The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-28
For Commissioner First District,
CALVIN ii. SCHACP.


The same ticket is headed Peoples Party
Ticket" in the Commoner, the Populist
organ and is filed with the county clerk
under that caption by A. Z. Helm the
chairman of the Popuiist county ticket.
Four names on the ticket are names of
Populists three of whom had never been
Democrats and, according to their own
statements, never will. These are Messrs.
Teachout, Slyter and Schaup. Harris was
once a Democrat, but long since deserted
the party and joined the reform move
ment. The three Democrats, or alleged
Democrats, are Mossbacher, Dorsey
aud Brown. Neither of these were
nominated in the convention Of the Demo
Gratis recognized by President Cleveland
and his cabinet, General Blair. the nation
al committeeman for Kansas, or w. c,
Jones, the chairman of the former Fusion
Democratic committee, as the only Demo-
Gratis in Kansas. Besides, Brown, who
claims to be Democrat, was, until the
date of his nomination, the deputy fol
the Republican incumbent.
Now then, it will be seen, the same
ticket is sought to be be put on the ballot
in two places, under different names. 1t is
Democratic ticket in one place. and IA
Populist ticket in another place, repre-
sentIng as il were, the same gentleman
who was DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde. Moth
ing is more deceiving than this, for the
intent is to get Democrats to vote for four
Populists, because the ticket is headed
Democratic Ticket" and to get Pop
ulists to vote for two Democrats
and and an alleged Democrat
by heading the very same ticket
Populist ticket The object of the Aus
tralian ballot law is to prevent deception
and still here are two tickets sought to DE
sent out to the people covered all over
with deception from the head to the tail
Besides this the law distinctly says, an.
ticipating deceit of this nature. that when
| ever two parties of opposite principles fuse
they must be deemed as one politica
party, and il they are one party why Civ
them two places on the ballot un der tw,
distinct and deceptive heads"
| This is the kind of a fraud Bob Coate!
| is lighting, and it certainly looks as if b.
had right on his side.
| Now, then, there is smother side to tn,
! thing which was discovered by an EvGLl
! reporter yesterday in conversation with al
! indiscreet Demo-Pop. He said the.
| would have the two tickets on th'
ballot or bust, for there wa
quite an advantage to be gained thereby.
| 1t is we'll known fact that when peopl,
are voting under the Australian ballot Law
for the first time great many mistake:
ara made The tickets are printed side by
/ a. h l,,tl .har, ynff
are on one ballot the chances are numer
Gus that a voter will mark ticket, Or
name on ticket. that he did not intend
voting for. As long as each ticket ha:
but one place on ballot the loss ant
gain will be about the same and no adj
vaetage to any party will be gained, blu
i when one ticket is printed on the sam
! ballot twice it will have a decided
! advantage in the mistakes made. Witt
/ six seperate and distinct tickets in one bal
| lot each ticket would have one chance on
of six in being favored by mistake on TIN
| part of the voter, but when one ticket i
printed twice, as in this case. that ticke
| has two chances out of six for gaining by
mistake, while the other four have onl!
one chance in six left. Now the party rep
resented by this fusion ticket sought T.
| throw out two more tickes and if they sue
| ceeded their chances for gaining in TIL,
many mistakes that will occur would b
! increased to fifty out of one hun
bred, two out of four or three on
| OF six, while the other tickets wouls
| have only twenty-five chances each out o
| one hundred to gain by mistakes. Thi
scheme was laid before an EAGLE reporte
yesterday by a Demo-Pop. without
blush. If it is not an attempt to deceiv
! and defraud and to gain an undue advan
tage. what is it And still the Austria
liam ballot law was designed to prevent al
| three OF these wrongs.
1t is not right The fusion ticke
should be put on the same footins
with other tickets on the ballot.
should appear there but once, an,
| then in such "a way as not to deceive tb
| voter, ard the only way to avoid thi. i
10y giving it its true appeliatiou, "Fusioi
| Ticket" or 'Demo-Pot Ticket" This j
| what il is entitled by the editorial writer
on fusion papers, by orators at fuaion raj
| lies, and on the streecs, and, certainly, til,
name by which it j. known is the nam
that should be given to it on the ballot i
those who are represented by it were hon
est and did not intend to deceive anybody
| BY giving it its proper name no one vii
be deceived and by printing it only once OF
the La!lot no one will be barred from vot
! ing for the men of his choice, for ever,
! candidate rhnnipE will have his name
printed OH the ballot. The idea OF havin:
one ticket printed twice on the same bal
lot Is preposterous and was never contem
plated by the Legislature.
AN ARTIsTIC ENTERTAINMENT.