The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-31
ABUSING WICHITA.
/. P. Campbell, the Chairman of the Recent
Alliance Convention. Abuses y fchtta
Away from Home

A big meeting was held night before last
| in Wellington at which L P Cambell. the
| Peoples party leader of this city, took oc-
| casion to abuse his home town Ii seems
| to be one of the characteristics of the Pop
ulists to knife In every way possible the
! state, county, township and city
which give them their bread
and butter He made the speech
! before the Prohibition meeting to show
| that the Peoples party folks are the true
friends of prohibition. and went TO work
to illustrate and prove it by referring to
the record of Judge Mckay. the Alliance
| Judge of Harper county.
LP. Campbell was the chairman of the
| recent Peoples party convention, which
fused with the party that has been de
nouncing prohibition ever since it
was placed upon the statute
book of the state. His mission
to Wellington was TO assist Alliance
| County Attorney Pool in making prosecu-
tions of some Wellington and Caldwell
people who it is alleged have been selling
malt under the authority of an ordinance
passed by the local legislative bodies of
each town--the city council. The meeting
was held in one of the churches of Well
ington and the principal speakers were
Campbell, Rev. Botkin, County Attorney
Pool and Rev. Woods of Caldwell,
formerly of this city Campbell's
in his remarks predicted that prohibition
would be enforced in Kansas from present
indications. which meant that if LEVEL
ing is elected King Alcohol will be driven
out of the state like rat.
When RUFF Cone will hear this he will
have to muzzle Campbell as he has al
ready muzzled kies.
The Wellington Mail gives the Camp
bell part of the program AS follows:
l. p Campbell of Wichita, the attorney
who is assisting County Attorney Pool,
was introduced. Said that in his judg
ment prohibitory liquor law would prob
ably be enforced in Wellington from pres
ent indications; that he Lord would not
put down liquor traffic without help of
people; that a man should sacrifice his
feelings and testify against yiolators;
that The Caldwell affair may cost the
county thousand dolidrs;.that if the tenn
perance leaders nave public sentiment
with them that liquor dealers shall go
out of business they will go out; that sem
timent is so low in Wichita that it is i'm
possible to revive it, it being taught by
such lying and INSCRIPTIONS sheets AS the
Wichita EAGLE; that Wichita never had
paper that was different; amended Rev.
Stevens motion to effect that meeting was
to stamp out intemperance; said Harper
county had a judge on the bench who
would enforce laws; that Wichita had
a Judge on the bench who wouldn't do his
duty; that Wichita's police commissioners
draw salary and wink at violators OF law;
that Governor Humphrey has made it
n 10 q hnt lou inh1
Alliance County Attorney Pool also
drew inspiration from l. P. Campbells
attack on the Peerless Princess by saying,
through Attorney Anheuser- Busch Brew
ing association that three carloads of beer
was sold in Wichita daily and that it cost
over $40 900 week for liquor
1t appears from the account in the mail
that Rev. Woods waned TO fight and fight
bad and offered to fight any man that
would fight him. Among other remarks
given in the Mail Rev. Woods said he
heard that Deputy Sheriff Frank Hender-
son was bad man, but he wasn't afraid
of him; called him drunkard, cowardly
villain and an infamous coward; denounc-
ed d. s. Dill of Caldwell, as a cowardly
villain for assisting to defend the Caldwell
men; said that Frank Henderson told the
young minister of the Christian church at
Caldwell he was no Better than Woods;
said he was in for fight; was ready for
fight aud would fight any man who would
fight him; said, We're in it" strictly 50
1t seems Elder Botkin in his remarks
attacked Fred BONANZA of the Mail, a
young gentleman who never tasted drink
81 no all
fable at him, which he credits to modern
ESop:
Once upon a time, in a Cody Commu-
nifty, lived Man who had the Name OF
his Father, which was Botman. Now 1t
so Happened that this Man was of
Learning and of Portly Body, having
fed upon the Books of the Nation and
upon the Fattening Foods, aud this Mau
because of the Magnitude of his Learning
was given High Position, and his Sus-
tenance contributed by the People OF the
Community Now it came to pass that
Bad Thought entered his Mind: Will
become Known of the Nation; ali Men
shall Bow Down before me. And he cast
about him for u way to obtain this
Great Object. His eyes fell upon INTEM-
PERANCE and he thought: through this
will gain that which | seek. So tor time
he told of the great Sin of lutemperance
aud how Drinking places are al Evil 10
the People; then he thought: | will more
quickly be spoken of: l will attack tue
Press; and he attacked the Press and
Poured Forth his vilest Abuse. And the
Abuse of this Man Botman awoke the
People, for they had been Asleep. And
they perceived his Hypocrisy and would
have no more of Ii, and D-throned him,
and thenceforth he was as Nothing.
Moral-Ancient fables sometimes apply
well to present times.