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test such action. He said the remark
was only such . one ~ any man with
red blood In his veins would have made
under the circumstances. He had never
been notified. he said. Of any formal
calling or OF the Department ol
Justice.
Ponerene and PerlkinA Clash.
Senator Pomerene and Perkins again
struck fire while the former was ques-
tioning the witness on the contribution
made by the New York Life Insurance
Company to the 1904 campaign. Perkins
Insisted that the contribution was made
purely with view to electing a candi-
date whose party platform called for the
retention Of the gold standard, rs Op-
posed tc a candidate whose party plat
form called for the double standard. He
insisted that 1t was not political con-
tIibution, but one made solely In the
irterests Of the policy holders of the
company. Pomerene asked him IL II
wasn't true that the New York Court OF
Appeals had decided that the action was
not criminal but that q civil action would
lie against 1t.
Now you are misrepresenting me on
Purpose" exploded Mr.. Perkins. you
are doing II to get the headlines In to-
morrow mornings papers
Members Of the committee Immediately
protested against this language Chair
man Clapp sided with Perkins. but on
the question whether the question and
ansWer should go in the record, Sen
ators Oliver. Paynter and Pomerene out
voted Ciapp.
Later Senator Pomerene read from
the New York reports the decision in
question. which stated that the action
was beyond the purposes of the cor
peration and wholly unjustifiable and H.
Legal
Were Promised $4,000.
John 8. Nugent and Robert Haight. OF
Philadelphia. showed that as early as
February 2 they were promised S1I.w
by William Ward. OF New York, who
represented Col Roosevelt. TO start or
ganization work for the colonel in Phila-
delphia. Nugent testified that he was
asked by the colonel TO call on him al
the offices of the Outlook in New York
and that they discussed the possibilities
in Pennsylvania. When Nugent referred
to the financial necessities, Roosevelt. hs
says. told him to talk that end over with
Mr.. Ward, then national committeeman
from New York.
Subsequently Ward telegraphed NuSenj
to meet him in New York. Nugeni
brought with him Mr.. Haight. and thes
discussed the question of financing tn.
Philadelphia campaign. Haight said
would cost about $1,000 for the work anC
Ward told him to come back the follow
Ing Friday. which was February ., ar,
get the money. When they returned
however. they were told that William
Finn. of Pittsburg. who had come ovei
~ Wards Hessinn with A rar
Valkenberg. editor of the Philadelphia
North American. had agreed to finance
the Pennsylvania campaign. The money
therefore. was not forthcoming.
AS result OF these conferences they
learned that Senator Penrose had beer
given an opportunity several months be-
fore TO Join the Roosevelt movement, had
asked for ten days to consider. and al
the end of that time had replied that he
would stand by Taft and the organiza.
ton. Now we must go after Penrose,
Is the statement Nugent attributes t.
Ward and other Roosevelt leaders in tn.
conference.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-22
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
FIFTY WERE There
Followed Postmaster Rodgers
Like GideOn's Band.
His Carriers and Clerks Went
With Him to Church.

A unique token of regard was shown
Postmaster A. K. Rodgers, Sunday
morning, when fifty of his employees
filed into the Presbyterian church,
grouped themselves about him, and re-
manned until the close of the service
when DR.. S. S. Estey descended from
his pulpit and presented Mr.. Rodgers
with large bouquet of chrysan-
themums.
The officers and carriers decided they
would show their appreciation by doing
not giving. and conceived this original
idea OF pleasing the postmaster, who
is popular with them all. The plan
was arranged by A NJ. Fuller assist
ant postmaster, and came as a direct
result of Mr.. Rodgers granting Thanks
giving as a holiday to the poStoff1ce
force. The plan was to surprise him
Thanksgiving morning, but the delay
resulted from the fact that no service
was held in the Presbyterian church on
Thursday. Joint worship was celebrat-
ed in the Baptist church and the SER
mon was preached by DR.. Henderson.
Mr.. Rodgers has been a prominent
member of the First Presbyterian
church for years, and nothing could
have pleased him more than the plan
so loyalty carried out by his employees.
He has been postmaster for long time,
and the force is indebted to him for
many faVors and courtesies. DR. Estey,
in presenting the flowers, spoke most
ffcctiOnateIy of Mr.. Rodgers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
WAS ATOY BALLOON.
People Thought Speck in Sky Was
RilIard,s AreOpIane.

