The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-07-29

case, II not tMO no returns were sent IRON pre-
cincts where the Anderson ticket received good
maiorities. So that any delinquencies in that
line operated in favor of the Dispa,es ticket in
stead of against it. Cy. Leland was not even
present at the counting ont Of Troy precinct.
Mr. HampsOD, one Of the Dispdteh's candidates
for delegate, assisted, and kept the tally list.
If he found anything wrong with it, We have not
heard Of it. Troy precinct alone gave from 10
to Is more majority for the Anderson and Perry
ticket than all the opposition precincts eombin-
ed gave the other way. So that the delegates
were elected, if not another precinct voting the
same way had made any return. 1t is not claimed
that more than one illegal vote east here, and
that by a Democrat; but we personally saw a
Democrat east vote for the other ticket, 50 that
it is a set-of, and that mares nest is exploded.
Another charge is, that lists of voters
kept, thus giving opportunity for frauds.
Lists were kept at every precinct but Troy; and
whose fault was it that list was not kept heref
At the opening of the polls one of the Dispatch
crowd came up blowing, and demanding that this
thing be done fair, and that there be clerks, to
keep list Of voters. He was at appointed
a clerk, and given pen, ink and paper, to write
down the names. Voting commenced, and went
on lively, each name being announced to him,
and he apparently registering them, until large
number were in. Then he threw down his pen,
and went ont. When the next vote was offered,
one of the judges went 20 write the name, when
he discovered that the former clerk had written
just ilrO names! A messenger was sent ont to
look him up, when he found drunk and
asleep, in an clubhouse in the rear of a saloon!
and he remained there, in that condition, until
after dark. This was why there was list of
voters kept-and here is where the Di.pdteh's
''whiskey- y-straights" come in. But as Mr.. Hamp-
son watched the ballot-box and assisted in
counting the vote, if he had discovered any great
fraud, we presume he would not have kept it to
himself, especially as he was among those taken
to Hiawatha, to assist in the contest"
BY the way, the Dispdteh's slur upon the "wliis-
key-straights," was a sorry return to the Lcona
saloOn-keepers and certain whiskey men at Wa
thena, Troy, Severance, and other places, who
worked with all their might for its ticket The
only worker on that day, in the County, who was
drunk he had to be hauled home, was for the
Dispdtch's ticket. The only man who enjoyed a
drunken sleep in a saloon privy, was of the same
side. The only drunken men at the Troy polls,
that days were ditto. "Whiskey -straights," !" in
deed, Who furnished the money for them to
buy whskey with' Nearly all of them con-
stitutionally impeeunious.
Another mot so" is, that the Chief was kept
back so that due notice could not he given to the
voters. The Dispatch knows very well that the
Chief was badly behind time for several weeks
previous, and was trying hard to get out on time
and did not succed until week after the prima-
- It TO s,.l,s fiars inst
could be; but if we found it impossible, there is
no occasion to abuse the Central Committee for
it. Besides, the voters knew when the election
was to be, all the same, if the Chief didn't reach
them in time. No one lost his vote on that ac-
count.
Another lie is, that the Chicf denounced
sore-heads all who voted the opposition tick
ct. The Chief did no such thing, nor said any
thing that could be construed, except by one
determined to misrepreseut. The Chief distinct
ly said, that while some good Republicans al
lowed themselves to he worked into the move
ment, all the sour, the sore-heads, and the disap
pointed, into it, and were the hardest work
ers in drumming out voters. The Dispatch men,
tiOns some men by name, asking if they are sore
headsi Some Of the mentioned, are not
only sore-heads but are sore at both ends and
were got into the work for that express reason,
knowing that they would work the harder to
stir mp strife in the party. The Dispatch wants
but he is regarded in this County as a Democrat,
who occasionally votes Republican ticket, or
part of one, when it suits him-but il hardly ev
er suits him. sfIs b. S. Campbell sore-head p
asks the Dispatch. If he is not, We would like
to see one. He has devoted his energies, for
years, to trying to beat Republican tickets
County, District, and Township-and swears
that he is determined to do it, if he has to join
the Democrats to accomplish it. Oh, no, he is
not sore-head. The few Republicans who have
been following him, are beginning to discover
where he is leading them to. J. p. johnson was
a delegate ON the Perry ticket. Did they vote
against him for having Mrs. Herrick tnrned ont
Of the post-offce, And since that post-ofiiee
matter has been rung in, it may be as well TO
say that it was not Mrs. Herriek who was turned
out, but b. S. Campbell; for besides being locat
ed to the disadvantage of the business men of
the town, IT pretty generally thought that
it was run for the interest of Campbell, who used
it rs part of the machinery for fighting the Re-
publican party. b. S. Campbell is not a soldiers
widow; and remembering that he made trips to
Washington for the purpose of depriving Mrs.
Herrick of her pension. and succeeded, it comes
with bad grace from that crowd to whine about
turning soldiers widow out of the post-offiee
He tried to deprive her Of the post-offce, at the
same time that he robbed her of her pension;
and she was retaine, only through the influence
of those who are now abused because they were
not willing the Office should be used by him to
beat the Republican party. So much for that.
And we are authorized by Mr. Leland to say that
he never made any such threat to Mr.. Anderson,
as charged by the Dispatch, relative to the re-
moval of Mrs. Herrick, or any other post master.
Another ''no such thing is, that Severance
gave IL majority for the Webb ticket 1t gave
l3 majority the other way, although several
whiskey men as well as several temperance men
did all the hard work the other way.
Any man has right to do what he can to get
delegates; but man calling himself Republi-
can, hardly has an honorable right to stir up
IAM