The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-20
He WOULD QUIT.
clarence Young Makes an APP
peal to Mayor.
Thinks He Is Singled Out for
Prosecution.
OTHERS Do THE SAME.
No Attention Paid to Sellers of
Malt.
Mr.. Green Refuses to Interfere
in Police Business.
OTHERS Do THE SAME.

drug business, Clarence Young. the
druggist at SOL Kansas avenue, whose
place of business was raided by the
police for alleged violation of the pro-
hfbitory law, plead unsuccessfully for
an hour with Mayor Green this morn
ing asking for dismissal of the city
case against him.
when man sells his store and re-
nnQuishes his permit to sell liquor i
think that should be sufficient evidence
that he is trying to do right without
prosecuting him further" said Mr..
Young to the mayor. Il don't like TO
suffer the disgrace and humiliation of
a trial and serving a sentence in jail.
L have had lot of notoriety as it is.
The newspapers have printed lot.
IT am sorry, Mr.. Young, but cannot
do anything for you" said the mayor
firmly Your case is something like a
death bed repentance or locking the
stable after the horse has been stolen
A man ought to realize what he is la
BILE to run up against. If he has been
practicing cussedness he should expect
to stand for it. When everything is
going along all right, the people that
violate the law have no complaint to
make but when they get caught it's diff
ferent"
''I don't see why I should be singled
out" said Young plaintively- Here
violating the law in selling malt ex-
tracts and tonics and they are not ar
rested. 1 am not accusing Mr.. Eaton
of partially understand. But 1t seems
rather hard to be arrested for selling
these malts when every other druggist
is violating the law along with you and
is not arrested and his place of bust
ness raided. have been trying to run
a. clean drug store. I have saved my
money and I went into that place there
on the corner and built up nice line
of business. Other druggists have COM
plimented me and told me that they
were glad to see that had changed
drinking place into drug store that
was doing a nice clean business. I have
been often told that many another man
would have gone in there and with the
location and reputation that existed OF
the place before 1 secured 1t would have
made a failure. Instead I am doing
the largest legitimate drug business In
that locality. 1 am going to sell out
my drug store and quit and L have
turned in my permit. What else could
do? Instead of first getting the evil
dence against me and then raiding my
drug store, Chief Eaton took my stock
of goods first. That certainly is not
the right way to do. That's going back
to what they used to do under Chief
McCollum."
IT made 1t a point when I went into
office not to interfere with any head
of a department" said Mayor Geen.
that I would let every head of de-
partment run his department and that
he would have to stand responsible for
IT. / would refuse to interfere in any
manner. In the present case 1t Is up to
Chief Eaton 1 cannot interfere with
the way he handles his department. If
he made a mistake in conducting the
raid on your store and has not suffi-
cient evidence he will have to stand re-
sponsible for it. If he puts his foot in
the moose that is his lookout. 1 will tell
you honestly that 1 have had great
number of people come to me and COM
mend me for the arrest that Chief Ea-
ton made, saying that it was the right
thing to do
WAS 1t some liquor mem"
mo, not one of them were what
you might term liquor men,
well, have had hundreds of men
come into my store and say 1t was a
shame that the arrest was made. 1
have had members of your council tell
me that 1 had good grounds for a
damage suit against the city and that
they knew 1 had been running a
straight drug store. One councilman
told me that 1 could recover $4,000
in damages against the city,
81 presume it would be needless for
me to say that could guess the name
Of that councilman" said Green.
well, yes" admitted Young. ''he is
probably called a RADICAL
"One druggist came to me and said
heaviest liquor business in town." con-
tinued the mayor. ct just tell you
that to offset what you said regarding
what the other druggists told you He
may have been a business rival of
yours to a certain extent though he is
not located near you. 1 don't say that
there is any truth in what he told me
but simply repeat it to you as 1t was
said to me-
Probably it was because I built my
new house. Sometimes those things
are said when they see another man
prospecting because he saves his
money and pays strict attention to his
business" said Young.
Yes, that thing often occurs"
agreed the mayor.
Though denying that he intended
to intimate anything of the sort Young
limited that he was being made the
scape goat for all the other druggists
in the city and that he believed in
wardly that he was being jobbed by
his rivals in the same line of business
The mayor stated that no effort was
being made to parcel out druggists
and that he presumed that as soon as
the police had evidence which would
convict the other druggists violating
the law that the police would move on
the violators. Young insisted that the
chiefs evidence was not sufficient to
warrant the raid and that he should
have secured the revocation of the
liquor permit first and then made the
raid and not move the stock of goods
out first
'If he hasn't the evidence there is
no disgrace attaching to your arrest
Mr.. Young" said the mayor You
will have nothing to fear then and You
will be discharged. If I am arrested
for stealing a horse and they find 1
am not guilty am not disgraced"
The Clarence Young case was called
in the police court Mt 2 O'Clock this
afternoon. There are two cases against
Aim on charge of selling liquor con-
Irary to the prohibitory law, the one
a nitv ase of six co11nts and tho go