The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
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nagging Of the governor came The
Fourth Of July convention at Topeka
in which Wichita was By one Of its
own transient citizens held up to scorn
and in disgrace. The governor per
picked and almost crazed with the fear
that he had made a mistake in the
sentiment of the people sent his at
torney general down to report. After
looking the ground over Mr.. Dawes
declared that so far as order and de
cency and temperance were concerned,
no city of the size Of Wichita could be
better governed. He found no boot
logging, no back-stair or garnet or eel
lar-holes, no keg parties. no drinking
clubs, no corn-field or outskirt drinking
dens of ill-fame. We presume he SO
reported. But Governor Morrill, not
satisfied, or unable to rid himself of
the continued polemics and imputa-
tons, sent for the board of police COM
missioners. They, in responding, with
held nothing. He then suggested to
them the Kansas City, Kansas, policy
Of continual arrests and fines. This
they, in acceeding to, have been carry
ing out While Morrill, has no care
for or interest in the material welfare
Of Wichita he has an interest in the
Republican party and the success of
the county ticket But this interest
is too remote from his future candi-
dacy for denomination to hold him.
So after all he and his attorney gen.
eral funked, and Wichita goes back
under the old disreputable and ex-
pensive rule Of prosecutions and Illicit
swilling, tomorrow. The board of
police commissioners having done their
conscientious duty will not resign. But
they will be summari1y removed to-
morrow and some of these men who
have been prominent in stirring up
the situation, viii be commissioned to
empty some twenty business rooms
and who, in doing away with the open
menace, viii force the club and the
hole and the resort Of ill-repute We
know the names and the men. An
attorney who has been carrying water
not only on both shoulders but on his
head also has agreed to accept the po-
sition of assistant attorney general
under the new board of prosecution.
AS for the rest, the arrests, the confs-
cations and the prosecutions, the courts
viii be kept busy, the Juries viii dis
agree and the property owner will pay
for the fun. In the meantime the can
didate for Office can rustic for himself,
while four thousand merchants, manu-
facturers, employees and other taxpay-
ers viii be relieved from holding any
farther public meetings at the Audi
torium.
eW trust that no man or woman
will think that we have set down
aught here in malice. we have not.
If one feeling more than another pre-
dominates it is one of mingled regret
and sorrow. Having no personal
feeling against Governor Morrill, or
his attorney general, with the mag
nffcent Endorsement Of three thou
sand business men Of only last week
we surely could not harbor i'll will to-
wards any of our fellow townsmen.
We only set out to say that after the
prolonged struggle Of 'fhope deferred
Wichita has at last been downed. Some
Of the men composing the element into
whose hands our destinies have fallen
are well meaning men, but they are
impractical and biased in their conyic-
tons and in combining become intol-
Grant. In seeking to enforce their
ideas and policy for the upbuildng Of
the city they fail to see that they can
not command the confidence OF the
men who make and do business, there
fore their certainty of failure; our sole
desire in this being to set out the
simple truth, leaving it to the future to
verify or otherwise disproye the con-
illusions to which they lead.
WHY AND WHEN IT WAS.
Its was the worlds monetary power,