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

Submit to the Rule of His Crowd-Tiger
has Wrought-Smythe Admits that
Judge Hatton Did No wrong-Daie In
dorses Smythe's Action i'm Removing
Judge Hatton-Tucker will Obey.
One Of the most dastardly and as
founding statements or threat ever Ut
tered by public official was made
by the Democratic hear of the police
commissioners OF this city about II
o'clock yesterday in front of Cash Hen
derson's store.
1t was nothing less than a threat that
the tax payers Of this county would
be made sick if they did not submit
TO the rule of himself and his gang.
The police commissioners now see
that they have allowed Tiger Bill 10
lead them until he and they are all
fioundering in the ditch together. and
Dave Smyth, the supposed diplomatist
of tine board of police commissioners is
trying to get them all out.
He was out on the streets yesterday
talking up a compromise. He wanted
respecta BILE business men to meet the
mission and come TO an understanding.
He was inclined to think that an agree
men could be reached by agreeing 10 let
ten saloons run. Mr.. Smyth did not
gay what he would do with his other
i20 joints and clubs that have sprung
up under the rule Of himself and Tiger
Bill
This proposition shows that AR.
Smyth is not honest in his effort 10
enforce the law. lie is ready TO make
any compromise that will help himself
out of an unpleasant predicament and
make votes for Dave Dale.
Mr.. Smyth seemed 10 actually think
that the business men of this city could
be induced TO indorse his infamous
knitting of Judge Hatton. In this he
shows his ignorance of the feeling OF
Indignation that he and his crowd OF
improcticuhls have aroused in the
breasts not molly of the tax payers Of
this city but of the county.
The Democratic boss who has been
given the power to humiliate the head
OF the Republican ticket is willing to
close open salons and allow any num-
Der of joints TO open if they will aid
in defeating th- nominees of the Repub-
lican party He even threatens TO have
an army of witnesses subpoenaed in
their liquor cases and TO make the tax
payers sick as above stated if they
do not submit to their dictation.
Tiger Bill is reposing in the open
ground in front of his jungle with his
fore feet extended in front and his
hind feet gathered we'll under him.
He holds his head erect and ticks his
under jaw compiacently- The official
bones of brave Charlie Hatton lie
around him and Sam Tucker sits by
like a scared rabbit in a cage of an
acondas.
Foolish Tiger Bill imagines that he IS
king of the junsles. He does not see
the huntsmen loading their pieces with
powde and shot well rammed with le-
gal wadding, and he does not know
when they draw a bead on him that his
hide would not hold pumpkins.
This beast o fthe jUngles is puffed up
but it is with the pride that goeth be-
fore a fall. He hath said in his heart,
There is no God" and if he told Sam
Tucker that was the law. 1t would be
Sc proclaimed from the bench of the
police court in Wichita, but before this
moon wakes full and vans, Bill Tiger
viii know of a truth that there is a
God of Israel and the Caucasian race
is this prophet.
The Tiger is a good enough animal
in his way but he is worth more to hui
mainly in the capacity of a scavenger
of a parlor rug, than for anything else
It is not his province 10 discern the line
that separates delegated authority OF
the republic and the reserved rights of
the people. In the very nature Of
things he could not see that for the SIM
pie reason that the creature can not
be greater than the creator and the lit
tie cotere that is creating assistant at
torney generals. police commissioners
and police judges in Wichita does not
know straight up.
1t was learned from a Democratic
source yesterday that Dave Dale con-
coded last Saturday that the thing for
the Democratic head OF the police com
miSSioners to do was TO vote for the re
moval of Judge Hatton and that will
account for Mr. Smyths sudden con-
version. Mr.. Smyth is a lawyer and
he admitted in a crowd on Main street
yesterday that he did not know that
Judge Hatton had done anything
wrong.
Tiger Bill thinks that he has only
deprived Charles Hatton Of the office OF
police judge but that he has defeated
him for the district judgeShip and Dave
Dale WinkS knowingly at the law and
order league and ina gines himself a
politician of great ingenuity and fore
sight. He does not observe the deter
mined look on the face of the tax payer
OF Sedgwick county, that bodies no good
for him and Tiger .5Ill.
Mr.Dale, however, may have the same
idea as Mr.. Snyth that he can make
the tax payers sick and that they will
hand the county over TO him and his
crank hackers and surrender in order
to prevent the confiscation Of their
property by teh tax collector.
Judge Hatton came down town yes
terday and wherever he went there was
a crowd around him. business men
ran out Of their places OF business TO
shake his hand and t. congratulate him
for having won the displeasure OF the |
police commissioners and Tiger Bill.
Judge Hatton said this is the first |
time that he had ever seen so many /
congratulations showered on a man |
because he had lost z job.
Frank Doffimeyer was in from Union |
and he says there is a break |
10 Judge Hatton among the farmers |
that beats anything he has ever seen. |
He says the charge of the opposition /
that Judge Hatton stands on a single |
gold standard platform is also making |
him friends because the farmers all |
know that Judge Hatton WAS nominal |
ed under the Crawford county system |
Rndas a matter OF fact could not be !
pledged TO any platform and besides |
the farmers who are about all for the |
free coinage Of silver very well know |