The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-07

sioners and Appoints Their Successor
He Advances a Demo-Pop Over Two Re-
publicans and Thus Rewards a Minion
of Fus.on-The New Board Actually
Pay About Four Dollars in Taxes
Everybody Roasting Douglass to a Fin
ish-Hi Lewis May be Chief of Police.
created new board of police commits
sioners caused sensation yesterday.
People stood in groups on the streets
and in business houses and canvassed
the situation. When word came to
the sheriff's Office Billy Smith got
out his new bicycle and sailed off down
Main street, his light coat tail point
ing up al about an angle of forty-five
degrees.
Rodolph Hatfield left his Office and
went up to the court house TO tell the
boys that he did not know anything
about it and Don S. Colt came down in
his carriage on a fast trot.
w. P Campbell got into his little
old road wagon and stopped at the
corner of Main and Douglas and while
his lower lip was drawn up so tight
as to push his upper lip out of plumb
he waited to be admired by the indig-
nant crowd.
George L. Douglass came down to
the Kansas National bank and told the
crowd there that while his partnA was
president of the new board that he had
made no recommendations. Then there
was most profound silence and the
business men looked dreamily out on
the streets
Tom Wilson came out on the street
TO tell Republicans what the party
ought to do but nobody wanted to talk
politics.
most to get the old board disposed of
had the least to say yesterday. They
seemed to be in doubt whether the
movement inaugurated by themselves
would prove a blessing to thecity.
On the corner of Main and Douglas
= at one time was one of the most dis
gusted crowds ever seen in Wichita
The idea of turning out business
men like Charley Jones and George
Pratt and A. c. Husey and putting in
that crowd" said one disguised bust
ness man, Il was I'D at the court
house just now" said another, land
the boys looked al the assessment roll
and found that L. Keck, member oe
the board does not pay any personal
board pays three dollars and sixty
cents, and Lieurence the secretary
pays eighty cents"
when did Judge Campbell get to be
a moral reformer," asked a third man.
at was not so very long ago that I
used to see him playing cards in a
west Douglas avenue joint nearly every
night. He is pretty duck for re-
former"
1t was seen that such remarks only
tended TO raise bad blood and some Of
the more cool headed counciled moder-
alton.
One of the Oldest and most prominent
business men in the city threatened
10 take his stock of goods and leave
that it would be better to let the other
fellows leave as it would not cost
them so much to move.
Who is this man Lieurence anyhow"
asked another prominent grocer. sis
he the man who married the widow
with the Jersey cow" Then there is
George Douglass, who always gets a
soft snap for his partner. Only a short
time since he went down to Washing
ton and had his partner appointed
additional attorney for the suspended
Wichita National bank when half an
attorney could have done the whole
business
Il suppose Mr.. Douglass in that case
was working in the interest of the de-
positors just like be is working for the
interest of Wichita now Mr. Douglas
friendship seems to he very COSTLY"
WHAT CHAIRMAN JONES SAID.
The retiring board of police commits
sioners were seen at the Scottish Rite
cathedral on the corner OF FirSH and
Market streets. They were pursuing
a duty more Christian in spirit than
some Of the fellows who have been
bounding them. They were making
arrangements for the decent and hon
orahie burial of a fellow citizen who
died the previous day and their minds
were more interested in that than they
were in the question of holding office.
When a reporter asked Mr.. Jones
about the matter he said: There is not
much 10 say. We are discharged. The
following letter from Governor Morrill,
VIII explain all / know about our dis
misSal."
Topeka. Kan. Aug. 5. 1895.
&C. NJ. Jones. President Board of Police
Commissioners. Wichita, Kan.
Dear Sir:-Your favor OF the 3rd is
received. | am especially anxious to
see honest, fair enforcement of all laws.
Complaints have come to me again and
again since i directed the enforcement
Of the law in Wichita. that there was
not an honest attempt TO enforce 1t. 1t
is not A question whether prohibition
is wise or unwise; the question is wheth
er the laws of the state shall be respect
ed or not. and so many complaints have
come to me that I have have felt that
there was not such an enforcement of
the law as there might we'll be. This
law should be enforced or il should
he removed from the statute books of
the state. The influence of the open
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good government. l am assured that
the law can be enforced in Wichita. It
seems TO me my duty to place the mat
ter in the hands OF those who are so
confident that they can enforce the law
and give them a fair trial. In conform
fly 10 that view of the case, / wrote
you as / did.
In the integrity. honesty and ability
Of your board | have the utmost conf
dence. but a board of police commits
sioners who honestly believe that the
law can be enforced would be more ac-
tive and energetic than a board who
do not believe that 1t can be enforced.
Yours truly,
f. n. MORRILL,.
Were you. originally. candidate
for the place.
NO sir: / was not and declined it
once or twice.
W EeU NrpNtLltt -sAti al NsiS INDUS
rated Colonel Murdoch came 10 me and
said he had the selection Of the board
of commissioners and asked me 10 be
one of them. He said il was his pur-
pose to have an honest, clean and de-
cent administration OF police affairs:
that he wanted no boodling. black mail
OF leg pulling. that every man should
be treated fairly and that every dollar
collected in fines and forfeitures should
be turned into the city treasury 10
tighten the burden OF business men and
properfy owners. He asked me again
TO have the place and said he would
bo,-o 1-bo- GOOD business men as nv