The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-15
DHn0LL 10 ULUOLU
Brewers Withdraw From Con-
templated Kansas Campaign.
Said Kansas City Liquor Men Are
Behind Move.
BILLIARD LEFT TO FATE
Money Expected for His Cam
paign Not Forthcoming.
RUmOr OF Trouble Among the
Liquor Men.
BILLARDLEFT FATE

The news that the National Associa-
| ton of Business Men and Manufacture
ers had pulled up stakes and left Kan
sas to the mercy of the Prohibitionists
has another aspect that developed to-
| day The Topeka branch of this asso-
| citation had been maintained by the
( Kansas City branch of the national as
ISOLATION. When the Kansas City liquor
! interests saw that resubmiSsion Sent1-
ment was growing in Kansas and that
! Mayor Billiard of Topeka had become
on a personal liberty platform, then
did the Kansas City booze dealers get
/ together and decide that it was time
! to stop. The reason given to the pub
lie was that they do not want reSub-
mission in Kansas for that would hurt
their business if it should carry The
national association, of course, want
to carry Kansas for the saloon if pos
sible, but the Kansas City branch sees
a direct loss ahead if resubmission
wins. Kansas City dealers ship train
loads of beer and whisky to Kansas
every week. Kansas business is the
big business for these Kansas City
firms. They forced the association out
of Kansas because they feared Mayor
Billiards. election.
Letters the mayor has received
from association officials bear out this
theory of the cause of the re-
moval of the association from Topeka.
Brewers to Stay Out.
Hinkel has returned tc his home in
Milwaukee. Before leaving Topeka last
night, EIinkel cOnfided to friend that
the National Association of Brewers
would probably stay out of the coming
fight in Kansas and that the barrel
which was to be opened in the state
campaign has been drained and the To-
furniture in order to buy a ticket to
beertown.
1t was a little more than year ago
when sthe National Association of Man
ufacturers & Business Men came to
Topeka anu opened pretentiOuS quarters
in the NIulvs ne building. The very next
day, friend told Governor Stubs of
the arrival of the brewers association.
That same cay the red haired executive
was slated for a speech before the
National Christian Church convention,
which was in session to Topeka. 1t
was great opportunity.
AS the Quaker governor squared him
self before the big crowd in the Audi
forum, he wept copiously as he told
what the brewing interests from Mil
Waukee and st. Louis were about to
do to poor defenseless Kansas.
They have come to Kansas with
million dollars, which they will spend
to make Kansas wet" walled the gov
error, and then he continued. but they
will find they can't buy the deep rooted
sentiments and convictions of the hon
est voters of our state.
Then the 5000 visiting delegates yell
ed and cheered until their voices were
sore and that night they read and re
read the governors speech Mayor Bill
lard, one of the vice presidents of the
association, came in for his full share
of abuse ard trouble. Kansas people
had cone to believe that the governors
guess was right; that the brewer icS
were about to spend their million dol
lars in the state, when suddenly the
association pulled stakes and deserted
the field.
Money Didn't Come
In the IA months the association
was in Kansas. nearly 100 branches
were organized, but the barrel of
m money never came over the border
lines. Hinkle, as state manager, drew
q good salary, there were a few clerks
and stenographers on the pay roll and
now and occasionally, perhaps, the as
sociation paid repair bills on political
holdings. That was all. The men who
carried the ingroWn belief that the
breweries were about to shed money
as freely as a duck sheds water, vast
ed perfectly good time in the offices
of the M. & B. M. association.
Recently there was friction among
local managers, and Hinkle, the Kan
sas chief. Topeka standard bearers
shortened their visits at headquarters
and some of the organizers refused to
meet the state manager on social
terms.
Then something suddenly happened.
Without warning, Hinkle sold the Of
flee furniture, paid his rents and clos
ed the office. That was late Saturday
afternoon. On a late night train,
Hinkle started Monday night on his
return to Chicago. He has given up
the fight in Kansas.
i am frank to say that l don't I'M
derstand the plans of the national Of
ficers," Hinkle explained before leav-
ing Topeka, but it seems that they
have abandoned the fight in Kansas
just when things seemed to be going
the best. Their actions in closing the
Topeka office indicate that they do
not intend to return to the state
Officers of the two Topeka branches,
declared today that they will retain
their organization and hold regular
meetings even though the main office
has been taken from the state AS for
the Billiard for governor candidacy. it
will make greater progress without the
when they were noisily trying to con-
troll the state.
Already several Billiard clubs have
been organized in the state and it is |
asserted that the organization of these |
bodies will continue without the as |
sistance OF the brewery interests; in |
fact it is claimed that many Billiard |
supporters objected to the presence of |
the brewery influence in the state; |
and that their efforts in the cause of /
resubmission We're not material as |
sets in the Billiard campaign
Marriage Licenses.
Jesse Cox, Wamego, %, Eell Brazzle, !
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