The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-01
Mayor Everhardy of Leaven.
worth the Latest Victim.
Attorney General Jackson Re.
gins Action Today.
FAILED TO Do DUTY.
That Is Charge Brought by the
State.
Failure to Close Saloons the
Cause.

Happy New Year from Attorney
General Jackson to the city of Leaven-
worth"
This is the inscription on a neat
package of legal lemons filed in the
Kansas supreme court this morning.
The gist of the proposition is an urgent
invitation to Mayor Everhardy and his
official go-between, Capt j. T. Taylor,
to turn over new leaf in the manage
ment of the Leavenworth saloons.
In short, Attorney General jackson
seems to have fathomed the scheme by
which Leavenworth has avoided put
ting on the lid. 1t is very much like
the Pittsburg scheme. The result of the
discovery is suit to ouSt Mayor Ey-
erhardy from office on the ground that
he has failed to do his duty in closing
up the saloons and dives, and to punish
Capt. j. I. Taylor for contempt for act
ing as the agent of the Citizens COM
m1ttee' and collecting funds from the
joints to be used in paying the ex-
penses of the city electric light plant
and the street cleaning department.
The supreme court last May prohibit
ed the city of Leavenworth from COL
lecting money from joints.
The affidavit for citation for contempt
is made by Attorney General Jackson
himself. and after charging that Capt.
Taylor and others have, as agents of
the city, assisted the city to exercise
the unlawful franchise of licensing sa-
looms goes on to say:
Said affiant is informed that it has
been the custom in said city. since
the rendition of said judgment and
for a period of time not definitely
known to affiant, but as affiant be-
lieves, for greater part of the time
since said Judgment was rendered. for
the said Captain J. T. Taylor, acting
for and on behalf of a citizens COM
mittee, of which one, AL Kelly is
| president, one B. B. Wolfe is treasur-.
er. said j. I. Taylor is collector and
one Louie Vonderschmit and one
Eugene Lyle, one Elmer Brewster,
and others to affiant unknown are
members of the executive COMMITTEES
! persons. certain pretended donations.
pretended to be donated for the pur-
pose of keeping up the esectrie light
| plan and of cleaning the streets and OF
paving the streets of said city of
Leavenworth, and the said Captain ].
| T. Taylor collects each month from
each and every saloon and dramshop
and tipping house within said city of
Leavenworth the sum of fifteen dci-7
lars per month and has collected and
is collecting from certain persons.
the sum of from twelve hundred to
fifteen hundred dollars per month.
there being in the. neighborhood of
one hundred such places being openly
and notoriously conducted in the city
of Leavenworth. That the said Cap
tain J. T. Taylor so collects said money
from the keepers Of said places under
the direction of the said citizens COM
mittee under some direct agreement
or tacit understanding with the off,
GERS of the city of Leavenworth that
said officers shall not in any wise in
terfere with the keeping and main
tanning of said places where intoxicat-
ing liquors are so openly and notori-
ously sold. thereby unlawfully IL
censing said places to do business in
the said city of Leavenworth."
In the custer suit against Mayor Ever
hardy the attorney general makes the
prayer follows
Wherefore in the name, on behalf and
by authority of the state of Kansas the
said relator Drays that the defendant be
required by the court to answer of and
concerning his acts, failure and neglect
of duty and that it be adjudged by the
court that by reasons of the said acts.
failure and refusal Of the defendant TO
perform his duty that the said defendant
has forfeited his office as mayor a the
city of Leavenwcrth and that he be GUST
ed therefrom and the said office be declar-
Judgment has been rendered against
Mayor Everhardy by the supreme court
to prohibit him from receiving licenses
from joints, and 1t might have been pos
sible for the attorney general to prose-
doubtful whether it could be proved that
Mayor Everhardy had actually received
any such money, 1t was decided to go
after him on the general ground that he
has failed to do his part in enforcing the
prOhibitOry law.