The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-19
Gov. Click and His Villifiers.

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bottled the wrath of the Gazette and
Chronicle, and they rain upon his de-
voted head all the scurrilous epithets
which their vocabulary contains.
This continual bowling from the re-
publican press against Gov. Click and
the democratic party is becoming old,
and it is as shameful as it is i'll bad
taste.
To these virtuous republican journals,
eGov. Click is fraud, an accident, a
disgrace to the state and so on, and
the democratic party lis a party OF
whisky drinkers and law breakers" 1t
is time that an emphatic protest was
entered against these unmanly, untrue |
and cOwardly statements.
The Governor did not pardon Hlck- |
man without first considering the mat
fer. Hickman was in jail 100 days be-
fore he was pardoned out. and during
all that time the Governor was cOnsld
ering the appeals and petitions for his
pardon. And Gov. Click, one OF the
finest men in the state-bluff, hale and
hearty. temperate in his habits, careful
in his official actions, square and up
right as citizen, mindful of his honor
and the honor and interests OF the
State he has so well representative
not grant the pardon until he was sat
isfed that in issuing it he would be
doing an act of justice.
We are no apOlOgist for Hickman.
We feel as far removed from him as
the stars are from the earth, but our
Judgment is blinded by no prejudice.
Hickman did keep low place. There
is no doubt of that. Under our prOhl-
bition law there are many saloons III
Kansas. but there is hardly decent one
among the whole lot. Hickman s place
was no worse than hundreds OF others
i'm this S.ate-no worse than others III
this county. He did not sell to school
| III. 49,
Hughes case that they had bought
liouor of the defendent and were under
1 IS wears of age. Other saloon men had
been before the Court as often as Hlck-
man: the docket shows that. ThenWhy
should Hickman be singled out from
all the rest and excessively punished
bv comparison. The Governor looked
| at it in that way. If the saloon mel
had been punished alike, the Governor
would not have pardOned one of them
, But the howlers here need not go Il
L Topeka for an object to howl at. Thu
IL prohibitory law says that whoever aids
abets or encourages the sale of liquor
t shall be held and tried as though IN
3 were a principal Well, let our vlrtu
\ ous howlers vent some of their lndlgna
IL ton upon a recent republican cOun
! ell and republican officials for col
lecting monthly fines from saloon keep
9 ers and allowing them to run with tn
. expressed understanding that the,
= should not be molested by the city s.
- long as they paid into the the city treas
ury. monthly, specified sum. y re
publican CITY official did that. Howl a
them for change.
. Let our prohibitiOniSts-those sweet
scented fellows who love the republican
party better than they do prohibition
howl at the result of the last city cleo
= ton. and their success in electing
prohibition (?) council of republicans
Let some of our consistent prohibition
lists howl at themselves for signing
= petition to appoint certain man Cit,
Marshal. Let them howl because tn
X petition that was sent to Gov. Clio
o. asking Hickman's pardon cOntaine
, the names of some of our most repre-
n sentative republicans, which can b
? given if need be. Let them howl be
70 cause democrats can read and thin
IS and are not fools and idiots.
" But if they will howl at Gov. GllcE
If let them remember that they are SUI
= porting a man for Governor-JOhn y
10 Martin-who is more of an anti-prOh
,r bitionists than Gov. Click. Democrat
10 are not alone in making this chargt
"A The Topeka Critic, the prohibition o.
D. gan of the state, Col. D. Z. Anthon!
N of the Leavenworth Times, and f.
,p GOV. Eskridge, of the Emporia Republ
p can. the two leading republicans of I'll
state. say that John \. Martin is pr
nounced anti-prohibitiOnist. lie vote
and worked against the amendmen
and voted and worked against st. JOIN
L Not until February, 1884, did anythln
as appear in Martin paper, the Champion
90 favoring the law and its continuance
u John 4. Martin has never renOunce
10 over his Own signature his past heres.
ne There is nothing to prove that he Ia
III changed his views. He has, howeve
e, taken refuge behind Champion edit
b torials and has been bidding for prob
a bition support. The republican-proh
ne bitionists do not believe that he III
ID changed, but they are willing to sin
Oy their principles for a chance of electir
he a republican Governor. And yet the
Il howl at Gov. Click. They think the
n will deceive the true prOhibltlonlsts
of