Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-01-14
THURSDAY, JANUARY IA.
have not made any mention of ane

have not made any mention of and
will not.
IF 1 cannot have the support OF
the bar, it will be more difficult for
me, but will say to you that l am
going to undertake to travel the
way whatever may be the character,
pleasant or unpleasant. / conclud-
ed to make this statement to you,
and ask you to report to me on the
afternoon of the 10Th of this month.
You may have full access to the
testimony given on this subject be-
fore the grand jury; and, if you find
that this statement made by the re-
port of the grand jury is true-that
Mr. Stephens and Mr.. Mcneil have
lent them selves to this association
and have been receiving monthly
salaries from it, l will leave it to
YOU; in tie first instance, to deter
mine what course the bar will take
and what course l shall take. /
hope you will take hold of il earn
estly and solve it satisfactorily.
Your suggestions may be made the
line of my guidance and will assist
me. But if you will not act upon il,
| will appoint committee of the
bar to make an investigation and
shall impose on the members of
that committee the specific duty of
inquiring into the matter.
"If there was an association in
this county, the object and purpose
of which was to disregard and
trample upon any other criminal
law of this state, for instance, the
stealing of chickens, or the stealing
of horses, or any nisdemeanor 9TH
err than the violation of the liquor
law, and any member of the bar
should lend himself as attorney for
such association, the improperly
would certainly suggest itself to
them. If it would not suggest itself
to them, then we have sad coudi-
ton indeed. In principal there is
no difference. 1t is the constitution
of this state, that men shall not sell
intoxicating liquors unlawfully,and
before we shall proceed with the
trial of any further or other of these
liquor causes, l have fully deter
mined that this matter must be in
vestigated, and / want each men,
Der of the bar to understand it-and
/ say to you they need not come to
me to talk with me nor to say to me
that I am digging my political
grave, or running the Republican
party of this county, for it will not
have any effect upon me whatever.
II am determined in the course of
my suggestion now. l hope you
will examine the law on the subject
and determine as matter of pro-
fessional standing whether an at
torney can take such employment
and still be in good standing with
the court and community in which
he practices. If you don't do that
then, as have said, will appoint
a committee to investigate, and will
impose upon that committee an in
vestigation into that subject; and
if they do not discharge that duty
they will not have good standing at
this bar. / may add that l hope
you will arrange among yourselves
for a meeting and take the matter
up. If you resolve that you are not
going to take any action in the mat
ter then / will be glad if you will
notify me just as soon as you pass
that resolution, for it will then rest
on me to take the other step, and l
will take it. There is single duty
lying before ras'in this respect and
I am going to discharge that duty
to the very best of my ability,
without fear, without favor. with
out bias, and hope without preju-
dice"
No action of interest was taken at
Friday nighfs meeting. The bar