The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-03
ApAsTARpaY CONSPIRACY.

carrying out the agreement reacheo'
by that convention compact, to make
Wichita an example, was in the sys-
tematic defeat Of the Republican party
of Sedgwick county until such time
as its officers should be forced 10 drive
the obnoxious traffic out Of sight, and
into the background, as far, at least,
as the prescription screens of the drug
stores. To this end, said the sagacious
leader. must every member of our cItl-
zens league work, he at the same time
declaring that as for himself he should
never vote the Republican ticket
again until Wichita was brought to
her knees and to her senses.
The declaration, coming as it dld
directly to US through a mutual friend,
was astounding. Believing it would
prove but the inconsiderate words OF
4 man unduly wrought upon, the in
cident was soon forgotten. Now for
the esQuel:
This same man, in company with
others. went to Topeka and laid their
nlan for making Wichita the driest
town in the state, before Governor
Morrill,. What transpired immediate
" thereafter is familiar TO everyone,
and needs no recitation. The COVER
nor stultified himself, and his attorney
general violated his most solemn
pledges, both breaking their faith with
the only real friends they ever had
in this city. After these worthless had
consented that he'll might be raised In
Wichita, with Bill Campbell as chief
devil. the governor left the state on
that same day, his attorney general
employing himself in debating hypo-
critical letters to Sunday schools and
in making several rabid prohibition
sneeches: the Wichita intermedlers re-
turning home in the meantime in high
clee. for caucus consultation, and to
put their unprincipled tools at their
dirty work And thus:
W. p. Campbell, an eX-Republican,
an eX-Democrat, an eX-Granger-Al
liance-Pop, and an eX-Single TaXer, a
man who believes in having whisky as
free as water, sans revenue-taX and
sans license, in every grocery store, at
ten cents per quart, man noted, par
ticularly, for his bulldog character
istics, and the coarse grain of his moral
fibre, is commissioned, with carte
blanche power. to run Wichita, its
police and its Judiciary and all that it
is. even to the destruction Of its bust
ness and the blasting of all its posi-
bilities for the future, to the end that
its cranks may no longer be menaced
by the sight of joint.
And so this man of obtuse moral
conceptions, becomes the chosen in
strumentality of men who profess
Christ, to tear down and to wreck
material interests. to weaken respect
for the courts and TO defeat the Re-
publican party of Sedgwick, and all to
the end of no less liquor drinking but
of prohibition. Campbell first de-
malded the removal of the Republican
police commission composed of as good
and pure men as the city boasts, re-
sponSible business men of unquestion-
ed morals, and the appointment of a
weak and subservient board of cypherS,
its chairman Democrat, its secretary
Third Party man. Next came his
demand for the removal of al police
men who would not consent to be-
come his sneaks and spoilers, then
came his demand for the removal of
the police judge, the Republican NOM
inee for the head of the ticket, and the
naming of a man for the place whose
pastime and delight it has been for
years to deride churches and belittle
their preachers. All this was done,
done promptly and in spite of solemn
protests and earnest pleadings.
The conspiracy Matched at the To-
peka convention against Wichita, and
the Republican party of Sedgwick, be-
ing Endorsed by Morrill,, was con-
sumated and complete. W. L. Camp
bell, relentless as a tiger, obtuse to
every moral, social and religious obli-
CATION, with nothing TO lose, with his
own police commission of nobodys. his
own spoilers, and jury-selectors, and
judge as like himself as two peas.
his own creature. all he has now to do
TO convict any man is To send out one
set of his hounds for victims. another
set for jurors. and then submit his
case. II there should be any doubt.
under heaven, of conviction, he can
then so on 10 the stand himself and
ruthfully swear in each and in every
case, that be knows the defendant 10
be guilty, for he has. himself, drank
whisky and played cards in his place,
thereby winning the applause of the
men who set him on. and make sure
or the fee which the law gives him
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