The Good Citizen from Topeka, Kansas • 2

THE GOOD CITIZEN. 2 Cfte good Citizen. NOTICE. The Thrifty Shoppers convention will meet as usual at our store Saturday evening. Topeka, September 1, 1900.

The Good Citizen would suggest to the attorneys for Frank Rainor that if they would destroy the evidence against him they had better destroy the car load of contraband captured. The possession of this may not convict him of violating the law in police court, but it will convict him in the minds of every one outside the court. He may escape justice, but in the pressure of so much beer he cannot establish his innocence. For the good of the city and of Rainor his counsel should destroy the beer. Undestroyed, it is a mute witness of Rainors guilt.

Restored, it is still a mute witness of justice wounded. Published Monthly by THE GOOD CITIZEN PUBLISHING 115 East Eighth Street, Topeka, Kan. Official Organ of The Young Peoples Good Citizenship Federation of Topeka. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 622 KAN.

AVE- Per year, by mail 25 cents In clubs of 10 or more 10 cents Evidently one presidential candidate is a careful reader of the Good Citizen, In advocating in an early issue of 1899, the separation of national and state politics from municipal affairs and the placing of the latter upon a business instead of a political basis, the citizens of Topeka were likened unto stockholders in the corporation, the councilmen to directors, the mayor to the president, etc. Within a few weeks Mr. Bryan used the same illustration in one of his public addresses, applying it nationally, the voters being the stockholders, congressmen directors, etc. You, too, dear reader, may get a helpful idea from the Good Citizen if you will read it as carefully. MORE CHEAP EXCURSIONS 10 COLORADO On September 4 and 18 tickets from Missouri River points to Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou, Pueblo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, and return, will be sold by the GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE At rate of ONE REGULAR FARE PLUS $2 FOR ROUND TRIP Return Limit October 31, 1900.

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P. Chicago. The Party Whip. The presidential campaign is fairly opened. National issues are being dis cussed.

Arguments, logical and illogical; oratory, artful and persuasive; appeals to prejudice; these are all being brought to bear on the dear people, to sway them to one side or the other. Behind these are the committeemen and political workers, lining up their forces for the battle. Soon the party whip will crack; vote for the party! In the interest of the party vote the straight ticket! You are not a good Republican or Democrat or Prohibitionist if you do not vote straight. In the heat of a national campaign many voters lose sight of their relation and duty to the community within loyalty to the party of their choice and partisan workers make the most of this natural inclination when the contest is an exciting one. The Good Citizen believes in political parties that represent the differences of opinion among the people on questions affecting the nation or the state, but protests against bringing national and state questions into the contest foi county or city offices that have no bearing on or relation to such national oi state questions.

What has the office of county judge, attorney or sheriff to do with imperialism, trusts, gold or silver standard, oi tariffs, that these national questions should cut any figure in the election of officers to fill them. Has any county officer one particle more of influence on them than any individual citizen has: Should not each office stand in the right relation to the interest that office rep resents. If the money question and trusts and the colonial policy are important interests in connection with congress and the presidency, are not the questions of law and order, taxation and the peace and welfare of the whole community the paramount issues in connection with the county offices. Be a partisan in national affairs. Bt a partisan in state affairs, if the plat form and men have your approval, but in county affairs be a citizen before you are a partisan and vote for the most competent men, regardless of politics the men who can best administer the affairs of the county and do it according to law.

Party politics can only be pure so long as the candidates are pure. The most effective way to purify your party is to vote against every improper candidate it presents, and the quickest way to annihilate your party is to vote for every one on the ticket, whether good or bad. Vote your convictions; vote for the county and vote for men, even if the party whip is cracked over you and partisans malign you for doing what you believe to be for the best in terests of the community. OOQOQQQQQQQQQOQQQQQQQGOQOO GOOD PRINTING CHEAP. 8 H.

R. HILTON, Editor. CORA ZOOK SMITH Buaineas Manager. Officers and Committees of the Young People of the Good Citizenship Federation of Topeka. President A.

O. Beach. Vice Presidents H. B. Graves, Robt.

Ogilvy, Ray Carle, S. C. Zimmerman, Geo. E. Dougherty.

Secretary C. C. Hostuller. Corresponding Secretary W. D.

Perry. Treasurer Geo. S. Trigg. Agitation Committee E.

R. Simon, Chairman, room 28, Columbian building; Geo. Hoyes, Sam Zimmerman, W. C. Ralston, Geo.

Triggs, Geo. Thatcher, K. C. Bean, W. J.

Stovall. Candidates and Elections Committee B. H. Pugh, Chairman, Oakland; H. R.

Hilton, Wm. Boyes, F. C. Downey, C. C.

