The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-09-06

not asking the Democratic and Peoples parties
for favors:-
GARD.
EDITOR CMER:-A number 6f friends have men
TONED my name probable candidate for the Office
q County Tfessnrer, at the approaching eiecfioa:
Duy u and TO my friends demands thAt should
reniaD no longer silent. few gentlemen in this Coun-
~, who from their actions, suppose they are the PeO
pies Party are just now very full of patriotism and
are negecfng their shops and their fields for the pur
pose of 'lsying the shelf; in other words, they
talk as though the People party depends
on my defeat. To relieve them of any further uneasi
ness on account, give them this public notice that
in the of this COUNTY last FALL claimed to he
Republican, and talked aud voted for the Republican
State ticket By reference to the Journals OF the State
Senate will he found that, upon all questions of
political character voted and acted with the Repub
iieaa party Of siD tase II ass sea Repubean and
if the Republican party of this County meet in the spir-
ticket nominated by their Convention will meet with
my hearty support Very Respectfully.
In the Chief of October 2stl, this same editor
of the Bulletin published the following cOmmu-
nication, purporting to come from Severance, for
better effect. Read it, and see his high opinion
of peoples" parties. See his opinion of the
County Board, Messrs. Jones, Hayton, and .Kear-
ney, and their management Of County business.
The only salvation of the County WAS to get
new Board-in part the present Board, that he is
now tearing to pieces, the snake tore the file.
Even our worthy and efficient Probate Judge.
good Democrat, and not a candidate that year,
but who ran and was elected on the same ticket
with Bridges, the year before, came in for kick.
Read it, and see what he thought of the same
kind Of ticket he is now trying to get mp, en-
bracng the same men that lie is now soldering
over
AQUEsTIOS FOR TAXPAYERS.
SEVERANCE Oct. 23 1875.
EDITOR CHIEF:-It may lie important for those tax
payers who just being called upon to vote for
peoples" tickets. TO know something of the way
these peoples officers have conducted the affairs of
the County for the past two years. When they came
into Office two years ago, County warrants worth
hundred cents to the dollar; they cannot be
sold for eightyve cents to the dollar and the same
of ffnaneerng is pursued in another six months
County warrants will not he worth fifty cents to the
dollar. i am credibly informed that the Board of
Commissioners appropriated to one of their own num-
ber seventy five dollars for hunting his cattle;
and to a citizen, fifty dollars for hunting his hor
ses-both instances being without warrant oflaw l
am further informed. that this same Board of Com
81 O00 in addition the fees allowed to the peOpes
Probate Judge. for 'trunped up extra work. in his
Office. 1t will be remembered that this same Probate
Judge beat very good citizen of our town. last year,
about 200 votes, and it account of his known
character for political honesty and public virtue
am also informed that the tax levy for the present
thousand dollars and the appropriations for the first
month exceeded thousand dollars IL it necessa-
ry0 ask the question, where the peoples money goes
toy In addition to this, if the tax will go to
the trouble Of looking the appropriations for Town.
ship expenditures nnder this peoples admnstra-
ton, and then look at the condition of the roads and
bridges of the County, they will get "eyeOpener
sufficient to warrant change in County adminstra
ton, and be the means Of placing their interests in
the hands Of sueh wellkn0wn fnaneiers as j. 7. kr
wan. G. Leland, Jr.. and John ID. Her. who are the
worthy nominees of the Republican party of this COun
ty Let honest Taxpayers settle this question on the
day Of election. REPUBLICAN.
He took the stump for the Republican ticket;
and he was especially bitter against the Peoples
candidate for Treasurer, even charging him with
being thief. (He is now slobbering ever the
same man, in order to get him to help beat the
next Republican ticket) But Notwithstanding
his rampant Republicanism, he voted against
the Republican candidate for Representative.
The following Winter, when he returned to
the Legislature, lie gave his Democratic friends
another vote of thanks for their support of him.
He supported aud voted for the law compelling
School District Boards to admit white and color
ed children in the schools promiscuously, and
imposing heavy penalties for refusing to permit
black ehildreu TO. attend q white schools law
which, if strictly enforced, would break up the
best schools in the County, and deprive colored
children of an education altogether. 1t seems
that he forgot his dreadful prophecy of amalga-
nation.
Early in 1876, while still Senator, he began
to lay his plans to be elected Representative
from this District. His appeals to his friends
consisted of the same old pitiful story-he was
poor, and must have some means of earning
bread for his family. He wanted this Office, as
q means of securing better one. He aspred to
be United States Marshall for Kansas; and if
elected to the Legislature, lie would keep an eye
out for the coming man for United States Sena-
tor, and wouh sell him his vote and influence
for the Marshalship.
At the same time, he wanted to lie delegate
to the Congressional Convention, to support
candidate who was pledged to work for his sp-
pointment to the Marshalshp. He did not get
vote for delegate; and when the County Con-
vsntion met, he had not sufficient support to JUS
tify his friends in proposing his name for Repre-
sentative. He was very free in expressing his
belief that Mr.. Heatley, the nominee, would be
defeated; but when Heatley was got off the
track, and Bob. Tracy put on, Bridges was
sincere mourner for Heatley, and voted for the
Democratic candidate, (as he says,) in order to
beat Tracy. He voted for several other Demo-
crat candidates; but when it came to the Judge
ship, he would not vote for candidate who was
q Democrat, although an able man, and not run
ming as party candidate, but supported a noto
riously incompetent man-because he could not
rofe for Democrat,
This brings him down to the present year.
He is now engaged in planning to defeat the
prospective Republican County ticket. He
claims to carry considerable portion of the Re-
publican vote in his breeches-pocket, and he is
try ing to bulldoze the Democrats into running
their party, this year, for his special benefit. In
this pursuit, he il slobbering over men whom he
has hitherto shamefnlly, abused and bitterly
opposed, aud is slurring and slsndering men to
whom he is under the greatest obligations.
We have alluded only TO this mans public and
political course, and have clearly shown that he
is true to party, no principle, no body, and is
entitled to the confidence of none. If We should
hereafter feel disposed to ventilate his person al
relations and transactions, the exhibit would be
far worse than the foregoing. We shall here af-
ter expose some of his plans and calculations
for accomplishing his personal ends in the COM