The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-14
WILLIE GOT WEARY
TIRED OF ATTEMPTING an IMP0S-
SIBILITY He GIVES 1T UP.
Sends His Resignation to Attorney General
Dawes Without Comment-He Made a
Hard Fight But the Odds Were Against
Him-His Gross Receipts Were Less
Than $500 for Eight Months Work and
Eight Months Abuse-He is Now Salts
fled That it is Hard to Enforce Law
Obnoxious to the Public.

Eight Months Abuse-He is Now Salts
fed That it is Hard to Enforce Law
Obnoxious to the Public.
Nobody in Wichita should ever be-
lieve in the superstition of Friday again
it is a fraud, a fake, a delusion and
a snare.
! 1t was on Friday that Lieurance was
fired from the position of secretary of
the board of police commissioners and
II was on Friday-yesterday- I
Judge Campbell. alias Bill Tiger-threw
up his job as assistant attorney general
for Sedgwick county.
The superstition of "13" is also a
fraud, fake, delusion and a snare;
for was not yesterday the 18th day of
| the month. One of a superstitious turn
| of mind would not look for good results
| from anything occurring on date that
combined two such dreadful supersti-
tons and yet nobody VIII doubt but
what yesterday will loom up in the his
tory Of Wichita as date fraught with
| happiness.
The letter Of resignation sent by
Judge Campbell 10 Attorney General
Dawes was mailed yesterday morning
1t was short and sweet and reads as
| follows:
e Wichita, Kan. March IS, 1896
"Hon. F. B. Dawes, Attorney General
of Kansas:
Dear Sir-I hereby tender my resig-
nation as assistant attorney general for
| Sedgwick county to take effect forth
with. Very respectfully,
''W. p. CAMPBELL"
After Judge Campbell dropped the
letter into the red mail box he lifted his
face towards the morning sun as much
as to say well, am a free man again"
When a reporter for the Eagle met
him he was at the district clerks Of
flee comparing notes with that other
ex-assistant attorney general Ami
don. He thought Sam made more
money out Of the Office than he did but
Sam denied it. Judge Campbell then
said with an eloquent burst of candor
and sincerity that he made only $40
during the entire eight months he was
in office and that he paid more than
half of that out for railroad fare chas-
ing up and down the road to and from
Topeka. He said the~war in Wichita
was now over but intimated that he
would open up somewhere else. He
thought the next war would he kind
of a Cuban war. II know said Judge
Campbell that I did all / could to en-
force the law and I still believe that l
diminished the consumption of liquor.
l could not hold out forever and fight
single handed against such odds.
never had any grudge against Wichita
and all my efforts were in the interest
of temperance. L am going to practice
low nj
world.
There is one thing very certain and
that is that Judge Campbell made a
harder fight against an overwhelming
sentiment of opposition than any man
in the state could make under like cir
cumstances. Men who were heart and
soul in opposition to him in sentiment
often watched a display of his fighting
qualities with admiration, and the fact
that he was unsuccessful in his efforts
is the best evidence that il was absO-
lutely and entirely impossible to enforce
the prohibitory law where the people
don't want ii enforced or, TO express it
more properly, az in the instance of
Wichita, where it appears 10 them that
the method of its enforcement is more
injurious to the cause of temperance
than its nonenforcement would be II
is not tN ptttcu lildl - Judge AdIIlpttil
will admit it but it is nevertheless very
probable that ne learned from the va
rious discussions on the subject, and
the object lessons 50 frequently given
through this paper that the cause Of
temperance is better served when the
liquor traffic is honestly regulated than
when II is allowed to run riOt in the
dark alleys by irresponsible parties;
where the eye of the better element Of
the public is not on it and hence can
not check the excuses that it naturally
produces. Judge Campbell is not
theorist any more. He now sees. with
a practical eye and with the lamp OF
experience. that temperance is violated
more in places where fanaticism drives
liquor TO than where reason, rnOdera-
ton and liberation can curb and con-
troll ii. Judge Campbell sees this plain
ly and he did not hesitate yesterday
to say that he was in favor OF another
system in preference TO the Kansas