The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
A. l.. ALIEN on REsUBMISsION.

| The Hon. A L. Allen, of Topeka, spent
a few hours in the city yesterday en- route
home from Arkansas City where he was
! looking after some business matters. Be
| ing chairman OF the Republican Resub-
mission state central committee the con-
versation naturally drifted that way and
| the course of his remarks observed:
The resubmission movement is assum-
| ing enormous proportions. l met man
| today from one of the western counties of
the state and he said he did not know of a
single prohibitionist in his county, and he
| is entirely reliable and trustworthy. An
other gentleman from a county a little
beyond the center of the state who knows
what he says declared to me few days ago
/ that 80 per cent of the entire vote of his
county was for resubmission. Reports of this
character come in from all over the state.
There will be the greatest political cyclone
in Kansas this fall that ever occurred in
any state in the union. 1t could not be other
wise. | have just come from one of your
adjoining counties and find the senti-
ment almost unanimous for resubmission.
Speaking politically, Kansas is today a
suffering volcano and when the errupture
takes place the results will be startling"
What was the effect of the prohibition
convention at Topeka?"
SIN point of numbers the convention
was partial success. but in no other re-
spect. 1t was composed of Women, Sun
day school children, preachers, a small
number of merchants and hoard of poll
ticians. 1t brought together all the
political and ecclesiastical manipulators.
1. h. l. liz.
pulse The ring next night in the very
hall in which that convention met the
'old crowd tried to organize a prohibi-
tion Republican club and they were afraid
to open the doors for fear the audience
would adopt resubmissiOn resolutions. BY
the way things are not running smoothly
in the prohibition ranks at Topeka. The
men who are prohibiUiOnist from practice
as well as theory had nothing to say
in that convention. You noticed Brad
ford and men of his stripe were cOnspicu-
Gus by their absence. The little quota
about the state house are passing many
uneasy days and nights. / talked with
gentleman today from one of the eastern
states and he informs me that the action
of the Kansas officials in attempting to
prosecute the original package dealers
without law was putting the state in
ridiculous attitude and that it was doing
the state incalculable injury.
What effect will the enactment of the
substitute for the Wilson bill have on re
submission?
lit will help the cause resubmission, in
asmuch as all the prohibitionists were
asking for it am satisfied it passed The
prohibition officials are chatting to begin
prosecutions all over the state under the
new legislation which means increased
burdens of taxation and consequent hatred
of prohibition"
In COwley county last year one hitch of
the grand jury cost the county over $4,000
and thus taxes ran over seven per cent and
out Of about a hundred indictments for
selling liquors. there were only two con-
victions and the authorities never collect
ed a dollar from them. The new law of
congress will not revive the liquor laws of
Kansas so far as they relate TO original
package dealers and a test case will soon
be made in the federal courts to test its
constitutionality.