests OF the
city think they should have direct
cially on account of the fact that a
$44,000,000 corporation like Topeka
| is to be conducted by four men.
In supporting and ultimately elect
ing Mr.. Bonebrake as commissioner,
the business interests in the city hope
to realize the one ambition brought
forth by the adoption of the commits |
sion form of government. The com
mission plan was taken over by the |
citizens of Topeka because they
thought that business men and rell- |
able officials would be at the head of
the government. To see such men as
Mr. Bonebrake enter the race and
carry out the policies of the commits |
sion form is pleasing to the voters of
the city.
Mr.. Bonebrake came to Topeka in
June. 1859, and started out in the
mercantile business. In 1865 he was
elected clerk of Shawnee county and
was reelected four times. In fact. he
was reelected until he had to resign
the position. In 1875 the people put
more confidence in him and elected |
him to the Kansas legislature. I'm
mediately afterward he was appoint |
ed state treasurer when Sam Lappin, |
the defaulter, ran away. Then he
was elected state auditor by the peo-
pie of the state and was twice re-
elected. Mr.. Bonebrake has been al
member of the Topeka city council,
the board of education and was also
one of the police commissioners under
the old Metropolitan system. In 1882
Mr.. Bonebrake organized the Central
National bank and was elected presi-
dent
1t can be seen that Mr.. Bonebrake
has been in business in Topeka for al
most fifty years. He has held state,
county and city offices and with his ex-
perience in public life and with the
city council, board of education-andl
police commissioners he would be a
| most valuable man for commissioner.
The candidacy of Mr.. Bonebrake
| will be accepted eagerly by the peo-
pie of the city of Topeka
Huntoon Receives Favor.
Since the announcement of Fred r.
| Huntoon as city commissioner in the
State Journal some time ago, consid-
| cradle favorable comment has been
| aroused in the city over his candi-
dacy. Mr.. Huntoon is an old settler in
Topeka, his father being Joel Hun
toon, the man who built the first
| bridge across the Kaw river, who was
chief engineer of the Kansas Midland
and built the Santa Fe from Topeka
| to Kansas City, who served as chief
| engineer of the Santa Fe and who has
built hundreds of miles of railroads
| all over the west.
| Mr.. Huntoon is an engineer and his
1 experience along these lines would
| make him an excellent man for the
1 head of the city engineering DEPART
ment. Mr.. Huntoon is thorough
and competent business man and will
| carry out the ideas of the commission
] form of government and it's success in
this city.
| A young man candidate has come to
/ the surface for city commissioner.
/ Frank Mcfarland, who has been hold
/ ing a position with the Santa Fee in the
general office building for some time,
has circulated petition in the offices
and among the younger men in the
city with the Santa Fe and other cor
! porations. Mr.. Mcfarland has re-
ceived hundreds of usignatures and it
is said that the big Santa Fe offices
both here and in the yards will sun
port him to the man. This means a
vote of about 500 on the start With
an impetus of this kind Mcfarland
I is going to advance to the front ranks
among the candidates and give good
race.
! It is a noticeable fact that a ma
jority of the city councilmen are
! anxious to become city commissioners
/ or mayor. Seven of the councilmen
have either declared openly that they
are in the race or their friends are
asking that they take UP the arms
The latest councilman to make his an
nouncement is E. F. Stanley of the
Sixth ward. Mr.; Stanley has been
with the council two terms and is a
popular man. He is principal of the
/ Quincy school at this time and has a
i large number of friends in the educa-
tional work. Mr.. Stanley will make a
pretty fight.
F. C. Bowen, formerly county treas
urer, is another commissioner candi-
4 date. Mr.. Bowen is now in the real
4 estate business.
/ Mayor William Green is still the only
avowed candidate for mayor. The j.
i w, T. Hughes and H. B. Howard ru-
/ mors are still in the air. Despite his
i Jump in stock since his action against
i The gas company and boosts and en-
| couragemenss of his friends, General
Hughes is backward about his an
nouncement and has taken no formal
! action. MIR. Howard is also an I'M
Il known quantity.
IL ~ AAO"l NAAob W. II. 1AC41ttCA WILL
i be in the race for mayor. Mr.. KEN
per is a Democrat by faith and in spite
of the efforts cf the commission cleo
n tions to do away with party politics,
II Mr.. Kemper expects to pull large
Il majority of the Democratic votes.
AIacferran Not Out.
II It has been stated that William Mac
H ferran, president of the State Savings
bank, was out of the race for city
81 commissioner. This statement is mis-
I'll leading Mr.. Macferran was recently
i chosen as q candidate because of his
III popularity and his business capacity
h by a large number of business men
and bankers in the city.