The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-06

and Would Do the Same for Morrill,
New Organization of Cranks has Placed
a New Set of Ofhcers at Its Head and of
Course a Topeka Man Heads the List
and the Merry War VIII be Continued If
They Have the Power to Do So.
Topeka, Kan, Marcvh 5.-(Specia1)
Bill Tiger during the Prohibition meet
ing yesterday told one thing that was
true. He said that the metropolitan
police law had been dwellings grave
and would be Morrill's.
Tiger Bill' Campbell was called for
He said the greatest debt he owed the
assembly was that of being an honest
man, and thereupon sailed into the
system Of government by police COM
missioners. He said:
II object to the metropolitan police
law and the placing in the hands Of
three men the government of a city.
This system has been and is the head
center of the saloon interests. 1t has
never been used for anything else. 1t
was originally intended to place the
power of enforcing the law in the state
but it has missed its aim. / am unable
to tell why it has failed, because If I
did 1 might reveal state secrets.
when l. ID. IeweIling was elected
governor Of Kansas he was dignifed
and honorable citizen, temperance man
and a prohibitionist and all his SYM
pathies were with the enforcement Of
the law. However, he followed in the
wake of his predecessors. He was COM
PEELED TO walk the plank"
What compelled him." exclaimed
some one in the audience.
1.-THE powers in the air." replied the
speaker with a dramatic wave of his
hand. He then assailed Governor Nor
rill and said:
1.-The metropolitan police law has been
used as an element OF power by the
present administration to advance its
own interests and to insure a contin-
uance of power. Tt combines all the cor
rupt influences in a city. And this will
continue unless we change-some peo-
pie.
1.-The metropolitan police law and its
environments proved to be Lewelling's
grave and 1 am Of the opinion that it
will be Governor Morrills grave, poll
tically. No one can impugn the mo-
tives Of Governor Morrill,. You may
talk about the trouble experienced by
Tiger Bill In Wichita. 1t is nothing
when compared with that experienced
by Governor Morrill,. He IS absolutely
surrounded by wolves, hyenas, and jack
ais with which he has to deal
In the early days in Wichita I can
remember when collectors went around
TO the saloonists carrying q coffeesack
into which contributions for the cor
ruption fund were poured. This source
of revenue was made the basis of a
living for many people The newspa-
pers got some of it for immigra ton ar
ticles which appeared in the columns;
when a county treasurer or some other
partisan official was in the hole to the
extent of 5000 or $4,000, or funds were
needed for any purpose this corruption
fund was brought into use
eff l were governor" said Mr.. Camp
bell in closing, "or occupied any official
position,I would fulfill my oath of off1ce
if it smashed the party to smithereens
The executive should compel the COM
missioners to do their duty. 1 do not
know where it is, but there is a vacili
lating power in existence somewhere
were this removed conditions would
be changed. Can you expect me to en-
dure the odium which has been heaped
upon me by reason Of the prosecutions
at Wichita? the danger of assassina-
ton while going to and from my home? ?
Face a bowling mob Of opposition fling
ing abuse at me? As q result of the
fight we have been making in Wichita
we are as odious as lepers in the COM
munity-but our police commissioners
are above reproach and are enforcing
the law in the face and teeth of a den
of wolves
Rev. r. Hammons OF Baldwin said
the metropolitan police law should be
kept where it is. 1.-The fault is with the
man who appoints the commissioners.
The temperance people should rise up
and put a man in the place who would
appoint men who would enforce the
law. We should break the states put
up. Breaking states results in max
ing them. Some OF US preach, pray and
continue to resolute, but the way to do
business is to get at II. Retain the
police law 1t is valuable
]. w. Gleed spoke in favor of the law
He said conditions would be changed
if we had an official who kept two eyes
on his duty rather than on the voters.
We need a man, he said, who will do
what he contracts to do.
Mr.. Gleed continued: I'VE are all
sorry for Leavenworth. The city pre-
sents a melancholy spectacle. IL is
like a crumbling omnibus on a vacant
lot. This may be observed from the
veranda of the old Planters house, de-
serted and empty but more comfortable
than any other hotel in the town. Lea
wentworth has more taxes and less TO
show for 1T than any other city in the
state. Were the law enforced the city
would have new clothes. 1t would be
changed and for the better. What we
need is a man who will go into Office
of governor and accept its burdens in
good faith"
In the course Of a few remarks later
in the day Mr.. Gleed said that Governor
Morrilrs attitude toward Leavenworth
and Wichita and other cities is wholly
lnexcusable.
A parliamentary wrangle took place
over the various motions which had
been made with reference 10 the resolu-
lions. Mr.. Biddison moved TO substi-
tute his minority report Some one
moved to adopt the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions. There was
a spirited discussion over the substi-
tute, which was finally voted down and
the original report OF the majority of
the committee on resolutions was then
unanimously adopted.
The resolutions embodied in the mi
nority report by Mr.. Biddison were Is
follows:
Resolved. That the experience OF
Wichita, Arkansas City, Hiawatha. o.
tawa and Salina demonstrates that the
prohibitory law can he enforced.
Resolved. That prohibition : the
means and the only means at hand by
which 10 restrict or destroy the public
bringing places and that the public Ut
terances and acts OF the chief execu-
tive of the state encuura ging violation
of the law and multiplying she just sen
fences of the courts under Il. prove
him unworthy Of a denomination or r.