The Good Citizen from Topeka, Kansas • 1

TIbe (Soob Cititen. No. 5. VOL. I.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 15, 1899. The Federation Mass fleeting It was a great audience that greeted Mr. C. N. Howard of Rochester, N.

at the First Presbyterian church on Friday evening, June 9. It was an audience of men and women of convictions. They were in earnest, and when Mr. Howard defined the duties of the law enforcing officers in his inimitable way, they gave a very vigorous and hearty assent. Mr.

Howard is a genius. He sees the evil that menaces a community and sees just as clearly in organized Christian forces the remedy for the evil. He organizes. Pie educates. He enthuses.

He does in the corporate limits of Topeka, their functions are now vested in the Court of Topeka and its marshal. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. Cities are states in miniature. They are empowered to enact ordinances in effect paralleling the state law on many subjects, of which liquor selling is one. It will indicate briefly the powers and duties of the various officers if we say that within the city limts and as to the city ordinances the mayor corresponds to the governor, the council to the legislature, the city attorney to the attorney general and county attorney, the police judge to the judge of the district court, and the chief of police and patrolmen to the sheriff and his deputies.

Jointists, Who Have Quit. The following jointists have closed and quit the business, it is claimed, for good, since Mayor Drew and Chief Ramsey took charge of this department of the city affairs: Jack Gilman and Milt Salyer, under Adams House. O. M. Smith, 836 N.

Kan. ave. Clay Ogelsby. 836 N. Kan.

ave. Sam Merritt, 515 N. Kan. ave. John Ewing, 501 W.

R. R. st. Geo. Klauer, 524 Kan.

ave. Carl Jocheck, 514-16 Kan. ave. T. Simmons, 404 Kan.

ave. Jim Sheasley, 422 Kan. ave. Harry Croft, 424 Kan. ave.

Chas. Antoine, 216 Kan. ave. Erb Harr, 117 E. 6th st.

Wm. Kiley, 117 E. 6th st. Bob Pigg, 111 E. 6th st.

A. V. Kress, 113 E. 5th st. John Oakley, 113 E.

5th st. Robt. Black, 117 E. 5th st. Tohn Heitman, E.

1st st. Alex Moss, near Crosby Mills. Holliday Hose, 400 Adams st. Jump Williamson, 1153 Buchanan. This makes six jointists closed in North Topeka and sixteen on south side, or twenty-two in all.

Where theres a will theres a way to close jointists. Chief Ramsey is proving it can be done. Each of the officers named takes an oath to perform faithfully the duties of his office. If he wilfully falls short of this he is a criminal. He not only commits perjury in violating his oath, tat the official misfeasance or nonfeasance is itself a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment and removal from office.

Herewith we give a list of the officers whose conduct especially concerns the people of this community. How many of them are good citizens, as measured by their official conduct? Governor W. E. Stanley. Attorney General -A.

A. Godard. District Judge Z. T. Hazen.

Sheriff Porter S. Cook. County Attorney A. P. Jetmore.

Judge of the Probate Court L. S. Dolman. Judge of Court of Topeka A. J.

McCabe. Marshal of Court of Topeka Fred Stonestreet. Mayor C. J. Drew.

City Attorney W. A. S. Bird. Police Judge James L.

Guy. Chief of Police James Ramsey. F. H. Niles.

The members of the Federation will be pleased to see once more the familiar face of its first secretary, F. H. Niles, who, though lost to sight, is still to memory dear. Mr. Niles was chairman ot the Good Citizenship committee of the Young Peoples Society of the First Congregational church.

Good Citizenship was the topic for all young peoples societies throughout the world on one Sunday evening last fall, and a few weeks before Mr. Niles conferred with his S. S. teacher, Mrs. W.

A. Coats, as to what could be done to make it of practical value. The slot machine and sale of cigarettes to minors was suggested as local evils needing attention, and plans were made for a rally to be held during the evening hour for the preaching service, to be addressed by a number of prominent citizens and pastors of the city. The meeting was a success, the house being packed, and resulted in the appointment of a committee from a number of the churches who met soon after to consider plans. It was at this committee meeting that the Federation was born and given a name.

At the same time that the plans were being made for the popular rally on Good citizenship evening at the First Congregational church, and without any knowledge of it, the Men's League of the First Presbyterian church, at the suggestion of Dr. A. H. Thompson, passed resolutions condemning the slot machine and calling on the Ministerial Union to co-operate in laying the matter before the city council. When two thunder storms separately formed are drawn together the intensity of the storm is increased' and sometimes develops into a tornado.

