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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
AYHAWKER J0TS

Another nail hit squarely on the
head by the Oakley Graphic Inou
/. shalt not steah" applies to the other
fellow.
Tad KEYS of Oberlin is one of the
remarkable young men of Kansas. He
put in two weeks at harvesting, about
the hardest work known to man, and
gained eight pounds in weight.
Speaking of the presidential candi-
dates who have changed their names"
said Old Subscriber to the Salina Jour-
nal 1.-The newspaper boys seem to have
overlooked a number whose names were
Dennis after the election"
Political pointers for pompous poll
ticians. planned and perpetrated by a
humble voter through the columns of
the Atchison Globe: Being on the
outside looking in, the voter has
Point of View. Therefore. while 1t is
great for candidates to be Good Eel
lows, it is we'll to bear in mind that
they can overdo it, and shouldn't make
it a steady job. -. Poison IN politics
is less effective than in pharmacy, and
more apt to kick backward, SO 1t is
better to boost your own business than
to knock the vile opposition in the
political field. This is patriot
ic country, in which the sovereign
boon of the ballot is highly priced,
therefore the candidate shouldn't be
disappointed if ne spends good deal
of money without buying anything in
that line Candidates set an ex-
ample in keeping promises, and can't
expect the voters to do much better.
Some people were talking on a North
Atchison porch last evening when the
subject turned upon marriage, relates
the Atchison Globe. The men said their
wives had chased them. The women
said they had not. The men said their
wives had laid snares and caught them. |
The women said they had not. The
men said their wives had proposed mar
riage to them. The women Indignantly
said they had NOT. One man who had
been silent all the evening said: The
first time saw the woman who CON-
SCENTED to become my wife resolved
to win her, If 1 could. I did not ask her
to marry me; 1 BEGGED and I'M |
PLORED her to become my wife We
have been married for years and every
day of my life L thank the Good Lord
that the peerless creature I call wife
united her faith with mine'' The man
got no further. Six strong men over
powered him, and carried him to the
place where people whose heads are
filled with wild fancies are placed for
safe keeping: the insane asylum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05

pendence Hall to distant cities it has
been awaited all along the line OF IT'S
progress by crowds of silent, barenead-
ed, reverent Americans. Every one VINO
saw 1t on those occasions remembered
the event as one of the most note
worthy in his life.
This nation has but few symbols
which stand for all that 1t liz and OF
these one OF the most sacred and fitting
is the bell which rang out the tidings
OF its birth. No good American can
behold it without being inspired with
q higher conception of what 1t means
to be an American. No American can
see it without becoming a better pat
riot. The tongue of the old bell is stilled
but it speaks yet as it did when its
clarion tones called men to give battle
for their rights to the mightiest ma
ton on the earth.
Let San Francisco have the bell. It's
to the Pacific coast will
bring out some Of the most impressive
demonstrations of American patriotism
the country has ever SEEN In the ears
of the west it's voice has always been
clear. But the west is entitled to see
the Liberty Bell and draw from 1t the
with which It thrilled the
crowd waiting outside the old state
house in Philadelphia on that memoir
able Fourth of July in 1776.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
AN ARTISTIC SALESROOM.
Bell Brothers Music Co. Open One for
Player Pianos That Is Unusual.

A salesroom fitted UP solely for the
purpose of showing player-pianos Is
probably The newest feature in the
piano business in this section. Bell
Bros. Music Company have opened such
a room in connection with their piano
salesroom at 904 Kansas avenue in the
Gordon building. 1t is located in the
basement, and player pianos will be
shown there exclusively.
All the woodwork, walls and shelving
have been treated to a coating of pure
white enamel, and a narrow green scope
board follows the floor line. A hand
some large green rug covers the cement
floor, the floor having first been tinted a
pleasing red with a special cement
paint The room gives one the impress
sion of a restful reception room, and in
addition to the display of the players
it is fitted up as a writing and rest
room.
Bell Bros. also have their player
piano exchange library in this room.
This library will be operated on a plan
whereby the customer who does not
feel like buying new music right along
may exchange his rolls for small fee
as he wants them.
Mr.. Shuman, manager for Bell Bros.
says that the exchange library will at
all times carry a list of at least two
thousand rolls of all classes of music.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
THE LIBERTY BELL.

