People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-08-23

missed and the public will get the laugh
from the gang. The other plan is to
have "Uncle Yves" to come home and
take charge Of the Office, then the coun-
ty attorney will get sick and be CON-
PEELED to go to some health resort till
after election so that his pals can say
that the charges are all lies and that
when he comes back somebody will be
made to sweat.
These are very smooth and far sighted
plans, but won't work this time, as Mr..
Ready will be compelled to arrest us for
libel and give us chance to prove our
charges before the September jury or
else stand convicted Of being the riost
dishonest and corrupt official that has
ever disgraced an Office in this county.
I. We charge that Mr.. Ready has
made no honest effort to enforce the
prohibitory liquor law, but on the con-
trary has given encouragement to its vio-
lation and has discouraged and prevented
prosecutions as far as possible.
?. We charge that Mr.. Ready is Wis
tied by nearly, if not quite, all & the
jointists Of the county several times each
year and they are received by him in his
Office at the court house, and at the time
Of such visits the jointists have no legiti-
mate or proper business to transact with
him.
). We charge that Mr.. Ready has re-
ceived case of beer as present from a
jointist from Perth which was taken to
the court house by mistake instead of to
his residence.
q. We charge that on the 18th day Of
May, 1900, Mr.. Ready went into the
open saloon run by William HASTE in
Wellington and drank beer, while other
men who stood by him, ordered and
drank whiskey which was paid for in his
presence, and that while he stood there
other persons came in and ordered, drank
and paid for whiskey in his presence.
S. We charge that Mr.. Ready often
goes into John Roth's saloon, but instead
Of going in at the front door goes through
the barber shop next door and then into
the back door of Roth's.
6. We charge that when search and
seizure warrants were issued for three
jointists on the 9th of November, 1899,
in the city of Wellington, four people,
including the county attorney, knew Of
their issuance. The other three did not
tell Of the warrants, but as soon as they
were issued Mr.. Ready came down town,
and a few minutes later particular
friend Of Ready's went to each jointist
and told him to get his liquors out of the
way that he was about to be pulled and
his place searched.
7. We charge that within the last
three months, Mr.. Ready refused to
prosecute man for burglary and anoth.
err for grand larceny until he was com.
PEELED to do so by threats from the
sheriff.
s. We charge that Mr.. Ready's desire
to screen criminals is so great and SO
well known that when confidence man
robbed several Wellington merchants
last June, the merchants went to him in
body, eight of them, to persuade him
to file complaint, which he finally did,
after much protesting and the man is
now in the penitentiary.
Many other charges might be made
against Mr.. Ready, but we only charge
what we can easily prove. But the fact
that Mr.. Ready does not prosecute any
body; that lawbreakers make regular Wis
itsso his office; that they violate the law
openly in his presence; that they send
him presents Of beer by the case; that