The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-10
so DAWES WRITES AGAIN.

When Attorney General Dawes is MOI
talking he is writing, that is when he
is sober enough to do either. He has
written another letter to Wichita, thai
!. is another one since the one he wrote
, ! to the other side the day before
: Dawes last letter, that is the last one
unless another mail has arrived from
Topeka, is addressed to one Of the in
dividuals who takes very prominent
part in the church caucuses where the
schemes to squeeze Wichita down to
his capacity to run it This gentleman
exhibited Dawes last letter to another
gentleman, yesterday, which last gen
tleman remarked that the letter itself
was evidence that the man who wrote
it was drunk. The only presumptve
evidence to the contrary was that 1t
was dated at Topeka. 1t is given out
that the prohibitory headquarters at
, Topeka are really so, in fact as well
as name 1t is asserted that all the
state officers under Morrill, are Prohi-
bitionists. Every man Of them not
only advocates the enforcement OF the
law but all set the example by being
individual teetotalers. Dawes is a
state officer, and therefore is numbered
among these teetotal PrOhibitionists.
consequently does not drink, SO he
could not have been drunk. However,
drunk or sober, he writes to encourage
the man referred to in keeping up the
| church caucuseS and the war. He eX-
plains that the attorney general is ter
ribly In earnest and that he will make
Rome howl before he is done with her.
He boasts that he has eighteen months
| in which he can continue to make
Wichita sick and to bring her rebel
lious taxpayers to terms. He is evil
IDENTITY mad because the business men
| and taxpayers Of Wichita wouldn't per-
! jure themselves that they might be-
| come jurors under his assistants pros
ecutions This twO-faced, double
mouthpiece Of an administration which
secured its election by leaving the pro-
hibition plank out of its platform,
and pledging to devote its two years to
building up the state and restoring its
credit, laughs in his sleeve when he
thinks Of all the disaster his double
dealing and two-sided pledges have
brought to this people, how It's inhab
itants are departing, its business men
being driven away, its property de-
preciated and rendered unstable, its
taxes increased, its schools crippled
and its churches weakened, and the
great State Fair to which SO many
months of labor had been given, put
under the rule Of three crankS picked
out by himself and Morrill,, which
cranks having no property to lose could
the more safely make other property
holders sweat, and then sets down and
writes another letter filling it with
threats. OF course it is the property
owners and business men Of Wichita
who opposed change of commission
ers. and who were dissatisfied with
the commission selected by this man
Dawes and his man Morrill,, but these
same men had voted for both Dawes
and Morrill,. We're their friends, had
nothing against them. and were only
begging for a chance to live and to pull
through. This people intended no in
suit to Mr.. Dawes or to Mr.. Morrill, in
protesting against the removal of the
commissioners who had governed to
Z no -y,n1r
very same business men were contrib
uting TO the support of the preachers
and of the others in that caucus who
sprung the conspiracy to thwart the
will of the majority, and would have
willingly continued to support them,
as they would have again almost unan-
imouSly voted for the reelection of
both Dawes and Morrill,. The three
hundred who Swore that they could
not set on that jury are conscientious
men, and they We're not trying to
embarrass the administration or Mr.
Dawes. But now, outside of the squad
who started in to run Wichita in
the interest of temperance or of moral
ity, not to enforce the law any farther
than to cut off the revenues, but some
of them wholly to provide places for
pets and others to get blackmail Doodle,
outside of that squad and its few fol-
lowers, neither Mr. Dawes or Morrill,
could get a dozen Republican votes in
the city today, and probably not five
dozen Republican votes in the county.
The Third Party Prohibitionists might
possibly vote for them providing that
party had no nominees of its own.
Mr.. Dawes may have learned of this
and is seeking revenge. Notwith-
standing the condition of affairs here
was brought about by him and Mr..
Morrill,, and in face of the most solemn
pledges to the contrary this man seeks
now TO ayenge himself. evidently. if
his letter means anything. He is not
coming 10 the State Fair Fer rea-
sons he prefers 10 go TO Kansas CITY.
Were Wichita reduced 10 a tenantless
solitude and afterwards set fire 10 anu
wiped out of existence it would not
cost the loquacious attorney general
one cent, or single regret, therefore.
he writes.
AND NOW BROTHER EDITORS.
If prohibition We're not politics. and
the statute prescribed the same penal