The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-01-05
MAY SWIPE IT TOO
MORRILL, SAID TO BE CONSIDERING
ABOUT LEAVENWORTH.

In Order to Repair His Mistake In Recon-
mendiug the Gothenburg System III,
May Turn His Guns on the Exempted
Town and Give ii Bright Blue Thunde
1t has Been Dinned In His Ears 81
Long That He is Getting Tired of It
Newspapers Outside the Big Citie
Score Him RoundIy.
Topeka, Kan, Jan. 4.-(Special)-
Following is dispatch from Atchison
TT did not require the denial of Gov.
ernor Morrill, to convince the Republi.
can leaders in Atchison that there was
absolutely no truth in the report from
Topeka that his exceliency would not
seek a denomination. The governor
was here the day previous to the send
ing out of that dispatch and they knew
or thought they knew that he was
"hankering" after second term. MOI
TO be renominated for governor Of Kan
sa9 means political oblivion. The
governor can't afford 1t. Better to ac-
cept a denomination copuled with de-
feat at the polls than to decline it.
And, by the way, the Republican enc
mics of Governor Morrill, are already
| figuring out his defeat, if he is renomi-
mated by the Democrats on a resub-
mission and free silver platform. The
Populists will indorse him. The two
parties will to a man support him. The
| thousands Of Democrats who voted for
Morrill, in 1894 will all be in line. He
viii receive thousands of res'fbmission
and free silver Republican votes. These
Republicans are right about one thing.
Thousands Of Democrats did vote for
Morrill, in 1894, fearful that vote for
! Oyermeyer was a half for Lewelling.
and preferring Morrill, to Lewelling.
They won't do so any more. Kansas
| Democrats will vote for a Democrat in
! 1896"
1t is true that Morrill, expects to get
the Republican nomination for COVER
| nor again. Just how he expects to do
| ii is not plain. He can not succeed
| along old political lines of warfare,
| for if public sentiment amounts TO any
| thing, Major Morrill, is lost. But change
able as he has been Morrill, is some
| thing Of politician, and guileless as he
| appears, he is a diplomat when in a
! corner.
MAJOR MORRILL'S SCHEME.
| And the figurers here have about
come to the conclusion that he is 60
ing to try a scheme.
Morrill, has given out several inter-
views. Most of them he has denied.
But he has not denied the one wherein
he declared that Prohibition was fall
ure. This has evoked a howl of indig-
nation from the Prohibitionists. They
say, as a private citizen he had right
ITO express that opinion, but as Gov
ernor 1T was a thrust at the enforcement
of law.
Now how can Morrill, pacify the Pro-
hibftion element? Only by making
war on the anti-Prohibitionist all over
the state.
1t is said that this is what he intends
to do. He will swoop down on Lea
venworth, Kansas City and Atchison
and Fort Scott and particularly on
Leavenworth and make all these Kan
Sas Romes howl.
He will particularly make it red hot
for Leavenworth. The name of this
town has been dinned inUo his ears un-
til he is almost insane. The general
remark among the Prohibitionists is
Eyes, he is making an effort at Wichita,
but what about Leavenworth?"
Now if Morrill, swoops down on Lea
venworth. the Prohibitionists will call
him great. The papers over the state
of Prohibition proclivities will call him
a nero. r OF ID human nature Is SucIl,
according TO the politician, that If
man refuses to do something for months
and at last does it, he gets more credit
for it than if he had done it in the first
place without being asked.
1t is now Morrill's time to Swoop
down on Leavenworuh. He would do
it tomorrow if it were not for one thing.
Through the state house are the other
state officials and they are scared to
death. They think they see the GER
tain destruction of Major Morrill, and
they are afraid that they will be in
cluded in the kreck. They can not pass
the door of the chief executive without
casting a look of despair at ii.
ONE OF TWO THINGS.
Morrill, has way of doing things
without consulting the rest of the state
house. And If he comes to the conclu-
sion that it is necessary he will come
out and declare that while he regards
the Prohibition law is a failure it is on
the statute books and he will enforce
it. Then he will give Leavenworth a
swipe and the whole Prohibition ele-
ment will applaude. The Prohibition
lists will then say that Morrill, has a
right to express his opinion, and that
he shows himself to be honorable by
'tobeying the law"
II ihOTTlll IS 10 nave IGle IeInOlSSl
chance of being nominated he must do
one thing or the other. He must move
on Eeavenworth and Atchison and get
nominated by the rural vote, or he must
abolish the metropolitan police system
entirely and risk getting it in the neck
from the Prohibitionists.
VIEWS DISAPPOINTING.
To the Observation-Disclosures the views |
of majority of the press of Kansas on |
Morrill's Gothenburg interview is very
disappointing. Almost every paper |
in the state outside of the large cities !
denounces him for il. Few, however, /
go so far as to say that he should be /
refused the nomination for his blunder. |
The lola Register. a paper edited by |
one of the governors appointees, says: |
The recent interview with Governor |
Morrill,. in which he declared his belief |
that Prohibition was failure and 4
should be abandoned, and that the sys-
tenn OF state control should be substi- |
tuted in its stead, was read with regret, !
not only by all friends of Prohibition 1
but by all Of Governor Morrilrs friends /
as well. No one can question the I
right of the governor to his own opin- !
ion on any subject whatsoever. But 4
the right of at least the wisdom of ex-
pressing that opinion at such a time
anu III SuCE d way dS Will uETSCNly el-
courage violations Of the law, and add 4
materially TO the difficulties OF enforc-
ing the law. may we'll be questioned.
The governor has made a serious mis-
take. officially. personally and political
ly.'
The Fredonia Citizen. edited by an
other close friend OF Morrill,, says: Nor
rill talks too much. Kansas does not
want any new tangled methods OF regu-
lating the dispensaiio ton Of liquor. No
matter what the law or system, whisky
Mill - 1