Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-22

Attorney General Bradford il es gallant
a. any state officer or ss any Kansans crave,
but when woman, fguratively speaking,
sits down on him, especially Il she be
heavy weight, he can no more resist the in
pulse to oppose such ect,on THAI any other
man.
Mrs. Fannie 81. Rastall, president of the
''Women's Christian Temperance Union"
not long sicce, sat down on the attorney
general in a contribution OF hers to the
Voice In which she made charges against
him attacking his professional honor and
honesty, and intimating that he was guilty
of speculation in Office. The attorney gen
eral has prepared reply. settler. BE- the
way, which reads as follows:
TOPEKA, September Il, 1885.
Mre. Fannie 81. Rastall, as president of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Kansa-, makes what she calls some ve-y
serious charges against me in the Voice,
the organ of the third party, of date August
80, 1883. It gives me pleasure to respond to
her req 1est with an explanation of each
and every charge therein contained. As
rule nay no attention to malicious SLAM
ders of similar import, set ahoat by the liq-
uor element and its best friend, the so-called
third party.
She SAYS to the editor of the Voice 'if you
want good campaign material, employ q
stenographer and print verbatim report Of
his address" Upon that PROPOSE
ton the masses Of mankind will
agree. The history, object and aims of
the third party, and the condCc. or lts
leaders is certainly rich food for reflection
by an intelligent people. Its aim Is ulti-
mately the ranks of the Democratic party,
and the conduct Of It's leaders Is con-
temptible.
Again she says 81 hope he will explain why
the 1850 'joints," which Collector Acres re-
ports pay Internal revenue taxes In Kansas,
are not suppressed by the Republican
Il is presumed that this Christian Temper
ance woman intended to tell the truth. o. IT
she did not intend 10 tell the truth. then a
base falsehcod for partisan ends: The most
vile Democratic orator would be more
guarded in his statements lest he should be
accused of falsifying the record.
On Monday, September l, 1883, called
upon Collector acres, and from his own
official records he gave me the following
figures:
Internal revenue stamps issued to whols sale
liquor dealers in Kansas for the fiscal year.
commencing May 1, 1855, and ending june
30, 1889, three. Stamps issued to retail liquor
dealers, 1856. Stamps issued to retail malt
LIQUOR dealers, Go. Stamps issued to whole
sale malt LIQUOR dealers, II. Total number
internal revenue stamps issued to all kinds
of liquor dealers, 1139.
Thus il will be seen that this Christian
Temperance union woman has falsltied the
record to the amount OF 2,S6l. In other
words, there are 1851 less Joints" in the
state of Kansas than this Christian Temper
ance Union woman represents that there
are. Iapprehend that an explanation viii
be forthcoming, and that possibly an at
tempt will be made to show that by some
accident the stamps issued IN 1857 be
came mixed up In the calculation, but
of stamps issued in 1887 and 1883 added to-
oether It would not make $500. It must
also be remembered that 1.139 stamps Is
sued do not correspond to the number OF
places where liquors are sold IN Kansas at
this date. A stamp once Issued 1s never
cancelled until tbs end of the fiscal year.
When men are convicted of the crime Of
selling intoxicating liquors and imprisoned,
the use of the stamp ceases. L know of
my own knowledge, from tbs records in my
Office, that not less than 400 persons
have been convicted for selling liquor since
May 1, and more than 400 stamps have go1e
out of use because of such convictions, and
other causes This, the reader will observe.
has reduced the number of stamps In use IN
ton of Coz, coo people.
The sum total of the charge made in the
communication by Cole McCrea and
adopted by this Christian temperance
woman, is that collected SIS in each of
four cases commenced by me in the district
court of Leavenworth county, and reie ssed
four men from the clutches of the Law.
She gives what she says is a true copy of
The receipt given by me, and then by insert
ing italicised letters, attempts to give the
impression that there was written upon the
receipt the words, 'No criminal prosecu-
tiops 10 follow" This charge of receiving
SOS in this manner inferred by this Chris
tien temperance woman, II true, woaio Jas,
tify the legislature in impeaching NE and
turning me out of offics. If it Is not true 1t
Is a malicious SANDER, and renders the
writer of it and the publishers, including
Mn. Restall and the Voice liable to arrest
and imprisonment.
Hon. c. W. Curtain, clerk of the district
court of Leavenworta county. furnishes me
certified copy of the records OF his ot1lce
re,ati to the four csses tried. Among
Other things he certifes as follows:
Tia. the petition for Injunction in case
No. s..3Z3, the state OF Kansas on the relation
of s. B. Bradford, attorney-general.p plaintiff,
va. Jacob Lau. defendant, was fled Novem-
be. g, 1855; ";hs. the case was continued
from time to time: that on the 18th day Of
Dec6mDeI, LOO, UiC ScsS Uoo SaAcN AOA
trisl: that the regular panel of petit Jurors
being exhausted, a special venire was issued
for one hundred men to serve as Jurors for
the remainder of the terms" that this special
venire was to try the four liquor injunction
cases yet on the docket. Mr.. Cur
tan ce.tifes that on the 18th
day of December, 1856, this case
,, was again called, and after thirty jurors on:
of 100 had been sworn and examined, q jury
vas sworn to try the cause. The trial of
the case against Jacob Lau lasted until De-
cember 2lst. After the instructions OF the
court and the argument Of counsel on both
sides the jury retired. On the morning OF
December 22nd, 1886. the following verdict
was rendered In this case:
"We, the jury impaneled and sworn IN
the above entitled cause, do upon our oaths
find the defendant guilty.
WILLIAM MI1LKR, Foreman.
That ON the Dad day OF December,
J plaintiff fled its motion for judgment on
the verdict, which leaving of the caption,
reads Substantially as follows:
''Comes now the plaintiff by s. B. Brad
ford, attorney general, and move the court
for Judgment upon the verdic. In the above,
entitled cause; that the defendant be fined
IN q sum not less than 500 and the cost of
prosecution, and that he be confined in the
county Jail not less than thirty days. as the
Law directs. Signed, s. B. Bradford, Attor-