The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-11-01
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represents our sentiments" That is an
issue that is plain; it is an issue that
must be met and won or Wichita will
go down and Topeka will go up and
| triumph and crow and crush the Peer
| less Princess as fearful example"
| While the leaders are trying to keep
the extreme prohibitionists in line for
! Dale the strikers are out trying to get
the liberal people into line. They want
! to decoy the people who are standing
| up for Wichita into the Morrill-Dawes
camp by the false pretense that Dave
Dale is with the liberal element. They
are especially desirious of telling the
resubmissionists that Dave Dale is
with them.
Let them look at the record of Dave
Dale. Let them go into the records Of
the district court and see where he
stood. He was neither a prohibition
ist nor a resubmissionist He was
strictly for Dale. The resubmissionist Is
elected him then, and so did the joint
lists. What did he do when he was
elected county attorney? Go and see
the records In seven months he had
more OF them jerked up and bled than
all the other county attorneys that have
been elected in this county combined,
and all the assistant attorney generals
thrown in, including Charles f. Cof-
fin.
In seven months, from May is, 1883,
to Dec. 81, 1883, Dave Dale made the
joints put UP TO him individually, in fees
s1,S14.G0. Most of these ctses were made
in eighteen days from the 18th of May
to June 6, 1883. His personal expense
for spoilers in this term is estimated
not to be more than s165, so that his
clear profits were at least 81, $500. In
addition to these there were some ten
or twelve cases that he got no fees out
of. At least there is no record on the
books of that fact
What did he bring these cases for?
Did he ever bring many of them to trial
and punish them for an alleged viola
ton of law? He convicted some of
them for bluff. He pulled them solely
for the purpose of making them
cough up fees to him, and they did it.
The moment their fees were in his
pocket he paid no more attention to the
cases.
Ostensibly he pleased the prohibition
lists by having the joints pulled and
some Of them convicted. Ostensibly he
pleased the resubmissionists by not
prosecuting many of them. The fact
is that he lined his own pocket with
gold.
His crowd are now blaming Bill Tiger
and asking the people to rebuke him
and the people will do so in the proper
way, but when people will reflect they
will readily see that there was no differ
ence between the action Of Bill Tiger
and Dave Dale. Dale did not prosecute
from any high moral sense that the
prohfbitory law should be enforced; Bill
Tiger is not prosecuting for that reason
either. Tiger is prosecuting for the
sake of filling his pockets with fees;
that is exactly what Dave Dale did.
The only difference is that Dale made
the scheme work and Bill Tiger did not
What is the difference between the off,
cial conduct Of both men so far as their
intention is concerned? Nothing.
Dave Dale skinned the joint men for
profit. Bill Tiger is trying to skin them
for profit.
Now then consider the effect on the
tax payers. Dave Dale commenced no
cases at the expense of the county; Bill
Tiger commenced less than ten in nearly
the same length of time. If jurors had
been so hard to find during the admins
tration of Dave Dale as they have been
since the administration of Bill Tiger,
Dale would have bankrupted the coun-
ty.
Now, then, look at both men and ask
yourself what is the difference between
them?
These are no mere campaign stories to
throw dust in the eyes of the people.
They are facts as any man can see by
going TO the office Of the clerk Of the dis
trict court In book II every one of the
cases can be found. They are there,
costs and all. Dave Dale got his fees.
receipted for them in the book with his
own hand, from the jointists. and left
the county and the taxpayers to pay the
costs.
Willard H. Boone was disbarred and
driven out of Sedgwick county for do
ing just exactly what Dave Dale did.
There was no charge against him but
dismissirg cases for his fees. If Dave
Dale can be elected to office the news
should be hurled to Willard Boone; he
should be invited to come back and ban
quoted as Boss Shepherd was after COM
ing back from exile. Both are Demo-
Pops. What is the difference except
that Dave Dale was smoother at his
work.
The people want to deal fairly in this
election. They want to repudiate the
men who precipitateS trouble for fees,
1t does not make any difference wheth-
er they spell their names Dave Dale or
Tiger Bill. The sensible thing for men
TO do is to judge by the past. II Dave
Dale made 110 arrests in 1888 for the
purpose of picking up little wad of
81, 800 isn't it pretty certain that he
would do the same thing If he was
county attorney now. Has John Davis
pulled anybody's leg for fees? Let the
record tell. And yet the opposition
tells you that if you want home rule
and personal liberty TO down the Re
publican ticket. Their whole argu-