The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-14
The WOMEN QUIZ
Ask City Candidates Leading
Question.
And That Has to Do With
PrOhibitOry Law.

Conditions in Topeka were pictured
as being in a deplorable state by GER
tain candidates on the outside looking
in for Office who were "quizzed' by
sixty or seventy members of the Good
Government club at the Y. w. G. A.
building late Thursday afternoon.
Particularly emphatic in this direc
ton were the statements of three of
the men who are fighting for the Of
flee of mayor.
r. L. Cofran: 1.-The present admin
tration while honest has gone wrong.
The prohibitory law is ignored. If the
people Of Topeka could see conditions
in the bottoms they would see that the
law is not enforced. I believe could
enforce the law
E L. O'Neil: eff 1 am elected
mayor there will be no fake enforce
ment of the law One of my first Of
chief of police and a new police ma
tron. I am not making an attack on
the present office holders. 1 will re-
organize the police force so that 1T
will be a source of pride to the people
of Topeka, and good advertisement
for the city,
Colonel J. w. F. Hughes: 1.-THE
first thing that I shall do when I am
mayor will be to clean out the police
department and I'll be there, too.
Two-thirds of them should go. III
go out with the police and If they
don't do their duty I'll be hunting for
new men,"
George Adamson, running for COM
missioner of streets and public i'm
provements: 'I have lived in Topeka
for 25 years and I want to say 1 have
never seen the streets in worse cond1-
ton than they are at the present time
I have wondered for years why there
is not a greater death rate in Topeka
than there is. In a prohibitory way
I have never seen things so badly
lived up to-"
There were three questions that
were hurled at the candidates by the
women. They were:
"How do you stand on the prohibf-
tory question:" =
pool halls and the strict enforcement
of the anticigarette law?"
Did you vote for womans SUI
frage?''
enforcement of the prohibitory
and all other laws. However
when H. P. Miller was pinned
down to state whether or not
he personally favored prohibition he
said he would lie for no office; he was
not a prohibitionist in principle but In
favor of honest enforcement of the law.
one of the women present explained
that he was a true German and had
his peculiar ideas concerning such
things.
asked how the city commissioners could
assist in the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law
Il don't know how t--ey could was
the reply 1.-THE matter rests with the /
mayor, the county attorney, and the /
sheriff. You will have to go to them
Mrs. White continued:
II have in my hands a list of eleven
addresses of places right here in To-
peka that have United States liquor
licenses, and these places are running
now If these men cannot enforce the
law we want men who cam.
Mr.. Stotts pointed to his past record, |
and stated that he is now more capa bic
than ever to handle the affairs of his
department.
But the ladies did not make clear
lust how or why a commissioner of
PARKS had anything at all to do with
the prohfbitOry law, nor why he was
ouizZed on the one subject, while
nothing at all was asked about fitness
or capacity or record as park COM
missioner
been arduous workers for suffrage for
years.
missioner of water and lights, said that
he would make an effort to abolish all
pool halls.
]. A. Ramsey. candidate for commits
sioner of parks and public improve
ments asserted that he would butt into
the affairs of the other commissioners
If he saw that things were not being
handled properly.
pete" Miller should be listed among
the orators of the occasion. He stated
that at least a twenty-five per cent
drop in the water rates should come by