Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-20
A BUSINESS" MOVEMENT.

the public meeting held III the city
council chamber on the evening of the
9th inst to discuss what was best for
the general good of the town.
The business men who attended that
meeting are not anarchists" nor .'law-
breakers" and do not now nor never
will encourage anything that will in
any manner aid in promoting anarchy
or law breaking. They are charged by
the Beacon, a paper that most of them
have in the past favored with their pat
ronage, and support with "asking
the city council to violate the state
law when the editor of that paper
knows, If he still retains a grain Of
common sense. that what these petit
toner's ask is: that the council, by the
method of regulation formerly in vogue,
put the saloon business under some
sort of control.
Every reader also knows that the
violations of law, under the methods
the Beacon and its advisers and CO.
workers are pursuing. are on the in
crease; that more sales of intoxicants
are being made daily; that more men
have taken out government licenses to
sell the prohibited beverage, and that
the alleged efforts of the Beacon and
its hackers to stop the illegal trafic are
as fruitless now as they have always
been in the past.
The business men of Great Bend are
becoming tired of the city being thus
Beaconized for a sentiment. They
ask that the council take practical cog
nizance of the existing conditions and
adopt some method to better them.
Here is the resolution passed at the
meeting aforementioned, and the names
Of the gentlemen who endorse the reso-
luton. You. reader, can judge whether
unprincipled law. breakers the Beacon
has painted them. Nearly hundred
of the business and professional men of
the city VS.. the virulent, trouble max
ing and self constituted censor of public
morals and a few well-meaning but
one-idead citizens who pat him on the
back
THE RESOLUTION:
REsoLvED-That we. the citizens of
Great Bend here assem- bled, respect
fully ask the Mayor and the City Coun-
Gil. that they proceed to again put in
force the system which heretofore has
been in force, in order that the joint
business may DE put under better con-
troll. E. R. MOSES,
Committee G. H. HULME.
WILL E. STOKE.
w. T. Bannister West. Union Tel Co
c. P, Townsley F. H. Miller
A. r. Moss Fred Dawley
]. 7. Stevens A. ]. Pursel
C. H. Hume Will E. Stoke
L. B. Wilcox Joe Troillet
L. F. Likes Louie Zutavern
c. " Brinkman Charles A Hooper
E. .Winterburg w. R. Armstrong
]. G. Brinkman VIM Jones
c. Lechesky Chas Pelter
]. E. Hotchkiss w. r. Kinney
w. D. Phester J. A. McMullen
]. " Brinkman James Slim
John ]. Hiss L. P. Bloss
]. A. REIN Geo. w. Greene, Jr
Joe Schaffer D. c. Glissman
G. 0. Hanson L. c. Breeder
A. ]. Buckland ]. w. McMican
H. J. Klein l. N. Woodward
]. E. Kennedy B. P. Groseclose
c. c. Woolman Jacob Rediger
c. L. Moses w. p. FEEDER
], B. Rowley J. L. Roberts
Ed. S. Marx John Langham
c. L. Zutavern w. A. Bolinger
A. c. Allen Chas. Luudblade
e, G. McNown G. w. Moore
John Quillan VIM. Ferger
A. c. Graham c. 0. Swartz
Chas. E. Dodge G. Samuels
D. B. Palmer r. A. Charles
T. D. Stradley O, S. Bailey
]. F. Tilton C. S. Cutler
E. r. Moses Fred Zutavern
VIM Gage 0. A. Geary
H. E. Dean Albert Weiss
c, B. Handley D. Hugh Halliday
w. B. Grimes Johh Mem ullin
John w. Slim Aug. Rothgarn
Fred Walker Alex Laidlaw
w. D. Gould G. L. Chapman
w. P. Coles H. E. Lindas