The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1872-11-07

The election for County officers, on Tuesday, re-
snlted in pretty much Of = mix. The Prce ticke'
elects Price for Senator; the Dreaming TICKET
elects Rose for County Superintendent; tie De"'.
Dcratic ticket elects Johnston for County As'o'-
new. and wilkinson for Probate Judge; wnhe
Frank Brown. who was on both Republican t'ck-
.ts and who had no Drmocrafic opposition, 10
elected District Clerk.
While we regret that all Of our ticket was not
,.,.cessful. we are not feeling 90 badly as might
he expected The truth is, money, whiskey, sno
ipdiscriminate trading, were too much for ns'
Every saloon in the County, no matter wnst INC
politics of the keepers, (except HarPsfsrs ~
White CIoud, and Ben. Tracy's at Iowa foint,)
were run in the interest Of tie Price ticket. We
-. ~ wait, ,,,,ud dpripe the first half Of the
day. and We think we never saw more dissrace-
81 so.,.s "a, ANY or.,siol. The saloons were
closed. ITO outward arpearances) but whiskey
was pnbic in the streets. in front of Demo
cratic s,I,,on. druk keD were sucking whiskey
from bottI-s. and yelling for Price and Bowers.
tn. NEGROES were nearly all soaked with whskey
on Monday night, and kept in that condition.
Tb. leader of the Price party in White Cloud had
a supply Of vhiskey in negro barber-shop, to
aud from which there was a constant swarm "f
colored men. If Mr.. Bowers himself did not have
a hand in this business, he knew Of II, and con-
sented to its going on. The prevalent opinion il,
that he a direct party To il. Drunken men,
both white and black. crowded the streets, yelling
like savages-in fact, 10 see sober men on the
street, was exception to q general rule. Men
boasted that they had received money for their
votes; and others openly proclaimed that they
were for sale to the highest bidder. These things
were perpetrated by men calling themselves
Christians and leaders of morality, ana it is claim
ed that the result is the voice Of the people!
Here at Troy, everything was traded of for
votes for Price. Rev. Bowman was traded COM
pletely out Of sight. N. B. Wood was traded of
before his own eyes. Mr. Low, the candidate for
Representative, sold ont completely Even
Grant was traded away; and majority Of from
200 to $50 in Centre Township was cut down to
about 125. In fact, it publicly announced that
they would trade anything for votes for Price.
The same was the ease, to considerable extent.
at Severance BY this MEANS Grants majority is
only about SOO when it could just as well have
been made 1000.
Bowers is elected Representative in the First
District, by over 200 majority.
In the Second District, ODriscoll, Democrat,
heats Low, Republican, about 30 votes. Low
was sold by those who nominated him..
Capt. Larzelere is beaten in the Third District,
by searcy, Democrat. This was accomplished by
Lyman Nash running Independently, and taking
over one hundred Republican votes. Nash start
ed ont for the Probate Judgeship, then fell back
on Representative, and ran for spite, because he
did not get the nomination.
Considering the interest and excitement, this
has been the most difficult election to get def
mite returns from that have any recollection
Of The Commissioners will meet aud canvass
the vote on Friday, and next week we will he
able to give an official abstract.