The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-22
Decial Dispatch to the DAILY Eagle.

Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. A.-It has been
many a day, even as spectacular as Kansas
has been, since a brother turned against
his own blood aud attacked it as Tom Bot
kin of Galena has attacked, and fiayed his
brother. Rev. J. d. Botkin, for his foI
from the Prohibition parry to the Popu'
lists.
Tom Botkin is Rev. BOtkin's brother aud
the charges that the reverend gentleman
had been paid $500 for Populistic speeches
TO be delivered in the coming campaign
Las ranked deep in his breast. The neat
way in which Tom pricks his Ministerial
kin is the talk Of the state. Tom Botkin
says:
My brother has been preaching The Cos
pei Tor about twenty-three years. During
all that time he has wagei an unceasiug
warfare on the liquor traffic. So earnest
aud Conscientious has been his fight
against 1 ne rum power that several years
ago he left the Republican party, because
he claimed it was standing in with the
whisky business, and Joined tue Prohibi-
ton party, as | believe from high moral
grounds and pure motives. | have always
admired his manly stand against the evils
OF lntemperance and the encroAchments OF
when read his letter to State Treasurer
Biddle announcing his entry Into the Pop
ulist camp.
Il did not believe he would take the
stump in favor OF a party so VIGOROUSLY
opposed to the cause of temperance ana
the enforcement of the prohibitOry law
as the PopUlist party in Kansas. | did
not believe that be would ever utter
word III aid OF the reelection of Attorney
General Little after reading, as he must
have done, that officials letter TO the
county attorneys OF the state, advising the
nou-enforcement of the prohibitory law.
l did not believe he would lift his voice
IN favor of Lewellng, who stands con
vlcted before the people of Kansas of re-
celvlng brides from the lottery gamblers
and whisky sellers of Kansas City, Kan.
| did not believe he would support the
present state administration, which has
nurtured aud foStered with such parental
care tue lottery Interests and whisky
joints OF the state. l did not believe that
with his splendid record for temperance
and his almost religious hatred OF the
whisky business he could ever be induced
to enter campaign, the expenses of which
are paid with a slush fund raised by levy
ing tribute on whisky joints. lottery
gamblers, prostitutes and other violators
of law and common decency.
My brother certainly knows that the
prohloitory laws of the state have never
been so openly and VIGOROUSLY violated in
the history Of prohibition as during the
present administration, and that, too,
with the expressed sanction of the admin
is,ratlon. He also knows that under the
fostering anu fatherly care of Lewelling,
ct al, the lottery business has grown and
hOurlshed until Louisiana no longer rivals
Kansas IN lottery gambling To say
nothing about their utter disregard of all
other laws and the constitution as well, |
was surprised that in the face of their un-
sayory record as the friends of gamblers
and whisky sellers he should lend his
voice and influence in aid of such rotten
outfit
But perhaps l am deficient in matters
of theology my brother is ignorant of
political fairs, and perhaps my conscience
Is not SO flexible as his"