Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-05

Girard House coach. Having fifty times been
smartyr to The incompleteness of the railroad
cempaaies' arrangements referred to above, we
gladly thus meks known, for the public's sake,
how their inconysniences may be obviated.
THk Mc(aRE County ELECTION. pub
lish below the second proclamation of Governor
Walker relating To- the alleged fraudulent
voting in the recent Kansas election, which
came to hand yesterday. 1t will be perceived
that Governor w. bases his action in this case
on the fact of the entire and glaring invalidity
Gllegality) of the returns in question made to
him, expressly disclaiming any pretsnce what
ever Of right to 60 behind returns made to him
in compliance with the Territorial law. This
paper ibis proclamation forms an interesting
chapter of current political history eaL
GOVERNOR WALKER's SECOND PROCLAMATION
.- TO THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS.
be- LEcoMProN, Oct %, 1857
Since our proclamation of the 10th instant, re-
jecting the so-called election returns from the
Oxford precinct in Johnson county, another very
similar case has been presented for our official
action. Ii Is that of pretended returns from three
precincts Of MCGEE county, in this Territory, con-
tanning an aggregate of more than twelve hum
dred votes. The county is located in the extreme
southeastern portion of Kansas is constituted
from the lands of the Cherokee Indians, which
are not yet open to pre-emption Of settlement, and
is consequently one of the most sparsely popu-
lated counties of the Territory, containing less
than one hundred qualified voters, and giving
last June but fourteen votes for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention.
Indeed, all persons actually conversant with
the number of the population of this county treat
with derision the large vote pretended to have
been given there. Our information also excludes
the idea that there was any incursion of voters
from the neighboring State of Missouri, whose
recent election. Ii is then, quite evident that
such vote As is presented in these pretended re-
turns was given at the late election in this
county.
that we reject these pretended returns but feeling
confident tina: no such vote was given, o even
one-tenth part of il, we are induced By such con-
siderations to give these alleged returns the most
rigid scrutiny, in order to ascertain whether they
are genuine legal and valid.
From intrinsic evidence on the face Of the pa
simulated and fictitious. Besides, they present
no evidence that the oath required by our stat
utes was administered to the clerks or Judges of
the election, TO secure from each and all of them
the impartial discharge OF their duties accord
ing to law
But in addition to these grounds of decision
against the legality and validity of these pre-
tended returns, there is vet a more coDcIusiye
reason which constrains us not to count them
While the names of the voters, and of the candi-
dates, all appear to be entered on the lists not
one OF the offices is mentioned for which the can
didates respectively were intended to be desig-
mated. We cannot determine, therefore, from
the face OF those papers, for what office any one
OF the candidates was supported. The uniform
lty In this particular of these pretended returns
from three separate and distinct precincts, espe-
cialy as the forms are not made up in the same
handwriting ,nor-with certain exceptions w hich
only add force to the argument-on the same
Kind of renders Wi pth er cir
conclusive TO our minds the conviction that they
are as above stated fictitious and simulated II
IS most extraordinary, also, that not single vote
appears to have been given for any county officers
In rejecting these papers we do not 90 behind
the returns, because no legal or valid returns are
made Neither in the former instance nor in
this have we claimed the power to judge of the
qualifications of voters, and to exclude votes
deemed to be illegal. What constitutes a return
is defined by the Territorial statutes; and to re.
Ject paper as spurious or fictitious, or because
In points OF vital importance IL deviates from the
acquisitions of the law, and therefore is not le-
tuTn in legal parlance, is not going behind the
return, as we have been unjustly charged with
doing.
If these papers, like those from the Oxford pre-
cinct, would increase by nearly twelve hundred
the apparent votes for the candidates of our party
although the officers are not named; obliga-
ton is none the less paramount to reject them az
we now do, as spurious and Illegal. An election
secured through our sanction, by frauds so mon
strOus, would be more fatal TO our party than any
tclcct) however 0lSGStl Gus. w e deem ~ duty
TO state that according TO our information, some
II not all the candidates. who il was supposed
might claim their election by these frauds have
refused to accept any advantage under them.
These disreputable attempts to DESTROY the
elective franchise, and all popular government
which is based upon it, and to subject us to the
responsibility OF rejecting such papers, or ZEN
dering ourselves accomplices in the fraud, by
giving 1t our endorsement and sanction, will
meet, we doubt not, the serions reprehension of
honest men Of all parties in this Territory and
throughout the Union. The intense and danger.
Gus excitement produced in this Territory nv
these enormous frauds has rendered it imperative
upon us, in this public, official manner to make
Known our decision In regard to them believing
that Just and impartial course Of action On our
part VIII serve to restore peace and harmony 10
an agitated and distracted people
lfinstead of relying upon these papers them
serves, as enthentc returns, il IS sought to DENY
shat the results are spurious and simulated, we
cannot doubt that Congress, upon the question of
admitting the delegate, would, by an appropriate
committee OF one or both houses despatch he'd to
this Territory, and clothed with authority to
send for persons and papers, inquire fully into
these transactions, in order that the perpetrators
OF such enormities, and all their accompiices and
confederates, may be exposed and punished In
the mean time, we shall cause to be published AT
an early day, complete list Of the names of these
pretended voters, that the people Of this Terri
tory, and especially of the localities in which
those frauds were perPetIated, may visit them
with appropriate condemnation. As these pre-
tended voters are alleged to have come in large
bodies from Missouri under claim of settlements
on the Indian reservations, aud as we have ascer-
tanned that this allegation is unfounded in fact,
we deem ii a duty to the people of Missouri in
order 10 prevent unjust prejudice against them
In this Territory and throug hout the Union, wiz
all It's evil consequences, to give then the means
by publishing these lists Of fictitious names. to
exonerate themselves from such unfnunded accu-
satlons. q r. J. WALKER
Governor of Kansas Terri
FRED. p. STANTON. Secretary
PACIFIC COAST INDIAN AFFAIRs-The Com
missioner of Indian Affairs recniuad Ali. ..a.-