The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-29
BETTER RESIGN. GENTLEMEN.
The demonstration. made by I

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| the substatial citizens of Wichita. after
= virulent fizzle have flashed in the
nan. The test showed a want Of con-
fidence upon the part of the people,
and if the superserviceable appointee
| of Dawes, who won his commission by
a fanatical speech at the Auditorium
| in which he cast imputations upon men
as good as himself, has proper ap-
| probation of his present ridiculous
position and questionable dilemma, he
| would resign. If that police commits
sion, whose appointment was secured
by bold Misrepresentation OF the
facts, and a total belieing OF the con-
victions of this community. had any
self-respect. or if they did not hold
their salaries to be of more account
than either principle or regulations,
they would resign also.
What they will DO next, heaven
only knows, farther than they will all
try to hold ON to the teat which they
get through pulling the wool over
weak governors eyes. Morrill, knew
just what happened to the Republican
party and to Wichita under precisely
the some conditions in the admins
trations Of Martin and Humphrey. He
was even furnished with the names
of the men who had misled these gov
ernors under false pretenses, and they
were the same, with the addition of a
few individuals, new to the city, who
persuaded him to repudiate his own
deliberate action in this instance.
Having made farce to the forms Of
Justice, added to the expenses and
burthens Of the taxpayers, driven sew
eral business men from the city, emp
tied store rooms and paralyzed trade
to a degree Of universal discomfort,
with half of the trades-people in town
despairing and the other half threaten
ing to abandon the work and accumu-
lations of years, this commission, and
its attorney, in failing to resign will
be compelled to do something. Their
predicament being a desperate one,
resting under the condemnation OF
eight citizens out Of every ten, they
VIII be compelled to do something.
They can bounce the police judge
wno has just been nominated to the
higheSc Eon)r Known to the County hy
tno Republican party. because he
would not stuItify himself by running
counter 10 plain rule of criminal
procedure, hut they won't resign. If
asked by an overwhelming petition of
tie people 20 dc SO they would cali to-
ge5her their little secret caucus oryar-
iZation and resolve that being better
Than ary and everybody else, they
mus. lcld on though every Interest," of
the community was shipwrecked. They
might discharge few more old sol
dierS from the police force, under the
claim that they were subborned, or
that being appointed by the former
board they are a set of whisky buns
They might kick out the present city
marshal and put on the force the man
who in that position formerly became
stencil in. the estimation of right
minded and honest men. They might
ask for a new attorney general in the
soldbug person Of the gentleman who
did more than anybody else TO burst
the old commission in whom every
body had confidence, and to have ap-
pointed, in their place men whom no.
body knows nor for whom anybody
cares, men having no interest in the
town, in its present or in it's future
equalling the interest they have in the
salaries which they draw as the ap-
pointtees Of governor who if he ever
had q mind of his own could never
have discovered il, even to his own
satisfaction.
With only three peremptory chal-
lenges remaining to jury from which
no hope of conviction could be ex-
pected, Mr.. Dawes man. he of the
stiff upper lip. throw up his hands in 4
feint Of disgust realizing that he and
his crowd were impotent confronted as
they were by an overwhelming senti-
ment so strong as to force a resort to
the country to find a jury, and of
course there must not only something
be done but excuses and explanations
will have TO be made. These excuses
will fall upon unheeding ears. Judge
Hatton will be sustained in that rul-
ing by every fair-minded man in the
county, as he will be by the bar. The
would-be juror simply acknowledged
under oath that his mind was already
made up as to the charge that certain
persons were selling liquors contrary
TO law, and no court could have per-
mitted him 10 remain on the jury.
So after all the whole matter re-
solves itself back TO the proposition of
majority and a minority rule. 10 the
question of shall mere contingent or
small minority. failing to rule. drive
the great majority away from the city.
and leave il 10 the limitations ana
expectations OF a country town: its
wholesalers sent 10 Kansas City: its
retailers scattered; its people and lis
ambitions, flown
voX PoPULI, voX DEL.
The cause of the people cannot fail