The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-12-29
TOO LATE, MAJOR MORRILL,.

Just like the man. 1t is a mirror ol
1t will meet with the approval o.
neither side. 1t means that whisky
| will be sold in Leavenworth and also
in Wichita, quietly in the one instance
| party and a great row in the other
| The proteStations Of his love for prohi-
! bition in one breath and his regret OF
/ its impossible enforcement in the next
is true reflex of his policy towards
this city. Deprecating the idea Of a
"one-man power" he mas set on a
| whole pack of hounds to rend and rob
Wichita. If his prohibition defenders
here find anything consoling or assur-
| ing in that schedule Of protestations of
| his they are welcome to ii. He criti-
ciZes the legislature for not repeating
the metropolitan police law while that
the state to abolish the bastard, nolens
volens. Knowing that the metropoli-
tan police law had not only been the
breeder Of vice, DOODLE, perjury and
corruption, and that its rule coDtinu-
ally jeopardized Republican ascend
ancy in all the larger cities of the state,
he persistently refused TO listen TO
every and all appeals for its abolish
ment. Now he comes out, himself,
and acknowledges the law to be
frand. He would think more emphat-
ically so after being run through two
or three dozen Wichita joints, gamb-
ling houses and the like, especially if
he could be present when the personal
DIVES We're made of the collected
licenses, as whisky saloons and joints
are not run in Wichita, or any other
place in the state, without somebody
putting up for the privilege. While it
may not be so openly menacing when
paid into the hands Of the tools OF the
goOdygood instead Of the city treas
UUy, there is the additional seeming of
greater piety and more principle
Now having by his double-dealing lost
70 the Republican party one Of the
largest cities in the state and leopard
lied a whole congressional district
which had but just escaped a sock
less ignominy, comes this revelation
of new convictions from his eXcellency,
not only, but a persistent effort to
patch up the perfidy of which he was
guilty to friends here whose support
he had enjoyed for a life time. Now,
after the Republican party has lost all
that it is possible for it to lose, and
the city and its taxpayers have suf-
fered until they cease to feel or care;
with injunctionS standing against the
most valuable properties TO be found
within the corporate limits of the city;
with a railroad, public highway, en-
Joined from delivering interstate
freight to Wichita; with a set of tools
Of his own choice and character, con-
the administrative and iu-
dicial power of the town, harassing
one element and protecting another of
the alike guilty, until justice has be-
\
the effect Of finally forcing self-respect-
ing men by hundreds into a quasi |
secret political organiza ton in simple |
desperation for self-protection, upon
the heels of all this, come swashbuck- |
lers and go-betweenS TO fix things at |
Wichita, proposing to "call-off'' the |
dogs of war, suggesting that Wichita |
and her people and business interests |
shall have the same consideration |
shown Leavenworth, Atchison, Kansas /
City, and other cities of the state. if |
will but lick the hand that
smote and agree TO forget her kicks |
and bruises, which this newly convert
ed governor now says he was forced to
nfiict because, forsooth, a cOterie of |
Deripetetic dead beats, living off of
gratuities, and styling
themselves officers of the State TEN
1erance union, demanded hat he must.
Wichita is asking nothing at the
laDdS of the Governor Morrill, crowd.
We have had enough. The muchness
If his example" patronage has proved
more than plenty. When inaugural
ID and after he and his crowd had ad-
nitted that Wichita had been fleeced
ears in sufficient, by pious frauds in
he name of purity, he and they knew
hat the police commission named was
wholly in the interest of the Republi-
an party and of decency. He knew
hat the man who named that com
mission and who had been his friend
or thirty years, had no single selfish
II individual end 10 serve. That
riend. next to decency. and right polit-
cally, and morally, loved Republican
principles. and wanted Governor Nor
ills administration 10 prove such a
ucceSs as would make good all the
made for il by this friend and
he many others who labored for his
lection. So it is too late for any
urther shystering makeshiftS. or tenn
'orary eNpedients. Having. ~ the
Iictation OF fellows living in other
owns and districts of the state. drag
ed in the dirt, spit upon and other
wise humiliated tie friends here who
ad stood by him when lie and his
eeiers needed votes, and even would
ave stood by him aud them after they
al carried out their aate-election
romises IN constituting the railway
and other discreditable I
nd indefensible jobs, such ward pol
-icS VIII not work \ change OF I
olicy and of police commissioners. /