The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-04
NOBODY
Money Still in Kansas National
Bank Awaiting Takers.
TRYING TO PERSUADE
Somebody to Take 1t But
They Know Mr.. Stanley

Mr.. ]. o. Davidson, president of the
Kansas National bank where the $1,000 is
On deposit. to be wagered that If Mr.. STAN
ley is elected governor that there will be
10 police commissioners appointed. said
Yesterday that nobody had been in to take
the wager nor even inquire about it. The
money still stands, waiting takers.
Several attempts have been made by the
gang TO persuade somebody to go and
take the bet. But those accosted tell the
gang plainly that they do not believe Stan
ley will appoint any commission, and if
the members of the gang think SO. they
had better go and take It themselves.
But the gang never did pour any of its
money down rat-hole and they are not
going to commence any such operations
this late in the day.
The facts in the case are that the whole
gang is panic-stricken. Knowing all along
that they were classifying when they
Charged Stanley would appoint police
commission, when they were challenged to
stand by their false assertion, they went
al to pieces.
Like men in paDic. they have COM
menced to blame each other.
William Flavius Aguinaldo Green, who
has been cowed down by Colonel Toler,
was the first man to be removed. Ever
since the wager was put up Aguinaldo
Green has been standing around looking
so forlorn that one glance at his face made
a Republican vote.
Colonel Toler saw Green's lugubrious
countenance and yesterday Green mystic
riously left town.
That is the only funny thing in the
panic The rest of it is serious enough
Amidon has spent too much of his time
pulling for himself and Deacon Wilson.
Not content with running Sans campaign.
the Amidon crowd, taking one frightened
hook at the $1,000 wager demanded that
Jesse Haymaker do something. They say
he is rich and should take the wager down.
Jesse Haymaker knows better than to do
anything of the kind. He intimates that
Sam should take the bet down, as he has
money. Haymaker is backed up in this
demand by Jim Burton. who would just as
soon see Sam lose the bet.
All are agreed that the bet must come
down. All agree among themselves that
it will be $1,000 lost. And all agree that
the other fellow should put up the 81
TO be lost.
What is really worrying the crowd Is
that if the bet is taken another will go
UP in its place Immediately, an investiga-
ton on the part of the crowd having re-
vealed the fact that a citizen really did
say he would wager $4,000 on the same
proposition.
During the whole row and scramble
Colonel Toler is the only man who has
kept a smiling face. He is the natural
and acknowledged leader. and if he does
go down in defeat, it will be with COM
placency. and not in pallor. fright or
panic.
Colonel Toler knows that no one viii
take the bet and is trying to keep the
henchmen from noticing IT one way or the
other Captain Shields just shifts when
the wager is mentioned. Lew Butterfeld
merely looks tired. They will not talk
about it, and they can, on pressure, stil
look pleasant.
But the rest of the crowd are panic
stricken. The wager must come down.
Haymaker says that Amidon has been
most busy spreading the report that Stan
ley would appoint commission. and he
should lose the $1,000. Amidon says that
Haymaker should put up the money, as
he could afford to lose 81, 900 for the effect
OF stopping the stampede TO Stanley.
Meanwhile another string has been
pulled savagely. The local committee is
bowling at the state committee 10 come
down and take up the bet. 1t is pointed
out to the state committee that during
seventeen months a good deal more than
81 200 was sent from the city treasury OF
Wichita to the Populist campaign fund
and that it IS time to return it. as It is
needed.
But the state central committee will not
send the money.
If anybody takes up the bet it must be
either Sam Amidon or Jesse Hsymaker
of course it viii be done through a friend.
But Sam insists that Haymaker must lose
the money and Haymaker insists that Sam
shall The bet will be cut up into small
amounts if so desired, but taking $50 of it
would meet with horse laugh.
Meanwhile Colonel Toler the political
peer of any of them, smiles. No Caesar
ever faced defeat NOR CALAMITY
The bet stands. If anybody sincerely be-
i!eves that Stanley will appoint police
commission-believes it strong enough 70
let upon his judgment-he will find it
there. 1t IS no bluT. It IS bona ide. But
no one should take it without listening to
the warning that Stanley will not appoint
q police commission.