The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-06

the convention. Dan Anthony, who is
| always stirring up a muss. got a
| chance to whack everybody ana Is
supremely happy He plunked Gov
ernor Morrill,, the convention, the Re-
submissionists and the ProhiDitionists.
Last Sundays Leavenworth Times
contained dispatch from the topeka
correspondent of that paper telling
/ about an interview between Rev. j. B.
McAfee and Governor Morrill, at which
arrangements were made for captur-
| ing today's temperance convention in
the interest of the Morrill, administra-
ton.
Rev. Mr.. Mcfee wrote a letter to d.
r Anthony. editor OF the Times, de-
nying the story and he received a let
ter from Colonel Anthony:
The letter from Colonel Anthony to
Rev. Mr.. Afee was as follows:
Leavenworth, Kan. July 2. 1895.
j. p. McAfee.
My Dear Friend-Yours OF yesterday
received. You deny the interview
with Morrill, so far as personal men
respondent may err in statement Of
what occurred a, a private meeting,
you cannot fail 10 see that II am
possessed of ordinary sense, the main
assertion made by him was true. There
was a meeting between you and Mr..
Morrill, about the meeting and you
talked over what was 10 be done. The
main facts stated by him are then
true; you not only had the meeting.
but Morrill, was invited to be present
and speak, defend himself, while Muir
dock, Martin, Felt, Anthony and a
host of others who nave made the
charges direct that Morrill, comprom-
Used and pledged his official action to
protect the joint system, and in con-
nf
blers, the policy shops. the Democrats
and liquor interests supported Morrill,
at the primary meetings and at the
election.
None OF these men were invited. In
fact the meeting seems TO be gotten as
a close corporation, managed (by King
Cy in fact in the interest of the ad-
ministration. in just the same way
that these meetings have been manag-
ed and controlled during the past ten
years. They are simply tender 10
the Morrill, gang
You know, and I know, that there
has not been d state administrator
which honestly tried to enforce the
prohibition law during the past ten
years. Nor has there been a temper
ance convention in that time which
has not been used to bolster the n.y.
pocrisy of the fellows who merely use
the law to elevate them into office.
So you see the article is not wholly
false, but it is in fact true. The con-
vention don't want the facts; they
don't try to get the truth, and they
don't seem to want the turth.
You say you wish a few men like me
would try and enforce the law in
Leavenworth. Don't you remember
the time when did try? l tried TO do
this when l was handicapped by ma
jority 1.-TWO church members, one Pres
byterian and one Methodist0 who as
sessed fines and gave protection to
joints, in order to pay the police. who
hadn't the courage to do it.
Do you remember that ! was remov-
ed by a governor because / insisted on
enforcing the law, without protest
from you or the temperance conven-
ton. Instead OF protests, you nearly
all OF you voted to re-elect that stupid,
double-dealing hypocrite governor.
Not only this you know, but Cow
ernor Morrill, has appointed metro
politan police commissioners in many
of the large cities of Kansas, in COM
pliance with his agreements, who were
unfit, and were so appoint
ed, with the express Understanding
that they were simply to assess fines
on joints, and they have been obeying
administration orders TO the letter for