People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-07
Kansas RedeeTned.

Our good neighbor upstairs, the
Daily Mail, whose editor has just been
to Topeka and seen with his own eyes
the glory Of his "redeemer," is very
proud to testify that the old "blear-
eyed" crowd which used to hold sway
at the State House, and for whom and
to whom the state was to have been
redeemed" are nowhere to be seen
about Governor MOrrill's court.
This sounds well, but it seems not
to be fully confirmed.
In the first place, the Republicans
in the legislature undertook to get
away with the metropolitan police
law, but the POpulists said No" So
Gov. Morrill, had to make the best of
it, and he proceeded to appoint new
police boards for the six cities of the
first class. AS Wichita, Leavenworth
and Atchison are ruled by the whisky
crowd, he appointed straight whisky
boards with the explicit understand.
ing that saloons would be run wide
open, on the monthly fine plan. As
Topeka, Kansas City and Fort Scott
profess to be Temperance" towns, he
made a pretenSe of appointing men
to satisfy the Temperance" element,
although it is said that there is nc
kick coming from 1.-THE gang" in To-
peka end Kansas City. In the Ian.
guage Of one Of the Ministerial union
who called upon him 10 protest and
was afterward interviewed, 81 can
see nothing in Gov. Morsill's attitude
to lead me to believe that he will Dur.
sue any different policy toward the
prOhibitOry law than that of former
governors.
Then, il our optimistic neighboI
had gone to Leavenworth last Friday
night he might have seen that which
he was seeking and found not. The
city Of LeavenwOrth rendered a great
banquet in honor of Senator-elect La.
Glen Baker. The legislature was in
yited over and went, almost in a body.
Governor Morrill, and the state off,
GERS, COngresSman-elect Long, J. r.
Burton, J. W. Ady, Cyrus Leland, J.
H. Gilpatrick and Chief Justice A. H.
Horton were special guests of honor.
The bill of fare contained many
good things in addition to which. SAYS
the staff correspondent of the topeka
Capitol (who no doubt was Joe Hud-
son himSelf), was an unlimited supply
of Nuns extra dry and other liquid
refreshments"
Two hours were consumed in eating
and drinking, then came the toasts.
Along toward the close some one dis
covered that David Overmyer was
present. He Was called upon to ex-
plain how it looked to a Democrat.
He confessed that his view was very
similar 10 that of man up tree, but
the banquet he confessed at the stage
it had reached looked very like a Dem.
oCratic banquet. II fear" he said,
that you all have not confined your.
selves to the hydrant water which
Gov. Morrill, was promised. l have
not. This scene looks to me as II
ought to look in this fortress Of
liberty"
So, after all, Kansas has been ere.
deemed" by the same old crowd whom
our neighbor consesses used to be al
the helm. We see the spectacle Of
the law-making body of the State
making burlesQue of the prohibitory
law, convivially celebrating the selec
tion Of man to the United State,
senate who has for years been the &C
tive attorney Of the liquor combines
and who displayed his utter contemnt
for prohibition by taking the stumr
for a Observation-Disclosures can
didate for governor in opposition n
the nominee of his own party, as late
as 1890
No. Andy, without questioning
your reputation for truth aud yeraci.
ty we insist that this must have been
one OF your ''irridescent Dreams