The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1857-07-25

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+! of Missourians came into the yard of the
house where the election was held, and
unloading wagon filed with arms, stack
ed their guns in the yard, and came up
to the window and demanded to be al
lowed to vote. Two of the Judges decid-
ed to receive their votes; whereupon the
third Judge, Mr. j. III. Arthur, resigned
| and another was chosen in his place. Col.
Young, citizen of Missouri, but a candi-
didate for and elected to the Territorial
Council, was present, and voted in this
precinct. He claimed that all Missouri
ans who were present on the day of cleo
don were entitled to vote. But 80 or 10
of the citizens of the precinct were pres
ent, and many of them did not vote.
At the Little Sugar precint the cleo
| ton seemed to have been conducted fairly,
| and there Free State majority was poll
ed. From the testimony, the whole dis
trict appears to have been largely Free
State; and had none but actual settlers
voted, the Free State candidates would
| have been elected by large majority.
From careful examination of the testi-
| mony and the records, We find that from
| 200 to 3C0 legal votes were polled out of
| 6S5-the total number given in the four
precincts Of that district. OF the legal
votes cast, the Free State candidates re-
ceived 152.
SIXTH DIsTRIcT.-Fot Scott.-A COM
pany of citizens of Missouri, mostly of
Bates county, came into this district the
day before the election, some camping,
and Others putting up at the public house.
| They numbered from 100 to 20O, and came
in wagons and ON horseback, carrying their
provisions and tents with them, and were
generally armed with pistols. They de-
clared their purpose to vote, and claimed
the right to do So They went to the
polls, generally, in small bodies, with tick
cts in their hands, and many, if not all,
voted. In some places they declared
they had voted, and gave their reasons
for so doing. Mr.. Anderson, pro-slavery
candidate for the Legislature, endeavored
to dissuade the non-residents from voting,
| because he did note wish the election
contested. This person, however, in
sisted upon voting, and upon his right to
vote, and did so. No one was challenged
or sworn, and all voted who desired to-
| Out of $50 votes cast not over 100 were
legal, and but 64 of these are found in the
census taken one month before by Mr..
Barber, candidate for the Council. Many
of the Free State men did not vote; but
your committee are satisfied that of the
| legal votes cast, the pro-slavery candidates
received a majority. Mr.. Anderson, one
these candidates, was an unmarried man,
who came into the district from Missouri
a few days before the election, and board
ed at the public house until the day after
the. election. He then took with him the
| poll lists, and did not return to Fort Scott
till the occasion of barbecue, the week
before the election of October 1, 1856
He voted at that election, and after it
left, and has not since been in the district.
S. A.Williams, the other pro-slavery can
didate, at the time of the election had a
claim in the Territory, but his legal resi-
dence was not there until after the elec-
ton.