The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-12
TOPEKAIzED KANSAS.

Leavenworth This not uneXceptionable
incident, standing out in the cold, alone
and unsupported, might not seriously
disturb the serenity of either the good
people of Leavenworth or those of
Wichita. But, the castigation coming
from the mouth piece Of the state ad-
ministration, from the unquestioned or
gan of the crank contingent that domi-
mates the bosses who in turn steer the
Republican party of Kansas, 1t falls
with the stubborn crush of frozen bale
of wet blankets. The fact that Humph-
rev. did not receive within many thou
sands of a majority of the votes cast at
the last election, or the chances of the
truth Of the Alliance charge that by the
manipulation of the ballot-boxes of four
teen counties he was counted in, does
not alter the fact that he is yet the bona
fide executive of the state, and 1t consti-
tutes no shield from the attacks of the Off
cial state paper, nor in the slight
est degree affords any amelioration
of the unhappy condition of the peoples
Of the cities named. 1t is not denied
that the Republican party of Kansas lost
last fall the house of representatives and
five congressman and United States
senator, and it cannot be successfully
denied that all would have been saved
but for the stubborn denial to listen to
the resubmissionist's prayer for a hear
ing. But, with that rule or ruin Topeka
casualty, who for pretense CRY rrohi-
bition that their breath may not smell so
loud, all pleadings and disasters alike
counted for nothing so Ions as they
could hold their old places or stand a
chance for a new ones, though the hypoc-
racy oftheir platform more than equalled
its rottenness.
When the Capital day before yesterday
announced in a leading editorial that
Wichita nor Leavenworth would be re-
lieved of the espionage Of those
state house tools known as
"police commissioners" that settled
it. The cringing majority of the senate
some of whom are charged with far
more culpable failing-no more dared to
listen to or grant the unanimous prayer
Of this community than they dared to
tell Humphrey that they would not join
him in the removal Of the purest and
ablest man ever connected with his adj
ministration. The Capital says that
should the cities named be relieved Of
police commissioners, appointed by the
governor, that the peoples OF these places
would run their city governments to suit
themselves, or words to the same effect
1t is all right for Topeka to con niue to
receive money from prostituted women,
but Wichita's joints must not be annoyed
by fines and penalties.
The only hope for Kansas is changes,
radical changes; and in many things and
in many directions. The recorded ex-
periences ard conclusions of the peoples
of many enlightened states, touching the
practicability of an enforcement of the
prohibitory law, and the prjudices of all
the other states against Kansas on that
for
the element that through its tools rules
the state than does the prayers and pc
titions of its people. Not only should
these elements and tools be relegated,
but their eradication would become more
easily of accomplishment if the state
capital were removed to some more cen
trail point nearer the body of the people,
and farther away from the barnacles
that cling to it, together with the other
state institutions controlled from it.
Topeka is the nesting place of all the
greedy leeches and state institutions of
the old pocket whose interests combined
direct all the affairs, legal, political and
material of the state. One of their in
herent interests is the killing off of all
interior cities that have any promise of
future greatness. This they hope to
accomplish by their political control Of
railroads, their compiling of the
laws and the constituting of the statutes.
Hutchinson. Salina, Arkansas City and
Wichita and other points, are all mark
ed by the envy and hate of this uncanny
combine, who, IN the name of temper
ance and morality, stimulate their lax
virtues by Missouri whisky. Kansas
City, Kansas, would have gone down,
too. under the same influence but for the
fact that it is an offshoOt of a power
! lodged in another state Self govern.
ment Is not only succinctly and dis
tinctly denied by the coterie that con.
! trolls the state house and its municipal
surroundings and rural outlyings. but
/ the right of petition and the right &c
vote are also refused. except on such
propositions and for such purposes as are
acceptable TO the crowd that has domin.
ated Kansas and all that the state is and
has been for years.
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