Nicholson. Law Enforcement Committee W. C. Ralston, Chairman, 423 Kansas Avenue; J. Steves, Rev.

F. W. Emmerson, Walter Axtel, E. R. Simon, L.

H. Strain. There is one man and probably only one in T-opeka who believes George Klauer innocent of the charge of running a joint and that is his landlord. How hard it is for a landlord to believe his tenant is guilty of law breaking when as a law breaking tenant he can pay so much more rent than a law-abiding one. The appeal of the jointist to the court: Give me liberty or give me time! Give me ten days time and if I cannot destroy the memory of the prosecution's witness, or get him out of the way, then give me ten days more time and then I can have my liberty because then you will have no case.

While the Police committee of the council were investigating the police court we hope they made it a rule that hereafter every bondsman be required to qualify under oath for double the amount of the bond over and above all indebtedness and bonds already given. This bond business needs reforming. A coat of whitewash will not conceal it. The persistency and promptness with which the jointists go back to their pine boards and their kegs after every arrest strongly evidences outside support. The brewers may fool a part of the people some of the time, but they cant fool all of the people of Shawnee county all of the time.

They furnished too much free beer at the county primaries and are furnishing too many bonds now. We print all kinds of Programs, Invitations, Cards, Announcements, etc. SIB US ON YOUR NIXT JOB. GILLIES PRINTING 603 Kansas Over Moores Book Store. Topeka agency for C.

E. Supplies. it. In the meantime the witnesses cease to know what they knew well when the offense was commited, or disappear altogether from the community. These forty-three law breakers came to Topeka to break the law.

They employed attorneys to help them escape the penalty of the law. But that is not enough. They would completely dominate the politics of Shawnee county as they now do partially. Is it not time for the citizens of Shawnee county to settle this question of law breaking, and law enforcement once and for all by making a complete change in its law enforcing officers? No political party can long retain its supremacy in Shawnee county that countenances such a condition of affairs as now exists. No political aspirant can hope for success in Shawnee county who caters to a criminal class.

Its courts should neither be Cities of Refuge to its professional law breakers nor open sesames to its forty Ali Babis. For the good of the city; for the good oi the county; for the good of the party let there be a thorough cleaning out this fall. Godards Dilemma. There is not a politician who has tried carrying water on both shoulders but can sympathize with Mr. Godard, the states attorney.

A long time ago a persistent offender named Nick Chiles was convicted in the district court. He appealed to the appellate court and the sentence of the district court affirmed, and the jail was in sight. Chiles claiming to have political influence, persuaded the attorney general to that effect. Execution of sentence was suspended at request of attorney general, pending good behavior. Four times the sentence has ueen suspended.

Chiles has been running a joint almost steadily all the tune, but very cunningly, and he has not often been caught. Within a month Chiles place was raided by the police, without consulting the attorney general, and his bartender convicted. The attorney general has repeatedly said ii he had reasonable evidence that Chiles was not running a respectable hotel he would ask that sentence be enforced. The police court has that evidence, but Mr. Godard cannot look into the matter till the November term, i.

till after election. Chiles publishes a paper that circulates among the colored people. He is "whooping it up in true party style for Godards party. He prints a cut of Air. Godard and gives him a write up.

Here is Mr. Godard's dilemma. If he iets Chiles escape a just sentence he will lose law and order votes, and if he lets justice take its course, he will lose the colored votes Chiles is supposed to control. The question is, how to favor Chiles and yet make the temperance and law and order people believe he is on their side also. Dear political stradler, how would you meet an emergency like this? Every good citizen and every one who has the best interests of the county at heart can thoroughly endorse the following extract from Judge John W.

Martins letter accepting the nomination tendered him by citizens regardless of party for the office of district judge: "The judicial office is, of all others, the one office that should be non-partisan, absolutely, and kept perfectly free from all taint or suspicion of wrong in action and association. Its administration should be so thoroughly just, fair and impartial that its judgments and proceedings would, without question or qualification, command the confidence and respect of all good and worty people, and be a guaranty to all of a just and ample protection of their rights, legal and equitable. Its influence should be thrown upon the side of morality, public order, good citizenship and good government the test of good citizenship being loyalty, fidelity and obedience to the constitution of the state and nation, and the laws made in pursuance thereof. Our courts should be in spirit and in truth a house of refuge for the weak, the worthy and the helpless, from the inhuman and grinding exactions of the crafty and merciless oppressor. If elected, I will to the best of my ability discharge the duties of the office in the spirit I have suggested and I respectfully and earnestly ask the active and earnest support of all who agree with these views without regard to creed or parties in church or state.

