The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-12
NO MONEY Is SPENT.
Police Arrest and Convict 126
JOintists in Year.
JOintists Reported by Norris Not
Yet Tried.

Mayor ]. 3. Billiard not only denies
the charges made against his admins
tration of Topeka city affairs but he
goes at length into an argument Of the
case and undertakes to show by facts
and figures that the State Temper
aance union agent was unfair and pre-
&1udiced in his attack The Topeka
mayor, who is a candidate for COVER
nor, uses the Golden Rule for his text
of reply and urges his opponents to
practice this standard of thought and
action He points out plainly the in
cOnsiStencieS of the attack made upon
him. The mayor says:
When first read the statements of
the Rev. Robert Norris in the neWspa-s
pers December 9, 1 thought, consid-
ering the source and apparent false
hood, that they did not deserve an ans
Wer. However, many persons are apt
to accept as true any statements pub
lished in a newspaper, especially when
made by a person who prefixes to his
name the title Rev
Says Statement Is False.
1.-THE Rev. Norris admits. and the
governor concurs with him that there
is not a joint to be found in Topeka
and that the city is as dry as a city
can be, but he gives all the credit to
the county attorney, and he says that
If it were not for fear of that officer
the city would be wide open. The
reverend gentleman knows that state
ment is false and every intelligent per-
son in the city knows it, and that it
was made knowingly as SANDER on
myself and my administration.
1.-The Rev. Norris never furnished
the police with evidence that was not
acted upon. The county attorney has
powers of inquisition not enjoyed by
the police department and therefore
he can go further than that depart
The people of Topeka can rest assured
that without any help at all from Rev.
Mr. Norris and County Attorney Simon
cit he free from
&OlIrine the year 1910 the police arrested
lis persons for selling liquors and con-
per cent of convictions have been made
from arrests by the police than from
those arrested through the county attor-
ney-
Intimates Fees Are Considered.
Another thing, the persons arrested
and convicted by the police have not been
allowed to go right back into the liquor
business so they could be arrested again
and fees piled up. Again, these arrests
have been made by the regular police
force without employing any spoilers or
other disreputable persons to go and IN
duce or bride persons to violate the law
in order that the persons employing them
might reap rich harvest of fees Not
dollar of public money has been SO spent
by the police. The prohibitory law has
been enforced in a regular and legitimate
manner, without any graft
ssThe Rev MI Norris says that he fur
nished the county attorney evidence
against the forty places or homes where
many of these parties are now in jail
serving long terms How can that be
Arrle? He says he visited the place be-
lween September and November 1. The
present term of district court began Sep
tember and no prosecutions began since
that time have been tried
Norris Is Also Guilty.
HAS it ever occurred to the Rev. Mr..
Norris and the people who employ him
and his kind that when he goes into the
slums of the cities, the homes, joints
ana disorderly houses and by deceit, mis-
representation, lies or otherwise and per-
s1Iades the unfortunate inmates that he
is one of them and their friend, and by
brfbes of public money from the gov
errors contingent fund induces them to
violate the law that he is himself v1olat-
ing the law as we'll as acting the part or
a deceiver and a liar2
1T is a recognized principle of law that
one who helps or induces another to COM
nit a crime is also guilty.
IN conclusion 1 wish to suggest to the
Rev Mr.. Norris, who I presume pretends
to he a disciple of Christ and teacher
Of brotherly love, that when he goes into
these sIums and disorderly houses, that
he try to teach and educate the men and
women he finds there to be better and
extend to them a helping hand with
true Christian spirit. That he teach
them the Golden Rlue and practice 1t
himself. Thus he would accomplish more
real good toward lettering the morals of
itv than by sending forty persons to jail
after having deceived them and encour-
aged them to violate the law