The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-12
IN CITY POLITICS.
Colored People Support Candi-
date for Commissioner.
They Would Have Fred Stone-
street Their Representative.
SANTAFE MAN APPEARS
ForemanIsaacson bishops Would
Be City Commissioner.
Other Items Of Interest to City
Politicians.
SANTAFEM ANAPPEARS


nal a number Of times that the color
ed people of the city would combine
and form a strong organization in an
effort to elect a man commissioner
under the new commission form of
government. These statements have
been denied first by one set of leaders
among the prominent co1ored politi-
clans and then confirmed by another
band of leaders.
1t is now evident that in spite of
the split in the party that approves
the election Of county officer and
then a city officer, a colored man will
be placed on the commission ticket
and will make the race for city COM
missioner.
The man mentioned for this place
among some of the well known col
ored politicians in the city is Fred
StoneStreet, a member of the firm OF
Stonestreet & Hamilton. undertakes.
Mr.. Stonestreet is a politician and is
He belongs to all their lodges, their
societies, and their organizations. He
has been a political mixer for a
good many years and would make a
representative man in their party.
Mr.. Stonestreet refuses to make his
announcement and denies that he has
arranged a petition of any kind, but
it is known around the city hall that
he is being pushed enthusiastically by
friends and by a majority of the col
ored people in the city. The colored
vote in Topeka is a strong lead for
politician and if once they combined
and threw aside the party trouble that
has divided them for SO long they
would be able to make a sensation in
city politics.
mick Chiles, politician-editor. re-
fused to confirm any rCmor about the
candidacy of Mr.. Stonestreet. Chiles
said that he had nothing to do with
the politics in Topeka but that he was
sure that Mayor William Green would
be elected as mayor under the COM
mission form.
at have been talking around about
the candidates for mayor and have
Green" said Mr.. Chiles this after
noon.
Santa Fe Shopman Will Run.
Councilman d. B. Fink of the First
ward, who is out for commissioner, is
going to have some opposition in the
Santa Fe shop vote. A new candidate
from the shops has been brought out
by friends and he is a man who is inn
mensely popular with the shopmen
and officials.
John Isaacson, foreman of the plan
ing mill department of the shops, is
the new candidate for commissioner.
Mr.. Isaacson has been in Topeka and
with the Santa Fe for good many
years and will make a heavy man from
this district.
missioners were mentioned today. Ed
ward Halves, a Topeka contractor and
a. man acquainted with the contract
ing, paving, street and sewer work In
the city has been mentioned by
friends. James Clark, assistant city
attorney, has also been mentioned as
possible candidate. Mr.. Clark would
be the choice of the young
men of the city. He would
have a strong following from Wash
men and fromthe college hill district.
Fred r. Huntoon, who was an
nounced a few days ago by the State
Journal and who has been received
by the voters with general approval
has been unintentionally misrepre-
scented by this paper. 1t has been
stated that Mr.. Huntoon was can
didate for commissioner from an en-
cheering point of view. Mr.. Huntoon
writes the following letter to the
State Journal in which he denies the
engineer rumor. The <etter follows:
Editor State Journal:
was surprised upon reading your
paper last evening to find myself
mentioned in the list of candidates for
commissioner, as an engineer. Such
is not the case. My father and broth
err were engineers, but I am not. 1
have been advised by numerous
friends to get into the race, and may
do so, but not under false co1ors.
Please correct the error. which was
probably due to a confusion of my
name with that of either my father or
brother. Yours truly,
FRED r. HUNTOON.
r. L. Cofran, a member of the cleo
trio light commission of the city and
at one time mayor for three terms de-
MES that he will be in the race for
commissioner. Mr.. Cofran says that
he is not a candidate It was stated
in the paper that Mr.. Cofran has been
urged to make the race by friends and
not that he had launched his own ca
noe. Mr.. Cofran would make a strong
commissioner and it is thought that
his friends will be able to win the
campaign over Mr.. Cofran first and
then with the people.
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