The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-28
GOV. MORRILL, INTERVIEWED.

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terday morning, tells us that Governor
| Morrill, is about to submit to an in
| terview for the Kansas City Times, in
/ which he will announce that he has
| arrived at the conclusion that prohibi-
| ton is failure He will further give
! his reasons why the license system and
saloons are not the thing, and then de-
! clare for the South Carolina dispensary
system, which makes the state part
ner in the traffic. There is little conf
dence to be put in the governors utter
ances. in the Kansas City Times or
elsewhere, especially when it comes to
the liquor question. He is, and has
been. between the devil and the deep
sea ever since lie declared in his in
augural that the prohibition law was
a species of enactment that could not
be satisfactorily enforced in such com
munities as where public sentiment is
opposed to it. Having uttered Il truth
which fourteen years had continuously
demonstrated he set about the self-im-
posed task Of determining what par
ticular communities in the state were
opposed TO the enforcement of the law
and the ones that were not. His eX-
cellency seems n splendid hypnotic sub
ject, taking most readily to sugges-
tons, generally to the last one made,
and it seemingly makes little difference
whence it comes. Unfortunately for
Wichita old Dick Wake made it plain
that there was at least one place where
the sentiment was all right and that a
vigorous effort upon the part of the
governor and his attorney general
would be rewarded with grand results
for the Republican party, which had
elected them, not only, but in making
the demonstration he would win the
everlasting gratitude of said Dick and
his noble cOnferees, and in thus saving
the party insure a second term all
around. With all the other cities in
the state undisturbed, in the face of
the fearful example Of executive power
in Wichita, the State Temperance
union would not only be satisfied, but
LeavenwOrth, Atchison and Kansas
City would be solid for him out of
gratitude for his clemency and his con-
sideration of their material welfare.
1t may be true that his eXcellency is
a greater executive and a smarter poll
tician than any of his predecessors,
and that he has played the position for
all it is worth, but it has been a little
rough on Wichita. His wise discrim- |
inatiOn may have proved the salvation |
Of the cities which have been permitted
TO go along collecting their revenues
each month in advance undisturbed by |
Pitchers Nemesis, Injunction Dawes, |
and that Wichita as the yicariOus vic
his scheme of Ifilmaniting the state
may result in dumping the derivatives
into the soup. especially if his majesty |
should conclude to make Topeka the |
only and sole dispensary of the state.
In such an event, however, the gov
erner would still have a chance Of win |
ming the everlasting gratitude of Wich
tia by transferring his police commits
siOners here to Topeka. The Wichita
police commission. it's judge, attorney
and marshal would prove a dandy ad
dition to Topeka, and they wouldn't he
missed here. Speaking of dandies, his
Major Morrill,, governor Of
the commonwealth of Kansas, must be
away up, conspicuously so, in the esti-
nation of the cities whose interests he
has conserved and whose feelings he
has saved, by combining his vindictiye-
ness, his prohibition policy, and his
Littleness Dawes, TO a single commun-
ity. TO the unimportant and out Of the
way town of Wichita.