The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-26
THREATENED TOPEKA TROUBLE.

That is a strange rumor coming from
! Topeka about the nOn-enforcement OF
the prohibitory law, and of Morrill,
threatening 10 remove the present
police commission, and it is no less
funny than it is strange. With the
| town walled in by ranks of beer barrels
piled high, and Kansas avenue smelling
from one end TO the other as if Ken
lucky distillery had collided with train
/ of drug stores. no complaint or protest
was eyer heard from her papers that
| the law was not being enforced in To
peka With cellars being robbed of
liquors by the police force. and drunken
pauolmen lying around their headquar-
tiers, U,le can always read in the jour
mails of that city of the gross violation
of Law in Wichita, AtchisOn and Leav-
enwOrih, with now and then vigorous
call for another state temperance CON
ventiOn at Topeka for the purpose of
fOrtifying public sentiment and Stiffen-
ing a vertebrate column supposed to be
located somewhere between Governor
MOrrills head and heels. In a late
issue the Capital is forced to admit the
existence of such rumOr, and replies
with the declaration that Governor
Morrill, is not likely unnecessarily TO
stir up a quarrel over the pr0hibitory
law" On, of course not in Topeka.
It'S n II y;Oht in t1a iptaroSt of r1aIitir-
and for the pacifiication of the cranks
for The governor 10 stir UP a quarrel
over the prohibitOry law" in Wichita
or Atchison and TO threaten Leaven-
worth and Kansas City, but not ''likely
unnecessarily" in Topeka.
There is probably little nT no danger
Of Topeka being Disturbed l'y the gov
ernOr in ''unnecess ariiy stirring up
quarrel there over the prohibitory law"
but it is gratifying 10 know thas the
threat was iminent enough to bring our
such protest from the Capital. OF
course both the papers and citizens Of
Wichita and AtchiSOn and number Of
other cities and towns have respective
ly and alike protested against unneces-
sary quarrels being stirred up in their
midst, but with the Topeka papers and
with Wakes minions and conventions
kissing the governor Oh, quarrels have
been stirred up all the same, even to the
sending out the beastly Dawes and the
employment of Tiger Bills. The sheer
of the Topeka papers that Wichita
is better off and has lost nothing in the
driving away of scores of families and
numbers of business men. upon the pre-
sumption that the men who were
driven away could be no particular
credit to any town is as far from
the truth as the New York Voice
Ginning in with the declaration
that some two hundred Of those driven
out of Wichita We're charactless wo-
men. 1t is not necessary to say that
the Voice is liar, but we note that
the two heads of the largest wholesale
firm of the three that left Wichita, were
not only Staunch but rabid loud
mOuthed PrOhibitioniSts. To say moth
ing of two prominent ministers who
have since gone. This firm didn't move
to Topeka by the way. No, sir; they
are doing more or less fOurishing bus
mess in the whisky center Of the west,
city hauling in a public revenue of
many thousands of dollars monthly
from that traffic alone, a city that got
the Voices two hundred lewd women
driven from Wichita, but city which
unlike Topeka does not confine the
traffic to redOlent club houses and
thuriferOus drug stores, nor yet permit
its police force to lie around headquar-
ters drunk.
For the sake of the good name of the
state and in the interest Of the party
to which we both belong, we heartily
join the Capital in the request that
Governor Morrill, do not stir up a
quarrel in Topeka over the prOhibitory
law" otherwise we wouldn't lose any
sleep if Topeka had a few weeks dose
of the ''stirred-up quarrel which has
rent and torn this community for
months.