The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-30
KLU KLUx TACTICS.
William Tudors Is Threatened and Abused For
Exposing an Outrage

A few days ago there appeared in the
| EAGLE brief account of the experience of
William Tudors of this city with an oath
bound element of the Peoples party known
as the Alliance Assembly No. l. The facts
are fresh in the minds of the people Of
Wichita and are pretty thoroughly under
stood throughout the state this time, for
at least 100 papers have published and
commented on them since they became
known. To state them briefly again, how
ever, what as known as the Judicial COM
mittee of this oath-bound organization
summoned William Tudors before it to
try him for treason to this unAmerican
institution and then when he proved
himself mot guilty." having escaped the
obligation by a circumstance, they tried to
extort from him the written evidence of
their dangerous political bond by threaten
ing him with physical as well as mental
torture.
Since this expose was first published in
the EAGLE ''Uncle Billy" who has lived
an honest and respected life in this county
for twenty-five years, has been the victim
OF all kinds of torments and abuse from
this element of the Peoples party. They
have called him all kinds Of
names and have bullied and abused
him, making life very uncomfortable
for man who is bent beneath the wei ght
of years and infirmities received while
serving his country when the stability of
this government was in peril and in dan
ger. No credit attaches to big necked bal
lies trying to intimidate little man, but
for all that they are more deserving Of
success than the cowardly wretch who
seeks to infiict pain and injury through
the medium of an anonymous letter No
one, OF course, but a coward will abuse
and injure man under cover and of all
the methods most hateful of inflicting this
injury and abuse is the anonymous letter.
Yesterday Uncle Billy" received
one of these which is printed to show to
what limits political fanatics will go to in
order to wrest from the throne of reason
the scepter of power and place it in the
hands of irresponsible enthusiasts or de-
signing and irresponsible politicians. The
following is the letter.
TO WILLIAM TUDORs.
skull and cross bones)
You old court house rat you have been
III VI Tue equity Oh DSug"ICh SO
long that you think it no harm to assume
the offices of commissioners. custodian
and janitor all at the same time. and if
Mr.. Hayden, our brother, would fire you
out at once it would be a benefit to the
county. You stand at the east and west
front steps of the building and shake
hands with all the visitors from three to
same parties and You will say, ''what is
the news" show is politics" and you are
sure 10 agree with all political parties, the
Democrats, Alliance and Republicans 1t
Is all the same to you, you old dough face.
This fall while the parties were trying to
place candidate in the field for commits
sioner, you announced your name and
electioneered all parties, and you was a
Democrat, Alliance and Republican, any
thing for the coon, you old hypocrite. This
action shows you to be traitor to all par
ties. We have got you spotted. You'd
better go slow in the future or patience
might scease to be virtue.
Your gray hairs is all that saves you.
While looking over the Wichita EAGLE of
h eadiDg, IAN Oath-Bound Organization"
You old crafty liar, to be member of the
knights of Labor, absorbed by the judicial
board of Alliance assembly No l. Nobody
but a traitor would have handed this
summons to the EAGLE reporter. Now we
will make your in 1ependence-loving Pnri-
tan blood boil a reat deal more If you
publish any more statements in the EAGLE
You didn't state to the EAGLE
reporter that you joined of
your own free will and accord
Alliance assembly No. l. This proves that
no one but a traitor to our cause would
hand the summons of the judicial board to
the EAGLE. This fail we will have ma
jority on the board of county commission
ers and then we will clean out all the ras-
Gals like yourself. We don't like to do
violence to such a sneaking coward as you
are but hope you will take warning from
this letter as the people who are in our
cause mean business as their undertaking
to get rid of the plutocrats and tools of
theirs like you. II you know what is good
for you you will say no more about ALI
ance assembly No. l. If you keep on you
had better make provisions for your wife
and family.
When Mr.. Tudors was seen yesterday
the poor old man was in pitiable frame
of mind. He has lived and breathed the
free air of this country for three score
years and this is the first time that he has
received such document. He has lived
in this county for twenty-five years and he
feels bad to think that after hav-
ing aimed to be good citizen during all
that length of time he should be picked
out as target for the revenge and spite of
some malicious fellow who thinks, per-
haps, he is serving the ends and purposes
of his fanatic party by abusing
from the ambush of an unsigned
letter. an old man who never in
his life harmed anybody, simply
because a reporter for this paper obtained
from him, after some reluctance on his
part, evidences of the dangers which
threaten the ballot box; letter which
positively demonstrated that the votes of
several alleged freemen are foresworn be-
fore they are cast and mortgaged in ad
vance to some man or set of men whom
the designing few shall designate. Old as
Uncle Billy is the fire came to his eyes
when he read the letter and it would be
by 10 means safe for the writer TO come
near him. There is good clue to the
ambushed intimidator.