The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-06-29

from tlc fact that on TINS OccsASi"h was Pi''N"'
that great opportunity, looked for and labored
for 50 long. when certain men were TO scoop
things 10 everlasting eternity. On this OCCASION
all the lame the halt, the sore, the disappointed,
the soar at the stomach, and the revengeful, ef-
feeted harmonious union, under the leadership
of men who considered themselves models of gen
eralship. They got up their arrangement just
n they wanted it. had ample time to organize
and drill. and money furnished to grease The
Machine They never before had such oppor-
tuuity. and never will have again. Il was all
they desired TO smash rings, and insugurate
Grand revolution The result was, they suffered
one of the most disastrous scoops that ever fell
TO the lot Of men.
4 meeting of the Republican County Central
Committee had been called, TO meet IN Troy,
June 20th to consult relative TO a ticket for del
rgates An invitation extended to all Re-
publicans to meet and confer; but the ring
sInashers, having had a belly full of running
Central Committees had been drilling their
forces for the final fight. They could not trust
the people of the County with knOwl ledge of
their designs, nor hold their meeting within the
bounds of the County they sought tp control:
but secret meeting was arranged, to lie held at
St Joseph, Missouri, on the night of the day on
which the Central Committee was to meet. Only
a select fow were invited, as they could only
trust the sore and the sour. Their object was TO
overthrow the leadership of citizen of the
County, whose whole interest is in the County;
therefore, they went to Missouri, held secret
meeting in the night, and placed themselves I'M
der the dctation Of politician from another
County. They even denied all intention of max
ing a fight, when applied to by persons who
were really in sympathy with them. They could
not trust the common herd, but deemed it suffi-
cient to let them know on the day Of election,
after the select few had set up the game. The
effect of this was that number of their hitherto
trusting allies soured on Them and voted the op-
position ticket when they came to the polls.
As soon as the Central Committee had agreed
upon a ticket, the agent who had been selected
for that purpose, procured list Of the names,
and hicd him TO st. joe where Others had alreay
hicd them from White Cloud, Highland, Leona,
and Wathena, and J.. y. Morrill, of Hiawatha.
This crowd, including Morrill,, the Postmaster
(for the present) at ST. Joe, and a few other
choice spirits, met, perhaps at the Saunders
House, and formed themselves into luuatic
asylum and proceeded to decide the fate of Don
iphan County. They selected delegate ticket,
placing on il two of the names selected by tie
Central Committee, imagining that they could
control those men, and that by offering them
this sop, it would stop tl.em from working for the
regular ticket. They laid out their campaign,
and Morrill, put mp the funds TO pay expenses.
From the amount of money they scattered over
the County, he or somebody must have handed
ont from 500 TO 81 900, most of which went into
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cradle dead-beats, who always up for bid.
Having mapped out the campaign, they next
had a happy time iollifying over the victory they
were going TO win. IL must have have been an
improving time, indeed. The Doniphan County
delegation told how they had Cy. Leland and
the Ring just where they had been trying To get
them, for a long time, and they going
10 snap the very tur-Hails off them. They pro-
ceeded To defeat Leland for Commissioner, next
FALL and 10 organize = ring of their own,
to run the County. Altogether they had he
old time. Some of the Hiawatha delegation
81 elated that they went home and repeat
ed a lot of the hog-wash with which they had
been edited, and the Herald prints it in last
weeks issue.
This their plan; they were to keep their
ticket profound secret, until the hour for the
election arrived, when they were 10 proceed to
spring il at all the precincts, and take things by
storm. They were TO slip through the County
slyly, buzzing every voter, urging him TO be on
hand, 50 that they could poll an unexpectedly
tremendous vote, that would overwheIm all op-
position. We think can safely say that every
Republican voter in the County, and most of the
Democrats We're buzzed, and impOrtuned, and
lnr,a ItSif 4, nftl lao
personal griefs Of the bnrers. One man rode over
the country with his whip, as if hunting beef
cattle. Another, who has cousins all over the
County, went to visit them. Another went ont
to look for harvest hands; another rode ont for
his boils; and they even had the old seed en-
gagged who was TO control the Dutch vote"
This is the result: their tickets that they had
distributed so slyly, came pouring in to members
Ofthe Ring" from every direction, before the
distributors got back from their trips One man
who distributed tickets, found some of them
posted up in public places when he got back to
town. Men from the country came in, inquiring
what was up, that such an effort was being made
to draw ont voters. In short, they stirred out
the people to vote against their own ticket
and TO snow them under so badly that it made
their heads swim
They allowed nothing to stand in the way of
making votes. The prohibitionists We're re-
ferred to Morrill's prohibition record; anti-pro-
hibitinnists were assured that the liquor question
was not at issue, that it was only fight against
the Cy. Leland Ring. Men in favor of Morrill,
knew that it was a Morrill, ticket; but opponents
of Morrill, were told that it was not Morrill,
ticket but that the delegates were independent
and unPlcdged, and would act SO as to accom-
plish the most good. Personal appeals were
made and old hates We're raked up Finally, at
the hour for opening the polls, orders were issued
from the headquarters of the st. Joseph and
Western Railroad Company, notifying all the
section hands and labnrers that they were ex-
pected to vote for the Morrill, delegates-an or
der, we are proud TO say, that spurired by
every section nan, except those under the eyes
of the officers, ut EIwood by which means they
secured bare majority for their ticket at that
precinct. Thus, it will be seen, their organiza-
tion was perfect, and they lost sight of no han
die by which they could help themselves along
money, temperance, friendship, hatred, Ilisrep-
resentation and dctatiou of railroad corpora
tion. Yet they were disastrously seooped.
How long, q, Lord, how long will genuine,
well-meaning Republicans allow themselves to
he used as salve for the sores of disappointed
and revengeful men, and to disorganize the
party, and keep up constant broil, because
certain fellows, who want TO run the machine.
keep up a racket because somebody else has more
influence and mans. a.cment'
We do not want in hc understood as htimating
that any persons had not perfect right to run
such delegate tickets as they chose bat when a
few men hold secret caucus outside the County
called in the interest of enemy of the County,
aud concoct a ticket TO run upon false pretenses,
and endcavor to carry it through, partly by rep
resentiug it as all things 10 all men, and partly
by stealing march upon the voters, and thus
force the County into supporting man whom 4
large majority of the party opposed to, and
all because do not like other men, the
cry of Ring" and Clique and Boss" be-
comes rather stale.
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