| Show PROHIBITION IN KANSAS II I Has Caused a Split in the Populist I Popu-list Ranks I Topeka May 19The agitation for i the enforcement of the prohibitory law 1 in Kansas renewed recently by the I I state temperance union as a result of open violation of the law in Topeka has developed a split i Populist ranks Governor Leedy appeared last night at i Hamilton hall where the temperance 1 people held a second big mass meeting At the first meeting the governor and i police comreJiBlonrD ivero roundly denounced for failure t enforce the g prohibitory law J Governor Leedy startled the audience J audi-ence by a little denunciation on his I own account He declared that the I state temperance association had fallen I Into the hand of agents of the railroads rail-roads and corporations and that they were making of it a political weapon instead of an Instrumentality for good He asserted further that the city government of Topeka did not assist the police in their efforts to enforce the law and he declared that i the temperance people were honest in theiragitation the liquor traffic would very quickly be abolished The governors remarks caused a retort from exUnited States Senator Peffer I ashamed of him the am te exsen I ator shouted Mr Peffer deplored the governors attack upon the temperance I people and intimated that the state administrationwas not sincere in its attitude toward the liquor traffic Annie L Diggs another Populist leader spoke in the same strain though she declared that Governor Leedy was doing as well as any other governor since John A Martin a I pronounced temperance man |
