The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-11
THE INWARDNESS OF THE HASKELL
COUNTY HOWL.
GARDEN CITY, Kan, Dec. 7, 1899.

| GARDEN CITY, Kan, Dec. 7, 1899.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
A gentleman just in from Haskell
county, and who is a friend of County
| Clerk Hussey, is very indignant at the
statement of Joe Rosenthal, circulated
through the public press, in regard to the
mistake in the returns from that county
to the state board of canvassers. This
/ gentleman states that there is no such
excitement in that county as Rosenthal
asserts; that there has been no threats of
hanging, or anything of the sort. He
further states thatit is an infamous false
hood that Hussey had left the sounty;
that the facts are the Mr.. Hussey was
over at West Plains, where he has been
engaged all the season in buying grain,
alternating between there and Santa Fe,
and that Rosenthal well knew that Hus-
sey was there, and was SO informed on
last Friday and Saturday; and to say
that Hussey's family knew nothing of
his whereabouts is a lie out of whole
cloth.
Rosenthars statement that there is a
court house ring in Haskell county Is on
a level with his other statements. His
other statement that he did not want to
run for representative is untrue, for he
has been scheming for more than year
past to, prevent Peoples party man
from running and to prevent other Dem
ocrats from running, and also to pre-
Il, Of hi
but Stubs as he knew that Stubs was
poor financially and could not use any
money in the election, and Rosenthal
could if he desired, Rosenthal being a
rich man. 1t is openly asserted that at
the Republican primaries that Rosenthal
procured his personal friends and heelers,
a great many of whom had no moral
right to participate on account of their
being Democrats, to 90 into the Repub-
lican primary and vote for Stubs, and
thus defeat DR.. Cowdin who was can
didate for the Republican nomination.
After the Republican nomination was
made, Rosenthal openly boosted of hav-
ing done this.
In the late election there were a great
many votes cast in Haskell county for
RosenthaI, by persons who did not re-
side in the county, and did not have
right to vote there. bus these themselves
were not sufficient TO change the result;
in Boone precinct, Republican ballot
was cast for Stubs, but was not count
ed By the board, which was Democratic;
there ale rumcrs of money being used
in every precinct in the county by RoS-
enthars heelers, and from past elections
in that county it is morally certain that
the result was largely affected by Doodle.
This gentleman who was in from Has
kell county saws that Mr.. Stubs had
openly stated that he would not take any
advantage Of any mistake. ana if there
had been any mistake made he did not
know 1t. and the first lie knew of mis-
take being claimed to have been made
was when he learned that the certificate
had been issued to him, Ii is further
stated By the best of men in that country
that if mistake was made, it was pure
" inadvertence, as Hussey Is man of
irreproachahle character, and it Is a
mistake to say that he was bitter per-
sonal enemy Of Joe Rosenthal, or any
body else. This gentleman claims that
RoSenthal is a senSationalist ami enjoys
the sort of notoriety that he is getting
through the pubic prints, and when
he newspapers cease to notice Joe he
VIII be Ike horse with his feed Gu
off.