The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
War ON BILLIARD.
Mayor Condemned in Anti. Booze
Rally Last Night.
Governor Stubs and DR.. ScOville
the Speakers.
VOTE FOR ONE MAN.
Tom McNeal Suggested as the
Only Hope Of Topeka"
Governor Says Capital City
Should Set the Pace.

In the so-called "anti-booze rally at
the Auditorium last night the two lead
ing speakers, Governor Stubs and DIR.
Charles Reign Scoville, failed to men
ton any names in making voting sug-
sessions to the $500 people who had
gathered to hear them, but they did
propose that only one man be support
ed-and even the more stupid took
their suggestions to mean that Tom
McNeal was the man.
1.-The most important thing that can
be done in Kansas now is for the
capital city to get a decent govern
ment.' said the governor-and Mayor
Billiard was sitting quietly in his seat
well to the front of the house. II may
just as well tell you this because I've
got the facts to back what say" con-
tinued the governor.
1.-THE vets in this city have organ
lied behind one man and if the 'drys'
are going to win they must stand be-
hind one man." Numbered DR.. Scoville
as he tore his hair, shook his fists,
ground his teeth and stamped his foot
on the floor
That was the main theme in the
meeting last night. The governor spoke
for some time about what he intended
to do with the hotel keepers in Kan
sas who sold liquor and what he had
done to the jointists, taking a few
seconds to add that John Marshall had
helped him in the work.
DR.. Scoville gave endless lists Of sta
tlsticS which went to prove that taxes
with saloons are higher than taxes
without saloons-this despite the fact
that Kansas hasn't allowed saloons for
years and years and it is a strict pro-
hibition state. The evangelist spoke
also Of the curse of rum to the ma
tons of the world and gave some in
teresting facts concerning the death
rate along the alcohol route.
1t was planned by the people in
charge of the meeting last night to
have an overflow meeting at the Bap-
fist church. But the first floor in the
Auditorium was hardly filled and John
Marshall, assistant attorney general,
who was scheduled to speak to the ov-
erf1ows, sat on the stage.
Although Mayor Billiard Sam Lux
and General Hughes, all candidates for
mayor, had a good bunch of supporters
at the meeting, they made no outbreak
and like good fellows that they were
they joined in the applause. When
they wanted a mayor this year who
claimed that 80 per cent of the people
of Topeka drank whisky and asked
them to signify their ideas by raising
their hands, not a hand was raised
even the Billiard forces meekly allowed
the bandwagon to run over them. And
at another time it was asked of the
crowd if they intended to register and
vote for a clean TOpeka-up went the
hands of every person present.
ception. His talk concerned what he
had done as governor and what he in
tended to do and every time he said Il
will do this' and II will do that" the
crowd yelled and clapped.
There will be no let up on my part
in the next two years for a clean
state" yelled the governor. I'VE have
cleaned up the saloons and now we are
going after the bootleggers and the
hotel keepers. If the hotel men don't
want an injunction at their doors they
must clean out the whisky business"
Here the governor stopped to take
his breath while the crowd yelled and
screamed.
IF you don't get out and vote you
are in the same class as those fellows
who are fighting against good govern
he stopped over and shook his fist at
the crowd.
"Whoopeel!' yelled a man in the
center OF the house.
The governor stopped a moment
and turning to the enthusiast he re-
torted:
Let 'er go-that's the spirit!'
Topeka ought to set the pace and
not get into the Leavenworth and
Atchison class" exclaimed the COVER
nor But they are getting better"
DIR. Scoville touched up the people
on local politics to the extent that he
asked them to register and vote for
one man, claiming that this is the
only way they could defeat the vets
who were supporting one man.
1.-The brewers are putting their
money south of the Mason and Dixon
line now" said DR.. Scoville. They are