The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-27
IN GRIM EARNEST.
(Continued from Page ID

race, means Iawlessness in another
race"
read and adopted:
First-We hold that the liquor traffic
is lawless ana destructive in its very
nature. The saloon is the fruitful
mother of crime. disease, sorrow, waste
and want We favor the strict enforce
ment of all laws and especially those
laws intended to abolish the saloon and
its attendant evils.
second-Laws and constitutions are
not optional and advisory; they are
mandatory; they are to be obeyed until
repealed; and only those who are re-
specting and obeying them have q right
to discuss their wisdom. Any other
doctrine leads to anarchy.
Third-We. complain of trusts and
mbines and the oppression Of capital,
and demand the enforcement Of far away
federaI laws enacted against these evils;
yet we compla Gently allow the beer and
whisky trusts to deride and spit upon
our state constitution and laws, de-
bauching our citizens and our officials,
offering from the weak, corrupting the
strong, controlling our politics and
church, and all other Institutions for
human Improvement. The sure way to
| secure respect for one law is to require
respect for all laws.
Fourth-No man is fit for public Of
fee whether as juror, judge, prosecu-
tor. clerk, sheriff, mayor, marshal, or
policeman, who does not earnestly de-
sire the enforcement of the prohibitory
as well as all other laws, and who does
not make that desire distinctly under
stood by the criminal element in the
community The guilt of any particular
defendant is not to be assumed; but the
guilt of the forbidden act and the ne
ceSsity for Furnishing the same, should
never for a moment be in doubt. Under
this rule our county officers have been
unfit for the past ten years and the
! time for change is now here; to accom-
/ plish that change we pledge our utmost
| endeaVor To this end we resolve to
vote and work for a sheriff and county
attorney whose past deeds demonstrate
beyond a doubt their loyalty to law and
| their respect for the official oath.
Fffth-It is we'll known that for
number Of years last past gross frauds
have been committed at Republican prl-
maries in Shawnee county. In some
] precincts more votes have been cast at
| Republican primaries than there were
voters of all parties in the voting dis
1 tricts. One Of the means for bringing
| this about has been to haul hack loads
/ Of repeaters from precinct to precinct,
/ and vote them at every precinct visited,
/ for the candidates agreed on by the
gang made up of the Schlitz agents,
the jointists, and the corrupt county
! ring In view of these facts, the re-
/ fusal of the Republican county central
! committee to restrict the suffrage at
! the coming county primaries to register
/ ed citizens was a deliberate vote for
| dishonest election. We denOunce the
members and all other persons respon-
| sible for that decision. We especially
urge all law abiding citizens at the pri-
maries of March 10 to put the county
| central committee into honest hands.
We applaud the Republican city cen
| trail committee for basing the coming
! city primary on the books of registra-
/ ton, and we urge that all men and wo-
men not now registered, register at
1 yT I1of the CifW committee TX
/ the primary at an early date.
Councilman S. A. Swendson read the
| following plan for county convention
1 of all the different law and order or
| CARNATIONS Formal arrangements
will be made later. Mr. Swendson's
/ resolutions were unanimously adopted.
/ whereas. The Committee of Two
| Hundred has in the past and is at
| this time rendering faithful, efficient
| political service to the people of Shaw
/ nee county and the city of Topeka, in
| advocating pure primaries and honest
/ elections, and in opposing graft, beer
/ combines, county rings, official dis
/ honesty and neglect or failure to per-
/ form official duty on the part of Off
! GERS high or low, state, county. or
city;
ever been and is now, as representing
the pulpit of the county and city, faith
full and true in raising a voice in the
/ true interests of the people, in po-
/ litical purity, honesty and the faithful
/ discharge and performance of every
official duty, and in the censure of po-
/ litical vices and failings so prevalent
/ in our midst:
1.-The press of the city. at all times
a mighty power for good or i'll, Is at
/ Journal, the Capital and the Herald
1 practically a unit in demanding pure
/ elections, honest officials and faithful
| official service and in condemning and
censuring all else-all to one end, that
] the purposes of government may be
accomplished and society given the
! protection contemplated by the con-
stitution, statutes and ordinances:
Now. as there is a God, who presides
| over the destinies of nations and states
and cities and men and women, as our
trust is in that God and as IN union
| there is strength, therefore, in order to
! cooperate more fully with the parties
| above named, that is the committee of
two hundred, the pulpit and the press
/ to aid them more fully in every effort
| in securing the blessings and accom-
| plishing the purposes Of government for
| ourselves, our families and the people
of this county and city and for the pur-
pose Of rnobilizing all forces interested
alike in the welfare of this county and
/ city, and opposed to political dishonesty
! and corruption bosses, booze and
! Doodle;
s'Be it. resolved, by the people of this
| county and city, in mass meeting as
sem bled, this 18th day Of February
1906. that the committee of two hundred,
( the Ministerial union and the three
/ daily papers of the city, the Journal,
the Capital and the Herald. be and are
hereby asked, requested and instructed
to join in q call. to every organization
in the county and city, such as church
congregations Sunday schools. temper
ance societies, Grand Army of the Re
4 public, Y NJ. G. AS, 7. W. c. As,
/ Christian Endeavor societies, Epworth
Leagues. Young Peoples church so
cieties, ". c. 7. Z societies, Women
l-olubs and all other organizations in
1 harmony with the purposes named, to
select and send delegates to conven-
ton to be held in the city at an early
date, for the purpose Of re-organlzing