San Francisco wants the Liberty
Bell during the exposition which will
celebrate the completion OF the Panama
canal. The councils of the city of
Philadelphia, the legal guardians of
this precious relic and symbol of the
beginning of American independence,
are hesitating about granting the re-
quest. The old crack in the bell has
gradually been extending and another
has appeared. 1t is feared that II it is
permitted to go from it's shrine in In
dependence Hall upon a long railroad
journey it may be seriously damaged.
Yet these objections undoubtedly will
be overriden. Liberty Bell belongs to
the nation, not to Philadelphia. The
states beyond the Mississippi have
never seen it. In the journeys it has
heretofore taken about the country it
has been guarded with the most jealous
care. II it goes to San Francisco, any
one Of a thousand railroad men to
whom its safety will be entrusted
would gladly risk his life to prevent it
from coming to harm.
In the few times the bell has been
taken from its resting place in Inde-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
SPEAKING OF MACTIINEs.-.

The Kansas Insurgents speak OF
their purpose of smashing the old ma
chine on Tuesday. Well, they GER
tainly have a new political machine
working. the like of which was never
used in this state before.
Think of the power William Allen
White has assumed and exercised in
a complete ''slate," national. congress
sional. state and legislative. giving the
names OF the candidates for which the
voter must cast his ballot according to
the White dictum.,
Mr.. white has personal grievance
against John S. Dawson. who has
made splendid record as attorney
general, and exercising his power as a
political boss, he puts Dawson off his
slate and a. comparatively unknown
man named Griffin on instead. AS a
practical, sane, effective, representa-
tive of true progressive ideas John
Dawson is unequaled. But he is not
agreeable to some of the. new bosses.
The Third Party which Mr.. White rep
resents has been engaged, and will be
engaged Tuesday. in the effort to steal
the Republican electors for the use CT
a new party organizing to defeat the
Republican party. What could be
worse in political morals and political
bossism?
The political machine that is work.
ing today in Kansas is controlled by
a half dozen men is largely ore
man article and the machine which is
in motion nationally today at Chicago
is a one-man and one geared PROPOSE
ton: The delegates, cut and dried, Sc
lected without primaries and for the
single purpose of nominating one man,
are at this moment holding their breath
to act in a manner in which Colonel
tells them they must act
and for him.
There are machines and bosses and
other machines and other bosses.
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THE BRITISH TITANIC REPORT.

THE BRITISH TITANIC REPORT
The findings of the court that in
quired into the loss of the Titanic, on
behalf of the British board OF trade.
are surprise to the American public
The spirit in which the investigation
seemed to be carried on and the COM
ments of the London press on the
United States senate's inquiry into the
disaster led to the general belief in this
country that the result of the British
inquiry would be merely defense of
the owners. builders and officers of the
ship and the board of trade itself.
But on the contrary the report of
the court is substantially the same as
that of the senate investigating COM
mittee, couched in more formal, phleg-
matte terms. In substance, the court
finds that the Titanic was being run at
an excessive rate of speed through the
ice foes, that the lookout was made
quate and that lifeboats were not
properly manned and equipped. And
attention is called to the fact that
there had been no lifeboat drill on the
ship.
The recommendations of the court
are important. They are. that the
number of Iifeboats and life RATS shall
be based on the number of passengers
and crew carried, that ocean liners
shall be constructed with a double
skim or outer shell, or with longi-
tudinaI bulkheads, that there shall be
sight test for lookOuts, that there
shall be a system for the control of
passengers in case of accident, and
that captains shall be required to re-
duce speed when in the neighborhood
of ice.
Little is said by the court concern
ing the conduct of ]. Bruce Ismay and
Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. It does not
censure them, nor is there any urgent
reason why it should. The verdict Of
the world concerning both has already
been returned and it is based not on
the opinions of investigators but on the
facts they discovered.
While the wording of the report is
mild, the statements it contains consti-
tute an arraignment practically as Sc
we're as that embodied in the senates
findings. And it will accomplish more
good than the senate verdict. For in
England a formal inquiry such as this
carries more weight than it does in
this country. English shipowners are
likely to give heed to the courts criti-
cisrns and recommendations.
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INvALIDATION OF BALLOTS.
just a Little Warning Regarding Ger
tain Cases.

