New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-15
KANSAS.
THE LECOMPTON bogus" ELECTION

THE LECOMPTON bogus ELECTION.
Letter, from Oar spec. Correspondent
LEcoMPToN, X. T., Jan. ?, l55-.
The very bogus returns of the bogus COnstitu-
tiona election, although not ali in, are enough to
show that the vote viii stand close on 1000. Oi
these votes, real Missouri bogus and "mixed,'
very large majority are for the democratic
ticket -" Constitution with Slavery Ii IS quite
possible. from all the information that have been
able 10 obtain, that Of these 900 votes some 1000
were really thrown, some l,2oo OF these oolne
thrown by Mssourians. There certainty wa" no.
more than 500 legal votes, ana LOW ho"' :no
mark. Under such circumstances, inc ouly 'hihg
wonderful is that they did not snow lV,oOo bogus
votrs instead of 1000. Why they did not show a
l,rcer vote than WAS thrown for the Topeka Con-
stitution or at least larger one than was thrown
by the Free State men at the October election is
not very clear. presume that such was the de-
sign but there has been either lack OF directories
where the returns were made mp, or there has been
some blunder in the arithmetic. Perhaps % Ara.
pehoe and one or two of the other blessed spots TO
be- heard from may yet send in the quota. They
could safely do 80, there was not solitary vote
thrown in these out regions, consequently there
would be no discrepancy between the vote and the
returns. 1t may yet be- dOno another way. From
several important points the 'oficia" SOte is not
vet H. the return being the report OF votes thrown
suspect that they are held back until the result of
the vote on the Lecompton Constitution, under the
recent law of the called session, is known. 1t ~
reported that the design is to place it above that
vote whatever it may be-.
Various causes are likely to reduce the vote
against the Lecompton Constitution next Monday.
In the first place, purely negative position IS
always weak one. In addition to that, the peo-
pie, through delegate Convention, which reflected
their views more fully than Legislature
chosen under fraudulent apportlOnment, asked
that Legislature TO re.submit the Topeka COnstltu.
ton with the Iec0mptOn Constitution. The 0ppo-
sition TO this, which arose purely from Stanton and
his cOmpeers, and was fed by few recklessy am
bilious Free State men, or protested trce-State
men, who want to inaugurate something new with
which they may BE- identified, in rejecting this
plaiuy.expressed desire of the people incurred
heavy responsibility. Many of the people are So
Disguised With the result so far that they do not
care whether they vote or not; and as the weather
is severe and the facilities for voting not the best.
the vote will unquesionaby be much lighter than
il would otherwise be.
On the same day there is an election for officers
under che Constitution thus TO be voted on. \
handful of boilers from the Free-State Convention
had the ttlrOntery to put forward State ticket,
after the Convention had fairly determined not 10
participate in that election for officers. very IN
uenia class of persons had been III favor of voting
was the people who We're opposed ~ it, and so res
olutely that new prominent men have been built up
by defending the issue from which the masses could
not be shaken. Some few Of the leaders, however,
will not permit themselves to be op the beaten side.
While portion Welded gracefully TO the deterni-
nation, a few, determined still to overthrow the
decision arrived at have been working rcsouely to
overthrow that decision. Among those was Gov.
Robinson who had received letters from the States
urging participation in that election, and who de-
termDed that il should be gone into, II the Free
state ranks had TO be shattered 10 do il. As there
was no time TO get out a new State ticket II was
urged that 10 nomination for State officers be made
leaving the boilers alone in the field; but that all
effort BIZ made to secure the election Of the Legls
lature 30 10 secure the election Of tno T. s. SEN
ators, in any event. Lane, although apparently
hostile TO the whole boiling system, finally went in
and lie and Robinson have been very busy securing
the nomination of Representatives. aud Senators in
the several districts And in this irregular, shat
tered and inconsistent way the Free-State people
are preparing to 90 up to the battle against reck
less high handed fraud On Monday. Much do
fear for Mondsy's work, under such circumstances.
So far, the troops have only been stationed at
strong Free State points, with the exception of Le
compton and Fort Scott and az the latter only for
protection. As Titus and band Of 80 Missouri
Ruffians came at the election on the 2lst llt into
johnson County, the design Of the Free-State men
was 10 20 down there with q force aud keep them
out Learning of this, Denver & Co. now intend 10
send troops there, aud learn here that they are on
the way "to guard johnson County" As they
made no attempt to prevent the fragrant fraud of
2eUO bogus votes, returned at the last election, it
is very certain that their real mission ii 10 protect
further fraud in its iniqu.y.
The Territorial Legislature meets in Lawrence
on Monday next, having adjourned 10 that place.
The Free-State Legislature meets at Topeka on the
same day. it's currently reported that it is the
design of the troops now at Topeka to prevent the
assemblage of that body.