These two separate and independent beginnings were the clouds on the horizon no bigger than a mans hand, and when united in this committee meeting after the rally with other churches of the city, a new impetus was given to the movement that has grown in power and intensity from that moment till this. It has taken hold of the young people. It is developing into a whirlwind. Evil doers are already hunting basements and cellars, and officers are waking up to the fact that they owe something to the county and city as well as to the party, and that they must execute the laws the people make, and in the way the people provide, and not in the way they think best. Mr.

Niles was in this movement at its birth, was elected its first secretary, and his unusual executive ability for one so young, his great capacity for work and perseverance unto the end made his services of especial value in the formative days of the Federation. His removal to a more lucrative position in the service of the Santa Fe railway company at San Marcial, N. was a severe loss to the Federation in Topeka, and all who labored with him here wish him success and happiness in his new field. Opportunities to help others toward better things are everywhere and Hal Niles will not miss them when presented to him. In the March number The Good Citizen asked "Whos Afraid.

There has been no response, till last week when one of Sheriff Cooks friends in apologizing for his failure to enforce the law, gave as one reason that he. Cook, was afraid, not of the jointists doing him bodily harm, but of their suing him for damages. It was a financial, not a physical fear, that has been holding our sheriff back, but a pocketbook is always a coward. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! A Call. On June 9th, 1899, at a joint public meeting of the Young Peoples Good Citizenship Federation and the Committee of Two Hundred, which crowded the First Presbyterian Church of Topeka, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That in the interest of good citizenship we recommend to the oung Peoples Good Citizenship Federation and Committee of 200 that steps be taken to bring out a Christian citizen who has both backbone and business capacity and to whom the oath of office means what it says as a candidate for sheriff who shall be independent of all political parties, that all good citizens may have an opportunity to express their convictions at the polls.

Pursuant to this action, we hereby call a meeting of all voters of Shawnee county, who are in favor of the nomination of an independent candidate for sheriff, to be held at the old court house, 403 Kansas avenue, on Saturday. June 24th, 1899, at 2:30 oclock p. for the purpose of selecting a candidate and devising ways and means for conducting the campaign. S. G.

STEWART. President Committee of 200. GEO. B. HARRISON, President Young Peoples Good Citizenship Federation.

DISTRICT JUDGE. The office of district judge, in dignity power and responsibility, is the highest in the county. Its incumbent is the head of the legal machine, and is chiefly responsible for making it yield the results for which it is instituted. He can prevent liquor prosecution from becoming a farce, through perjury of jurors and witnesses by sending a jury home in disgrace, and directing the prosecution of a perjured witness, or punishing a persistently evasive one for contempt. When it comes to sentencing, he can vary the fine from $100 to $500, and the imprisonment from thirty to ninety days, or for some offenses to six months; and can, in addition, require a bond to be of good behavior for two years, and shut the defendant up till it is given.

Thus he can very quickly show persistent violators of the law whether he is seeking in good faith to prevent a repetition of the offense. SHERIFF. It is the duty of the sheriff and of his deputies to execute warrants for the arrest and for seizure of liquors; to arrest without warrant for any violation of the law in the presence of the officer, and to notify the county attorney of any violation of which he or his deputies have notice. He is under as much obligation to exert himself to discover violators of this law as of any COUNTY ATTORNEY. Beside the general requirement that the county attorney shall represent the state in criminal prosecutions, there are special provisions of the prohibitory law pointedly enjoining upon him diligent sifting of all reports and rumors of illegal liquor selling, and diligent prosecution of all such offenses so discovered.

To obtain evidence, he has first, all the means that any private person or committee has. In addition, he has power to subpoena witnesses to tell what they know a power now much less effective than before it was decided that he may not punish for refusal to answer, but still of some value. Sheriffs and their deputies, constables, mayors, marshals, police judges and police officers are required to communicate to him all information that may come to them in this line; and if they are derelict, he can enforce compliance by prosecuting them. He can take the lead in having a grand jury summoned, and obtain his evidence through it. If he diligently seeks evidence through all the channels open to him, there wont be very many violations of the law without some prosecutions.

PROBATE JUDGE. The statutes provide for the sale of intoxicating liquors for medical, scientific and mechanical purposes, by druggist's, under the supervision and control of the Frobate Judge. The druggist must have a permit from the probate judge. To obtain a permit he must present a peti tion and satisfy the judge that he is a pharmacist in good faith engaged in the drug business, and is the owner of a drug stock worth not less than $1,000, exclusive of fixtures and liquors. When such application is made, the judge must notify the county attorney thereof, and he shall advise with the judge with reference to the granting of a permit and the approval of the bond.

