The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-05-23

consoIt ~ thsir scmmoa good. They
may cstablish negro shsery Or Any other
kind Oh Slsyery - 4 permanent siassltu-
ton Of Klhsas. They naays tt way
the richt 81 asnendiags fhis Constellation
from the latest posserity. We have had
.pociniens Of III <htse things IN Kansas
Lecislstiea, and We have no business to
infer that the creatures Of any Lcgisla-
Tive body viii be better than the Legs.
latare itself The Free State men regard ]
Il Indispensable thst the entirc work Ct
the Constitutional Convention be SUB.
mitted for the approval or disapproval Of
those whose welfare it effects
Thirdly, The Free State men regard that
the whole machinery Of this election IS
thrown into the hands Of their bitter en-.
emics, and no safeguard arr. interposed
for their protection either in the vote IT'S
elf, or the subsequent counting Of the
votes. l need not enumerate for tins
company the provisions Of that law in
this regard. The experience of the Free
State men on former occasions has not
been such as to impress them fayorably
with the elective franchise as operated
by the bogus Legislature. Men who
have lived two years in Kansas, under
stand that the Free State party have no
rights on election day which Missouri
ans are bound to respect, and none which
the United States Government takes the
trouble to recognise" The provision Of
your law concerning the registration !of
votes, does not prevent the registration
of all the unemployed residents Of Wes-
tern Missouri, nor does it require that
the actual residents Of Kansas shall be
registered. Your registry being perfec-
ted, the result of the election is ascer-
tanned befotc the voting commences.-
After the voting is finished, we have no
guarantee that the returns will cores
pond either with the ballots deposited or
the printed list of qualified voters. / am
free to confess that doubt the integrity
of three-fourths Of the officers who will
conduct this Ell ction. We are solicited
in the face Of. Two years experience which
requires no comment from me to confide
everything we hold dear as American cit
tizens to the keeping of our worst cne-
, mics, and 60 away trusting to their hon
or, presuming that they have sufficient
virtue to register none but actual citi-
gems of Kansas, to register all the citizens
Of Kansas, to receive the votes of all
the citizens who choose to vote
to make returns according to the potes
even in case such returns ruin the bus
mess which has Afforded them occupation
for two years. . The Free State men Of
Kansas are not such idiots. The evil
dence Is overwhelming that this election
was not intended to ascertain the relative
strength of parties in Kansas, but to en-
| trap onr party, dcfraud them Of all their
! rights and make . slave State of kasas
So much 10, the Topeka Constitution
How have subsequent events show the
property OF their action? Here are two
thousand Nissourians registered Us voters
in Douglas ccounty-men whom no cit
izen Of Kansas ever heard of except As
he met them on some foraging excursion.
At Osawotamie, am informed, three
fourths of the list is made up of citizens
Of the adjoining county in Missouri. At
place thirty or forty miles southwest
of here, the citizens do not know, exccp.
by hearssy, that there is to be any cleo
ton. They have never known from the
beginning, whether they were enjoying
the blessing of Sheriff and County
Judge or not. They don't know wheth-
er they have census taler among them
or not, and l should judge they didn't
care. These arc specimens Of our Terri
tsrial job work. To my mind they de-
monstrate that the action Of the Topeka
Convention was entirely proper, and if
that Convention was to be held over
again, my part in it would be simply a
repetition Of my part in the other.
niS.anton---But you have an ample rem
edy for all this alleged fraud, in the law
creating these officers. Bring me one
man who has taken the proper steps to
have his name registered and been re-
refused, then see what becomes of the
officer. Establish that the list Of Doug
las county contains the name of one resi-
dent of Missouri and sec how rapidly that
list is expurgated of the falsehood The
trouble is you Free State men are not will
ling 10 take any steps looking to the cor
rection of the evils you complain Of. The
Executive of this Territory is here for
the purpose of administering impartial
justice, and when you have been denied
redress in that quarter, l will acknowl-
edge for one that there is something rad
ically wrong in the Government of Kan
sas.
Robiason-IIaviug determined to take
no part in the election we are naturally
not solicitous about the purity of the vo-
ting lists or the voters themselves, but
you now offer us practical impossibilty.
In the 6rst place the citizens OF Quindaso,
Lawrence and Ossawatomie are men of
business. Their time is valuable to them
aud indispensable to their families. They
cannot leave their business and 90 hunt
ing sheriff or census-takcr, particular
ly if he spends most of his time in another
State. The gentleman with the census
roll was appointed to visit them, not they
the officer.
have no time to waste in that way,
and | presume my neighbors will say the
same thing. The other proposition, that
We show the lists to be fraudulent in re-
spaes Of the names Of Missourians, 1t is an
utter impossibility. 1t is an attempt to
establish a negatise Mr.. Jones jenkins
mag b, re.ident of Westport, Missouri.
may know it, and dozen others NAV
know the same thing. We may establish
thrt Mr.. Jones jenkins docs live in West
port, Missouri. We then visit twenty of