Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-10

PECKSNIFF DOUGHERTY.

On the first page, we ask, What has become
of Rev. Dougherty? Well, he's been heard
from. There was meeting of preachers up at
Topeka the other day, and this reverend"
Pecksniff was there; so was old Uriah Heap
Ashamed-of-K Kansas Morrill,, who disgraces the
gubernatorial chair-and Uriah Heap made a
talk on Temperance" to throw dust in the
eyes of the assembled ministers
A set of resolutions was presented in which
Morrill, received severe and deserved drubbing,
although his name was not used.
Pecksnif Dougherty Immediately ruffled up
his feathers and showed fight. He didn't pro-
pose to see his dear friend Morrill, "sot down
on''-not if he could help it; so he fought the
resolutions because ''they reflected on Governor
Morrill," He made torrid speech, in which
he said: "We must get this question before
the people and out of politics. Let us get to-
gether and discuss it away from the politicians.
The politicians are opposed to prohibition, and
they hate Governor Morrill,. 1 love him for the
enemies he has made. I know him to be a
Christian, temperate gentleman In the army
he was a temperance man. He is one to-day.
When D. R. Anthony says in his paper that
Governor Morrill, wants soloons to run openly
in Leavenworth, D. R. Anthony lies" Also,
in speaking of Morrill's avowal that the pro-
hibitory law cannot be enforced where local
sentiment is against it, Dougherty brazenly de-
MED that Morrill, said it, but said that even if
Morrill, had said it, he would not have been the
first executive to say it, for Governor St. John
had said the same thing. In this reference to
Governor St. John, Dougherty either exhibits a
great amount Of very dense ignorance, or he
uttered wilful and malicious falsehood.
The delegates who favored the resolutions
greatly outnumbered Dougherty and his little
band of sympathizers, but he stuck to his posi-
ton and offered the following resolution, which
was Overwhelmingly defeated:
Resolved, That nothing in these resolutions
shall be construed as reflection on the present
governor.
Rev. L. c. Schnacke, of Great Bend, said:
zone year ago, was on resolution committee
that prepared resolution denouncing Governor
Lewelling, and if 1 remember rightly my friend
Dougherty was the man who insisted, above all
others, that the governors name appear in the
resolutions We all know that the law is being
violated. If we 60 back on that conviction
now, I'll wear crepe on my hat before leave
this room. The resolution names no one. If
the shoe fits Governor Morrill,, let him put it on.
Do we want to say he is going to enforce the
law when we know he isn't?"
A minister from Wichita said that, since
Morrill's inauguration, certain hotel in that
city had put in one of the finest bars in the
West. He added his testimony against Morrill,,
as did several other ministers.
Dougherty certainly exhibited large amount
of gall, and proved to all thinking people that
he is wearing the livery of Heaven in which to
serve the Devil. He knows that Morrill, is not
making an effort to enforce the law He knows
of the part Morrill, took in the Leavenworth
amboree-banquet so called. He knows, or
could know, that Morrill, said he would enforce
the law if he had to appoint new police COM
missioners every month"; and yet not single
change has been made in any of the police
boards. Yes; Dougherty knows all this, and
yet, knowing it, he brazenly stands up for the
old fraud and calls him christian gentle
man." etc.
BAIL In thinking of this fellow Dougherty,
we are reminded of whited supulchre, and
can but consider him disgrace to the Master
he pretends to serve.
A FEW days ago, the Topeka State Journal
contained great cock-and-bull story about the