Druggists must report sales monthly to the probate judge. When satisfied that any druggist is not in good faith complying with the law, he may at any time in his discretion, revoke a permit; and must make an investigation as to such compliance with the law on presentation to him of a proper petition therefor. If druggists notoriously sell liquo- without lequiring an affidavit, or on affidavit which they know to be false, or allow liquor to be drank on their premises, or sell to minors or persons in the habit of becoming intoxicated, the probate judge is failing to carry out the intent of the law, and such failure is a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment and removal from office. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. So far as concerns the prohibitory law justices and constables have powers and duties corresponding in general to those of the district judge and sheriff.

With things. He gets results. The motto of all the unions he has helped to organize is: In the name of Jesus Christ, our King, the liquor traffic must die. Every good citizen can march under this banner. Let us fall in line.

Invite the sheriff, the county attorney, the district judge, the probate judge, the mayor, the police force and all law-enforcing officers to join in the procession. The police force are already on the firing line and twenty-two jointists have closed up and quit in past two months. When all the other officers get out on the firing line wont there be a scattering of evildoers. The Federation is only six months old and already slot, machines are put away; jointists are on the run; officeholders are waking up; already they are offering excuses for their shortcomings and blaming someone else. They are getting anxious.

Forward, Christian citizen! There is still a God in Israel. Better things are in sight. Better things for Shawnee county. Better things for Topeka. Better things for the wage-earner, the manufacturer, the merchant, the home.

So far a good work has been done, but its only a beginning. Enlist for the war and take your place in the ranks under the banner, In the name of Christ, our King, the liquor traffic must cease in Topeka, in Shawnee county, in Kansas, in the world. Cause and Effect. List of Joints Running June 10--L0 cation and Owners of Property. List of jointists running June 10, lo cation and owners of property.

Chesterfield Plotel, 113 Kansas owned by Mrs. Allan Sells Greenspan. Henry Bowman, 218 Kansas owned by Herman Holtwick. Hank Shaffer, 222 Kansas owned by J. E.

and A. A. Schmidt. Sim Watts, 228 Kansas owned by Maggie Bischoff. Christ Maier, 400 Kansas owned by Frank Durein.

Harry Croft, 410 Kansas owned by Mary E. Chase. Fritz Durein, 414 Kansas owned by Lillie B. Stephenson. Lon Townsend, 525 Kansas owned by John Branner, Josie Webb.

Millie Nichols. Frank Long, 528 Kansas owned by M. Snattinger. Resubmission Club, Crawfords opera house, Jno. Kneissler in charge, owned by John R.

Mulvane. Frank Bates, 710 Kansas owned by Geo. Heahune. Fred Hodgins, 724 Kansas owned by C. W.

Jewell. Fred Simmons, 810 Kansas owned by Mary E. Chase. Nat Cave, 611 N. Kansas owner unknown.

Fields, 808 N. Kansas owner unknown. Ed Timon, 822 N. Kansas owned by Tom James. C.

W. J. S. Layman, 838 N. Kansas quit last week and new parties in charge; owned by E.

M. Kant. Ben Jordan, 122 W. Railroad owned by himself. Pete Callahan, 216 E.

Crane owned by his brother. Hut Manker, 233 Jefferson owner unknown. Larry Sheehan, 116 E. 6th owned by Mrs. Butts.

Nick Chiles, 118 E. 7th owned by his wife. Fred and Dick Hodgins, 112 E. sub leases from Southwestern Fuel Co. Tom Mooney, Heery building E.

3rd. st. I Sin death. Righteousness life. Joints crime.

Slot Machines gamblers. Tasting moderate drinking. Moderate drinking more drinking. More drinking drunkenness. Drunkenness cold, hunger, misery in the home.

Disrespect for one law disrespect for all laws. Moderate smoking theres danger in it. Excessive smoking theres disease in it. Three cigars daily $55 yearly. Six cigars daily $110 yearly.

$55 smoked $55 wasted. $110 smoked $110 wasted. Savings wealth. Abstinence health. What the Law Requires of the Officers Who Are Chiefly Responsible for the Enforcement of the Prohibitory Law.

GOVERNOR. The governor shall see that the laws are faithfully executed. To accomplish this he may direct the attorney general to prosecute action in any court in the State. The removal from office of one or two faithless county attorneys or sheriffs or mayors or chiefs of police would end local nullification instantly and put the whole matter in a new light. A' chief executive who is so inclined has the same power as Governor that Andrew Jackson had as President.

ATTORNEY GENERAL. Whenever for any reason whatever the provisions of the prohibitory law are not enforced in any county, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to enforce the same in such county, and for that purpose he may appoint as many assistants as he may see fit. He may refuse to appoint assistants, provided he finds some other way of enforcing the law; for example, removing the county attorney from an office that he won't fill. Let 11s have another big rally. Subscribe for The Good Citizen.

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