The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-24
POLICE BOARD SCRAP
Climax Added to Their List of
BIunderS
ANOTHER PETITION STARTS
Leedy Requested to Unload
the Nets.
MOTHER PETITION STARTS

The police commission, which IS sup
posed to be the main heelers and local
bosses for Leedy in Sedgwick county
couldn't have gotten up more fights and
factional differences in the alleged reform
marty in this county if such a result had
been deliberately planned, and every
move made with such intention. The &C
ton of the board here from first TO last
has been series of bluffs and blunders,
and recently temporary climax was add
ed to their difficulties by some Of the sa-
looms being allowed to run on Sunday,
while a pretense of law enforcement was
made by keeping the others closed
Thereby hangs a tale. The police COM
mission had outlined plan Of local cam
paign and selected a list Of approved can
didates The opposition to police rule
had already become about as much as
the board could chin even in a general
way. while In a number Of instances it
had fallen down. But the awkwardness
of the Sunday opening and closing
scheme brought about a systematic and
open opposition from Populist straight
outs. The rank and file Of the Pop party
in Sedgwick county has now set up
diametric contest to police rule. Word
has been sent to Leedy that the Populist
party Of SedgWick county, Of which the
police commission is neither part nor par
eel. is tired-very tired-of the metropol-
itan police gag and bluff and that he will
do right well to abolish the commission
here whether the order is extended to
other cities or not. This is the first direct
result of letting some sBlOons run on Sun
day and keeping scT1- closeo. Another
result is that not only as the governor
been advised that the welfare Of the par
ty demands that the board be abolished,
but a petition has been started which re-
cites the matter of Sunday closing or
6pening as inaugurated here and il recites
TOO. a number of other things which a
lot Of mighty good Pops know and the
public in general believes and winds up
by asking the governor to do away with
the board here. He is reminded that the
present board is manufacturing cam
paign material for the Republicans; in
fact the methods and ring rule of the
board is getting to be disastrously ham
dy as a club with which oppositions
pound the Pop party and that if he wants
10 get within a thousand votes of Sedg-
wick county he had better abolish the
system Leedy will not abolish the board
in Wichita. and If he did he could not
By long reach mend the breaks in the
party in this county. Rufe Cone, Joe
Furnish, Jim Derr. Doc. Rose, Harve
Ritter Of Kechi and twenty others with
all their friends who in a political way
have been offered personal insult will not
now be salved over by any trifiing con-
cessions By order of the board Of COM
nissioners and two or three heelers. p.
E. Kies leads fight on Deacon Wilson,
who is the Populist chairman Of the
board of county commissioners. Wilson
refused to farm out the commissioner 5
Office for the purpose of getting a good
gang of machine heelers cinched for the
admins ration. Doc Cave wouldn't hee
his ward for a police board slate and he
was ordered to be dismissed by the ring
Wilson will not be county commissioner
again if the administration heelers car
help it, He will be superseded by mar
who can be worked for the interests oil
the machine muck. Doc Cave will go, too
and a heeler made county physician. Blu
the police board has got a big job.