Governor Stubs today issued a
warning to Kansas voters, urging them
to use care and caution in marking
their ballots. Many people vote for
two candidates for one office and
among election judges and clerks arose
a question as to whether such action
invalidated the ballot. Governor
Stubs says it does not.
Should a person vote for both Cap
per and Ryan for governor. their vote
would not be counted for any guber-
Material candidate, but the remainder
of the ballot would be valid, according
to the law quoted by the Kansas
executive. The law on this subject
says:
Wherever a cross x mark be made
in the square to the right of the name
of more than one candidate for the
same office, such vote shall not in
validate the ballot, nor shall the same
be counted for any such candidate"
Thus IL a person votes for more than
ten candidates for residential cleo
tors. the vote shall not count for any
of them Again, voter may vote for
two supreme Justices. To vote for
more, invalidates the ballot only as
affecting that office, but the vote for
other candidates shall be counted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
MRS. SCHOCH VERY LOW
Wife of Probate Judge Not Expected
to Survive Day.

All hope for the recovery of Mrs.
W. F. Schoch, who has been seriously
sick for nearly a month. was given Up
this morning, and attending physicians
say it is now only a matter of hours
until the end. Judge Schoch aban-
doned his campaign in a great meas
ure several days ago to remain at tho
bedside of his wife. Today he hardly
has been out of the house, and has no
time to talk politics.
Nearly a month ago Mrs. Schoch
first took sick. Not until Friday of
last week did the physicians begin to
despair of her recovery. Today, how
ever, it was announced that the end is
only a matter of hours, and that the
stricken victim cannot recover. The
difficulty is said to be Bright's disease,
which has been growing worse stead
lly,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
WILL RAISE LEVY
Certain That Board of Educa-
ton VIII Do This Tonight.
Building Fund Demands It
Will Be 6 or $3.50 Mills.

II seems to be a foregone conclu-
srvn tnat the board of education win
aaiSe the tax levy. Whether the lew
be disc,,s nuns even or e.Ss mills will
lance committee of the board under
w. e. Atchison at 7:15 O'clock tonichI
ba IN the evening when the new
board is organized action NAV he taL
en- according to the recommendaffon
OF the committee in question. Ths
levy made last year was SIS mills.
Inc levy for the building fund will
according to dope" be placed at / mill
even, the limit allowed by the law.
mat VIII be an increase of two-tenths
OF mill over the previous levy This
Increase Increase Is necessary on account of the
erection of the Quinton Heights buiId-
ing at cost of $4,000 and the re
pudding of the Potwin building at A
cost OF $4,000, and the fact that there
shortage in the building fund at
the present time of S21,965. This
makes total of $4,000 in round
numbers. A 1 mill levy will bring i'm
only S52,174.45. according to the lat
e eso TaIuation of taxable property
Must Raise S257.s06
- including a shortage of $2O6O5 in
the general fund, 1851, 536 is reouirod
70 pc raised by the levy in that fund
IN the next year, according to the clerk
OF the board, M. c. Holman 1t is the
opinion of several members of tho
PICARD PICARD that this shortage should be OBJ
n 4.S4 mills levy would
produce $257,74I.SO, or about 5000
more than is required to pay of the
Indebtedness in this fund. II this
shortage is not considered, then the
ola levy of Abs mills will be sufficient.
There will probably be no change made
IN the interest fund, and it is not like
ly any action will be taken towards
paying off any of the bonded indebt-
S ernesS OF the board. Consequently as
Iy be either mills or 6.39 mills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsOE GLOBE.
LFrom the Atchison Globe. 7

lr rom the AVchlSOn C1lObe.1
What is really needed is a safe and
sane campaign.
Mistakes will occur is the excuse Of
careless people.
sccessful imitation has to be a little
better than the original
Talcum powder is all right after a bath,
but II is a poor substitute.
Voting straight ticket never struclz
US as much of recommendation.
Instead of borrowing trouble some are
busy trying to loan IT to their friends
Not knocking the Salvation Army bur
one likes to think the music in heaven
will include no tamborines.
Much as we favor economy, ii doesn't
work us into much OF a sweat in favor
of decreased letter postage.
Doubtless you have observed how the
bosses are always on the other SIDE while
you align with the Leaders.
While boys schooling is essential We
have observed that it never seems neces :
sary to teach him to swear.
There are a good many patriots who
don't care as much for John Brown as
they did when We were young.
L am never very anxious to hearn what
my friends say behind my back; knowing
as I do, a number of things they could
say that 1 should hate to hear."-Rute
Hoskins.
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POLICE JOTTINCS.

