Wichita eagle., 1888-06-26
A MISERABLE MASK.

The rigid enforcement of the prohibitory
law in Wichita and Leavenworth Will
drive every jointist from those towns.
The police power will find it hard work to
do this unless public sentiment sustalns
them.-Capital.
True, oh SO true, thou gllileless friend.
So far as Wichita is concerned, public
sentiment is down on the sneaking
joints which pay no license, nor even
fines, but which live and flourish only
by putting up blackmail. AS for a
''police power" which is directly or in
directly answerable to the people whom
they are empowered to club, the Capital
nor john Martin will ever live long
enough to see. American citizens, such
as make up Wichita, sustain, by senti-
ment or otherwise, such relic of effete
feudalism, vile feudalism which &C
cepts money from the hand of the viola
tor of the law instead of spoils from the
conquered.
How would the Capital like to be put
under the surveillance of a. power whose
hounds and whelps would not permit re-
spectacle citizens and property holders
of Topeka to stand in front of the Capt.
tai Office to read Chicago bulletins, with
no power to appeal anywhere fol redress,
the mayor and members of the city
council even forced to stand aside for
the swaggerers, whose only bosses live
at distant capital city, and who might
not be even there, or, if there, there only
as covert enemy? That is just what
happened to the EAGLE within three
days, with sidewalk hardly a hundred
feet distant crowded to read free bull
letins.
We get tired--very tired-of the
sycophancy and cant Of officers and Of
papers who stand up daily to "Oh, Lord,
we thank Thee that we are not as that
wicked Wichita, and which Thy humble
servants are compelled to make bite the
dust, as we rule her with
our holy and righteous police
commission, who are over-subservient
tools, and whose minions we are enabled
to make that wicked people support, aye
to furnish us the whip with which we
lash and scourge them, oh, Lord!
We are ike the fellow who wanted
the Lord to stand back if he desired to
see fun. Just wait until this election is
over and we have the third party cranks
and Grover and his adherents COM
pletely shelved and laid away beyond a
chance to do further harm,-wait, Mr..
Capital, until the American idea and the
American manhood and their protective
forces are once again on top, and we
tell you that the ring which has for
motives Inundated Wichita-un-
der pretence and a cry for morality,
a morality which they themselves offend
and repudiate whenever they get so far
away from home as even Chicago; and,
that ring will either get smashed or this
people will have to be humbled yet not
little. Democrats and Third Partvites,
cerned, have been listened to by the
present state administration, and
not by the men who did the most
to elect that administration
not the men who would and
who could be nothing but Republicans
though a nimbus should come out and
st. Johns head and angel
wings should sprout from the back of
Albert Griffin and from the back of
every third party man who hates the
party only because the Re-
publican party will not place itself and
all it is, has been and expects to be INTO
the hands of deSerters and traitors who
are endeavoring to hoist themselves into
power through the destruction of the
party to which they once professed
fealty--the only party which ever could,
or ever did, suppress the joint, in Kan
sas, and about the existence of which, in
the Capital SO loudly walls.