The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-30

Attorney's-Taylor Was in 1T.
suecIal Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
TOPEKA, Sept. 29-More sensational
than all previous documents in this cam
paign is the letter from Willard Boone,
county attorney of Sedgwick county. at
Wichita, to Attorney General Little,
which leaked out here today.
In short the letter IS an appeal to Little
and Lewelling for assistance and protec-
ton. Boone virtually declares that his
life is threatened because of his perform
ance of political duties, by the PoDulist
chief of police of Wichita, Rufus Coue.
The letter is private one TO Little, pray
ing that gentleman to lntercede with Lew
cling and stop the awful reign of rotten
ness and official corruption OF PopuIlst
Gone before IL is too late.
II shows how the city of Wichita hes been
robbed OF thousands and thousands OF dol
lars. and is still being robbed by Cone.
who, Boone tells Little, is a silent partner
in one of the biggest liquor houses OF
Wichita. Boone tells Little that Cone Is
not only a silent partner in this concern.
LrIt also that he uses his office as CHI ief of
police by coersion and persuasion and by
disreputabIe means OF all kinds.
to increase the business of his
company at the expense of all Others.
He privately and secretly informs Little
that the police of Wichita under Cone,
make false and fictitious entries, fail to
register arrests and use every means to
muIct che city and that Cone himself
threatened that if Boone did not cease his
prosecution of the joints, the Jointists
would get up mob and mob him.
Boones appeal to Little grows in earn
esIness, when he says that State Coal Oil
Inspector Taylor had finger in the pie.
Col. Taylor. it seems, went TO Mr.. Boone
to persuade him to let up on the joints and
limited THAT if he did not he would lose his
political scalp.
The following is the letter of Mr.. Boone
to General Little.
WICHITA Kan, Sept. &c. 1894.
Hon. John t. Little. Attorney General, Topeka,
Kan.
My DEAR SIR:-Owing to the fact that
affairs are in a very chaotic state here in
Wichita, deem it my official duty to lay
n few facts b-fore you as my superior
officer and official adviser, and ask your
advice in the premises
BY reason of your being the official adj
wiser of Governor Lewelling, and the mat.
tiers to which i desire to refer coming
nnder the supervision of the attorney gen.
oral and GOVERNOR will speak through
you to the governor. 10 order to get
the matter / desire to present for your
consideration fully before you. it will
be necessary for me to go Jack to May.
1893 and relate the conversation / had
with yourself and Governor Lewelling in
reference to certain iDiunctions which had
been placed on certain joints in this city.
Governor LewelliDg said TO me at that
time that il was the policy OF his admins
tration to close all the joints over the
state, but that the move had been made
down at Wichita before he was quite
ready. Upon the same day you will re-
member had a consultation with your
self, in which l stated in substance that
when evidence was brought to me as
county attorney against the joints that
had no alternative but to act, and be-
lieved it to be my solemn duty. under my
official oath, and you approved of my posi-
ton in the matter.
WHERE LEwELLING CRAw-FISHED.
After this conversation with you | had
another conversation with Governor Lew
cling, at Hotel Chesterfield, in which
tbe governor said in substance "While
The first step towards closing the joints in
Wichita was taken sooner than he intend
ed, vet it was the policy of his administra-
tion, and that then was as good time as
any to move. The governor further said,
You go back to Wichita, call the Board
Of Police Commissioners together; and tell
them it is my wish, my desire and my in
structions through you for them to do
everything in their power and 10 assist
you in every way possible to sup
press the liquor traffic in Wichita.
The governor further said he would write
the board of police commissioners an
official letter confirming his instructions
TO them through me. When l arrived
home from Topeka | found that Mr.. Dixon.
chairman of the board Of police commits
sioners, and Chief of Police Cone had gone
20 Topeka. / waited until their return, at
which time Mr.. Dixon presented me- with
The following letter from Governor Jewell
ing, towit:
TOPEKA, Kan, May :, '93.
swilla,d Boone County Attorney, Wichita Kan.
"DEAR SIR: Upon reflection l am con-
Tinced that whatever is done by you which