The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-15


Ign and Spencer sneered at the Doctrine
When Governor Leedy appointed the
police commission for Wichita" said a
prominent Sixth ward Populist yester-
day, the commission read, Jocelyn,
Furnish and Spencer. As soon as the
board was organized and Joe Furnish
wanted the records kept and the busi-
ness of the board managed according
70 law, il was about like this, JOCE-
LYN, Furnish & SPENCER" and the
Sixth ward politician held up a card
board on which the names of the COM
mission were printed with the Jocelyn-
Spencer idea Of their relative import
ance
Down our way" said the Sixth ward
man, I'VE have been accustomed 10 re-
gard Joe Furnish as a good Populist and
an honest man and we were none Of US
sorry when it was announced that he
had been appointed on the commission.
AT least ! know Joe Furnish was down
in the Sixth ward many a time talking
the cause Of free silver when Joceiyn
and Spencer sneered at the doctrine OF
populism.. 1t was, Joe Furnish, that
Pop, with them then, but now it's
JOCELYN Furnish & SPENCER, the
Populist police commission, and It's get
ting worse since they took the police
force here in town most Of whom are
Democrats, and nominated the county
ticket, giving the best places 10 the
Democrats.
WHAT right have you 10 say that and
how do you know it's JOCELYN,
Furnish & SPENCER, as you say?"
queried a bystander who happened TO
be from the Third ward.
''Humph, how do l know? Didn't L
see Jocelyn within a minute after he
made Joe Furnish a proposition TO do
the square thing if Furnish would vote
TO make him treasurer Of the board and
let him collect the fines and handle the
money? Furnish wouldn't do il, of
course. It's dead against the law. Joce-
iyn has, no more right to act as treas
urer of the board and collect the money
than he had to do that 81 900 Rock Is
land lumber bill against him the way he
did; nor any more right that he has
to go in with Spencer to try TO run the
whole Populist party in Sedgwick
county TO suit George Spencer, Tom
Fitch and George Locke. And then l
know that the law says meetings Of the
police board shall be held Saturday
evening All the time that the district
court is in session the meetings are held
al o'clock in the morning. the very
hour of the day that Furnish has the
least chance 10 attend, and the quorum
consists of Jocelyn and Spencer and L
know that the only man that Furnish
asked to be put on the special police
was thrown cut by Jocelyn and Spen-
cep because he wasn't considered by
them to be a good Pop. That was
Harvey Ritter Of Kechi township.
"As far as my right TO say anything
about il extends. am a tax payer and
have a right TO know what is done with
the citys money, and when the board
takes the public money over Furnish's
protest to pay for something they had
no right 10 do in the first place, | have
a right TO kick. When these two fellows
call a meeting Of the board al an hour
that Furnish can not possibly be there.
and one Of them signs up checks for
hundreds of dollars that nobody has a
right to sign but the secretary Of the
board. it's time t. kick. Why, Joe Fur
nish, who, according TO law and ap-
pOintment. has as much power on the
board as any member, and represents
the people of the city as much as either
of the other two, is not permitted 10 be
present when the meetings are held.
What do you think Of TWO public Of
ficers sneaking around holding meetings
OF the board when the other member
can't be present, and doing the regular
business at special meetings, Of which
the other MEMBER knows nothing at all.
Joe Furnish isn't permitted 10 know
any more Of the books and records Of
the police department than the janit0r
who takes care Of the rooms where the
board is supposed 10 meet. And what
do you think Of member of this COM
mission running around 10 collect fines
and having forfeitures paid in the pri-