The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-21
WOULD BAR HOCH.
Wyandotte w. C. L. U. Doesn't Want
Him on Convention Programme.

Again the temperance women of
Wyandotte county have left the reser-
walton and gone on the warpath for
Governor Hoch. They want the gov
ernor disbarred from speaking at the
state convention of the Temperance
union because of his failure to ap-
point an assistant attorney general for
Wyandotte county.
Myron A. Waterman, who has been
doing most of the negotiating with
of an assistant attorney general in
that county. is displeased at the
action. He says that Governor Hoch
had already made up his mind to ap-
point an attorney general. and was
only waiting to get the evidence need
are not doing their duty.
The resolutions, however, were
passed by the Wyandotte w. C. T. U.
yesterday afternoon, and they are
vitrioiic enough to suit the taste of
any reformer. They are as follows:
I'VE, the members of the Wyan-
dotte w. c. T. u, do hereby enter our
protest against Governor E. w. Hoch
being invited to make an address be-
fore our state convention, Tor the fol-
lowing reasons:
"First-Governor Hoch has made
loud protestations of being a prohibi-
zionist and a believer in the enforce
ment of all laws, both editoriaIly and
in public addresses. In practice he has
utterly failed, so far as Wyandotte
county is concerned, to make good his
professions. Committee after COM
mittee has waited upon him, asking
his assistance in Wyandotte county
The Civic league also sent an attorney
with evidence looking toward custer
proceedings in the supreme court of
certain officials, but were refused. Mr.
Coleman, attorney general, said he
knew all about Wyandotte county and
needed no further evidence as the
condition could be no worse. In addi-
ton to the committee, many private
citizens have pleaded with Governor
Hoch to appoint an assistant attorney
general for said county. Atrocious
murders have been committed in
joints. wide-open saloons on Sunday,
with its resultant rowdyiSm. murders,
gambling and crimes of all sorts, have
made no impression upon the gov
ernor. although fully informed of the
situation.
''second-When a public official
thus ignores his duties and permits
the interests of the people to suffer
in order to gain some political adYan-
tage, we believe that so base a be-
trayal of the people deserves rebuke,
and that no reform society should
permit such an official to deliver be-
and practice of the man.
'.Third-We believe it to be the duty
of every loyal w. C. T. U. woman to
refuse to hear Governor Hoch deliver
an address at the meeting of our state
convention, to be held in Topeka. Oc-
tober 4 to 6, 1905, unless conditions
in Wyandotte county are vitality
changed
These resolutions have been sent to
the Topeka w. c. T. U. for the purpose
of keeping Governor Hoch out of the
Temperance Union convention program.
Mr.. Waterman, in a Kansas City pa
per, is quoted as saying:
From what 7 have read in the pa
pers," said Mr.. Waterman, 81 have been
led to believe that the governor will
ture, and I SO advised the president OF
the w. c. T. U. I was under the i'm
preston that the matter had been drop
ped, but now 1 Gear that more harm
ticipated. They probably thought to
urge the governor to speedy action, but
it seems to me that, if they had been
reading the papers, they would have
known different
Mr.. Waterman talked at greater
length in a strain that would indicate
that he had secret understanding with
the governor and that it was simply a
matter of time until some action will be
taken.
He has been gathering information for
months and much of this he has placed
in the hands of the attorney general and
the governor. A week ago he was in
Topeka in conference with the two Off
Gals, and when he returned he carried
with him an air that BODIED i'll for the
Kansas City, Kan, "jointists.''
They might have held off for a
WHILE" said Mr.. Waterman last night
Il am inclined to believe that the gov
ernor is simply contemplating the best
mode of attack. and that when it comes,
which sincerely believe it will, it will
be a clean sweep