The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-28
HUNT bad" THINGS.
"Smelling" Committee Looking
UpDr. Embree'S Record
To Get Even For What He Said
of Morrill,.
A MAN AT HIAWATHA
Inquiring About the Pastors
Former Life
In Order to Explode a Horrible
Expose.
EMBREE NOT SCARED.
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A List of His Charges is
Offered
To Help Along the Smelling
Committee.
To Help Along the Smelling
Committee.


When DR.. A. s. Embree denounced
Governor Morrilrs administration from
the pulpit of the First NJ. E church of
this city, it was felt where it was in
tended to be.
Governor Morrill, and his friend and
manager Chairman Cy Leland of the
Republican State Central committee, have
now it is said started out to get even
with DR.. Embree by traducing his char
acter
The Hiawatha World gives the first
intimation that work has been COM
menced along this line. That paper of
Tuesday, June 30, says:
THE papers intend to make it hot for
the Rev Mr.. Embree, who attacked Gov.
Morrill, as a temperance man. 1t is ru-
mored that a reporter was here Saturday
trying to find information that he could
depend upon to the effect that Embree.
when pastor of the Hiawatha church,
would occasionally take a nip with his
friends. Another statement is that in
quiries as to his conduct will be sent to
every place he has lived"
The World adds: This seems like
persecution and entirely unnecessary.
Gov Morrill, needs no defense of the sort
and would greatly regret such proceed
ure. Let MIR. Embree go to Europe in
peace. He can cool off there while those
who dislike his fault finding can cool off
at home"
Dr. Embree who is TO leave on Monday
for a two menths' European trip was
seen by JOURNAL reporter and said that
he had already been informed that an
attack was to be made on his private
character, but that he was not interested
in il and that his enemies could fire away
to their hearts content
Dr. Embree has been a Methodist
preacher in Kansas for II years and it
ought not be difficult for Governor Nor
rilrs strikers to get all the information
they want about him.
The minutes OF the Kansas Methodist
conference show that he has been pastor
of the following churches in the order
named: DeSoto, johnson county,
one year and half; North
Lawrence, one year; Nortonville,
two years; Olathe one year; Manhattan
three years; presiding elder Manhattan
district one year; Leavenworth two years;
Hiawatha one year and half, and this is
now his fourth year in Topeka This is
the complete record, and is offered to the
administration "nosing committee" to as
sist them in their efforts.
Dr. Embree's riends are not worried
about the character tradUcers, and this
will not interfere with his European trip
which was planned almost year ago
THEIR FRIENDS NO LONGER.
The"Dear Old Capital RidicuIes the Law
and Order Element That Used to Gush
Over 1t.
[From This Mornings Daily Capitall
Yesterday afternoon Governor Morrill,
was waited upon by Rev. Mr. Brum-
baugh and Rev. Mr. Howie of Atchison,
who announced thems elves as a com
mittee representing the temperance SEN
dment of Atchison, and their errand to
enlist the services of the governor in en-
forcing the prohibitory law in Atchison.
The governor gave his clerical visitors a
cordial welcome and listened in patience
to the truly doleful tale of woe which
they poured into his ears. They in
formed the governor that the prohibit
tory law is openly and hagrantly
violated by and with the consent of the
city authorities Gambling has grown to
alarming proportions, they claimed, while
dlsorderly houses are swiftly undermin-
ing public decency. Rev. Brumbaugh
said that things have come to such pass
that ladies are afraid to 60 to PRAYER meet
ing after dark on account of the drunk
enness and licsntiousness which turn the
streets into disorder.
The gentlemen were agreed that the
police commissioners were good men and
they offered no suggestion that they be
removed, but they wanted the governor
to issue an order compelling them to close
the saloons, gambling places and disor-
derly *houses.
Governor Morrill, expressed intense
surprise that such a state Of affairs could
9xist in Atchison. He informed his Wis
ttOrs that until few days ago, when he
received letter from a citizen of Atchi-
son with similar but not such strong
complaints. he had no Information what
ever that the police commissioners of
Atchison were not doing their duty.
Then in few dignified and moderate
words the governor pointed out the folly
OF preachers and other moralists making
charges from pulpits and in the ne ws
papers without taking the trouble to
complain to the constituted authorities
whose duty it ia to entertain complaints
and enforce the law.
When the Atohison committee had
withdrawn, Governor Morrill, called his
stenographer and dictated a vigorous
letter to the police commissioners oi
Atchison. He informed them of the
sharGes made by Mr.. Brumbaugh and