The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-25
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Gov. MOrrilFs Appointees on
Wichita's Police Board
Are All Whisky Men Who Will
Violate the Law.
Their Intention is To Let
Wichita's 25 Saloons
RUN IDE OPEN. s.
The Revenue to Go Into the City
Treasury.
Governor Morrill, MayN0t Know
the Facts.
IT HE INVESTIGATES
He Will Find Them as the
state Journal States.

Governor Morrill, has evidently been
imposed upon by some of the scheming
politicians of Wichita in regard to the
character of the men he has named as
police commissioners of Wichita.
The STATE JOURNAL has it from relia-
bic authority that the new Wichita police
commissioners are men who will allow
the twenty-five saloons of that town to
continue TO do business as they have been
doing during the last two years.
Mr.. David Leahy of the Wichita Eagle
who is here looking after the legislature
for his paper says the new police COM
missioners are Representative business
men, Of Wichita
Speaking Of their attitude towards the
saloons Mr.. Leahy said: "Our new COM
missioners represent the sentiment of
Wichita exactly. They are good busi-
ness men and will conduct the police az
fairs of the city in a clean, business-like
manner. NIr. Charles Jones, chairman
of the new board, is d prominent clothing
merchant of the town. Mr.. A. c. Hussy
conducts wholesale cigar manufactur-
ing establishment and employs about
forty men and he is one of our most rep
resentative German citizens. Mr.. Geo.
L. Pratt, the Democratic member, is one
of the best men of the town. He is the
agent of the Chicago Lumber company
for southern Kansas and Oklahoma, and
lives in one of the best houses in Wichita.
sIThe new commissioners will see that
the city gets u revenue from the saloons
and that none but respectable places are
allowed to run. There are about twenty
five saloons in Wichita, and there has not
been a genuine saloon row in the town
for years. The new commissioners will
take care of the interests of the city.
! They are honest men and no one but the
| boodlers are dissatisfied with their ap-
pointment."
The people of Wichita have had some
! trouble with their police boards hereto
| fore. but the trouble is not that the COM
missioners are too strict or not strict
| enough. but that the revenues from the
! saloons go into the pockets of "boodlers, y
! instead of the city treasurer.
/ 1t seems that the new commission pro
! pose to appoint man as chief of police
! who will ''stand i'm with the commits
| sioners instead of the saloon keepers, and
| the gamblers and the saloon keepers
want some other man.
It ought not to concern Governor Nor
rill where the money goes, whether it
goes into the city treasury or into the
/ pockets of the boodlers. There oug hit
not to be any saloon revenue to go any
where, in Wichita or any other Kansas
town. The law of the state is against it
and the people of the state want the law
enforced. Wichita is just as much a
part of the state of Kansas as Topeka
and there is no more reason why there
should be saloon revenues in Wichita
than in Topeka.
The people of Kansas have become
tired of partial enforcement of the laws
especially of the prohibitory law and i
is possible that when Governor Morril
| learns of the true condition of affairs al
Wichita he will appoint other men al
police commissioners of that city wht
will close up the saloons and enforce al
the laws