The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-04-26
Republican Correspondent
Sends a Political Bluff
Alb DAD.
The Present Administration
Charged With Fraud With
out Facts TO Sustain it.
The Truth Plainly
TJld.

purpose to convey, and which can be
shown by the facts in the premises to
be bodily false. appeared in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrst of to-day un-
der the head of Democratic Fraud
at Sed ALA" This report was OF course
sent by the local correspondent who is
supposed to be, and doubtless lie, cog
nixant of what is going on, which con-
dition of affairs renders the ofense the
more palpable and unjust. Aud
more, it sends broadcast charges, re-
flecting on the present city admins
tra,ion and accusing it with fraudu-
lent conduct. which is not bourn out
by fact, and which cannot be substan-
tiated by proof. A false impression is
maliciously given out to serve a pur.
pose which Il could not benefit and
when a truthful statement of the cir
cumstances in the case would have
worked q better result.
FRAUD AT sEDALIA.
Marked specisl to the Globe Demo
crat, the following is a dispatch
dated April II, Sedalis, Mo-,
At the last municipal election in
this city the Democratic Mayor was
declared elected by a majority of
LOG votes. The Republicans were
also Inundated by Democrat being
declared elected to the Council from
the Fourth Ward, which is and has
been for year the republican strorgho' d
in the city. A few days ago q Rep
ublican member Of the city Council
obtained access to the poll books of
the Fourth Ward and found at tie
bottom of the list of votes upwards Of
100 names of persons he could not
identity. Yesterday the Republican
Judges of the election made an effort
to obtain a copy of the poll book, but
Judge Rauck and Democratic City
Clerk, backed by Mayor Stevens
and the Democratic judges of election
refused to permit copy to be made.
To morrow mandamus proceedings
will be instituted and the investigation
of the poll hooks will probably show
that all the democrats on the city
ticket were defeated by Gear major
tiles.
THE OTHER SIDE.
When the above was shown to
Mayor Stevens this morning he ex-
pressed his sstonishment that anyone
should presume to send such informa-
abroad, when the real facts of the
matter were easily Obtainable. Said
he:
cat each ward in the city there
were two sets of books, one to 90 on
record in this office and another for
the use Of such people as may haze
occasion to refer t, them, or who may
doubt the fairness of the election. As
required by law, one book from each
ward was fled away in the city clerk
Office, and duplicates of them, if they
be termed such, were placed in the
hands of parties where they would be
easily accessible to everybody.
"These ocoks were given into the fol-
lowing hands: Bell Hutchinson, first
ward; Pat McEnroe, second ward
Ed. Marvin, third ward, and ODE
Harris, fourth ward.
"NOw, these books anybody can see,
and the same is true of those in this
office, but we have refused and still
refuse to allow the file books to be
taken out of the city clerks custody.
We do this because the law requires US
to, if for no other reason"
THE BOOKS DEMANDED.
"Further, when Messrs A. Farm.
ham, Ernest Weis and Henry Mues-
chke first demanded the books, they
appealed to Judge Rauck, which was
entirely proper, but as Judge Rsuck
was not satisfied as to the law gov
erning the case, and as he is held re-
sponsible for his actions by a bond of
$4,000. he, simply as a precoution
against possible mistakes, asked that
be be given time to refer the matter
TO the city attorney. There seemed
to be no dissatisfaction about this and
when | was informed relative to the
requirements of the law. | instructed
Judge Rauck to give them access to
the books on file, and in the case of
judges, allow them to copy them if
they chose, but not to let them go
out of the Office.
TEMPEST In A TEAPOT,
CHOW this is the tempest in q tea
poe to which some ingenious dis
grunts are trying to add thun- |,
der. l understand that Mr..
ODE Harris has already turned