Special policemen will be on duty at the
polls in a number of voting precincts in
ie5E * ~. Tuesday while e. others VIII DC
men. There has been but little disorder
at the voting precincts in the past but
owing to the interest in the primaries at
police, fears trouble in a number OF
places. At night, after the polls are
closed, the police who are on duty dur
ing the day, will be asked to come back
at night and work until midnight.
Robert Cuthbirth was arrested Saturday
night for maintaining liquor nuisance,
by the police but was turned over T.,
Sheriff Norton who held state warrant
for his arrest. Cuthbirth was found con-
Quoting a thirst dispenSary in a barn be
tween Quincy and Monroe streets and be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets. The raid
was made by Sergeant Garden, Detective
Con and Deputies Ross and whiteker.
Cuthbirth will be given a hearing in the
next term OF court.
The police raided the home of Felix
Dodson at 407 East Crane street Saturday
afternoon and found a barrel of bottls1
beer and key on ice in the cellar: The
beer was on ice in box that had been
hidden beneath the floor and the keg was
in barrel that had been hidden in the
on the cellar floor as system on avoid
ing detection. Dodson was not at homo
and no one would claim the liquor and
the police could not make an arrest. An
other call. at 513 East First street, re
suited in finding two tubs of bottled beer.
The beer was hidden in an ice box under
the floor. A board about eight inches
long was used as q place to get the beer
out. The police found this after moving
a dresser and tearing away piece of car
pet which was used in hiding the refresh
ments. Nobody was in the house and the
police could not fidan person to claim
the liquor.
Tom Brison, an old booze offender, who
was paroled more than a year ago, was
arrested by the police Saturday for vio-
lating his parole He was arrested and
convicted of selling liquor more than a
year ago. He promised to leave town and
stay away but failed to do SO and the ar
rest Saturday resulted.
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PAY OFF THE DEBT.

| Suggestions that a sinking fund be
created to wipe out the indebtedness
of Topeka on school buildings should
appeal strongly not only to all the
members of the school board but also
to the taxpayers of the city. This IL
no more than an elementary business
proposition. The school debt will have
to be wiped out sometime or else drain
the taxpayers of enormous sums for
interest charges. And the way to pay
| it off is on the instalIment- plan through
sinking fund.
This debt is now in excess of $500, 900.
1t was created by bond issues for the
erection OF school buildings. And much
of it is of long standing on which
large sums in the aggregate have al
ready been paid in interest. Its prin-
cipal has not been increased since 1904
which is a good eight years ago. From
that time. the funds for such school
buildings as have been erected have
been raised by a direct tax levy.
It would eventually be much good
money in the pockets OF the Topeka
taxpayers if they willingly submitted to
an additional school tax which would
put at least $50, 200 a year in the pro-
posed sinking fund. That would make
1t possible to pay of the entire in
debtedness in the course OF 10 or II
years. On each succeeding year there
would be less and less interest to pay
on the debt. When 1t was eventually
wiped out the taxpayers would of course
be relieved of the additional tax for the |
sinking fund and they would also be |
saved a large sum every year that is |
now paid out for interest The yearly |
interest charges must be in excess of
$40, Co., If this debt is permitted to |
live on it means that in every ten |
years the taxpayers of the city will |
have paid out in interest a sum that is
half as large as the /
whole debt.
Is it conserving the resources of the
taxpayers to let the debt run on i'll
this fashion. when it might be wiped
out in ten years through a tax tina.
would not be more than mill on the
assessed valuation of all the property
in Topeka?
It does not seem so. The sugges-
ton that the sinking fund in question
be created is one of the best that has
from the school board in
many a day. Let it be done by all
means.
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T. r.. KEEPS OUT.
Roosevelt Refuses to Mix in Contests
of Delegates.

