Kansas weekly herald., 1855-01-26

BOGUS Vor1NG IN KANsAs.-General
Whitfield, the Delegate from Kansas in
the House of Representatives, denies in
toto, we hear, the stories alleging that
Missourians voted in the recent Kan
sas election who were not really entitled to
vote there. In that first election, all citi-
zens were very properly authorized to vote,
whether they had been in the Territory a
week or a year, provided they were willing
to swear that they had made the necessary
arrangements in the Territory to become
citizens thereof Thus, many of the Yankee
Abolitionists who had their expenses paid
thither by anti-slavery organizations In the
East, to vote to suit the purposes of the Or
ganizations aforesaid, voted-though more
or less of them had not been week In the
Territory. They designed becoming its
citizens, and could truthfully swear to that
intention on their part. So also many Mis-
sourians, living near the Territory, who had
made their claims to lands in it in the first
rush for choice locations, and had returned
over the borderito finish their arrangements
for moving, strove to and did effect them in
season to get back in time to participate in
the election. Others who had not compile
ted theirs, also came back and voted, being
able to swear that their absence from the
territory was but temporary, and that they
had considered themselves citizens of the
territory from the moment when they made
their respective claims citizens of Mis-
souri, to which they had returned, only to
complete the removal of their effects to
Kansas. We are satisfied from all we can
learn, that such only were denounced "Mis-
sourians" who voted there. 1t will be re-
collected that on the instant the lands of
Kansas were thrown open for settlement,
thousands rushed over the.border to secure
homes there. 1t stan Is to reason that COM
paratively few moved bag and baggage in
that rush, it being much more convenient
and economical to complete their removal
and at their leisure. The de-
nounced voters were altogether of the large
class who had rushed in with the first, and
remained long enough to establish their
right to land there, and then gone back to
sell out portion of their effects in Missou-
ri, and move the balance into Kansas.
This is evidently the reason why Gov.
Reeder did not dream of refusing to Whit
field his certificate, though his sympathies
were all for the member OF his "suite,"
Fleniken, who was in the fed. By the by,
it might appear that MrsE1eniken, the an
ti-slavery candidate, has left the Territory.
We hear of him now in Pennsylvania, in
the bosom of his family. We are, however,
satisfied that. like the Missourians who went
to their old homes prior to the election. to
prepare for the removal over for their fam
lilies, Mr.. F. simply postponed his journey
to his own home to the same .end-until af-
ter the election-haying further to go than
the denounced Missourians. and more in
terest in any of them In remaining constant
ly on the ground up to election day.
Gov. Reeder, according to some of the
Missouri papers, is cutting wide swath in
the way of fancy town Operations" &c.
1t could do no harm if Congress would look
into the truth of these newspaper accounts
of the hand ne is alleged to be taking in
land speeulations out there. 1t is due to
him if untrue, that all such stories concern
ing him should be set at rest Washing=
ton Siur ssSe.