The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-03
HE HITS 'EM HARD.
MORAL OPINION FROM A LEGAL
LIGHT ON THE WEBB CONTEST.
Some Strong Conclusions Reached, and
Suggestions offered by a Prominent
Democrat Lawyer Who Knows
Exactly What he is
Taking About


| If Webb received majority OF votes
does it necessarily follow that Schaup is
elected even if enough votes cast Tor Webb
are thrown out to make his vote less than
Schaup'>? May or may not this be true.
according to all the facts and circum-
stances? The tendency OF courts IS to de-
| clare that there is no election II the person
receiving the highest number OF votes can
not be declared elected, by reason OF some
unbending rule of law Rel. American Re
por;s).
| II Schaup was accused Of stealing a
dollar or a hog be would perhaps sue some
| one for libel Or slander, and yet he will live
f! in the memory of Sedgwick county voters
as a man who is willing to be used
as tool to steal an office.
| To put this in purely Democratic
way, Schanp is trying to be Rutherford
| b. Hayes; Webb is a Sam Tilden; Schaup
is John Quincy Adams; Webb Andrew
! Jackson.
| Every Democrat in Webb's district
| should give Webb his moral support, and
! the next time he is Il candidate, II ever,
/ they should rebuke this attempt at official
| larceny by supporting Webb. Schaup
should not be boycotted. because it is un-
American. CTis only English you know 'O
| Nor should he be white-chapped because IL
would be crime, but as "A moral lepcr
his example may breed contag.on unless
he is avoided, condemned, stunned and
despised. He should be made to feel that
! every honest man in Sedgwick county
| experiences the same feeling when near
| hun, that people feel when they are
| brought in contact with a man
who is unclean. He should be pointed
out to strangers as an object of
general aud universal detestatiOn; as a
| &<<
| but lacking in courage to boldly execute
his idea aud design unless bolstered up ny
the political bushrangers, official poachers.
| society pirates, legal sharks and y charac-
! terless crew of Claude Duvals and Jesse
Jameses, who expect to eat the chestnuts
that Schaup gets from the fire. The rob-
| ber that by personal courage commits
| crime, we may detest, aud yet iu degree
| admire. But the sneak-thisf, the man
| who uses poison, who stahs in the back,
who under the cover of night robs, burns
| and kills, we can only loathe, and wish he
had nine lives like a cat, that we might
witness the successive stranRrlatlons OF .nis
| demise.
| The American loves fairness. He may
condone the offense of buying votes; he
may put up to help his friend
get votes enough; he may engage in tricks
| that are vile. arts that are debaslng: vlo-
| late the plain statute law, and break the
| ten commandments SO that they are be-
| yond recognition; ne may stuff" hide or
even steal a ballot box. but when the
| agony is over, the ballots counted, the re-
| suit ascertaiued and he learns that he Is
| out-winded, defeated, out-trcked, and the
| purchased and the unbought suffrages Of a
| free people are for the other man, then
| every American, worthy the name. wants
the man with the majority to have the
| office, or he wants new election. he
| never wants a man with minority vote
| to have the Office. It's un-American.
Reference: See U. 5. amendment to Deca-
| louge. passed in 1876.
| IL 'aint fair.
| AS "Dmmicrats" put it tits a Ruther-
| fraud Hays arrangement, John Quincy
! Adams scheme, and we are "agin 1t.
| IT. amt statute crime 10 steal an Office
under the legal forms of law, but it is
crime against Republican form OF gov
ernment; against good morals; against
| the fabric of society; an oHense against
common decency. fair dealing and COM
mon. everyday honesty. and ii not pre-
vented, should be punished, reprobated
| and condemned; and the voters OF the dis
| trict and county should not only consider
| it duty, but u genuine pleasure, to see
| that atonement, reparation, restitution, is
made to the man who received the votes,
| while he polecat, skunk. stiuker. stink
pot and tool of political thieves, obtained
! the Office.
-[Ref. American Charact eristics. Vol. L
| Page 81
To steal an Office. where authorized by
law, like the plea of statute of limitation,
statutes OF fraud aud perJuries and usury.
always leave bad Impression of the
dependant in tthe minds OF jury
a kind of feeling ''goneness" that
makes the jury feel that the defendant
ought not to be pillar in II church; head
man in community; in charge of other
peoples money; Il taker up Of collections
| in church.
i Ref Smith on Human Nature. Vol. I,
liza man steals an office don't it look rea-
sonable that he won't have to BE- insulted
| at the offer of a bribe more than seven or
eight times before he is "sedooced" as it
| were so to speak, etc l would like to be
introduced to an all round public con-
tractor, an "old rounder' in public bids
| who would not bring his pocketbook with
! him to Wichita at the letting OF con-
| tract after he found out how county COM
| missioners are elected in Sedgwick county
! if such case can be made to hold water.
He'd lose his Job soou as the house,
heard of it. / have an idea that some "old
8, ager" would wire ''his house" about as
follow;
FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. !, 1so3
DOODLE q Co. c,;o.oo
Ship one thousand currency. Wichita, Kan.
quick. VIII be there tomorrow. Answer.
SANE OLD EoCNDER.
The house would look over its CORES
pondence and not finding any reference to
Sedgwick county contract letting, would
| wire back:
CHICAGO, Feb. !. 1896.
SAME OLD RoUNDER,
Fort Worth. Tex
No contract to be let at Wichita. Wire
BoopLE a. CO.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. /. 1ssa
DOODLE & Co.
Chicago.
You don't understand situation. There will
| be a contract after / get there. I'm onto my
job and don't you forget it. Either ship cur
! rency or send an agent with IL at once.
| Answer.
SANE OLD RoUSpEE
CHICAGO. Feb /. 1896.
Fort Worth. Tex.
Billings goes tonight: viii register as Simon
Simple from Buffalo.
Every man knows that the first duty OF
! public contractor is 10 ascertain the
| antecedents of couucilmeu. county COM
miss!oners and members OF school boards.
The carichi,m Is somewhat after this
fashion and is based on the maxim
"As wolves know each other in the dark.
thieves know each other BY touch.
RUSSIAN Maxim
JOHN SMITH Attorney st Law.
DEAR SIR: please at your earliest couven-
ience give Us In confidence. the following viz.
! Charles Scoup Co. Com eject your county.
Business a-c. location. wGere froGi, financial
condition. rntges, amt. oJ *aoIn held when
due. character
l. he open or close MONTH Popular or un-
popular among his Teignbors.