The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-12
That Is What DR.. CountermiRe
Has Discovered.
Speakers Discuss Liquor Stu
alton i'm Topeka.
BACKED By SENTIMENT
Officers Assured That the People
Are Behind Them.
H. CT. Larimer Offers q Few
Suggestions to Voters.

| Representative hall was filed last
night with people who demonstrated by
their frequent applause that they were
in full sympathy with the speakers. The
meeting, which was under the auspices
OF the Ministerial Union, was to arouse
public sentiment against the jointists
and the joint element. and to show May
CT Drew that the people Of the town
would sustain him IN his efforts to en-
force the law against the liquor traffic.
DR.. D. Nj. Fisk of the First Congrega-
tiona1 church, presided and the music
was furnished by the male chorus Of the
Third Presbyterian church and by Mr.
w NJ Shaver, who pleased the audience
by his solos with either accompaniment
DR.. J. d. Mcfarland Of the First NJ.
E church opened the meeting with pray
err IN which he invoked the divine aid in
putting down the laW-breakers and ask
ed q blessing upon the mayor and coun-
ell, that they might be given courage
and strength TO gTapple with the enemy
which was threatening to overcome the
city.
James A Troutman was the first
speaker introduced and ne made an IN
usually entertaining talk He propheSied
that within 80 days the course that May
or Drew had adopted would be vindIca-
ted and that the city would be redeem
ed He said: There is an old Latin
face and is bald behind II you want to
catch it you must do so before it passes
and that is just what we must do now.
The opportunity TO catch the joints by
the fOreIOck has presented itself and the
people must seize it and not let go until
they have won the battle A number of
men have approached the mayor and ad-
y1Sed that he be conservative in his
method of handling the joint question
At this time conservatism is but another
word for cowardice- The mayor must
and will follow the policy he has adopt
ed He Is in the wagon and he will drive
right through We will soon have q
chief of police in this city who will en-
force the law. One who IS not afraid of
the joint element and will not cater to it,
VINO KNOWS his duty and VIII do It. w hen
he is in Office we will pile the jugs and
kegs and bottles in the alley back OF the
station and destroy them want you
all to be there and as the liquor runs
down the alley, join IN singing Streams
Of mercy never ceaSing tune my heart
to sing thy praise We have mayor
who il honestly trying to close the joints
and dives in the city. He has shown that
he has courage and he should and will
be sustained by the people, for the peo-
PIE always stand by an officer who tries
to do his duty and enforce the law We
had an example of that in MIR. Roosevelt
when he was on the police commission
in New York The power and majesty of
the state will stand back of any officer
who enfOrces the law here just as 1t did
behind Mr.. Roosevelt In New York
Il want to deny and repudiate the
charge that the enforcement OF the law
devoIves upon the people 1t devolves
upon the officer and not upon the people
The people in this commonwealth do not
hunt for a man to fill the Office the
man hunts for the Office and solicits
your support He agrees to enforce the
law If he is chosen and upon him the
primary responsibility for the enforce
ment Of the law falls. It is upon the Of
fcers and I say that an honest district
Judge, county attorney and sheriff can
do more to enforce the law than all your
temperance organizations
Il have heard men ask on the street,
Has not the city a. right to do as it
pleases?' and answer that it certainly
has not. No city or county has a right
to violate a state law as they owe al
legiance to the state and IL they will not
enforce the law the state uses its police
power to do it,
To illustrate the question of right, he |
said: You might go out and spit III |
the state house yard as much as you |
pleased, but if you went up on Kansas |
avenue and expectorated freely upon the /
sidewalk you would probably be arrest |
ed by an officer. There are many people /
on the avenue and they object to being |
spit upon Your right to spit ceases |