The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-30
Fight on Registration Is Kept
Alive in Topeka.
Another Big Meeting "SOme.
where in City" Sunday.
LEADERS EXPLAIN STAND
DIR. Eva Harding COmmends
Stand of J. L. BristOw.
Fred Robertson Here-May
Make Arrests Today.

A secret meeting, fostered and at
tended by socialistic peace radicals,
was held in Topeka Tuesday night for
the purpose of further spreading anti
conscription and anti-war propaganda,
it was learned today
DR. Eva Harding. one of the Topeka
women interested in the local anti
CONSUMPTION agitation, today said a
private meeting of Socialists and
those against conscription' was held
Did you attend?' DR.. Harding was
asked.
Il don't want to say" was her an
swer. mo. I won't say who attended.
1t wouldn't be right to give them
away"
DR. Harding also refused to tell
where the meeting was held.
Up until Tuesday afternoon a meet
ing of the element holding a meeting
Sunday at the Unitarian church was
, scheduled in DR.. Hardings office. Due
to complications met by those foster
! ing the meeting, it was announced as
called off. However, according to DIR.
Hardings statement TODAY. a siniIar
meeting was held elsewhere.
Robertson in Topeka.
Fred Robertson, United States dis
trict attorney, announced over the
long distance telephone this morning
that he would be in Topeka this aft
ernoon, to consult with government
agents investigating the Topeka meet
ings and to conduct a personal inves-
tigation.
The district attorney strongly in
ferred that leaders in the anti-con-
scrlptlon crusade here would be ar
rested.
Are you going to make any arrests
this afternoon? ?" Mr.. Robertson was
asked.
Il am going to make a thoro in
Vesugaton and take whatever action
can" he said.
When informed by the State Jour
nal of the secret meeting here Tues
day night, the district attorney said:
Ihose people up there must want
to get in Jail mighty bad"
Then any one fighting conservation
can be arreSted?''
Can Be Arrested.
Yes. they can be thrown in Jail
They'll be lucky if they don't go to
the penitentiary.'
Those in close touch with the work.
ings of the investigation made by the
government agents expect arrests here
today or tomorrow.
A public peace meeting" it also
became known today. is being planned
to be held here Sunday Dr. Eva
Harding declared the meeting would
be held. LAS soon as 1 find out where
it will be, I'll iet you know" she told
a reporter who talked to her over the
telephone.
! Doctor Harding alluded to a dis
patch from Washington appearing in
a Topeka paper quoting Joseph L.
Bristow as saying, in reference to
Kansas people, They do not believe
Consumption necessary"
ct is along that line we are work
ing" she said. I'VE are taking ou1
stand alongside Bristow and the morn
ing paper"
Ike Gilherg, Socialist leader in To
pel<a, decla red this morning that To
peka Socialists would continue to hole
meetings tC urge against war.
Gilberg Against War.
| GiIberg endorsed the Stockholm
peace conference. The government
has announced it will refuse to issue
passports to American Socialists to
attend the conference and has declar-
ed that it is backed by the kaiser tt
wheedle Russia into making a sepa-
! rate peace.
"Of course 1 endorse the confer
ence." said Gilberg: why shouldn't
II? Talk that the kaiser is behind it i,
all bunc. l hope, at that conference
some method of bringing this war tC
a close is worked out.
Socialists in Topeka will continue
to hold meetings to formulate anti
war propaganda. The next one will
be sometime next week
DIR. Harding. in speaking of the pub
lie meeting to be held Sunday, stated
that efforts were being made to per
feet an organization IN Topeka to pc
tition congress to repeal the conscrip
ton law. She intimated that the or
ganization may b. perfected at the
Sunday meeting.
I'VE expected to form the organ
ization last Sunday but didn't ge
around to it" she said.
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