The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-12
PARKER is NAMED.


these fierce shepherds Of the divine flock
in violation of~ai law committed riots
and trespasses Of the most violent ana
dangerous character. All this was done in
the name of law and order" All this
received the full endorsement of what is
known as the dry faction Of the leepub-
hrmness of a few of our Officers these
that their ofYenses ''' would bring upon
them the punishment of the law, when
appropriating the supposed political BEN
eft of the agitation, announced that no
further acts of violence were necessary,
but at the same time gave forth most
significant intimations that the right to
resort to mob law was an undouoted one,
and might be REQUIRED to if necessary;
in the meantime breathing forth senti-
and threatening the judge Of the district
court with violence and even assassina-
linus Of the so-called law and order or
dry Republican element
venge for past defeats, by pride or puf-
pose, by bigoted hatred, by selishness,
bolical spirit, this element has been and
is willing to plunge this community INTO
all Of the horrors Of vast and uncone
trollable riots, involving extensive loss of
life and the slaughter OF innocent peo-
pie, to say nothing of property, in order
to gain the ascendancy in the Republican
organization and dominate the affairs Of
the city. ArrOgating to itself ali the
worth and all the virtue Of the commu-
nifty, this element has SHOWN ltseIL the
least worthy, and the most dangerous OF
any element of our population. OF its
component parts the most active have
been certain self-righteous and Phara-
steal organizations. such as the good
citizens league the very name OF which
IS an insult 10 every peaceabie cltlzen
who IS content to attend to his own bust
ness and behave himself, and honestly
support ms Ianlly ana pay MS taNes.
Also an organization known as home
defenders. whose members having for
Ihe most part no homes OF their own,
have volunteered unsolicited and unin-
Vlted to defend the homes Of all other
persons Inscribing upon their banners
good citizenship defense of homes,
they organize themselves into a vast mob,
numbering as they boast one thousand
men ana gooaly NUMBER OF adole
forth armed with firearms, axes hatch
missiles, sledge hammers, croWba bat
ter1ng rams, and other gentle implements
numbers 70 commit riot and destruction
upon every hand In single day these
hardware store three dozen and at an
other five dozen revOlvers so that 1t is
less than five or six hundred Of these
deadly weapons were purchased by these
self-constituted guardians of law and
order in this city.
That all this could happen in a city be-
fore peaceful, in which nothing had sud-
denly happened to change the current OF
events or sentiments, shows upon what
a slender thread the peace of the city
Will hang until the hypoerites and i'm
posters who masquerade as the best
people" but III whose hearts Turk the
deadl1est crimes are completely reDuked
and given to understand that the road OF
of violence is not the road to Office and
to power. ard that hatred, intolerance
butes which can command either the ad-
miration or the accUiescence of an en-
nghtened and fair minded people.
This pretended law and order" Dropa-
ganda having appropriated whatever ad-
vantage it could from the reign Of terror
inspired by the leadership of nnaniiscs and
moral and intellectual perverts, proceed
nomination for mayor of 3 man who
never had been in sympathy with the pro-
ali the promises required to secure the
support Of the prohibitory faction upon
to be a guaranty to the other side, that
his newly embraced law and order"
the course that he would pursue if
The eminent propriety of the candidacy
of this man upon a platform Of law and
order is further illustrated by the fact
upon the fact of his disobedience of or
ders of his superior while a colonel of
militia in the service of the state, for
which disobedience he was duly tried, con
victed and discharged dishonorably from
the service by a military court martial.
a most esfimab1a ana WorfT4v citizen. have
been so INSCRIPTIONS and brutal to
stand without a parallel in the history of
the city
Nominated by a combination Of ex-
tremes. gaining the support of the pro-
Whie 6errnfttins as cba p9as bv Repub
iishmenf in his own PROPERTY and permit
ting some of his supporters to whisper as
surances to the jointists, J. w f. Hughes
tremes, and absolutely certain if elected,
to give to the city the most lawless and
Incompetent administration It mas ever
Men do not gather figs from thistles,
ton spring from the turmoil and fribula-
ton of violent riots. murderous mobs,
midnight rnaraudins and red-hanced an
archy The injury already done 70 this
city by these lawless and violent pro-
ceedings has been incalctllable Slowly
recovering as it was from former spasp1s
and commissions of folly, this outbreak
of fanaticism has discouraged its citizens,
depressed its business men. retarded its
enterprise, deteriorated its Importance.
degraded its sentiments. debauched its
people even below the low watermark of
chronic prohibition, and diminished the
its bounds and made US the laughing
stock of the world. With a load of costs
600 per annum, accumulated in vain at
tempts at the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law, with tax rate OF 800 on
the hundred of assessed value, nearly the
outside limit of the law, with. a people
them through the fallacious and dishonest
policy which taxes virtue and eyempts
TO the point Of unuttereble disgust and to
the extreme limit of forbearance, by in
vasions of pestiferous falxirs. Adventures
and moon-struck mOralists and mounting
mountebanks from all quarters of the
tenders. political charlatans, pious frauds
and destroying angels. the sturdy. sober,
zens of this city who attend to their own
business. defend and protect and preserve
the purity and sanctity of their own
homes. maintain themselves and their
families and obey the laws, are now
brought face to face with condition
which must be met with firmness, intelli-
gence and courage.
After twenty years. Of pretended prohi-
tyranny imbecility and hypocrisy its POI
litical intrigues, its partially in adminis>
tration, its opportunity always embraced
for cheap notoriety. its favored political
drug stores. and its favored political
joints, its spoilers, spies and per9urers. It's
sponges. paupers. lickspittles and suckers,
its bootlegers and blind tigers, its rot
gut. white horse and hop tea. its hot
spurs and hoboes. its taxes and tumults,
its cost, corruption and crime its law
lessness. iniQuity. decentralization and So
cial retrogrsssion, after al this adde to
Ia 1lIlIlroSeIl testimony stale