The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-12

ers have perjured themselves by refus-
ing to have the jont-keepers. lottery
agents. pool sellers and gamblers prose-
cuted for their crimes. And yet he paid
no heed to their outcrv.
As early as July 1. 1898. seeing that
our reform party. in the first six months
of its administration of the police de-
! partment of this city, had ''seen the g.
o. D. gone it about ten better" I went
to the Governors Office at Topeka to
appeal to him TO make a change in our
police department. But the Governor
was away and did not see him. / did
not go up there as a Prohibitionist, for
! l never was, nor am I now, Prohibi-
ZIONIST. 1 went up there purely as
| humanitarian. / said to Attorney Gen.
eral Little at that visit that nv mission
was purely to suppress the cause of the
numerous murders which had been CON-
mitted of late in Wvandotte county,
that during my residence here Of over
thirty-fve years more than 600 murders
had been committed in this county. and
they were still going on; that the cause
of many of those murders was the most
poisonous kind OF beverages sold our
citizens here at the joints; that as soon
as men put such drinks into their stom-
achs they melted murder in their hearts,
and they forthwith killed SOM one.
In that interview I fully stated to Mr..
Little the shortcomings OF the police
department here, placed the cause OF the
same at the feet of Gov. Lewelling- and
begged Mr.. Little to do something in
the line of stamping out ut least some
of the low-down joints Of this city. He
took full notes of my information. and
said he would come down here inside OF
a week and look into the charges. He
did not come rs agreed, and right then
I discovered that to pursue my policy
would kill the goose that was laying
their golden eggs. For that very reason
/ came to the conclusion that neither
the Governor nor Attorney General
would do anything that would stop
that goose from laying golden eggs.
And, inasmuch as more than year
has elapsed since that, and the goose
keeps ri ght on laying golden eggs, un-
disturbed by those gentlemen, it proves
nv conclusion then reached was correct.
They have four months remaining to
pursue their policy for campaign
funds" and then their kind will be for
ever remorselessly shut of. For is
there not a divinity that shapes our
ends" etc.
Rev. ]. G. Dougherty says there are
146 joints in this city. We all see in
the daily report of the police court here
that the Joint keepers are fined $50 each
and the daily history of this city tells us
| that that fine is for a license to run q
Joint for month. This costs one joint
$500 per year. Multiply 146 joints by
$500 and you have $4,000. The pool
rooms, policy shops, lottery sellers and
gamblers are fined per month 500 each,
all of which we see reported in the daily
| papers from time to time. At modsr
ate estimate this should increase the
sum to 500, 000 received into the police
department of this city as full con-
slider ton for violating the laws OF the
land. The cost of the police depart
ment is $4,000 annually.
Is this complying with the oaths
taken by the governor, attorney general
and police commissioners when they
! we're sworn into Office? If not then the
scale pastered oyer your vision by
campaign funds" must be exceedingly
thick.
/ beg to say in conclusion that every
party man has a God given right to
scratch the name of any candidate on
| his party ticket when that candidate is a
criminal. You know that when man
violates his oath OF Office he is perjurer,
and when a mau aids and abets another
in the commission of a crime, he is
styled in law particeps criminis with
the principal in the crime. You know
that the police commissioners of this CITY
have carried out the wishes Of the
governor and attorney general. and if
| they had not done so they would have
been removed as soon as their disobedi-
ence was discovered. Therefore, it fol-
lows that those two officials are not only
periurers, but they are guilty OF being
particeps criminis in all murders which
have been perpetrated here by the intiu-
ence of these vile and poisonous bever-
ages sold in the joints under the policy
fostered by theyn Of keeping the goose
laying the golden egg.
Let the Governor pursue nepotism, az
he has by requiring the police depart
ment to employ his sister as police ma
tron, and his nephew as police sergeant,
and will not indite a word for publi-
cation; neither will on account OF the
dollar and cent matters involved in the
lottery Offices, pool rooms or gambling
halls; but when it comes to the sacrifice
OF human life, melted by muyderous
beverages sold in joints, then I have
right to draw the line, and to scratch
the names of the criminals which my
party has been foolish enough to nomi-
nate. Within one week after my return
In July, 1898. three murders were per-
pc trated in this CITY. A German. who
lives on Split.og's Hill, had been in the
habit OF lying in joints for about wear.
and his wife mutilated him wilma razor,
and he bled to death. Two days later Little
shot johnson through the heart in front
OF joint on Minnesota avenue, and he
dropped dead on the sidewalk. Three
days later Bunk, joint-keeper on
Third street, met his bartender IN the
yard at his residence and shot him to
death on the spot. Numerous murders
have been perpetrated in this city from
that day to this, which would not have
been If our reform" administration had
not perjured themselves and become
particeps criminis in those murders.
A bold and vigorous enforcement OF
law hero would have prevented many
OF these murders. Do YOU see any
proof in these statements of facts, Mr..