The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-25
FALSE TO THE LAW.
Ex-Governor st. John Talks of
Prohibition in Kansas.
Says It Has Suffered Much from
Republican Treachery.
PARTY Is MUZZLED.
It's General Plan is to Destroy
the Law.
PARTY Is MUZZLED.
The Conditions in Iowa and
Kansas Are Compared.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Oct. 25.-Ex- Gov.
John P. ST. John of Kansas, who has
been on speaking tour in this state was
seen here by reporter and talked at
length on his favorite subject prohibit
ton. divorced if possible from the
political scoundrelism and trickery of the
age and considered independent Of other
propositions, said Governor st. John, 81
feel positive that the present mulct law
in Iowa would be moved under by So
900, state wide prohibition at once en-
acted in its stead, and behind it would be
a sentiment that would render the open
rebellions that existed for years in such
towns as Davenport and Dubuque an i'm
possibility.
4"In Kansas the law is suffering
through Republican treachery, but the
sentiment of the people is surely and
certainly growing more and more in fav-
or of the prohibitory law that we now
have on the statute books-the best one
in the United States-and each year finds
greater uuanimity of the people in its
support,
In Olathe, where live, there are
thirteen churches and there has not been
a saloon in sixteen years; as conse-
Quence we do not have half dozen
drunkards in the county. Iowa says
the saloons are running wide open
in Kansas and cites Fort Scott as
sampler. yet only the other day the
press dispatches told of two men who in
an effort to get drink there climbed
ladder to d second story window. fell
down the elevator shaft in the dark and
bruised themselves up. That is about
fair sample of the way saloons are wide
open in kanaas-'wide open indeed
when a man breaks his neck for drink!
THE republican party is muzzled
there somewhat as it is in Iowa, and it
cannot do altogether as itswould. 1t is its
general plan to break down prohibition
aud utterly destroy it,"
Turning to national affairs, Governor
St. John was asked his opinion of the
! apparently aggressive silence of Gene
raj Harrison on the question of the pre-
s:dency and the prospects Of Allison and
other candidates.
Quay is the finest politician in the
United States" he replied. she knows
thoroughly the art of keeping his mouth
shut and saving wood That is
strong point of Harrison's. If it
wasn't for his tariff bill l have not
the slightest doubt that Governor McKin-
ley of Ohio would be the nominee OF the
Republicans for president by acclama-
ton; and he may be able to overcome
even that and secure the nomination.
But the trend of the people is undenia-
| bly, and surely away from a high tariff
and the idea of absolute free trade was
never so strong in the country as it is to-
day.
"McKlnley is a very clever gentleman
| and is not strung up by other
matters. From personal acquaint-
anoe, knowing him to be one
of the finest fence strad-
dlers in the United States, l am sure he
would have no trouble in any other di-
rection. But I think the bill will be too
much for him to overcome.
ALLISON and Harrison are silent; they
steadily refuse to define their exact posi-
ton; and that is the strongest point in
the candidacy of each for the nomina-
ton. If they maintain their present at
titude, they each have good chances"