The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-01

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1870.
ArAuR AND OPEN VOTE IN THE
CONVENTION.
The manly element in the Convention will
lie strong enough to have its own way, to
"run it, and there Is little further necessity
Of advocating the rirc roce vote. The dis
c,ls-ion which we have kept up more than
Two years, and which has been ably sustained
BY the best Journals in the State, has carried
conviction with it. The secret lallot belongs
To the private citizen for his protection, but
the delegate must vote openly, .iru rOce, and
il he is bought by Sid. Clarke he must
answer, when his name is called in the Con-
vention, "S:dney Clarke" 1t will take con-
siderable courage to brave popular indigna-
ton and openly vote for Sidney Clarke in
the presence Of hundreds of witnesses from
every section of Kansas. The name Is hate
ful to the people; it is a synonyme Of false
mood and had faith, Of treachery and rotten
ness, Of betrayal and per6dy. When the
name Of the delegate is called, he must rise
in his place and pronounce the name of the
person for whom he votes that is what is meant
bv riru roce voting. II means the deaih-knell of
all double-dealing; the utter playing out of
the men who tell the people they are all
right, and then go to the convention, and,
by means of a secret ballot, betray their con-
sti,uents, violate their pledges, and sell their
vote for money or Office. All delegates do
not do this, but the ballot rule has always
permitted il, and there has never been Con-
vention in which there were not just enough
shvSters of this sort to change the result and
thus outrage public sentiment.
All that sort of men are now opposing the
riru uce method Of voting. They want to
go to Topeka TO make money; they want
part of Clarke's corruption fund, and they
will take it unless forbidden by instructions
and by popular Indignation. Men have
gone to Topeka after their money as resg,-
Larry rs beggars go to a soup house for their
food. They have even boasted of their in
fanny: 81 don't go 10 Topeka for nothing.
Reckon I know my biz" This language
has been sufficiently familiar in tine rotten
past No man in the State has been more
conspicuous in demanding this reform than
George 4. Crawford, and his unscliish and
patriotic agitation is already producing fruit.
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At Republican meeting recently held in
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aIloraed:
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ability, integrity, ., honesty Of Sidney Clarke,
fon a change in the Representative in Congress
r"a TINS district; AMI t.e' s;sre d da, 'fe
def.at,
ss.;e Convention" tina, they vote r':a ,:ss for can
lion Of all candidates;
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rsort.i to. To- obtain important Federal offices, and
that Sidney Clarke he: leen and nov Is engage: s
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EeSs.,d' That We as individuals, and as meni-
oyfsssd 70 the continuance, In 4
"r present representative in Congress- and .li.v-
ing Thai change !. necessary q" mos, heartily ad
S,nrlsn .onnr" 10 I'M that ONCE. and We r,,,l.e
ourselves T." Iabor ivr the accomplishment, Of tina,
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I'll e. 4 20 the party, and i, as.t by designing
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conventions and will require delegates our
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we copy inc 'oi"""S Aoii' 'he for'
Scott Monitor. II hates the nail on the head.
We shall not write again on this subject
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