The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-07
POLITICS.
Partially Responsible For an
Unexpected Raid
Made on Some of the Big Joints
in Town.
THE JOINTISTS SEEN
To Have Forgotten to Reckon
Sheriff Cook
In Their Calculations and Are
Much Stirred Up.
THE JOINTISTs SEEM

ed The men are Lon Townsend, Har-
~ Croft and Walt Richards.
The arrests were not made at the in
stance of the temperance committee
and the complaints were sworn to by
Sheriff Cook himself and County At
torney JetmOre issued the warrants.
The jointfsts regard the arrests as sim
ply grand stand play on the part of
the officers and they are going right on
with their business though they exer-
else a little more caution.
The fact about the arrests, according
to a good authority, is that Judge Ha-
zen himself advised the sheriff to make
the raids because he became Disguised
with the holiness and impudence of the
jointists who were not satisfied to take
small favors.
A man who knew what he was talk
ing about said: Judge Hazen knew all
about this matter and he told Cook to
go ahead. He is tired of the way the
jointists hove been acting. They seem
to think that they have everything their
way and they will receive an object
lesson or miss my guess. The trouble
now is that Jetmore doesn't want to do
anything. He is afraid. He is up for
reelection next fall and does not want
to offend the jointists. Cook does not
owe the liquor men anything"
Three or four trusted men have been
Cook for two or three weeks and they
have evidence against most of the pla-
ces in Topeka The cases that have
been worked up and in which arrests
have been made are what are known
as "cincheS" which means that the evil
dence is such that there is no way for
the Jointists to escape conviction.
Several of the jointists visited the
court house today to try to find out
whether any more warrants had been
issued but they made no discoveries.
The members of Sheriff Cooks force
are not doing any talking.
The bars and fixtures were not taken
in the raid by the officers but the liz
quor, glasses, bottles and kegs were ia
ken They were all locked in the vault
in the basement of the court house
They will be kept for evidence.
Inc three arrests were made under
the nuisance clause of the prohibitory
law because it is much easier to make
convictions for maintaining a nuisance
than for special sales.
Harry Croft's place at 40 Kansas av-
enue behlnd the Capital billiard hall
IS still in operation on the first floor
The large oak bar and the massive
sldeboard were bare except for a few
peer glasses and SaltcellarS. The long
shelves underneath the sideboard, used
for keeping bottles, We're empty The
Ihe large plate glass mirror and the
heavy Oaken columns were sDotlessIv
clean and the bartender had little to
do but keep them so. Croft had lust
peen down to answer to roll call at the
county Jail when a reporter called. Il
don't know what 1 will do said Croft
They have been trying for ten wears
10 get me in Jail and I don't think I
Will let them do it now, but don't care
very mucn what they do. I do wish
the sheriff's force had little more
common sense. What is the use of NV
gong down there every morning to let
them know | am in town when 1 am
was not in when the place was
pulied, but they took Henry Schmidt
and all the stuff down to the court
mouse, said Walt Richards, who is pro-
prletor OF the place at lib East Seventh
street I was walking down Quincy
street when they got me. 1 went down
10 the court house and was taking an
inventory of the stuff when a coIored
man asked me what 1 was doing. I
told him 1 was checking up the STUFF
and he wanted to know why Should
do that if did not own it 1 told him
perhaps L was agent for someone else
l am sure that someone got Porter
Cook to do this. Either the COMMITTEES
OF seventeen or someone else was the
cause of it. 1 don't see why they should
go after a few and allow others TO RIM
Why don't they get after the Turner's
ana Ar1onS? They have been running
for years. The Arions closed I'D once
for short time and after they com
piled with the order to expel all Amer
lean members they opened again rs
plain to me that it is politics. 1t used
to be that the Republicans fixed their
tickets years ahead. 1t was like a lot
terry, and the man that drew the NOM
1nation was elected. Now the Demo-
Gratis have gotten in two councflmen
and the Republicans are afraid that the
Democrats will win and prohibition will
have to go, so they are wakine, uD a
little. 1 don't like to have the county
and the police pulling against each
other" Just then the large two-horse
beer wagon, loaded to the top with kegs
of beer. drove by making it's usual
morning round. Il see thew are still
delivering beer said Richards
In Lon Townsends place at SIG Kan
SaS avenue, one bar tender was busy
this morning. The free lunch counter
was piled high with eatables and two
coIored men were busy completing the
days bill of fare. Behind the stove
Townsend's pack of pretty white dogs
were busy getting away with a milk
punch. The sideboard behind the bar
was bare of any bottles but a silver de-
canter and the beer pump were in de-
mand- Il have nothing to say about
it said Townsend when he was asked
what he thought of yesterdays raid.
Coming kind of fast though. The po-
lice were around only two weeks ago.
and Townsend buttoned up his gloves
and started out for his morning ride
"A man came in yesterday a few min
utes before the raid and said Give me
a beer We have no beer; stuffs off,
was the answer he got
Nick ChiIes said: 81 don't expect to
be visited. There Is no cause for it,
run a hotel and a restaurant I think
it is all right for those who sell liquor
to be pulled. They ought to know bet
ter than to run open saloons If Cook
wants to pull them, that is his bust
ness"
VIM. F. Mcfarland, who handles the
associated Press repeaters at Ellis,
KaS., on its Denver leased wire DAYS
has been visiting friends in Topeka a
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