The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-21
NOW AXE FALLS
Attorney General Makes Big
Raid at Wichita.
Captures Two Carloads Of Bot
tied Beer.
GETS Is INJUNCTlONS
Business Houses " hose Occu.
pants Hold Liquor Licenses.
Gov. Stubbs COrrects Impression
About Those Kisses.

Wichita, Oct. 21.-John S. Dawson,
attorney general for Kansas and C.
w. Trickett, assistant attorney general,
seized two car loads of bottled beer in
the railroad yards last night. 1t was
unloaded and stored by deputy Sher-
IFS. Names of the consignees could
not be learned.
This morning Mr.. Dawson obtained
through the district court of Sedge-
wick county, fifteen injunctions
against business buildings where the
occupants hold government liquor Ii
censes.
The issuance of the Is injunctions
and the seizure of the beer are a part
of the campaign against liquor selling
the state officials have begun in Wich-
ita.
Governor Corrects Kissing Story.
The story sent out from Wichita of
the Missionary banquet at which Gov
ernor Stubbs was hissed Wednesday
night, was greatly exaggerated, ac-
cOrding to the governors statement or
the affair. Only a slight foundation
existed for the sensational features
played up by enemies of his excel
lency in that city. The facts are that
a few people did hiss in the back of
the room, but the few misses were not
one-tenth in volume to the cheers
Then, too, what the governor really
said at the banquet was distorted IN
the early story. He was misquoted to
make the story read more plausible
The governor was quoted as declar-
ing that Wichita was a hole of vice
and crime. What he really said. ac-
cording to stenographic notes OF his
speech, was the following:
'I find deplorable conditions in
Wichita that demand attention at once
from every respectable citizen and 1t is
time for the Christian people of this
city to take up the problem of great
social evil, the existence of which has
been proved by unimpeachable eVl-
dence.
I'm this connection, 1 want to say
that wherein it is necessary for the
state to help local officials in the en-
forcement of the laws we will do 1t and
when the local officials shirk their
duty we will throw them out of Of
flee If your officers do not perform
their duties as they ought to you
should recall more of them
The governor wanted the people of
the state to know the facts about the
banquet incident. Speaking today OF
the matter, he said: THE steno-
graphic notes you have there on my
speech are correct, word for word
said that, and would say it again in
any city in this state where I believed
local conditions warranted it. 1 was
invited to speak on temperance at this
banquet and believe my remarks We're
appropriate The best women in the
and complirn rented me on my talk
They endorsed every word I said, they
declared.
II did not tell half I knew about vice
conditions at Wichita. They are bad
there as regards houses of illfame and
the selling of beer therein. I can tell
you now that if local and county Off
ciaIs do not do their duty in the en-
forcement of the laws they will be
ousted Law violations can be handled
by local officers if they are competent
and faithful. If they are not they
ought to be manly enough to resign.
If they don't do that they ought to he
recalled by the people of their com
munities If that is not done the
state department will use every effort TO
oust them from office
Il do not think that Indifference to
crime on the part of officials should
be tolerated for minute. For my
part 1 shall not stand for 1t if I can
help it. The county officials must get
busy and clean up places or vice Or
get out of office. That goes for Wichita
sucn conditions exist or may spring
up in the future
s',rhe Kisses at the banquet must
have come from the back of the hall
,rhev were not loud enough for me to
hear My friends told me few peo-
was endorsed by all the best people in
the room. spoke only of conditions
that I know existed there. If it is
wrong to call delinquent officials to
time for their indifference, then 1 was
in the wrong and will continue on that
track One thing is certain, and that
IS that Wichita will be cleaned up. We
will go right on with the work in hand.
If some people do not like it I can not
help that. I know that the large ma
iority of the people there are with US
in this work"