The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-02-29
Our Size.


The Kansas City Times does US justice at
last in the matter of population. The pre-
yious course OF this cotemporarv, in placing
an unjus,ly low estimate upon the number Of
people in Leavenworth, renders the honor
able course now taken by that journal ad-
ditionally surprising. Last Sunday the
Times published tie following dispatch.
The italics are our own:
LEASENwoRTH, Feb. l3.-The Leaven-
worth & Topeka Railroad has been inaugu-
rated. Fifty thousand Of our best citizens
have subscribed for stock. Leavenworth
county is expected to give $4,000, Jetier-
son $3.50, 900, Shawnee $4,000. The road
viii be fifty miles long.
Taking as standard che way the world
goes.' about one il ten of the voters are
cslled chest citizens There are seven men,
women and children TO a voter, making the
figures $780, 900. That is our size, as esti-
mated by deadly, though generous enemy.
an Imp"-Iiion ON the State Conyen.
tiOn.
A gross imposition was practiccd on the
late Republican State convention by James
ID. Snoddy of Linn county, which it becomes
the duty Of every true Republican in the state
10 expose and condemn. The base fraud
committed was not less agains. the convention
and the people Of the state, than i; was
against the people of Linn county.
The facts OF the case, as We learn them
from the most reliable sources, are as follows:
James ID. Snoddy is resident Of the S4th
as a candidate for delegate in the state con-
Seution, and he was not even an alternate.
W. B. Biddell and A. Burton were the del.
egates from the 3i.h district.
In the Both district ". L. Scott was
elected delegate and was empowered by the
district convention TO cast the full vote of the
district. Mr.. Scott was at Topeka, and his
credentials did not reach him in time. Snod-
dy proceeded to manufacture the credentials.
putting In his own name a. alternate for
district in which he never lived. and the
vote Of which another man was specially in |
structed TO cast. In this way Snoddv com.
rni;ted the fraud and pretended to be dele |
gate. He was made temporary Chairman of |,
the Convention. Soon after the PROCEEDINGS |
commenced Hon. 3. +. Simpson offered |
resolution in substance that no person he al |
lowed TO act as delegate in the Convention
unless he was an actual resident of the Dis
irict he claimed to represent, which was
unanimously adopted. Notwithstanding
this, Snoddy continued to occupy the chair,
as he whole convention was ignorant of the
fact that he WAS an impostor, both in the
matter Of his false credentials and of course
in his disregard of the express action OF the
body.
We thus expose this disgraceful fraud on
the Convention and the Republican party,
and know it will meet with the stern condem.
nation Of honest men everywhere. We had
hoped that the frauds which have Character
lied some Of our State Conventions in the |
past would not be repeated. But of all the |
impositions that have heretofore been prac.
ticed, there has never been one in Kansas 50 |
barefaced and brazen as this last trick of |
Snoddy.-La,rsnce Tribune.
The people of Kansas will concur with |
the Tribune in its condemnation of Snoddy.
There is hot, probably, in the State more
INSCRIPTIONS rascal than this same Snoddy