The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-26

the Capitals hicks and corners,
squirming around boxes OF mission
clocks, furniture, street sweepers and
dictionaries; neither is the State Jour-
nal disposed to accept the Capitals
challenge to ask three of its own
friends to become detectives.
| Speaking of detectives, the State
Journal is informed by one of its staff
that a man. who was understood to
be an employee of the Capital, stood
downstairs yesterday evening. during
the entire time which the State Jour-
nal press was running on the last edi-
ton and was engaged in counting the
number of papers which came from the
press.
j To be sure. these papers come out
pretty fast, but they come out in
punches of fifties. at the rate of six
complete, folded, twelve page papers
second, so it is not difficult matter
to count the punches and multiply
each bunch by fifty and arrive at the
number printed.
Now. we don't know that this man
was in the employ of the Capital and
we don't say so, because the evidence
! is not very strong; it is simply cir
cumstantial. Now, the Sfate Journal
nearly ways has a big crowd around
its wonderful fast printing press, right
near the street, behind plate glass win
dows, ana the crowd is generally en-
larged by the presence of the State
Journals forty-eight carriers, who as
semble 20 get their papers each day
for the local delivery, so that a Capital
man might easily smuggle himself in
among our forty-eight carriers, o.
might stand outside the window CT
the street and do this sort of thing.
We are only stating this as it was sta
ted to the writer by a suspicious en-
ployee OF this paper.
In chapter III of these "Reminis-
cences," printed on Tuesday OF this
week. appeared the following:
In discussing this the State Journal has
been exceedingly careful to avoid malice,
for it has none. 1t wants to be distinctly
and positively understood that 1t has no
personal feeling against Mr.. Capper and
the Capital, although they have grossly
abused this paper and without cause.
Now you ought not to get into a quar-
rel wit hMr. Capper. He is a nice gentle |
man. He lives right in our neighborhood |
and don't believe quarrel between |
neighbors or between publishers is good |
for the community" said a friend. We |
exactly gree with our friend We are not |
ply having fun with him Nevertheless, |
If we were inclined to be profane which |
we are not, we would say that we have /
stood these attacks till we are - |
tired of them. In fact, the State Journal |
is inclined to think that Mr.. Capper is the |
victim of some over jealous employees. |
Il rubber stamp of his autograph and per
mitted them to print anything, everything |
they choose and to run it in above his |
electrotyped signature
Now the writer of this article meant |
exactly what he said above. He has /
no feeling of luminosity toward the |
Capital, or the CAPITAL people. for the |
reason that they cannot hurt the State /
Journal. or any member Of the staff
thereof by continuing to circulate t
statements which nearly everyone con-
nected with this paper knows to be
false.
Mr.. Capper is a very busy man. He
is not only the publisher of a great
newspaper and many periodicals of
wide circulation and influence but he
is also a great merchant and q prom
Using candidate for governor. This is
no secret. He admits it himself and
the business men of Topeka know it.
We do know that he is the hardest
possible competition the State Jour
nal could possibly conceive of, for the
reason, that he can take advertising
so low in the Topeka Capital and he
can cut the life out of rates. SO that
no weak paper can live and at the Il
same time his other interests are so
large and varied that if he loses mon
ey on the Topeka Morning Capital.
which everybody generally knows was
a big money loser until Mr.. Capper
took hold of it; that he could lose
money month after month on the
apital and still at the end of the year
have a net revenue from his other
publications and from the sale of his
which would enable him
to live in luxury.
Now the proprietor of the state
Journal is a near neighbor to the pro-
prietor of the Capital. In fact, their
yards adjoin, and the reason We do
not accuse Mr.. Capper personally of
scattering this poison" is that if he
Undertook to set out poison in his
backyard to kill my valuable Scotch
collie, who sometimes barks at night.
when he is in town, the same poison"
night also kill Mr.. Capper's favorfte
little white dog, so the writer does not
accuse Mr.. Capper himself, but it is
hought in justice to himself, and his
own reputation, which is a good one,
hat he ought to withdraw his auto
graphic rubber stamp and not let Mr..
Marcus Yesterday, or anyone else, say
something over his, Mr.. Capper's,
signature, that Mr.. Capper himself
would not approve. This is the end of
Chapter Y.
Chapter VI will appear tomorrow
evening and it may or may not fol-
ow along the lines of Chapter V. That !
LII depends. We will say this, how
sver: That chapter VII which will ap-