The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-23
RAILROAD NEWS.
Topeka Officials Start on Colo
RADIO Harmony Tour
Every Big Town and County
Seat Will Be Visited.
GUESS WAS WRONG.
Stubs and BristOw Said There
Would Be No More Tours.
Other Items of General Inter
est in Traffic World.

With renewed energy and additional
material the general officials oil the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe with
headquarters in this city, started out
on their Colorado tour this morning.
With their pockets full of literature,
their heads full of information ana
their mouths full of some of the most
beautiful expressions in the Engllsn
language these officials descend without
mercy on all of the county seat towns
of Colorado making their initial thar
mony' meeting in that state at Tr1nl-
dad.
This trip to the state on the west is
q continuation of the Ripley idea OF
getting to the grass roots OF publlc
sentiment" and getting acquainted with
the people. Last fall it win be remem-
bered that these officers Travelled over
Kansas and made the same sort or
campaign-mixing with the people So
liciting kicks on the Santa Fe service
discussing the rate situation and learn
ing the condition of the Santa Fe ter
ritory and tributaries.
What Stubbs and Bristow Said.
This Colorado trip has a greater sig
nificance in Kansas than the mere fact
that the railroad officials are making a
harmony campaign" 1t has a little
political Significance-pOlitlcal in that
1t breaks into a thousand pieces the
published and talked theories of Sena-
tor BristoW and Governor Stubbs.
These two well known kansanS de-
clared on the stump, through the news
papers and in signed statements that
the Santa Fe harmony campaign" was
nothing but an effort to defeat Stubs
in the fall election and that after the
election the people wouldn't hear any
more about it.
Despite the predictions of the Kan
sas politicians and disregarding the
slaps taken at their campaigns, the
Santa Fe officials started out today
for a trip through Colorado and the
last thing they said when the train
pulled out of Topeka was that they in
tended to make every important state
on the lines of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe.
According to ]. F. FARRELL, publicity
agent of the road, the big meeting Of
the trip will be at Denver where the
Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a
big railroad rally" Here the officials
will be at their best and the big gath
ering of the tour will be held. J. r.
Koontz will give the leading GRAFTON
in Denver.
Reception Awaiting Them.
Colorado has been preparing for the
officials. The last few days copies of
daily and weekly newspapers have been
pouring into the Topeka publicity office.
These papers have announced in big
headlines the coming of the officials of
the road and extensive preparations
have been made for their entertainment
in almost every city. All of the county
seat and larger cities of the state will
be visited by the Topeka officials and
the heads of the. road in the west.
The party win be gone a week and
will return to Topeka in time for the
big entertainment to be given the Kan
sas editors a week from Tuesday noon
at the new general office skyScraper.
The following officials will be on the
Harmony tour" through Colorado:
J. r. Koontz, general freight agent;
E. L. Copeland, secretary and treasurer
j. NJ. Cornell, general passenger agent;
j. D, M. Hamilton, general attorney;
G. A. Hayes, general auditor; F. c.
Fox, general manager; ]. M. Kurn, gen.
eral superintendent; J. F. FARRELL, pub
licity agent.