The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-07
TIGER BILL FOUND
he TUBNS UP BUT HIS DUPES ARE
NOT AT ALL PLEASED.

Law and Order League Cannot Understand
why They Should be Kept in the Dark
some of the Most Prominent Citizens
Identified With that Organization are
Coming Out on the Side OF Wichita
They Now Declare that the Eagle i,
flight when it Places the Interests OF
Tiger Bill came up to the court house
yesterday morning, wearing a long
cutaway coat and a white shirt and
even Colonel Sam Amidon and Charley
Luling at first sight failed to recog-
niZe him.
He said he would not go to Topeka to
argue the Massey habeas corpus case
but he did and that was what caused
the alarm among the law and order
leaders yesterday. He had suddenly
departed without reporting to them.
These leaders of the law and order
league are unable to understand why
Tiger Bill should refuse to give them
all the inside secrets of his liquor pros
ecutions and their kicking is every
day becoming more pronounced and a
little bit louder.
Tiger Bill is willing to wager any
amount that he Will win his case be-
fore the supreme court because it has
onmore than one occasion been announ
ced that its policy will be to uphold the
prohibftory liquor law.
Il is these side fights, however, that
Is wearing on the patience of the as
sistant attorney general. He has la
bored days and days on this citizens
club case and has never yet got in a
Highlander on the club. He is being
worn out and exhausted in these pre-
liminary skirmishes.
Tiger Bill was highly indignant when
he came from Topeka and found that
another habeas corpus had been sprung
on him in the Con Kelliher case. He
growled viciously and the glare in his
eyes said beware of me 1 am king of the
jungles
He will be compelled to appear in the
district court again at nine o'clock
this morning and answer the argument
in the Kelleher habeas corpus case and
there is no knowing how or when 1t
will terminate, but in any event it will
be taken to the supreme court and will
have TO be fought over again there
1t is not strange that the prohibs are
becoming disguised with these prelim-
mary skirmishes.
They see that court expenses are daily
being piled up which the taxpayers
must eventually pay and at the same
time the joint keeper pursues the even
tffenor of his way and sells his liquors
and pays nothing to the city.
a prominent prohibitionist and who
is also taxpayer said yesterday thai
he was opposed to the liquor traffic but
that he had become thoroughly con-
WINGED that Wichita and Sedgwick
county We're the only parties injured
by this fight and that it reminded him
OF the man who burned up his barn to
destroy the rats. He said the barn
burned up but the rats crowded out
and went to another barn.
Then he explained his parable to mean
that we could destroy Wichita's bust
ness interests by this fight and that
come other town would build up and
inherit the trade that we had foolishly
thrown away and then the liquor men
would leave Wichita with their whole
sale houses and the retailers would
with their fine fixtures all emigrate to
the new business center.
Such talk is now heard every day
and a good many of the men who at
tended the good citizens meetings are
taking occasion to remark that the
Eagle is right in lacing the business
interests and prosperity Of Wichita
above either prohibition or politics,
and three members of the law and or
der league within a week have come
personally to the editor of the Eagle
and made such statements in the most
emphatic language a their command
The first distinguished characters
tic of the Wichita man is his loyalty
10 his city and these threats by recent
impoTtations to make the taxpayers
sick has aroused Wichita patriotism to
the highest pitch. The loyal people
know that a threat against the tax
payers is a thrust at every home and
business interest in Wichita and they