The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-14
SHUT Them UP.
s'Public Sentiment in Topeka
Demands
That the Joints Be Shut Up,
No Matter
WHAT GOV. THINKS.
Other Forms of the Laws YiO-
latiOn May Exist
That for the Present Can Wait
for Attention.
BUT ALL THE JOINTS
Should Go at Once---No Room
for Saloons.
President Rodgers Can't Afford
to Neglect His Duty.
That for the Present Can Wait
for Attention.
BUT ALL THE JOINTS
Should Go at Once---NO Room
for Saloons.
President Rodgers Can't Afford
to Neglect His Duty.


There is a rumor current that all the
joints in the city are to be closed in
earnest and all the proprietors arrested
by the orders of the police board. The
members of the board nor the officers
viii talk about the matter for the very
good reason that it would put thehquor
sellers on their guard. If anything is
done it viii be done soon and the in
tention of the board win be kept
secret
The publication of the names of and
location of the drinking places in the
Journal had no effect on the prOprie-
tors. A few of them became more
secret in their sales but so far as is
known none of them have closed The
old Calihan place on East Sixth street
is just as open as ever and a man does
not have to be acquainted to get some
thing to drink There is d change Of
4 bartenders occasionally, however.
4 Tt is said that there is a mutual
I agreement among the proprietors that
/ when there is any agitation or a notice
/ to close has been served, that the bar
/ tenders change all around. The man
] who has been looking after the dis
/ Iensing OF the liquors in one place goes
! to a neighboring ''jOint, and that bar
! tender in turn goes to another. and in
that way they hope to escape the con
I sequences of violating the law.
/ Ex-President Foster of the police
+ board laughs at the statement that it
J was impossible to secure evidence
4 against the drinking places
WI hy don't they use what I turned
I over to them said he. III had a list
i of Witnesses which would surely have
I furnished sufficient evidence
/ When President Foster was removed
/ he had in his possession lists Of wit
/ nesses who would TESTIFY against sew
! eral drinking places lie turned these
/ over to the board, but no action was
/ ever taken nor has a jOintist Deen ar
rested since ne was removed. Among
/ the places against which he had col
! lected evidence were Pete CalHhan's
/ place on East Sixth street. Fritz Du-
! rein's place on East Seventh street
i Walt Richards and the place under the
/ Royal billiard hall on Kansas avenue
near Seventh street
The present activity Of the police
I board and the evident intention to do
/ something to close up the places is the
| result of public sentiment" The peO-
/ pie are demanding that something be
/ done, and even many Of the resubmis-
siOnists are in favor Of the police ofh-
] GERS doing something. for they say that
! if the places are closed the people will
/ be more ready to vote for resu ubmissiOn-
! There is plenty of public sentiment"
( where there is q newspaper to voice it.
A Topeka man who has been very
I near the police board told Journal re-
( porter today that he knew that there
was an understanding with Governor
/ Morrill, at the time President Rodgers
was appointed that the drinking clubs
1 should not be mOlested. DR. McCabe,
I tit is stated made a speech to the gov
I ernor in which he said that the good
/ of the party was his first cOnsidera-
/ ton and nothing should be done which
/ would stand i'm the way of the success
I of the Republican party.
The same man also says that there
/ was a promise from the governor or
some one close to him that if President
/ Rodgers would follow out the wishes of
the governor the state administration
] would support him for postmaster in
/ case of AcNinley's election.
Adr Rodgers has heretofore made an
{ excellent record in Topeka. He was
I known as a practical temperance man,
a church member ana prOhlbltIonlst
and the governor evidently thought
/ that the temperance people would be
satisfied with Mr.. Rodgers appoint
ment and they will be if he viii en-
/ force the law as well as it was enforced
under President Bonebrake.
The county officers deserve a share
of the censure for allowing the joints
to run almost wide open. If the coun-
ty attorney would do his duty the
places might be closed without the aid
of the police.
The people are not complaining about
the Arions, the Turner'S and other sOcie-
ties that have existed for many years
and have behaved in an orderly man
ner, but they do insist that no saloons
shall be run in this town either openly
or secretly. The utter and complete an
! 0ln1larIOn OF the JOINT Will StlElSIE DUD-
lie sentiment in Topeka and nothing
less That is a great point gained.
Francis Murphy. the great prohibition
temperance evangelist, thinks that the
situation in Topeka as it is, is much
/ better than if open saloons were run
/ ming.
when you can drive whisky. sellers
I into the attics and cellars" said he
/ you have already accomplished much
/ good. I have seen no saloons in TOpe-
ka and no drunken men, and I say that
you have the cleanest decentest town
/ in the world.
Shut the Joints now, say the people
of Topeka. other forms of violating the
! prohibitory law can wait.
/ The continuation of the Murphy tenn
/ perance meetings in Topeka and the
/ change from paid to free lectures mean
that the State Temperance union is de-
termined to work up the sentiment in
/ Topeka to force the officers, both coun-
ty and city, TO take active steps to en-
force the law
President Vance says he does not
know how long the meetings viii be
continued and that the route mapped
out VIII be rearranged and an effort
made TO awaken the temperance and
/ prohibition element of Topeka before
the lecturer goes 70 other cities.