The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-30
The BATTLE IS ON
Real Commission Election Cam.
paign Opens Today.
Candidates for Mayor Holding
"ClOSed Door Conferences"
MAY BE COMPROMISE.
North Topeka Getting Together
ON Their One Candidate.
Rumor That d. B. Fink Has
Withdrawn From Race.

Before the smoke of the commits
sion form primaries has cleared
away, the first guns of the final cleo
ton campaign have doomed and both
candidates for mayor have been con-
sulting. figuring, planning and plot
ting behind closed doors today. The
fight between William Green and J..
b. Billiard for mayor will be one of
the warmest political fights on rec
ord.
Mayor Green has probably touched
off more fuses than Mr.. Billiard. He
has more fuses and more guns to
fire, but his need of re-enforcements
is staring his supporters in the face.
When it is considered that Billiard
has plurality of sos votes and every
supporter is bound together in one of
the highest political combinations ev
er organized in Topeka, there is reas-
on for fear on the part of the mayor.
But the mayor is not the only one
who has realized the UP hill fight he
has to make. The old famous com
mittee of 200," a law and order COM
mittee of campaigns in the past, has
been called together. The Municipal
league, a strong set of law and order
women has also been revived for the
meeting going at full blast this after
noon.
Resolutions condemning Billiard
and praising Green for his admins
pleading with the people for strictly
law and order administration have
been drawn up. Meetings are sched-
uled for every day and until the cleo
ton next Tuesday there will be politi-
cal dope from every section and the
campaign will be one continual whirl-
wind lasting for six long days.
The whole fight has conferred
around the wet" and dry issue, in
spite of the protests that went up i'm
mediately after this statement in the
State Journal not long ago. 1t has
always been contended that the COM
mission fight would be between the
liberals and the tights" despite the
fact that there is very little a wet"
mayor could do to pull Topeka off
the water wagon.
Fight for Kemper Vote.
As stated in the State Journal last
evening, the bone of contention is
going to be the vote of the Kemper
ceived 2,074 votes in the primaries
and the manner in which this is dis
tributed will decide the election next
Tuesday.
One of the conservative politicians
of the city has it figured out this way:
Green's primary vote. 3d. 67
60 per cent of Kemper vote j, 244
60 per cent of non-voters. ...............2,2 6S
Total ....: ................ SO
so per cent of Kemper vote. s29
60 per cent of non-voters. .1,512
Tital ............. .513
Green's plurality. 366.
This is a conservative estimate of the
vote, figuring that the remaining voters
will vote on election day. This gives
Green a plurality of 366 votes-a small
margin for a man to take the mayors
chair in a comfortable manner.
claw and Order'' Resolution.
The committee of 200 drew up the
following resolutions at their Green
meeting last evening:
ITO the Law and Order Voters of the
City of Topeka
During the past four years, by vir-
tue of the cooperation of county and
city authorities. the prohibitory law has
been well enforced in this city. Such
{ enforcement can not, in our judgment,
continue without the cordial and earn
est cooperation of both county and
city government
ION Tues day, April 5. the next mayor