The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-05
SAYS HE Is A LIAR
TIGER BILL USES HARSH Lam
GUAGE WHEN OUT OF WICHITA.

the Eagle as Does Old Wake Who
shoots on His Mouth in the Same Ole
way-Most Of the Speakers Do the Same
Thing.
Topeka, Kan, March 4-(SpeciaL)-
Tiger Bill Campbell said yesterday be-
fore the Temperance outfit that the man
who said there were saloons in Wichita
now was liar. He did not say Joints
and Tiger Bill is great on technicalities
He roasted the Eagle as also did almost
all the other speakers, including Rich
ard Wake
Bengal William as he is affection
ately called by his Wichita neighbors
proceeded 10 pay high compliment tC
Attorney General Dawes for the IN
wavering manner in which Mr.. Dawes
has sustained him in his attempt TO lick
whisky at Wichita. The police com
missioners at Wichita had also sustain
ed him nobly, and now he had come be-
fore this meeting TO say there was nc
longer any whisky business in Wichita
Il know they say this statement is
not true" he said "but anyone who says
menced at Wichita that town was worse
than Leavenworth. The prohibitory
law can be enforced anywhere with com
mon honesty on the part Of the officials
Whisky can be whipped in Leavenworth
Atchison and Kansas City. One of the
serious difficulties seems to be the fact
that the state is running the business
In these towns
Bengal William then turned his at
tention to Colonel Marsh Murdoch, who
he said, was a pet upon whom a golden
shower Of public favors had been lavish
ed. He had been given money, office
and position 10 keep him in good hui
NOR, and Of course must be a popular
man. In Leavenworth whisky would
find nc such popular champion at the
head of a defending newspaper.
IF Governor Morrill, would turn his
police commissioners loose in Leaven-
worth, Tiger Bills" would be found in
plenty to carry on the fight.
J. W. Gleed was the next speaker. He
said that If the Photographic X rays
were turned on Bengal William, back
bone would be found as big as a tele-
graph pole, while if turned on certain
state officers the rays would reveal moth
ing more substantial than a glass OF
jelly. Mr.. Gleed closed by reading the
following suppositious correspondence
between Governor Morrill, and the .Leav-
enworth police commissioners:
Governors Office, Topeka, March 1
1896:
ITO Snickelfritz, Einstein and Todleben
Police Commissioners, Leavenworth
Are there any open saloons in Leav-
enworth?
Governor"
Leavenworth, March, 2.
ITO the Governor.
There are. SNICKELFRITz,
Secretary"
Topeka. March 8.
'To Snickelfritz, Einsteln and Todelben,
Commissioners.
1.-THE saloons in Leavenworth are TO
be closed and kept closed. Unless they
are closed within ten days from this
date your designations will be required.
I am well acquainted in Leavenworth
and know where to find men to fill your
places that will do their duty. If cam
not find them, 1 will advertise for them.
| will have men there who will enforce
the law. It makes no difference to me
II 1t is Dan Anthony Jim Legate and Bill
Hackney, of Ohio-police commissioners
and chiefs of police will be hired, and I
propose to fight to out on This line If Il
takes all summer. Leavenworth Is
only small part of Kansas and Il must
and shall respect the constitution. Fan
ing in everything shall withdraw the
police commissioners and ask the legis-
lature to give me authority TO call the
militia and declare martial law. Yours.
.-.......-.
Governor"
The Rev. DR.. Lockwood of Salina op-
ened the evening session with prayer
President Wake delivered his annual
address. 1t had dash of sensation in
1t. and Mr.. Wake was frequently inter
rupted with applause.
Melting on the eve of the fifteenth an
niversary of the inauguration of prohi-
bition, our tone may not be as jubilant
as on some previous occasions, nor our
songs so triumphant as they ought to be
after so long a time afforded us for the
development of the prohihitory policy.
but yet mutual congratulations are not
entirely out Of order.
II congratulate the members Of the
union on the evidence Of increased vi
tally of this organization. 4 year ago
ii was so nearly dead that courage TO
call meeting was lacking until il was
stirred into life, unintentionally. per-
haps, by Governor Morrill,. His famous
announcement that the law cannot be
enforced unless sustained by local senti-
ment so aroused the slumbering feeling
OF the state, that the ma gnificent un-
rising of the Fourth Of July was made
possible. Since then more work has
been done and more prosecutions have
occurred than in any two years Of the
past five. In Wichita. Arkansas City.
Winfield. Salina, Hutchinson. Kansas
City. Hiawatha. Greenleaf and many
other places the saloonist has been made
10 feel that the way OF the transgres-
sor * hard" In some Of these cities
the Illegal sale has been entirely stop
ped and in others it has been shrunken
into exceedingly small dimensions.
That this organization has made it.
self felt : unmistakably shown by the
increased venom with which its workers
have been attacked by the organs Of the
saloon power. When papers like the
Wichita Eagle and the AtchisOn Globe
can not rest al night unless they have
told some lie or heaped some words 0:
abuse on temperance men il : proof
that they are being hurt. L Is the
wounded bird that flutters. \ snake
does not hiss until i fears danger. Had
these champions n the saloon infamy
not seen that this organization was Wig
orously alive they would gladly have
ignored its existence. Their curses are
an unconscious tribute 70 its power.
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