Hutchinson gazette., 1901-02-21
Hutchinson DlsIolnted


jointed. The Temperance people, though
they have been sleeping are now very
much wake, and Of this fact few who
have been in the habit Of getting Their
supply OF hot stuff on Saturdays, will
not give testimony, They found last Satur
day that Hutchinson was a dry town.
Some days ago Judge Whitelaw who
has been retained by the Law and Order
League S their attorney, made the
round of the joints and gave them no.
tice that he would give them till the aoth
of this month in which to get their stun
out of town. II by the cpd Of that time
they were found here doing business,
the fur would begin 10 Ay So about
TIL ursday the joints began TO pull up
sakes. On Saturday night the drug
gists all handed in their permits to sell
Intoxicating liquors and asked the pro-
bate Judge to concel them, 1t is under.
stoo d that the Law and Order League
had issued this request, So at the pres.
ent writing the man who wants liquor is
mighty apt to have to get it from Mis-
souri.
On Sunday afternoon the big mass
meeting which was advertised last week
to be heldat The NJ +. church was ap.
parently AS large as its promoters could
have wished. In fact ii was about large
enough for two meetings The large
church was crowded to It's utmost capa.
city and large numbers were turned
away. 1t is very evident that Hutchin
son has caught the contagion that has
spread so rapidly over the State, The
meeting was called to order by Judge
Fontron, president Of the Law and Order
League who stated something Of the
purposes Of the meeting, Prayer was Of
fered by Rev, Reitzel and the congre-
cation sang the national hymn. Judge
Martin was introduced as the perman-
ent chairman of the meeting and made
a short speech He as did all the others
speakers eulogized Mrs. Nation. Among
other things he said that it was only in
relation to liquor prosecutions that he
had ever heard county attorneys make
the claim that it was not their duty TO
go out and secure evidence, and they
could only take evidence and begin
cases as it was brought to them. Judge
Whitelaw was the next speaker and he
spoke briefly regarding his work as at
torney to close the joints, He told Of
his interviews with the jointists and
among other things said that one Of
them said he had just got in ten barrels
OF beer to sell upon contract he had
made to turn certain payments into the
city treasury. Now he said what shall
| do? The Judge advised him to go to
the city officials, call off the agreement
and ship his stuff out Of the country be-
fore the 2oth, In another place the
Judge made very sweet little inuendo
which must have sounded lovely to those
good republican prohibitionists who
voted for his opponent, However he
probably had no such thought in his
mind at the time, He said that he had
interviewed the county attorney, Mr..
Carr Taylor, concerning these prosecu-
tions and was informed that he was
heartily in sympathy with the move.
ment and would do nothing to interfere
with the success of it in any manner,
The Judge said he had been employed
by the league for three months and he
intended to see that no liquor should be
sold while he was employed to prose
cute.
Judge Whitelaw was followed by At
torney Allen of Harvey county, who was
one OF the attorneys that defended Mrs,
Nation at Wichita. He was also county
attorney for some time, and he gave
some OF his experience in this work.
His zeal as expressed by his speech is
certainly sufficient for all purposes, He
is not man of prepossessing appear
ance nor manner of speech Yet he
made many good hits and frequently
drew fire from his audience, However,
that was not difficult thing to do with
that audience on that subject. Rev
Hodson followed and finally Rev. IT.
win. These reverend gentlemen were
rather more conservative in their re-
marks than the lawyers. Two or three
times during the meeting reference was
made to the example of Jesus Of Na2a-
reth in scourging the money changers
out of the temple, thereby taking the
law into his own hands" This was
given in apparent justification of the
methods of Mrs. Nation.
AT the close, committee presented
the following resolutions, which seem to
have somewhat the sound OF the hatchet:
The order-loving citizens of Hutchin.
son in mass meeting assembled, Febru-
airy 18TH, 1901, unite in making the fol-
lowing declaration:
GWuEREAS We have Ia, tha rore;s,