Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-06

no heed to their outcry.
As early as July /, 1898, seeing thn@
our reform party, in the first sir months
of its administration of the polics d.
partment of this city, had ''seen the p
O. p gone it about ten better" wsnt
to the Governors Office at Topeka t&
appeal to him to make change in our
police department. But the GoveEnCw
was away and did not see him. I did
not go up there as a Prohibitionisk. fcw
I never was, nor am now, Prohibf-
ZIONIST I went up there purely ~ q
humanitarian. said to Attorney Gem
eral Little at that visit that nv missions
was purely to suppress the cause OF tha
numerous murders which had been COM
mitted of late in Wyandotte county,
that during my residence hero 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 moaeE
poisonous kind of beverages sold OuN
citizens here at the joints; that as sooA
as men put such drinks into their stom<
achs they melted murder in their heartss
and they forthwith killed some one.
In that interview fully stated to Mn
Little the shortcomings OF the polic@r
department here, placed the cause OF tho
same at the feet of Gov. Lewelling, and
begged Mr. Little to do something In.
the line of stamping out at 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 ths@
I discovered that TO pursue my policy
would kill the goose that was laying
their golden eggs. For that very reason
1 came to the conclusion that neithaK
the Governor nor Attorney General
would do anything that would stop
that goose from laying golden eggs.
And, inasmuch as moro than . year
has elapsed since that, and the goose
keeps right on laying golden eggs. un-
disturbed by those gentlemen, it proves
my conclusion then reached was correct
They have four months remaining t@t
pursue their policy for ''campaigR
funds" and then their kind will be for.
ever remorselessly shut of. For -
there not a divinity that shapes Gun
ends" etc.
IbSNs - OOUouCIIy OA4oNO ~
LAG Joints in this city. We all see in
the daily report Of the police court hero
that the joint keepers are fined $50 each
and the daily history Of this city tails us
that that fine is for a license to run q
Joint for month. This costs one joint
5000 per year. Multiply 146 jolnts 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 q modar-
ate estimate this should increase thu
sum to 100000 received into the polics
department of this city as a full con-
alteration for violating the laws OF tbs
land The cost of the police depart
ment is $4,000 annually.
Is this complying with the Oatha
taken by the governor, attorney general
and police commissioners when they
were sworn into Office? If not then the
scale plastered over your vision by
campaign funds must be exceedingly
thick
1 beg to say in conclusion that every
party man has God-given right to
scratch the name of any candidats On
his party ticket when that candidate is&
criminal. You know that when q mAai
violates his oath of Office he is perjureE,
and when a man aids and abets another
in the commission of a crime. he In
styled in law a 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 II
they had not done SO they would have
been removed as soon as their disobSdf-
ence was discovered. Therefore, it fol-
lows that those two officials are not only
periurers, but they are guilty Of bStnG
particeps criminis in all murders which
have been perpetrated here by the india
ence Of these vile and poisonous bsvsr-
ages sold in the joints under the policy
fostered by them of keeping the goose
laying the golden egg.
Let the Governor pursue nepotism, -
he has by requiring the police depart
ment to employ his sister as police NM
tron, and his nephew as police sergeant
and / will not indite q word for publ
cation; neither will on account Of thG
dollar and cent matters involved in ths
AO0GOAy OAAOC0J pun AOOAAo "a Bo00AAA-tA
halls; but when it comes to the Sacrifices
of human life, melted by murderOus
beverages sold in joints, then / have .
right to draw the line, and to scratch
the names of the criminals which my
party has been foolish enough to nouat-
nate. Within one week after my return
N July, 1898, three murders were per-
pc trated in this city. A German, who
lives on Splitlog's Hill. had been in the
habit of lying in joints for about year.
and his wife mutilated him witha razor.
and he bled to death. Two days later Little
shot johnson through the heart in frcnt
of joint on Minnesota avenue, and h@
dropped dead on the sidewalk. Three
days later Bunk, joint-kesper On
Third street, met his bartender in tia
yard at his residence and shot him t@
death on the spot. Numerous murders
have been perpetrated in this city from
that day to this, which would not have
been il our reform" administration hs4
not perjured themselves and becOm0
particeps criminis in these murderA
A bold and vigorous enforcement 81
law here would have prevented many
of these murders. Do you seo amy
proof in these statements Of facts. Ma
BreidenthaI? DANIEL B. HADLlEx
Hannah Kenzie. an inmate Of the h.