The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-26
BIG CROWD is OUT
1nsurgent Rally at Auditorium
Success.
Crowd Gives the Speakers an
Ovation.
A BOOST FOR M'NEAL.
Senator EristOw and Gov. Stubs
Speak for Him.
Attorney General Jackson Talks
BOOST FOR M'NEAL.
Attorney General Jackson Talks
About "That House,"

The McNeal meeting at the audi
forum Monday night exceeded the
expectations of the men who got up
the meeting. It was an old-fashioned
rally with a big crowd in attendance
and a world of enthusiasm.
An attempt was made late in the
afternoon to change the meeting to
the state house grounds but Secretary
Denton called attention to rule of
the executive council of which Gov.
Stubs is a member forbidding the
holding of meetings there and the
project was abandoned.
Monday was the hottest day of the
year, and by that same token Monday
night was the hottest night since the
world was cooled from ball of fire
into common black dirt. 1t is esti-
mated that three thousand people
gathered in the auditorium last night
to hear the presentation of the Nc
Neal claims. The first ovation was
given to William Allen White when
he entered late to preside at the meet
ing. Robert Stone called the assem-
blage to order and he was just telling
about Whites train being late when
the Emporia editor walked out on
the stage. The crowd gave him well
come to make any Kansan proud.
When Gov. w. r. Stubs got up to
speak the crowd went wild. The gov
ernor has not had such an ovation
this campaign as he had from that
representative Shawnee audience. If
the meeting and the ovation count for
anything at all the fighting governor
will carry Shawnee next Tuesday by
a larger majority than he had over
Leland.
Attorney General Jackson, speaking
next. was received with cheers. 1t
Ow-se- kr1xr
got up to talk, but the crowd had
saved an ovation for him.
McNeal himself, the guest of honor
at the meeting, only talked a few
minutes, but his townsmen greeted
him with a storm of applause and in
lege yell, which had for its burden the
question, Whats the matter with
McNeal?" The answer rocked the
building: Hes all right"
They used that yell on Stubs when
the governor called attention to the
enemies he had made and spoke with
pride of the achievement. 1t was an
insurgent crowd through and through
with all the enthusiasm of the last
campaign and all the determined de-
sire for real reform and the continu-
ance of the same as applied to state
affairs
All the speakers paid tribute to Nc
Neal and his sterling qualities and
splendid personality. but the stoutest
and most significant statement about
the insurgent candidate was made by
Bristow at the beginning of his speech
when he said: 81 came here to speak
fo- Tom McNeal because I believe he
will vote for things that Kansas
wants. This is the most important
campaign in Kansas history. The
question is do the people stand for
party integrity first and party regu-
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these terms reversed. We believed
that the party promises should be
kept. am criticised for. coming home
to Kansas and saying that the tariff
was revised when I know that it was
mt. I will not come back home with
lie on my lips because Joe Cannon
and Aldrich want me to-"
William Allen White. when he took
charge of the meeting. started in to
talk business without any prelude
I'VE are insurgents" he said, "in or
der to promote progress in our party.
so as to be better able to serve our
country" After going on to tell about
the origin of insurgency and the
causes behind it and the growth of the
movement and the necessity for it. Mr.
White said: insurgency is a move
ment by real Republicans to free their
order that that party may better serve
the people,"
Stubs to Curtis.
Governor Stubs waited for the
to subside and then he wad-
ed into q speech that was hotter than
the night. He paid his respects to Sen
ator Curtis as follows:
when Senator Curtis openly
charged at Eskrldge about one year
ago." he said, that l had raised the
taxes in Kansas one million dollars a
year, he failed to state tha- the tax
levy which provided funds to pay the
expenses of the first year of my ad-
ministration amounted to more than
one-half million dollars less than the
tax levy used during the last year of
Governor Hoch'S administration.
He also failed to state that the
total taxes levied for the two calendar
years of my administration, taken to-
gether. averaged $4,000 per year less
than the tax levy for the last year of