The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1859-06-23
W. learn from source entitled to Che

We learn from source entitled to the
fullest credence, says The Chicago T's-
6une, that the late election for delegates
to the Kansas Constitutional Convention
was conducted on plan hardly inferior
in point of open daylight swindlipg to the
candle. box affair of October. 1857, the
returns of which are still playing hide
and seek in the breeches pocket of John
Calhoun. Sam Medary, Governor of
Kansas, is employed by the Democratic
party ITO carry Territories" Long ex-
perienced and famous in the art OF colo
niziug the State of Ohio, whenever the
exigencies OF his party required major
ity in the Legislature, his qualifications
for the office of Governor of Minnesota
in 1857, where two United States Seus-
tors we're pending on the result of the
first State election, were undisputed. He
went to that Territory, and By dint of FILL
ing ND doubtful counties with wild Irish,
putting the Winnebsgoes and half tho
savage tribes of the back woods through
the voting process, perpetrating the Penn
bina fraud, &C., be succeeded in sending
Rice and Shields to the Senate, and CIV
ing Sibley the Gubernatorial chair. At
ter this display Of segacity in cheating,
Calhoun in Kansas, and dispatched to
that Territory with instructions to carry
the 6rst elections prior to the formation
Of State Government at all hazaTdS.-
This be promised to do for certain D.
moubt of money to be expended in the
transportation of voters. The money was
raised aud paid in Washington, and tho
Governor expended it faithfully and judi
ciou,ly. Three days before the election,
six or seven hundred Irlshmen were put
through the swearing process in LcaveD-
worth and Douiphan Counties, and took
out applications for naturalization. Not
satisfied with this, acquisitions were made
on Kansas City and St. Joseph, No., and
hundreds Of voters were landed on the
day of election at Leavenworih and otb-
er points on the river, who marched
straight to the polls and deposited ballots
for the pro Slavery delegates. Arrange
ments had been made in this way to Sc
cure majority of the Convention. but
the Republican vote upsot their caicula-
tions. Atchinson County. which Medary
calculated upon without fail, elected the
entire Republican ticket, and johnson,
LykiDs and Bourbon, which were sup
posed to he safe beyond question, gave
ooly divided delegation. The Conyen-
ton is secured to the Republicans. as We
learn, by a. least SeUen majority, and its
fr.t business will be to look into the e.
lection and qualifications of its own mem
bers
The Leavenworth Times of the 18th
sums up the Kansas election for Dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention as
follows, giving the Democracy the benefit
of any uncertainties
REPUBLICAN--Atchinson, 3; DoDi phan,
/; Brown, !; Nemaho, |; Marshal, &C., /;
Riley, |; johnson 1; Douglas, :; Shaw
nee, 3; Richardson. &c, l; LJkins. 2;
franklin, 1; Weller &c, ?; Linn. ,; An
derson, l; Rapahoe, l. Total, 20.
DEMoCRATIC-Leavenworth, 10; Don-
iphan d; Jefferson, /; Calhoun, !; Pota-
vatauic, 1; johnson. /; Bourbon, &c., i;
Allen, &C., l. Total, 20.
UNcERTAIN-G odfrey, &C., 2; Madison
&C., !, Total, 3.