The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-02
Never Minced Words in Discuss
ing Liquor Question.
HE WOULD HAVE LEFT.
He Wouldn't Stay at Banquet
Where Liquor Was Served.
Also Has Clear Record Favor.
Ing Woman Suffrage.

peka GATE line, prints the following:
No other issues than taxes and
bossism have been discussed in the
short governorship campaign which re-
suited in the withdrawal Of Governor
Bailey from the contest last Saturday.
but it is probable that had the cam
paign lasted longer the administration
politicians would have learned some
thing interesting in regard to E. W.
Hoch's views on prohibition and woman
suffrage.
Mr.. Hoch is one of the staunchest
supporters of prohibition and equal suf-
frage in the Republican party. He has
! always advocated a better enforcement
of the prohibitory laws and has main
tanned that there is no such thing as
public sentiment in favor of the vio-
lation of the law against the illegal
sale of liquor. He even advised Gov
ernor Morrill, to call out the state
militia if necessary to enforce this law
He denounced the Republicans who did
not leave the table at the Leavenworth
banquet in honor of Senator Lucien
Baker. where liquors were served.
| STRONG FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
| Mr.. Hoch has written several editor
lalS on the subject of equal suffrage
| for the Marion Record. He has declar-
| ed that men have no right to declare
/ lndl woman cannot vote, and has eX-
| pressed the hope that the time is com
| ing when women will go to the polls
| and express their choice for president.
1T is a violation of the provisions of
| the constitution" he said in one edi-
| torial, Ito give the governed no voice
| in the government
! No governor since the days of Nor
| rill and Leedy has taken a stand on the
! enforcement of the prohibitory laws.
| The governor has the power to ap-
! nOinf in
! every county in the state to enforce
| this law. The attorney general now
has the right to make the appointment
! under a recent amendment to the law,
but the governor has always had the
right, and it is believed that Mr.. Hoch
may avail himself of this provision. He
| undoubtedly will if he feels toward the
law as he did in the days when Cover
| nor Morrill, was at the head of the
| state government.
HERE IS HOCH'S SENTIMENT.
In the issue of his newspaper for
| February 16, 1894, Mr.. Hoch wrote:
The time is coming when it will be
! thought as incredible that q saloon was
licensed, sanctioned by law, as it now
i seems incredible that human slavery
was sanctioned by law in a land whose
people had always declared that all men
are created equal. The devil and all his
| imps cannot stop the procession.
On February 8, 1895, in discussing the
| mistakes made by Governor Morrill, and
the new administration, Mr.. Hoch
wrote:
But the worst mistake, if half the re-
ports are true, occurred at Leavenworth
last Friday at the banquet in honor of
Senator Lucien Baker. All accounts
agree that liquors flowed freely and
were served as a part of the regular
menu. Il this is true, it was an out
rage. 1ntemperance is the great evil OF
this age. Prohibition was enacted to
remedy, as far as possible, this evil. 1t
is the law of this state. We believe it
is not an exaggeration to say that
three-fourthS of the Republicans believe
in this law. It may as well be under
stood now that the prohibition Repub-
licans constitute a majority OF the party
and have made about all the conces-
sions they propose to make to the mi
nority or anti-prohibition wing of the
party.
HOCH WOULD HAVE LEFT.
A gentleman who attended the Leav-
enworth banquet in honor of Senator
Baker and read Mr.. Hochs editorial on
| the subject wrote the Marion editor
| asking what he would have done had he
been present at the banquet. The cor
respondent said he turned down his
glasses and refused to drink Mr.. Hoch
| wrote the following editorial in his is
sue of February Is, in reply:
The rules of ordinary etiquette on Or
binary social occasions sustains his (the
correspondents action, we we'll know.
But this was not an ordinary occasion
know it would have been an unpleasant
thing to do, but we think those who felt
as did our correspondent should have
made their dispIeasure known in some
| way even to the unpleasant extreme of
leaving the room or making public pro-
test. Turning down glasses was not
enough.
POLITICS AND RUM.
In an editorial printed June 7, 1895,
Mr.. Hoch had this to say of the tenn
perance meeting called for Topeka for
July 4:
temperance and sobriety in Kansas
and for the Republican party. We be-
lieve that 100. 900 Republicans IN the
state are bitterly opposed to saloons.
We think there are $4,000 who are on
the other side and about $4,000 who are
Indifferent. The machinery of the party
is in the hands of the latter class. Will
the minority be permitted to run the
majority? If the Republican party
ever surrenders to the rum element it
Mr. Hoch printed the following July
10, 1895, on the subject of local senti-
ment:
Kansas will not turn back the dial
of progress and put itself in the clutch
es of this monster, the saloon power,
but will grow more and more deter
mined to hold fast to the gC<d policy
it has adopted and go on more and
more enforcing obedience to this policy
in every nook and corner of the state,
local public sentiment to the con-
trary. Notwithstanding.
Some of the editorials written by Mr.
Hoch would indicate that he does not
| believe that public sentiment ever
favored the violation Of the prohibitory
law In an editorial printed September
6, 1895. he said:
HAS STRONG OPINIONS.
The Record has all along insisted
that it was libel upon any Kansas
| community to say that public senti-
nent'' in it is opposed to the enforce
! ment of the law. People in some towns
| have grown tired of the treachery of
| officials and have become discourag ed,
but down in their hearts a big ma jority
of them we verify believe. even in the
worst towns IN the state wish to see