Yours very respectfully, J. W. MARTIN. Stand by Mayor Drew. The firm and determined stand taken by Mayor Drew in his contest with the jointists should comand not only the admiration, but also the earnest support of every lover of law and order in the city.

The contest is no ordinary one. These forty-three or more jointists now trying to do business in Topeka are of importance to the unscrupulous politician because of the number of votes free beer controls, and Mayor Drew has to fight these politicians as well as the jointists. Then there are the brewers of the United States anxious to break down the prohibitory law in Topeka, as its greatest stronghold in Kansas, and Mayor Drew has to bear the brunt of this great fight against the wealthiest combine in the world. The Mayors task would, however, be simple if he had the co-operation of the county officials, and there could be no jointists if the county officials would do their sworn duty. The Mayor has been unfortunate in not having his police force and court in fullest sympathy with him, but he is certainly speaking out in no uncertain terms as to what he expects of them in the line of duty.

Mayor Drew is right in the fight and must win, because a majority of the people of Topeka are in favor of law and order. Since the present county officials are either indifferent or refuse to co-op-erfite, they should be retired at the November elections and men substituted who will execute the laws against all classes of criminals and just as vigorously prosecute a jointist as a murderer or a horse thief. The crying need is for men in office who will themselves respect the law, and who can so execute the law as to compel law breakers to respect it. The Star Grocery. E.

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716 KANSAS AVENUE. The Forty and Three. Here are the names of forty-three jointists, most of whom have been arrested many times in the past three months: George Anderson, George Buford, G. R. Burk, Buck Campbell, Mat.

Cave, C. H. Cave, H. Clark, Nick Chiles, H. Dowling, Fritz Durein, S.

Field, Dan Finney, Wm. Finney, Wood Fowler, A. B. Hollis, H. Hollis, Geo.

Head, Frank Jones, O. Kempton, Henry Kennedy, Jas. Kiley, Billy Kiley, Geo. Klauer, S. Kline, Frank Murphy, Fred Ogden, P.

Phillips, Ed Ryan, Frank Rainer, Bert Russell, Wm Shaffer, James Sheasley, Larry Sheehan, Bob Shelby, Mike Simmons, Frank Swartz, Ed Timon, Wade Watts, C. H. Wheeler, Clarence Wood, Wm. Wood, Harvey Wood, and Crook Wright. As fast as arrested they give bone! and go right back to law breaking again.

These forty-three criminal manufacturers bid defiance to Shawnee county and all its law-enforcing powers. They claim every technicality and tradition of both district and police courts in their favor and usually get it. They expect to be treated considerately and differently from other criminals, and the greater deference shown them in the mater of appearances and giving bonds confirms them in their expectations. They go into court not to get but to escape justice. They employ attorneys skilled in technicalities and court traditions and who by their ponderous aggressiveness can over-awe the tender hearted court.

These attorneys fight for time for time is everything to the criminal who would escape justice and usually get me city council has been investigating the police judge and his methods of administration. The judge took oath to administer his office according to law, but instead administered it according to his predecessors. The judge who himself disregards the law laid down for the conduct of his office, is hardly competent to sit in judgment over those who show disrespect for the laws laid down to govern their conduct. The judges defense, like that of the jointists when brought to trial before him, rested largely on technicalities. After the riots in Akron, the mayor ordered every saloon to be closed and kept closed for two days.

The mayor was prompt to recognize the source of the trouble, and if the saloons had been closed a month sooner then would have been no such crime committed and no such unreasonable and uncontrolable mob wreaking vengeance on the city. The saloon was the real avenger. The child assaulted by the miserable culprit and the city of Akron were the victims. The saloon is the Chinese boxer in our cities. Its work is always cowardl) and always destructive, and yet every city struggles with the viper in the delusive belief that it can control its poisoning influence.

But always at the last it stingeth like an adder. ricFarland Speaks. There will be a public meeting under the auspices of the Young Peoples Good Citizenship Federation at the Third Presbyterian church Friday evening, September 7. Principal address by Dr. J.

T. McFarland of the First M. E. church. Subject, Common Sense in Politics.

Music by the male chorus of the church. Those beyond walking distance will take the car to Santa Fa depot, three blocks from the church. Oakland delegates will get off at Seward and Branner. This interesting subject, handled in Dr. McFarlands unique way, should insure a large attendance, not only of Federationists, but of all who believe in good government.

The police department have certanly done a great work so far as number of arrests are concerned, but unfortunately most of this good work was nullified by fore-knowledge on the part of the jointists as to when a raid was to be made. The raid on Frank Rainor's is a notable exception, and was the cleverest work done by the police in a year. The jointists have evidently a well organized information bureau, and until their wire is cut and the officers can surprise them their backers will encourage them to hold out and the fight will continue. It will Pay You to see P. W.

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