Between 1 and 100 o'clock this after
noon hundreds of people gazed skyward
watching a speck in the sky that was
travelling in a northerly direction. It's
Phil Billiard in his aeroplane-" was the
rurnor on the lips of the curious crowd
AL times the aircraft was enveloped in
the clouds and excitement ran high
The phone at the Billiard mill was
in demand by those who were DESTROYS
of knowing if their theory We're cor
rect The State Journal was also be-
sieged with calls. Billiard was at the
mill in person to answer the calls. and
it transpired that the object that
caused so much excitement was moth
ing more nor less than a toy balloon
sent up by boy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
RAY LOCKE GOING AWAY
Man Leaves to Enter Field
at Oklahoma City.

Raymond P. Locke of the business
depa1tm ent of the State Journal has
resigned his position and has gone to
Oklahoma City where he will open an
advertisers copy service agency.
Mr.. Locke began his newspaper ex-
peri nee as a messenger on the de-
funct Topeka Herald. He has been
with the State Journal the past five
years HIS marked ability as an ad-
Vertisement writer brought him rapid
promotion, and it is to this speciality,
the preparation of advertising copy,
that he intends to devote himself in
his new field.
AS secretary of the Topeka AID club
Mr. Locke has rendered valuable serv-
ices He has demonstrated that mod
esty and courtesy are profitable to an
solicitor as they are to
everyone in the business world.
Mr. Locke leaves with the best
wishes of many friends among the
newspaper men and merchants of
Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
KIPLINC WAS RIGHT
When He Said Balloon Had
"TOO Much Ego in Cosmos"
Supto Reinisch Puts o. X. on
Great Writer'S Declaration.

superintendent Reinisch of the city
parks agrees absolutely with kipling
that a baboon has too much ego in
its COSMOS Furthermore, the park
superintendent believes that Kipling's
story of a man who killed a baboon
because the baboon killed his wife is
a moral that should be recognized in
all well educated and well behaved
communities.
The story connected with Superin-
tendent Reinisch's newly created be-
liefs did not leak. out at the city hall
until today.
few days ago Mr.. Reinisch decid-
ed that the animal expert at the Gage
park zoo needed a little advice in the
care of balloons.
when feeding them he explained.
"you should whittle their hunger by
teasing them with the food Then
they appreciate what you give them"
The animal man stepped back and
like all employees who recognize the
wisdom and experience of their en-
pIoyers. allowed Mr.. Reinisch to show
him the secret of baboon feeding.
Ernest Seton Thompson or Colonel
Roosevelt would fail to describe the
scene. At any rate, Superintendent
Reinisch warned his employees to say
nothing of the incident and he con-
scented to stay in bed for three days
wrapped in bandages and reading over
and over Kipling's moral of the
baboon with too much ego in his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
DANCES IN CHURCH
Chorus Girls Do Their Worst
i'm Pulpit.
Money Flies Towards Them as
Organ Sounds.
MHKE TIT nFIII IIF0IrHrr
THE DEVIL HESITATE
Satan Would Fear to Introduce
Them in Hell.
Pastor Uses Lively Illustrations
in Sermon on Dance.

minneapolis, Mimi. Dec. 1.-Two
chorus girls danced ragtime dances on
the platform of the pulpit of Rev. c.
l.. Morrill, in Minneapolis Sunday, il
Illustrating his sermon on Praise Him
With the Dance" The most amazing
and bold dances We're executed by the
girls who are playing at a Minneapolis
burlesque house and the audience fair
ly gasped
The Turkey Trot." the Grab
Crawl the Tortoise Tango" the
Teddy Wobble," the Angle Worm
Wriggle.' the Grizzly and other
unique dances were given.
Then began Mr.. Morrill's sermon.
Now you have witnessed just how
fashionable society carries on when it
gets started said Mr. Morrill,. Il ad-
init there is a decent dance, a dance
helpful to the body, pleasant to the
mind and harmless to the soul, but
these rag dances that you have wit
messed, not at all exaggerated will
make the devil blush and he would
hesitate to introduce them into hell.
Make the Devil Blush.
There was time when statues
were made of graceful dancers, but to-
day there is a crying demand for stat
ues against dancing which is disgrace
full. The dancing whirlpool of society
has drawn into its drowning depths
many of the best craft that ever sailed
life's sea. The dance you have wit
messed has degenerated from devotion
and diversion into dissipation and de-
hatchery. These rag dances are an
imal in name and nature and often as
much more passionate than the ori-
entail dance as Vesuvius is warmer
than an iceberg.
We seem almost ready for the naked
dance proposed by Plato in his ideal
republic The animal world is Iibelled
Mr.. Bear and Mrs. Turkey were never
guilty of such antics and doubtless look
with surprise and shame at the dances
which bear their name.
"It has come to a pass when chill
dren are post graduates in ragtime
tunes and dances before they can sing
a hymn or repeat the Lords prayer
AS the two chorus girls performed
these rag dances. now and then
coin would fly toward the pulpit. while
the big organ of the church pealed
forth ragtime music to accompany the
dance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
DR.. DYKES idea
Lebanon Man Diagnoses TrOu-
BILE With the Party.
Not Democrat Landslide, but
G. o. p. ."BIunderSIide."

