The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

cent charge for position.
In chapter ", printed last evening. il
was noting that one of the State Jour
nails staff thought he had observed, the
previous evening, a Capital man snoop-
ing and spying around, told his sus-
| picions. This suspicion caused the
State Journal people to keep their eyes
open the next night, which was last
night, and 10 and behold: here is what
was discovered right before our very
eyes: On the opposite side of the street.
| in the second story, were plainly visi-
Bile one well known Capital man, may
be his name was Brown and may be
it was White, or it might have been
| Wilson, but this is inmaterial. There
he was in Mr.. Nelson's window, check
ing the punches of ifties as they reeled
off from the State Journal press.
Now, what do you thing of that?
From Mr.. Capper himself direct, or
from the rubber stamp man. under his
surveillance.
Now, all of this sneaking about,
raiding Mr.. Nelson's office, etc, is en-
tirely unnecessary. This paper does
not blame Mr.. Nelson; the presence
OF these Capital men was probably
| forced upon him and he doubtless
could not get rid of them, without Of
Tending Mr.. Capper, and to offend Mr.
Capper in Topeka might mean the loss
of the entire patronage of Mr.. Cap
per's four hundred odd employees, so
the state Journal is not blaming Mr..
Nelson, who was undoubtedly IN
willing party to this little by-pIay.
Now the State Journal is delighted
aIr.a
come right down into it's press room
and its carriers room any night. We
have invited them over and over
again. Last evening one of the bust
ness men accepted the invitation, after
much urging; one Of the staff of the
Crosby Bros. Co.
The State Journal would like to
have these business men come into the
State Journal office often, count the
total papers, count the papers given to
the carriers and see for themselves,
but it is the hardest matter in the
world to get any of these business
men to come in and see the press run.
By the way, we don't know but
what we ought to accept the Capitals
proposition about the committee of
three Topeka business mem At first
the idea did not appeal to us of ask
ing three of the Topeka business men
to make detectives of themselves, just
for the purpose Of pleasing our es-
teemed contemporary when there was
no point in it. If the Capital had
printed its local circulation, that
might be another story, but it has not;
Here is what the Capital said in
black type, october "a, 1911:
I'm order to prove the truth of it's
statements the Capital will gladly sub |
nit all it's circulation records of any
kind to committee of any three To- |
peka business men whom the publisher
of the State Journal may name, the |
same committee to examine it's circula-
ton records in detail and make public /
it's finding. etc, etc"
Now, how would it do if we suggest |
that these three Topeka business men, |
whom the publisher of the State Jour /
nal herewith names. be Arthur Cap
per (Republican), Frank S. Thomas
(Democrat) and e. H. Crosby. This
writer has not consulted single one |
of these men and possibly they might |
not be willing to serve and possibly |
they would.
We would want this committee to |
first thoroughly examine the local Cir
culation of the Topeka Capital, let the |
Capital print their report in detail,
then let the committee come to the
State Journal and go through the same
rigid examination and we to print their
report. Further details of course would
naturally have to be agreed upon.
BY the way, there is a great lineup
of Capital men every night now in the
state Journal waiting for the issue of
the paper to come off the press, so that
they may rush over to the Capital Of
flee Immediately and see what is the
very latest that has been going on in
the news and advertising world OF
Topeka, Kansas, and the United States
If you are about the State Journal Ct
fee. late any afternoon, watch the
anxious faces of Adessrs. Miller, Mitch
ell, Fowler, Wilson and other Capital
employees, holding their breath, having
suspended their work until the State
Journal comes out and gives them an
idea as to what is doing in the ousi-
ness and social circles of Topeka. If
the paper happens to be delayed, as it
has been this week. on account of the
baseball games, the force from the Cap
itaTs Office is augmented.
In fact, they crowd our confined bust
ness Office and sometimes prevent our
regular patrons from getting up to tnn
counter to transact business.
TChapter VII of this series, as an
nounced in the prospectus last evening,
will appear tomorrow
n. BY the way, look out for
LENA undt Loui' in tomorrow's State
journal, in colors, said to be the best
comic running, also the latest. News
stands should order early
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