The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-10-05
ANOTHER BOMB.
It Is Fired Into the Populist Camp
by Judge Hadley.
How Joints and Gambling Houses Are Run
In Kansas City, Kan. in Open Viola
tion of Law-Rottenness
Exposed.

Judge D. B. Hadley, of Kansas City,
Kan, who has been known as an act
i've supporter of the populist party in
Kansas, some time ago addressed an
open letter to Chairman Breidenthal,
in which he shows up the shortcomings
of the present populist state admins
tration. The letter is dated Kansas
City, Kan, and is as follows:
'In your recent interview with the
Times reporter at Topeka you are re-
ported as saying that such statements
as Ben Henderson, as well as others,
have made concerning the boodleism
and dishonesty of the present state adj
ministration, are destitute of proof,
and that up to date no proof of the
truth of these charges has come to
your knowledge.
well, let us see moment about
that. Do you remember about a GER
tain prosecution for libel against J. A.
Smith in this county, in which you
were a witness for the state, wherein
you testified that you told Smith that
in 1898, just after the election, when
the campaign had closed, Police Judge
King and Chief Quarles, of this city,
were in Topeka together, were seen by
you to walk up the capitol steps in
company. when Chief Quarles called
you into the hall, and offered you, as
chairman of the state committee, some
money for campaign purposes?
ibid you not also hear the testimony
on that trial of Hon. j. +. Legate, Mr..
Hopkins and ]. A. Smith, who all
swore that you stated to them that
said sum of money so offered by
Quarles was $500? And did you not
money, but deny the amount? And
when the letter of Smith, charging
that the money SO offered was
to obtain your influence with the gov
ernor to prevent their removal, was
produced in evidence to the jury, and
the writing admitted by Smiths coun-
sci, did not the jury render verdict
in favor of the defendant, thus stamp
ing the letter as true?
"You certainly knew the governor
had made up his mind to remove those
commissioners at that time. Just at
that time King and Quarles appeared
on the scene, this offer of Doodle was
made, and those police commissioners
have never been removed to this day,
but are still perjuring themselves by
refusing to comply with their oaths, in
which they swore they would enforce
the laws of the land.
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knowledge that numerous persons
from this city have written the gov
ernor, and have gone to Topeka per-
sonally and informed him that these
same commissioners have perjured
themselves by refusing to have the
joint keepers, lottery agents, pool sell
lers and gamblers prosecuted for their
crimes. And yet he paid no heed to
their cutlery.
''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. p. and gone it about ten BETTER" |
went to the governor at Topeka to APP
peal to him to make a change in orr
police department. But the governor
was away and l did not see him. did
not go up there as prOhibitionist, for
| never was, nor am | now a prohibit
zionist. | went up there purely as a
humanitarian. l said to Attorney
General Little at that visit that my
mission was purely to suppress the
cause of the numerous murders which
had been committed of late in Wyan-
dotte county; that during my residence
here of about thirty-five years more
than 600 murders have been committed
in this county, and they are still going
on; that the cause of many of those
murders was the most poisonous kinds
of beverages sold our citizens here at
the joints: that as soon as men put such
drinks into their stomachs murder is
melted in their hearts, and they forth
with kill somebody.
I'm that interview 1 fully stated to
Mr.. Little the shortcomings of the po-
lice department here, placed the cause
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 as agreed, and right
then l discovered that to pursue my
policy would kill the goose that was
laying the golden eggs. For that very
reason l came to the conclusion that
neither the governor nor the attorney
general would do anything that would
stop that goose from laying those
golden eggs.
''Inasmuch as more than a year has
elapsed since that, and the goose keeps
right on laying golden eggs, undis-
turbed by those gentlemen, it proves
that my conclusion then reached was
correct. They have only four months
yet remaining to pursue their policy
for campaign funds and then their
kind will be remorselessly shut off.
For there is divinity that shapes our
ends etc.
Rev. j. G. Dougherty says there are
146 joints in this city. We 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 fine is for license to run
a joint for a month. This costs the
joint 5000 year. Multiply 146 joints
by 5000 and you have Ss7,6O The pool
rooms, policy shops, lottery sellers
and gamblers are fined each 500 per
month, all of which we see reported in
the daily papers from time to time.
At a moderate estimate this should in
crease the sum to 800, 900 received into
the police department of this city as a
full consideration for violating the
laws OF the land. The cost of the po-
lice department is $4,000 annually.
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