DR.. ]. B. Dykes of Lebanon was in
Topeka today and in urging harmony
as the cure for the Republican stu
alton in Kansas, he said:
THE sentiment among all true Re-
publicans in the state is for harmony
and success two years hence. Repub-
licans of every degree who are Re
publicans for the reason that they
believe in Republican ideas demand
that factionalism in the party must
die, and any man or men who, for
selfish purposes, seek to keep up this
scrap among ourselves will find the
rank and file turning away from their
leadership.
THE result of the late election
proves concIusively that neither fac
to cope successfully with the Demo-
cratic party in this state.
Therefore Republicans should lay
their factionalism aside and meet
each other on a common level, as
Republicans, without any prefix or
suffix to indicate that the Repubi-
can party in Kansas is any longer
"a house divided against itself.
There is no need of any reorgani-
zation of the Republican party in
this state. If Republicans will lay
their factionalism aside and quit call
ing each other names, other than Re-
publicans, the party will unite itself
and roll up its normal majority at the
general election in two years. Party
solidarity is the only remedy for the
condition that confronts the Republi-
can party in Kansas at this time.
Some people in speaking of the result
of the late election call it a Demo-
cratic landslide. That is not the
proper name for it. 1t was a Re-
publican blunder-side.
"Factionalism is the rock upon
which the party split.
Lay it aside and victory will be
ours two years hence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
RATE
They Are Fixed for Topeka Hacks and
TaxiS.

If the latest hack and taXi-cab or
dinance is passed by the board OF city
commissioners it will be against the
law for a driver to charge more than
so cents for a carriage ride to any
part of the city between the hours Oh
6 a. M. and l a. m. and 10 cents pc
tween the hours of 1 a. m. and 3 a. m
TAXI drivers will not be allowed to
charge more than $3.50 for the hrst
hour between a. m. and 10 p m.
and SO for the first hour between ~
D. n. and a. m.
The carriage men will be allowed
% cents extra for trunks and suit
cases and parcels. They will not be
allowed to charge more than $3.50 for
three or more passengers. The taxi
messengers must pay one dollar an
hour after the first hour between 3
a. m. and 10 p, m. and two dollars
an hour after the first hour between
10 o. m. and a. M
The ordinance comes up for the sec
ond reading the last of the week. The
final rates will be threshed out at this
time. One thing the commissioners
will insist upon. however. all car
rage hackney and taxi drivers must
have in plain sight the price list ac-
cording to the standards set by the
CITY ordinances
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
When Buying
GROCERIES and
FRESH MEATS,
TRY
FRASER BROS.
First, 1t Pays.
Tuesday Specials
Other Items

Duck. dressed and drawn, ID. zoe
Butterine. highest grade, III. 22c
Apple cider. fresh and sweet, gal. zoe
Chile Beans, new .....2 lbs. for 15C
Hog Livers. fresh, each ........15c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
]. S, THOMPSON DEAD.
Santa Fc Man Dies Suddenly Early
Sunday Morning.
cosmos.

