Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-05-24
THE TRUE lNwAaDNkss

THE TRUE GNWA8DNESS.
The Governors Private Secretary has
. let tue cat out of tho bag. aud the
editor of the Kansas Bureau in the Kansas
City Journal furnishes that paper with
Il don't believe you fellows have ever
caught onto the the inside of this Dodge
City rumpus." said TOmlinsOn. executive
clerk and political adviser to the govern
or, to me- There's more 10 it than you
imagine. Now if Iteil you YOU won't sag
anything about it, will YOUR
Certainly not"
well. when the trouble at Dodge first
commenced Moonlight came in to see the
governor and told him that here was q
chance for a ten strike. Tom said nobody
would mourn if dozen or so Of those
rooeters out there were killed and advised
sending three or four companies of militia
at once to take the town. Click said that
talking about taking Dodge and taking it
were two different things; that there
were a few fellows there who know some
thing about guns themselves, and it might
cause vacancies in some of the militia
companies if they tried to do any monkey
business. Besides the governor aaid it
was pretty risky to call out the milish and
cited the case of the killing of the preach
er at Emporia during Governor AnthOny's
time. Moonlight said that if that was all
there was nothing to be afraid of; he said
there wasn't any danger of killing any
preachers at Dodge"
''What did lie mean by thatf
81 don't know. thought it was a
mean thrust at Dodge. and l told him 80.
Then he said he only meant it in fun"
''Glick didn't send any troops after all
the talk. Is MoOnlight's influence wan-
:ngi"
mo, 1 can't say it is. But Click was
nervous. He told Moonlight not to be
rash and he wonld fix matters. He then
wrote Letters to Dodge and told them
that if they didn't preserve the peace and
protect the men who had been driven
away he would remove every officer in
the county,"
"What did they say to that"
"Thev told him to 60 to the devil, aid
send his troopsand be id. They said,
too they could lick any ten companies he
could send down."
what did they say about his threat to
remove the officers of Ford cOuntyV
They said they'd like to see him try
it. and that if be came down there and
in;erefered unlawfully in their affairs
thew would put him IN Jail. y
''What did the Governor do thens"
''He was scared. ard Moonlight told
him he'd made ID fool of himself.
The Governor then went to tho attorney
general and found that he had no right
to remove any officer, even if be wasn't
doing his duty. The attorney general
told him that Governor st. John would
have liked to removed several sheriffs and
other fellows for, not doing their duty in
enforcing the prOhibitory law. and then
the governor said. damn the prohibitory
law that it wasn't under discussion"
You didn't finish up about Moonlight
and Click. How did they finally patch it
upp
Moonlight said the whole state was
laughing at him 1.-THE 9OverDor) and some
thing must be done to retrieve the situa>
ton. Click said be wasn't military man.
but Moonlight said he was, and knew how
to control the disturbing elements at
Dodge aud snatch victory from the jaws
of defeat. He said he would go down
there and look he field over and then act.
So he went down there"
lis the governor going to send any
trOOps!"
''NOt much. He guaranteed the men
who had been driven out protection, but
that is all there will be about it, The
governor saws it isn't any thing buta row
between gamblers and dance house keep
ers anyway"
"The Dodge City war is ended then is
it?"
Eyes. 1t never amounted to anything.
but the governor wanted to make a little
capital out of it and gave out that hostili-
ties were hourly apprehcnded. But DON'T
say told you anything about it"