The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1872-10-24

H0W lt Was.
A great many persons in the County do not
understand vhat tie outrage or proceeding was
upon which the Republican County Convention
split. We therefore make . statement. We
shall speak Of the "Price" and "Dssaning" par
ties, merely to distinguish the two sides, . they
were the opposing candidates.
Ths call Of III Csstrsl Committee speei6ed
that the polls at prinary electious ware to b
kept opsa fmn 3 until O'clock, p. m. small
variation Of ttne was Of mot . much consequence
- at regular election, bat the design was to
approximate that time. The country members
generally objected, eontendipg that S o'clock was
- late - country people would want to stay and
keep open polls Il was unanimously conceded.
In the Central COMMITTEES meeting, that If the
members Of any Of the Townships wished to e.
tsblish shorter time, they could do %, bat that
the time should 6e uniform in the call. -
In Bun-Oak Township, the polls were closed
at o'clock. The Price men carried the day, and
no fuss wss made. We have been told, (how
correctly We do not know that in Highland, the
polls were opened long before the specified time.
The Price men won, and it was all right But At
Severance, in Wolf Biver Township, was where
the hurt came. A majority Of the judges Of cleo
ton were Price men. They opened ut 2 o'clock,
according to the watch of . schoolmaster, and
kept open, according to that time, four hours, or
until o'clock. Judge Price happened to come
along and it was not by his time. He drum
med mp . sqnad of men, to make q show Of voting,
and then raised muss because the polls were
closed. The Dreaming party succeeded, but a
contest was brought ON two Of tho delegates. mp
on the claim that the rejected votes would have
elected them. These voters were section hands
on the railroad, aud delegate in the Convention
stated distinctly that they were residents of VS.
thsna, and not only that, hut that they were,
and always had been, Democrats. On the other
hand ten Democrats voted the Price ticket at
Severance. There was but one man refused q
vote at the polls, and be stood around for ten
minutes before the polls were closed, never offer
ing to vote until they were closed, although due
notice had been given that they were about to
close-he evidently being sent there for the pur-
pose of making difficulty.
When the Convention met. clamor was made
to exclude two of the regularly elected Delegates
from Wolf River ON the temporary organization
A regular species Of rowtlyism was carried ON. by
which delegates were prevented from making
motions or speaking. We, rs Chairman, attempt
ed to get at fair vote; but we found not only
that the contestants from Wolf River were both
voting, but that many others were voting, who
were not delegates. Alternstes were there TAX
ing part, when their principals were in the Con-
vention. There were thirty-nine persons enti-
tied to vote as delegates; yet, rising vote,
ux~IG In tlo Ind. pr;,
. candidate, was there, bummng his own case,
as an alternate.
On the vote for temporary chairman, one man,
not seeing the importance of the Office, voted for
the Price candidate, while being himself . Dren-
ming man. This decided the election, and tha
Committees were fixed. Prof Gage, of Highland,
Q candidate before the Convention, was dele
gate, and in the Convention, yet his alternate,
B. s. Campbell, was appointed first upon the
Committee on Credentials, and by virtue thereof,
Chairman of the Committee. Prices statements
were received a. the true version Of the Wolf
River matter, supported by af8davits taken by
tool Of his, in q clandestine manner, in the alb
sence Of the opposite interested party. This evil
dence the Committee accepted, against the judges
Of election, and many of the best men of Wolf
River Township.
A delegate from White Cloud, truo man, met
some old friends, who took him in buggy, for .
short ride. They bad their orders, and kept 60
ing, preventing him from returning to Troy. The
Price men had bought Mr.. Bowers, another
White Cloud delegate, with less than thirty piec-
es Of silver. An alternate WAS present from
White Cloud, who stood first on the list, and had
been elected without opposition. The White
Cloud delegation asked that the Committee put
him on instead Of the man who had been decoyed
away; but Bowers and those who had bought
him, insisted that Bowers own alternate, whom
he had brought along for the purpose, he put in
the place-thus admitting both delegate and
his alternate. The Committee finally decided to
leave the question open, and thus deprive White
Cloud of . vote in the deciding struggle. The
Drenning men were willing to let them have the
advantage of their parliamentary tricks, the mis-
takes Of delegates, and their briberies; but when,
after all that, they could not accomplish their
end, and undertook regular system of disfran-
chisement, bringing in . candidate to carry on .
game Of bluff, and supporting their assertions by
their own affidsvits, it was more than reasonable
men could stand. They resolved to appeal to
the people, and let them say whether they would
sustain such conduct. That appeal 10 now before
the people.