Julian S. Thompson, travelling auditor
for the Santa F'e railway, died Sunday
morning, at Sis o'clock, following an
operation He was taken suddenly ill
Friday while at the Santa Fe depot.
He was hurried to the Santa F'e hos
pital and underwent an operation from
which he was unable to rally.
Mr.. Thompson leaves two children,
Martha. aged 7 and Freeman, aged 5.
His wife, Mrs. Hessie Thompson, died
January &c. this year, of ptomaine
poisoning. He is also survived by his
father, +. A. Thompson, of Hutchin-
son, and three half sisters. Mrs. F. q.
Seward and Mrs. L. K. Bowers of To-
peka, Mrs. Chas. Whipple of Leadville,
Col, and a half brother, Mr.. Gene
Doran of Chicago.
The funeral will be held from the
residence, 623 West street. Tuesday
morning at 1880 o clock. The inter
ment will be in Mt. Hope cemetery.
The services at the grave will be con-
Quoted by the Masons, under the
auspices of Sloan lodge. of which body
Mr. Thompson was member.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02

provement in the arts; to repair all
losses of the waterworks caused by ac-
cident of every kind; to recoup the city
for loss of taxes dues to city owner
ship
The city also will strike out the sec
ton requiring all city departments to
pay for their water. The parks will be
furnished water free.
The old rates to be reduced are:
Minimum, 40 cents per month.
First $500 gallons, As cents per 1000
gallons.
Second $500 gallons, 40 cents per 1000
gallons.
Third $500 gallons. 80 cents per 1000
gallons.
Fourth $500 gallons. 20 cents per 1000
gallons
Fifth $500 gallons. "A cents per 1000
gallons.
Second 1880 gallons. p cents per 1000
gallons.
Third 81 500 gallons, 81 cents per 1000
gallons.
Fourth $1,000 gallons, 16 cents per 1000
gallons.
Fifth 1880 gallons, Il cents per 1000
gallons.
Next 1880 and up. 9 cents per 1000
gallons.
Seven and one-half gallons to one
OH bic foot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
BEGINS TOMORROW.
That Commercial Club Campaign for
$3.50. OOO.

The Commercial club campaign which
has as its object of raising $25O,OOO in
subscriptions fo, factory aid in To-
peka will open at $50 o'clock Tues
day morning. Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in go hours" is the
slogan.
There will be more than 20 workers
in the field Tuesday morning who will
be divided into committees of three.
Each committee will be armed with
a list of probable subscribers The
latter have already been supplied with
Il copy of a booklet entitled, why
Topeka Should Have at Once a $780,
900 Factory Fund"
The solicitors are giving their time
for the benefit of the city, and the
promotion committee which has for
INFLATED the plan asks the business
men to be prepared to give d definite
answer when approached by working
committee. Each noon while the cam
paign continues the men in the field
Will report at the Commercial club
in the noon hour.
This is the one big thing that the
Commercial club has attempted said
Harold T. Chase this noon at meet
ing of the committee.
p THE advantages of the plan arc
many said d member of the commit
tee ut enables every responsible
business, professional, and retired man
in the city to help in building up m
dustries for the city without actually
investing one dollar in cash.
while per cent is collected with
the subscription, this is only done so
that should any loss occur the money
would be available at once to pay the
loss. In case of a loss an assessment
would be made to bring the cash guar
antee fund to its maximum again.
While there is an element of risk in
the plan, yet the chances are so re-
mote, and especially under the man.
agement that is assured, that this will
be no drawback. No one in Topeka
will reap any special benefits except
the firms helped, but everyone will
share in the general benefits. Not
dollar will be loaned to anyone who
has not his own money invested in his
proposition, and of course the capital
brought here in the new enterprises
will be several times the amount of the
aid that will be extended"
All the bankers in the city have APP
proved the plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02

business establishments were erected
in North Kansas City, Kan. These
people were dependent on the viaduct
car service.
The abandonment of that service
and the movement of street cars over
long circuitous routes has greatly in
convenienced the public. Then the
state of Kansas, through Dawson, in
tervened in the Metropolitan squabble.
The city of Kansas City, Kan, joins
the state in this intervention.
1t was because of a dispute over
division of the viaduct earnings that
service was discontinued. Dawson
now contends that these corporations
must perform their public service I'M
der their charters and franchises and
that they can settle their private
quarrelS about a division of earnings
at their leisure, but that pending such
settlement the public should no longer
suffer for lack of adequate service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
MUST CROSS VIADUCT
Federal Judge SO Orders Kansas City
Street Railroads.

on application of Attorney General
John S. Dawson. Judge William C.
Hook of the federal court of appeals
today authorized the state of Kansas
to intervene in the Kansas City Met
ropolitan receivership case to compel
restoration of street car service over
the intercity viaduct at the mouth of
the Kaw. Service over this viaduct
has been withheld more than year
Five years ago the Viaduct was built
at a cost of $3,000,000. 1t was to con-
meet the two Kansas Citys- The Met
ropolitan street railway and the Leav-
enworth interurban lire used the
viaduct until about year ago when
service was discontinued. During the
time the viaduct service was main
tanned. hundreds of new homes and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
BULLENE COMING BACK
Well Known Newspaper Man Will Be
in Topeka This Winter.

