The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-25
SHOCKING SIGHT.
A Prominent State Official Very
Drunk.
StaggerS Nearly the Full Length
of Kansas Avenue
Swaying From Side to Side, a
Notifying Spectacle.
SCORES KNOW HIM
And Identify Him as a State
Officer.
A Friend Tries to Get Him on a
Car.
1t Pulls Out Before He Reaches
the Depot.
A Chance to Repeat the Rogers
Investigation.

A disgraceful scene occurred on the
main street of the capital city of Kansas
last Sunday which throws discredit on
one of the most important offices of the
administration.
The facts have been whispered about
for some days, but today the truth came
to light in such way that it admits of
no question.
The Republican party of Kansas is be-
ing disgraced by one of the state officers
elected last fall On the same ticket with
Governor Morrill, This state officer only
last Sunday made shocking spectacle
of himself in Topeka on Kansas avenue
in broad daylight
Last Sunday afternoon this state officer
was in Topeka and it had been prev
iously arranged that he was to go to
Kansas City Sunday afternoon to meet
other members of the executive council
and they were to go out of Kansas City
over the Missouri Pacific railway.
At o'clock Sunday afternoon the
officer in question was seen at the Cope
land, and his acquaintance who saw
him and talked with him knew from his
appearance and actions that he had been
drinking.
He told Topeka newspaper man that
he was going to Kansas City. but as it
was too late for the Rock Island he
would take the Santa Fe train at o'clock.
A few minutes before o'clock he
started for the Santa Fe depot to catch
his train. He staggered from one side
of the walk to the other, utterly unable
to regulate his course, his shameful
condition visible to scores of people
along the street. some of whom knew
him and some did not.
To those who knew that he occupied
one of the highest positions in the gift of
the people it was a Notifying exhibition.
a short distance north of the Cope
land on Kansas avenue, he was, while
swaying almost from one side of the
broad walk to the other met by the
correspondent Of Kansas City paper
who spoke to him, saying:
"What are you doing here on the
street drunk like this?"
The state official was able to explain
that he was trying to get to the Santa
! Fe depot to catch train for Kansas
City and the newspaper man attempted
to help him to get on passing street
car.
The good Samaritan's efforts we're in
vain, however, as the state official was
too drunk to get on the car
He was then started in the direction of
the depot and finally got there on foot,
but too late to catch his train which had
gone ten minutes before he arrived.
Now that Chairman Cyrus Leland of
the Republican State Central committee
has been so successful in investigating
the charges of drunkenness against
State Senator Rogers it would be we'll
for him to turn his attention to one of
the state officers, a member of the execu.
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Gle of himself in public places.
/ Under the Kansas laws drunkenness is
! sufficient cause for the removal of any
state or county officer either elective or
appointive if it is positively proven that
the officer was drunk.
| Appointive officers can be removed on
the findings of an investigation commit
tee such as the Rogers Investigation
committee, while elective officers must
be tried by a court and impeached.
Last Sundays performance invites in
VestiQation.