Chicago, Aug. 5.-After the Nation
al Progressive committee had disposed
of the negro contestants, the storm
center was transferred to Colonel
Roosevelt's quarters. The colonel re-
fused, however, to take hand In the
dispute, although a large number OF
excited followers appealed to him. He
referred them all to his recent letter
negro question.
Tread my letter." lie said. ''It con-
tains a full statement of my views"
He declined to comment on the action
of the national committee and said he
had never talked with any of the negro
contestants. "Give them my letter as
a tract" he said.
AS soon as he was installed in his
headquarters, Colonel Roosevelt began
a series of conferences with his
leaders.
Governor Hiram Johnson of Cali
fornia George w. Perkins, Clifford
Pinctot James r. Garfield, George L.
Record of New Jersey and Medill Nc
Cormick all saw him before they went
to the convention hall.
Aside from the negro question. the
platform was the chief subject which
Colonel Roosevelt discussed with his
leaders He conferred with members of
the platform committee and told them
that the doctrines which he will set
forth in his speech of tomorrow repre-
scented his views in regard to the plat
form.
Several hundred women suffragets
carrying votes for women banners
and headed by a military band paraded
through Michigan avenue from the Art
Institute to Fourteenth street, thence
to the Coliseum at noon.
The procession attracted large crowds
and the women marchers were cheered
noisily AS the parade passed F2oose- |
velt's hotel there was a lively inter- |
change of greetings. Scores of dele |
gates waiting on the sidewalk to see |
Colonel Roosevelt, gave the sufYrare |
advocates an ovation.
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REFLECTIONS Or A BACHELOR.
[Frum the New York Press.1
While woman prays man brags.

" NIT WUIllal pla3s llIaH DFags-
A womans idea of natural dressing is
to make any part of her that is too long
look short and any part of her that is too
short look long.
A girl never can see why she need ex-
so long as she can stick 1t out that it
never happened.
First prize winners In the biggest games
OF life don't make much fuss about IL
as man who almost got a nomination
for a small office.
When a man sees his name in the news
paper as having sat on the platform at a
political meeting. he wonders why 1t is
the party's chief candidate can't get the
attention he does.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many a cold letter is written on a
warm day.
With most people these days, airy
old kind of roast beef is rare.
= y
No mans troubles are as numerous
and as serious as he imagines.
People blessed with tact have much
easier time of it on their way through
life.
Another general rule is that persons
who can sing are reluctant to do SC
while those who cannot are eager 10
trv.
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FAIR FOR PRIMARY.
Weather Man Promises Bright Skies
and Cool Weather.

According to Sunny Flora. the
government weather man, there will.
be no need of taking an umbrella to
the polls Tuesday. There are no pros
poets of rain in the next thirty-six
hours said he.
The weather is remarkably cool for
this time of year. In fact, it is an au-
tumn brand that we are now enjoying
The low point reached by the mercury
was 60 degrees at o'clock this morn
ing. The reading at 2 o'clock was bug
~ degrees. Thus the readings have
averaged IL degrees below normal.
The wind is blowing II miles an hour
from the southeast. This morning
there was trace of rain.
There will probably be considerable
sunshine Tuesday, and according to the
local observers guess, the day will be
slightly warmer than today.
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COST CITY S56,1O8.
That Was Total Expense for the
Month of July.

only once in the history of the commits
SION FORM OF government in Topeka has II
cost as much to run the city for a month
as II did in the month of July this wear
me nllls nave just been approved by the
board of city commissioners. The 's,naI
reports shows an expense of SEC, los IS for
the thdrty-one days of July.
one year ago the city drew $6OOO0 from
the treasury to settle all claims The av-
erage monthly maintenance, however
rarely goes over the $4,000 mark-usuaIIy
The July expense was increased bx +ba
payments on paving and by the settle
Ilent or the costs of the new combina-
paving alone, $19.5O0 was expended. Ths
motor truck cost 1880
The table of e.retlaes fnllnrrr.