The People's friend., 1894-09-28
ANOTHER BoMt
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 III
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 we'll as others,
have made concerning the boodlelsm
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 a moment about
that. Do you remember about GER
tain prosecution for libel against j. A.
Smith in this county, in which you
were 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?
did you not also hear the testimony
on that trial of Hon. J. f. Legate, Mr..
Hopkins and J. A. Smith, who all
swore that you stated to them that
said sum of money so offered by
Quarles was So. 800? And did you not
admit the fact of the offer of the
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 al
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, II
which they swore they would enforce
the laws of the land.
again. you know of your owl
ul tpowledge that numerous persons
h.. handie Ha, Exsrsss city h7 O. written the Gov
4Os Fort. Worth Gal. n
Ess5Ga EsBqsss $ Texas s'nr'sn so 500 N
~ eassss prss,ners g gls y stop. ss
themselves by refusing to have 81
Joint keepers, lottery agents: pool se1i-
lers and gamblers prosecuted for tn9ir
crimes. And yet he paid no heed TO
their outcry.
"As early as July /, 1898, seeing that
our reform party, in the first SIX mohtns
of it's administration of the police oe-
partment of this city, had seen the z,
q. n. and gone it about ten better L
went to the governor at Topeka TO aP-
neal to him to make a change In onr
nolice department. But the governor
was away and did not see MN. olo
not 90 up there as prohlblt1ohlS.' loi
never was. nor am | now a prohlpl-
ZIONIST. | went up there purely as
humanitarian. | said to Attorney
General Little at that visit that my
mission was purely to suppress .ne
cause of the numerous murders Whicn
had been committed of late IN Wyah-
dotte county; that during my resloenoo
here of about thirtyfive years more
than GOO murders have been CONN 0.0N
in this county, and they are sOiir so s3to
on. that the cause OF many "
murders was the most poisonous Ni"u
of beverages sold our cltlzehS i'eio a.
tho Joints: that as soon as men puU '"0
S-:9re into their stomachs murder IS
...4 =, their hearts, and they forth
with kill somebody e.,,,,s+ s+a+oa 70
;++1e the shortcomings of the po-
,;aa donartnent here, placed the cause
49, faet of Gov. Lewelling, and
,o.o.ad Mr.. Little to do something in
.ne e line of stamping out at least some
- +be low-down joints of this city. He
oaol1 =, " 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
tben I discovered that to pursue my
nol;cv would kill the goose that was
iaving the golden eggs. For that very
reason I came to the conclusion that
neither the Cover ior nor the attorney-
general would do anything that would
stop that goose from laying those
| golden eggs b.,
"Inasmuch as more than year mas
elapsed since that, and the goose keeps
right on laying golden eggs nnols
. trrbed by those gentlemen IL proves
: that my conclusion then .reacheu wa
: correct. They have only four nohch
vet remaining to pursue tnelr poIc,
:. for campaign funds and 'ilen 'her
lind will be remorselessly shut OIL
For there is divinity that shapes ou
ends etc.
S ..Pav I G. Doueherty says there ar
,4e io;n+s in this city. We see in tn
:. da;ir renort of the police court her
It that the Joint keepers are lined -
r aaab s and the daily history of this cit
e % tans ms that fine is for license to ru
e ;o;n+ for a month. This costs tn
}" q S4 Jon eeoo wear. Multiply 146 joint
2 }es 10 esoo and yon have s87.6oo. The poo
o rooms, r3 ms police shops lottery seller
It - Ia rsmblers are fined each 800 pc
on 11.of which we see renOrted