Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-25
THE KANSAS SITUATION.
Democratic Money said tn Have Done the
Work-fiEht for the State Printing.


Democratic Money said tn Have Done the
wors-fiEht for the State Printing.
Special Correspondence 81 The Evening Star
TOPEKA. KAN, Nov. %, 1892.
Repnblican managers have not yet got
through explaining how it happened and their
versions are many and varied The latest ex-
PLANTATION h given by Mr.. Ed. p. Greer of Win
Held. who IL Senator Perkins lose friend and
adviser and who a strong candidate for
congressman st-arge before the republican state
nominating convention. He says it was demo-
cratic money shipped here direct from the
national headquarters in New York
Greer says he has II from unquestionable
authority that s2s. 900 was 81 ipped into Kansas
TWO DAYS before election ano used in rus
tnng votes for the fusion state and Weaver
consl tickets He SAYS $1,000 sent to the
First National Bank Of Arkansas City and dis
.riouted through that institution; the same to
f1ttsburg, Fort Scott. Kansas City. Kan; To-
peka. Salina. Atchison. Wichita, Hutchinson
and 10 on He says that in those cities there
we're n large number of voters not registered
and that a scheme fxed up by which they
we're taken in carriages and buses TO the
nearest polling place in the county and voted
soiidly for the people ticket. II arranged
That the fusionists were To De on hand early
election morning and get possession Of these
No1nuN IoilliR plhce- ana tEtn dQ1nlt AL THESE
votes in spite OF republican challengers, which
ne saws wss done. He cites one instance in n
township in Cowley county. bordering on the
therokee strip and near Arkansas City. where
nnety-eight Illegal votes were cast and counted.
and that many of them were from Arkansas
City, some from Oklahoma one from Califor-
MA and n number of ''sooners, who we're
camped on the Cherokee strip. This was an
Organized movement, says Greer. all along the
southern border OF the state. and that the
alO b. E.,a Had
vote-several thousand more than the late CEN
sus shows they have. In nearly every county
along the southern border of the state the re-
publican candidates for the senate or lower
house were defeated. which has given the op-
position the legislature joint ballot BY five
majority.
THE REAL FACTS
The real facts are that the combination be-
tween the democrats and peoples party was
strong enough TO defeat the republicans They
started in with so OC0 majority. and the repub-
hcans male a great fgh. % reduce that ma
1crity to 1000. No CONT was ever SO sue
cesAful before in any ST" in the Union, and
selves that it can never pccur again. they are
ebsgriDed with their utJ"r annihiiatlon this
time, saving nothing "ui % the wreck but the
lower house of the lrgl~inture, and that by but
one vote, and tina vote contingent on tie,
which viii be decided by lot
And here is ueculisr condition of things.
The constitute. II the state forever prohibits
lotteries and dra ings of any KIND. and yet the
Statutes provide that in case two candidates for
the legislature have an equal number of votes
the election NUT be declared b. lot.
The senatorial question seems ~ be a second
ary consideration W tn the republicans There
are 1--we mniorI-- against them ON Joint ballot
and they figure that there isn't much in it for
thu party ANYWAY: that il would be a place OF
ease and honor only to the man elected and for
only two wears. With a democratic President
be could not help his marty in kansas to places
80 they are virtually conceding il TO the opposi-
tiOn and making the fight for state printer.
which paw NJ least 525.000 year- The plan is
o. make democratic Senator for enough demo-
cratic votes to elect the republican state printer
ma! . N luusoh' SIi'o % VI 'ne iopeAa Du,y
leading contestant.
The opposition however. comedies nothing.
but insists on both places They say they have
tn- votes and viii b. able To denver the goods
Nus whether tbs new senator Will be demo-
erat OF poPnhst / a problem no man can at
Present solve.
THF DIVISION SCHEME
The recent effect of a few di.appointed noli
So. ., -, r.. =. ,-l..,,;,e -
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nisn' W oiN'oe Tue state VIII NOT succeen- In
the first place they will not be able to get such
measure through the Kansas legislature, and
II y the opinion Of leading democrats here that
democratic Congress would refuse to make
new republican state which would have two re-
publican Senators, and two, and possibly three,
republican congressman. The proposed new
state would be republican BY about 5000 The |
eastern boundary line would exactly divide the |
stas- into two, making each 200 miles square. 1
The strongest claim for division Is based on /
the fact that not one OF the many state institu-