Fred BuIIene, who is in Topeka to-
day on business matters, stated that
he would probably attend the coming
session of the Kansas legislature as a
representative for the Kansas City
Star. Bullene is widely known as a
versatile political writer and has re-
ported Kansas legislative proceedings
for number of years. Two years ago
he was sent to Washington as special
correspondent for his paper
Bullene recently spent two weeks in
a Kansas City hospital, where he un-
derwent an operation. He is Just re-
covering his strength, but believes he
will be able to attend the coming ses-
sion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
CUT water RATE
City Plans Change in Commits
sion Form Law.
Profit From Sale of Water Not
Required.
MONEY into The SYSTEM
All Receipts for Improved Ser
vice in Topeka.
Amendments Proposed by City
Commissioners.

A reduction of the water rates IN
Topeka is the probable outcome OF a
recent conference OF the board or city
commissioners in discussion of the pro-
posed changes of the commission law
changes to be recOmmendeds to the
legislature this fall The commission
e. will ask that the clause in the com
mission law providing for a profit on
the capital invested in the waterworks
department be stricken from the stat
utes This means that the city VIII
be able to spend all surplus funds in
improvements. extensions and MAIN
tenance-and the profit can be deduct
ed in favor Of the consumers
In all probability the city waterWorks
department under the supervision OF
H P. Miller, and the SUPPLEMENTARY
of Jesse Shaw. will provide for the rate
reduction early in the spring. The mini
mum rate of 40 cents a month will be
reduced and the charges on small
quantities used for domestic purposes
will be oqualized to such an extent
that the watering of lawns in the hot
weather will cease to be luxury
Among othe- recommendations tow
ard the Improvement of the water
works law is the increase in the sal
arv of the Superintendent from $1.S00
a year to $2,4OO annually. Topeka isn't
ready to pay the $1,000 limit but it is
argued that the maximum should be
elastic
New Water Rate Rule.
Tie proposed clause in the amend
ment to the commission law suggested
by the Topeka board of city commits
sioners and furnished to the committee
from Kansas cities who will appear re
fore the legislature this winter, reads:
Said board of commissioners shall fix
such rates for water furnished to con-
Sumers as will secure an income suf-
hcient to pay all salaries and wages
of all officers and employees in such
to cover all miscellaneous
expenses: to pay all interest charges
upon all Indebtedness of the city Gre
ated for the purpose of purchasing,
improving or extending the WaterWOrks
and to provide sinking fund of not
less than per cent per annum upon
such gross indebtedness; to cover the
cost of repairs renewals betterments
and extensions of the waterworks and
all material used; to cover the deprecia-
tion of the plant by use and by i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
New YORK Money NIarke,-

New York, Dec. -MONEY-Aoney on
call strong 6@16 per cent; ruling rate.
y per cent; closing bid per cent offered
a per cent Time loans, strong: 60 DAYS.
nominally 61z6715 per cent; 30 days nom
inally 6d7 per cent; months. 524 at per
cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, per
cent.
Sterling exchange weak with actual bus
mess in bankers bills al $3.50 for 60 day
bills and at s4.S4-50 for demand. CONNER
cial bills, S4.S014.
sILvER-Bar silver. es7sc; Mexican dol
airs ,49c.
BONDs-Governme bonds steady. rail-
road bonds firm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
SAYS supreme Court of Kansas For
eign Corporation Law.

washington, Dec. 2.-The supreme
court today reaffirmed its decision
that the Kansas corporation law, clos
ing state courts to foreign corpora
lions without a certificate to do bust
ness in the state was unconstitutional
Two years ago the law was declared
unconstitutional as a. burden on inter
state commerce. The point this year
arose in the suit of the Bucks Stove &
Range company and other corpora
lions to subject the ranch of P. B.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-02
WOOD Will WRESTLE,
Fighter and Kid Cain Matched for Go
December 10.

Articles have been signed for wrest-
ling match between Kid Cain a former
Detroit and Kansas City wrestler and
Jack Wood Dec. TO- The match win h..
held IN Topeka exact location to be an
pounds An effort is being made to stage
the go in the Auditorium. There is a fiffv
dollar side purse.