The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-16
DEAL WITH DIRT.
Inside Facts About the Foul and
Disreputable Compact
Made at Wichita With Gamblers
and Street Walkers.
Morrill, on His Marrow Bones
Before Criminal Glasses.
KANSAS Is DLSGRACED.
dwellings Deal With Kansas
City Scalawags
Repeated With Embattled Vice
and Outlawry.
THIS TINE AT WICHITA
Cy Leland, Deliver in Political
Pollution,
Plans the Coup d. Etat in
the Interest
Of Such Creatures as Dixie Lee
and the Red Nosed Gentry.
Repeated With Embattled Vice
and Outlawry.
THIS TINE AT WICHITA
y Leland, Deliver in Political
Pollution,
Plans the Coup d. Etat in
the Interest
Of Such Creatures as Dixie Lee
and the Red Nosed Gentry.

Mr. Geo. L. Douglass, of Wichita, eX-
speaker of the house of representatives,
was in the city Saturday afternoon
While he is not a prohibitionist, and
some years ago made an active ght for
resubmission, Mr.. Douglass has always
insisted that the prohibition law should
be respected the same as any other law
until modified or repealed
Last summer, when the governor
ordered the law enforced in Wichita, he
took this position openly with others,
and, in so doing, incurred the wrath of
all the friends of the joints, including the
editor of the Wichita Eagle.
In reply to the question as to what he
thought of the endorsement of Editor
Murdock by the state convention and
the Wichita police changes, Mr.. Doug
lass said:
"They are parts of hqmiliating and
discreditable deal. 1t fs understood
that Mr. Leland gave, the governor and
his appointees to understand that they
must all surrender to the law defiers of
Wichita and lick the hand that snote
them; and when that word went down
the line they fairly tumbled over each
other in their effort to see who could
most effectually abase himself
"The first step, few days before the
convention, was for the governor to re-
move the backbone of the Wichita police
board and substitute a political merce-
nary whom the governor personally knew
to be an enemy of the enforcement of
the law.
"The next step, was to force the state
convention to endorse Murdock's course
by electing him delegate-at-large. 1t is
true he is a bowling Populist on the
money question (the last Sedgwick coun-
to Pop convention having passed a reso-
luton enclosing his view and Demo
crat in his long and venomous enmity to
the Mckinley bill. But such trifies cut
no figure in the face of the all-important
fact that he had spent six months in the
open advocacy of lawlessness and in a
shameless warfare upon public officers
and private citizens who had dared to say
that the law was entitled to respect in
Wichita.
'For this reason and this alone (for
nobody believes that it was on account
of his tariff or financial heresies) he was
picked out by conscisnceless machine
for endorsement; and crowded through
the state convention by a majority of
thirteen.
The most remarkable thing in the
whole business was the way many dele
gates, who expressed in private their un-
controllable disgust, and admitted that
it was the most nauseating dose they
ever swallowed, were whipped into line
and forced to ratify the deal.
"Under the combined influence of the
BOSSES whip and the smell of federal
patronage, even George 7. Anthony's al
legged backbone turned into dough, and
he joined in the mad scramble to de-
clare that treason to the constitution is a
Republican virtue and loyalty crime
"If the Republican convention of 1864
had endorsed JEFF Davis it would have
been no greater abandonment of Repub-
lican principles, or a more open epudia-
ton of the men who had defended the
flag and stood by the principle of free
government.
"The lesson is of course plain. Hereaf-
ter the way to win favor is to slander,
libel and villify everybody who upholds
the law and the constitution; and above
all to waste no time over the sickly sem
timent of trying to be right; for that is
the last thing on earth the present ma
chine will ever take into account.
"The pretense that the Murdock en-
dorsement was merely the adjustment
of controversy and to create harmony
was the rankest fraud ever talked bv
political tricksters. 1t was not an ad
Justment It was an unconditional sur
render of the most degrading type. The
lion and the lamb did indeed lie down
together; but the lamb was inside of the
lion.
"A few hours after the convention ad =
journed, the next step in the deal was
taken when the governor telegraphed a
psremptory order for sweeping changes
in the police department Frank Burt
was Immediately made chief of police;
every officer who had rendered effective
service against the jointists was sum-
marily dismissed; while two men who
had left the service because of their fat
refusal to enforce the law were reap
pointed.
"Who 'is Frank Burt?"
I'm very many ways he is a very clev-
er fellow. He is secretary of the Mystic
brotherhood. His general business, /
have understood, is the same as that of
MIR. Peter Kline of Kansas City, Kansas,
and his selection to command the WITCH.
ita police force involves the same prin.