The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-19
MIR. CLEMENS DISCUSSES IT.
He Is Sorry That Judge Carver Took
That Appointment.

G. C. Clemens today gave out the
following interview concerning the ap-
pointment of an assistant attorney
general for Shawnee county:
Judge Carver and I are friendly,
and his partner and 1 more so; hence
I personally regret that the judge has
not exercised the worldly wisdom
which I conceive ] exercised when
called upon and which it behooves
men at our time of life and not yet
over rich to use. After spending two
years at the state house as supreme
court reporter I had to begin as a new
lawyer and build up business again
and l refused to repeat the expert
ment. Judge Carver will find that
had been sitting al. the feet of Solo
mon and had garnered wisdom in
great lots from a slim pantry. Be-
sides, he must expect to share the fate
of his predecessors: to make enemies,
lose friends, be suspected and stabbed
in the back and finally be cast aside
for another victim of the champions
of malignant reform.
''Will he put on the lid and keep it
on? Not if he attempts to do any
other business. If he should give up
all other business he can put ON what
people can be hypnotized into beiiev-
ing a lid. but the objective mind will
know that it is. only tissue paper.
For whom is he to- grapple with and
overcome? Some jointists acting from
purely mercenary motives? His task
were mere afternoons healthful ex-
ercise were that the case. Your pro-
hibitionist constantly overlooks it that
he is fighting the other half of the
Misunderstanding scores of men
who never touch Intoxicating liquors
but who rebel against being forced by
law to be provincia1s and against hav-
ing their thriving and cultured city
converted into a village; against hav-
ing an entire population put into
straight jackets because there may be
dozen lunatics in the crowd. The
men in this city who oppose the en-
forcement of the prohibitory law are
as a rule, high-minded men, broad
| minded men, men who will steady the
moral and intellectual scales, man fol
man. with the best men in the pro-
hibition ranks. These are the people
who make the enforcement of the law
so difficult; not few bartenders and
| cold storage men.
This spasm will last-for a time
Then the prohibitionists will grow
drowsy and put their purses in cold
| storage, and the sleepless, tireless joint
| list, backed by half the community and
aided by the WEAKNESS and disgust OF
most of the other half will be wide
awake and joints will be thick as forest
| leaves in autumn.
! Judge Carver has undertaken as tC
| Topeka a task not unlike that of the
unfortunate statesman periodically sem
| by the British government to subdut
| Ireland. He comes as the avowed en-
envy of self government, his business t.
endeavor by financial ruin and crowd
ed prisons to overthrow the popular viii
expressed but recently at the ballot box
| By his acceptance, he assists an 'O-be
Joyful -Chadband governor to put {
stigma upon good men-his fellow citi
zens-chosen by the people. / do no
envy him. I trust he is to get paid
but admire his pluck if he is acting
| from principle. He is doubtless as hon
! est in his convictions as some of the
rest OF US are in ours