Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-01-17

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war of the governor of the state upon
the gamblers commenced. In all pre-
ceding state administrations gambling
had been practically licensed and pro-
! tected by the police. No vigorous war
mas ever been waged against gambling
by any governor Of the state or fire
and police boad. The present governor
found Messrs. Orr and Martin guilty of
malfeasance in Office in protecting in
stead of prohibiting the gambling
houses of the city and removed them
according to law. The officers so re-
moved refused to vacate their offices,
in the interest Of the gamblers arose
in instruction and by aid of the
sherif's Office took illegal and armed
possession of the city hall. A district
court, in the interest of the gamblers,
enjoined the governor from the exer-
else of his constitutional rights. The
issue was sharply defined between the
gamblers and the governor, who called
out the militia Of the state to suppress
insurrection. Now where was the
clergy of Denver, the Y; NJ. G,
A., the w. G T. U. and the
prohibitionists in this fight? They
were dead against the governor. The
exceptions are so small and insignifi-
can't as to be unworthy of notice. The
wealth and aristocracy of the city was
unit against the governor In many
of the churches of Denver the elders
and trustees actually voted down
motion to indorse the action Of the
police board. Even the most promi-
nent and influential members of the
Peoples party assembled themselves
together, called the governor before
them, and implored him to withdraw
his demand that his last appointees
should take possession of the city hall,
which was their legal right, and con-
sent that the matter should be left for
the decision Of the various courts, which
practically meant that Orr and Martin
should continue in Office and the gam
bling houses remain open. All this
pressure was resisted by the governor,
who commended that Orr and Martin
had no legal authority after they were
removed, and that the control of the
police belonged to Mullins, Barns and
Rogers. The Supreme court of the
state, in its final decision, declared the
possession of Orr and Martin illegal,
and ordered them to vaeate in favor of
Mullins and Barnes, who were de-
clared entitled to legal possession, and
thus the Supreme court sustained the
right of the governor to enforce the
law.
but the governor, the fire and
police board and the chief of police
stood alone. The saints, the pious
women and the prohibitionists, who
had for years been praying for the
suppression of gambling houses and
tipping houses, had no words of en-
enlargement for those who had estab-
lished reform. In the hard fight the
governor had been compelled to make
in the courts, and by resort to his
constitutional rights as commander-in-
chief of the state militia, the entire re-
ligious sentiment of the city acting in
harmony with the gamblers and lewu
women, had denounced the state ex-
ecutiEe as an anarchist, usurper and
tyrant-
THAT the republicans in Denver
were III league with the gamblers and
lewd women is .indisputable. Aside
from the statement of the gamblers
themselves, who tell the amounts they
contributed, and the number of votes
they eolOnized, is,the fact that large
peeuniary offers were made to the
Peoples party to let up on the gam
blers, and the further fact that the
gamblers have always demanded and
received consideration for their
votes. When the republican press and
preachers preached continually that the
Populist state administration had in !
iured the business of the state, and the
only business injured was the gambling
halls and houses of i'll fame, when the
county republican ticket was nomi-
mated in the interest of these injured /
classes, who were induced to vote the
republican ticket on the promise that
their injuries should be redressed, it is
rather late in the day, after the con-
sideration has been fully paid, for the
to now maintain that the ar
made with their political
,o-labOrers and bosom friends-the
gamblers and lewd women-is off
Even |, who have had no small exper-
enee as the subject of personal and
political ingra6ftude, stand appalled, at
iuch heartliness. But / do not think
he g. q. p will .betray its allies The
anne sweet city council who refused to
Use funds OF the city already in the
reasury for public improvements, be-