The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-30
WHO'LL BE MAYOR
Question Being Debated With
VigOr on All Sides.
Hughes and Lux Support One of
the Questions.
THEY DIDN'T VOTE.
Over Three Thousand Failed to
Attend Primary.
Candidates Now Face Mud Sling
ing Stage.


The question of who'll be mayor has |
not yet been settled. There is enough |
uncertainty about it to lead the sup
porters of the two candidates to renew
| the campaign with vigor.
| McNeal was LAP votes behind Bill |
| lard. Hughes and Lux polled approx |
mately 1900 votes. Therefore the
question of where the Hughes and Lux
votes will go becomes an important
| one as there are enough of them to
| give either candidate a safe lead. 1t
| is admitted that the Hughes votes will
normally go to McNeal while the Lux
support would naturally go to Billiard.
Therefore it is probable that the vote
will be pretty evenly divided which
would leave Billiard still with a ma
| jority. -
| But there is another thing to be
considered Three thousand people
who were registered did not vote at
| the primary This is a larger per cent
| than usual and an effort will be made
| to get out these votes. If even half
] these could be induced to vote for Nc
| Neal he would be elected easily, pro-
viding of course that Billiard did not
| also get large percentage of what
would be left This stay at home vote
| is the real bone of contention. Can
| it be induced to record its choice for
| mayor at the election Tuesday. If it
| does it may decide the election.
Mr.. McNeal himself is clever man
| and one of the most popular in Topeka
| and his workers ought to be able to
stir up more enthusiasm in his behalf.
/ He boldly says that he stands for pro-
/ hibition, first, last and always. He re-
| sents the statement of Mayor Billiard
| that a majority of the people of To-
| peka drink liquor and that the pro-
| hibitory law has been a failure in
| Kansas.
| If, while walking down the street, you
see something flying through the air
dodge it. Even if you are almost sure
it is a bird or a piece of flying paper
take no risks Dodge! For any of
these objects may be mud-juicy.
splashy, dirty, dangerous mud!
TITS mud singing time in city poli-
tics. At the beginning of the campaign
preceding the city primaries it was
feared that the very clouds would be
blackened with campaign mud-but
nowI There may be spots on the sun.
| Enemies of Gene Stotts, candidate for
commissioner, are claiming now that he
was as drunk as a lord election night
that he couldn't walk to the STATE
| Journal office to see the returns-he
just laid down in the street and rolled
there. Now the facts are that Gene
Stotts with his good wife and baby
walked from their home on Buchanan
street to the State Journal corner that
night. And two hours later they walked
| back again. The story is being told In
Y. M. c. A. and Christian Endeavor
circles, too.
| Arnold ana randy at 1t.
Then comes the fight between Arnold
and Tandy. The enemies of Tandy are
telling the people about the bad Topeka
bridges. the fact that two men wera
killed under Tandy's engineering admin
istration, and that he is wholly incom-
petent-they forgot to say Irrelevant
| and immaterial.'
/ enemies and he has his trap set. If the
enemies start any talk before this cleo
/ ton Tandy is planning to pull the
string to his trap. He will dig up old
records when Arnold was assistant city
engineer-and then the mud will fly
i and in it will be singing pebbles.
Holman, too, has an instruction 10
put down. 1t is claimed that he is wag-
ing war against the old soldiers. One
of Holmans lieutenants in his city hail
office is spreading the war news. But
like one of the veterans Holman is ex-
planning his actions-52 cents an inch
per.
/ Then comes our own Buffalo"
I Bone. Buffalo" is accused of killing
a bill in the legislature that would
have meant many hundred dollars to
the people of the city in water service
4 and additional water mains-a bill
that was supported by all other COM
missioners. Certain officials in the
city hall are hunting for Bones scalp
and a few of them have journeyed to
Bones office to tell him just what they
I thought of him. And last but not least
lit is claimed by the Rome enemies
that the buffalo he captured up north
are as tame as sick cat.
/ jordan, Fink and Miller Immune.
Jordan, Fink and Miller are immune
thus far. with the exception of a little
lcinder now and then. But they have
their eyes on the horizon, expecting
! any minute to see the dark horse of
the mud brigade come over the hill
| The school board fight is just as ex-
citing. One doctor who just purchased
a motor car is accused of getting his
money from a philanthropic associa-
ton when, in truth, it costs as much
as motor car to be associated with
this institution-to say nothing of the
lack of salary. Another man is said
Ito be legislating for the railroads. And
so it goes Each one has a story for
the other.
| But laying aside the pretended seri-
Iousness- -of-ajla this talk. the average
voter has little use for talk of this
kind -sThe sympathizing man will find
out who is. spreading the stories-thsn
he will vote against them. and for the
4 victim Mud is an associated part of
political campaigns. If none of it
darkened the sky people would stay at
home and declare that elections were
a bore and an unnecessary evil.
| The signed statement in the State
journal last evening, made by ex-
t County Attorney Schenck County At
| torney Simon and Sheriff Norton to
| the effect that Mayor Billiard and his
police force had made no efforts to en-
force the prohibitory law has aroused
: the anger of Mayor Billiard.