The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-08
NO POLITICS.
All. Vance and J. W. Breidenthal
Side by Side
On the Non Partisan Committee
Appointed
To Look After Enforcement of
the ProhibitOry Law.
ALL PARTIES THERE.
J. w. Gleed and I. O. Pickering
ON the Committee.
A Few Flowers Scattered on
MOrrilPs Tomb
In the Form of Resolutions of
Commentator.
TO NAME FIFTY MEN
In the Form of Resolutions of
Commentator.
TO NAME FIFTY MEN
Who Are to Be a Larger
Committee.

Messrs ]. W. Gleed, A. H Vance
and John W. Breidenthal. of Topeka. L.
r. Elliott, of Manhattan, and /. o. Picker
ing, of Olathe, are the men who are to
select the committee of 50' prominent
Kansas politicians on law enforcement
who are to prevent the overthrow of
prohibition in Kansas.
The selection of this non- partisan COM
mittee of five TO name the committee of
so" was the one act of the temperance
the State Temperance union being
turned completely over into the fold OF
single political party.
The meeting called to diecuss the
present situation relative to the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law but narrowly
escaped being Republican caucus.
In calling this conference the manag-
ers of the State Temperance union had
aimed to get some new life into the
organization by bringing together some
of the actual business men of the state
who are interested in prohi bition. At
the afternoon session in the Y. b. G. A.
parlors there were present between
thirty and forty friends of temperance,
about one half of whom were preachers
The meeting was addressed for over
an hour by Tiger BlI' (Col. w. P.
Campbell), who was there to secure an
endorsement of Attorney General Dawes
and Governor Morrill, as officers, who
were doing good work in closing up
the saloons and joints of Wichita. I'll
ger Bill accomplished his purpose, as
is shown in the resolutions adopted by
the conference. Although Gov. Morrill,
hBs done more to injure the cause of
prohibition in Kansas than any man
in the state, the resolutions endorsed
him.
"WilIiam the Tiger" as he some
times calls himself, and as he was play
fully referred to by several of the speak
ers was ably assisted in his work of
looking after the interest of the state adj
ministration in the conference by Mr.. J.
G. Haskell, Mr.. Simon Bolivar Bradford
and others. while Mr.. I. II. Balm and
Judge A. II. Vance were mindful of the
fact that the cause of temperance owes a
great debt of gratitude to the Repub-
lican party.
In his speech Tiger Bill denounced
the Kansas drug stores as joints and
saloons, and said he favored the estab-
lishment of a state dispensary for the
sale of Intoxicating liquors for the pur-
poses named in the constitution. He
said: "The policy of prohibition is all
right, and l endorse every word Ed Hoch
says on that subject. [Applause.l
Governor Morrill's recent interview
was taken as a back down among the
violators of the law at Wichita, who
imagined that the governor was simply
fixing place for him to fall. but they
have now changed their minds, and have
given up Morrill, now completely as
they have Dawes long time ago"
In telling how much good work he
had done he said: There is hardly
saloon keeper in Wichita able to pay his
rent today.
ale Horarro- Mor-iII xz;U o1-o;14 80
lice commissioners in Leavenworth and
AtchisOn favorable to the enforcement of
the law, the attorney general will look
up a Tiger Bill in those two towns
who will enforce the law" MIR. Tiger
Bill failed to explain why the governor
hadn't done this. He then advised the
conference not to quarrel with the gov
ernor but to cooperate with him and
give him sympathy and encouragement
In his efforts TO enforce the law.
Judge ] f. Culver then said he had
had four years experience with dispen-
sary law and il was the worst law
imaginable to regulate the liquor traffic.
S. B. Bradford then appealed to the
conference not to condemn the officers
without cause and said the officers re-
quired some public sentiment back of
them when they enforce the law. Mr..
Bradford seemed to think his appellate
court clerkship made him the chief de-
fender of the governor before the con-
ference.
DIR. A. s. Embree said: ~ believe in the
selection of good men for office. l have
been a Republican all my life. Before
was old enough to vote l was a Republi-
can, but / want to say if l am to continue
to cast my vote with that party it must
give US men for the official positions of
trust who are clean men and are in favor
of the enforcement of the prohibitory
law. The Republican party or the party
which is to get my vote in the future
must give US a man for governor who is
like Caesars wife. absolutely without sus-
picion on this question of prohibition"
A. H.~Vance: 81 have, too, been Re-
publican all my life, but 1 don't intend
TO vote the ticket again unless the Re-
publican party measures up to what it
has been in the past. Let US here today
say what we are and not go away and
forget what We said here and do just as
though we. had not been here"
J. w. Gleed then urged the conference
to remember that it was the Republican
party which had done everything for
prohibition and he urged the Importance
of working within the old party and re-
storing its pledges
Rev. E. NJ. Randall of Leavenworth
said he knew some good prohibitionists
who were Populists; and did not believe