The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-28
CONTESTING WEBB.
BOLD CONSPIRACY TO DEFEAT THE
WILL OF THE PEOPLE
Political Tramps and Hungry Pap Suckers
scheming to Keep Webb Out Of Office
and Taxing Janitors to Accom-
plish Their Ends
Fraud is in the air,

Fraud IS IN the AIR.
The carpet baggers, political tramps.
and pap suckers have been driven to the
last ditch.
The mask has fallen from their faces
aud the disguised reformers appear again
| as the political dead beats.
They have Matched as black hearted,
deep and damnable a conspiracy as was ever
attempted to subvert the will OF the ma
jority and rob an honest man of honor
conferred on him and the people of their
rightful and legitimate representative.
kies is the arch traitor.
Stewart is his lieutenant.
Ipey Campbell is the coacher.
Matt Bush is the man Friday.
Judge Webb, the planner and schemer
of revolution against the constitution, is
| the legal adviser.
Kies wants to hang on to the county
printing. He has been hungry so long
| during his days of tramping, that he still
wants to feed ravenously at the public
crib.
Stewart hates to give up that job of his
where he gets 500 for doing nothing.
Ipey Campbell is into the scheme to graf
| ify his natural desire to be doing some
ChlnS polltlcaIly mean.
Matt Bush is in the conspiracy through
his buil-headed prejudice and for the pur-
pose of keeping in Office his pet and mas
ter, Harry Steward.
Judge Webb is in it for the few dollars
he hopes to extract from the poor populi st
janitors and spittoon- of the court
house.
There are honest populists, and it was
one Of them who exposed this glazing at
tempted fraud to all EAGLE reporter yes
Gay.
TO be brief, there is a conspiracy formed
| to contest the election of honest E. Webb
and prevent him from taking his seat in
the board of county commissioners in
January, or, failing in that, to postpone
his inauguration SO that they might feed
at the public crib rs long as possible. To
be just. and entirely just, it is well to say
that no decent Democrat or Populist Is
in the scheme. Colonel Bean has nothing
to do with it, Tom Cartwright has nothing
to do with it. and Willard Boone has moth
| ing to do with it. Neither has Mr.. Helm
or any other decent Populist. Even it is
said that Calvin Shaup protested against
it and was only induced to consent by the
| seductive Establishments Of the oily Kies.
Stewart and kies and "Ipey' are reputed
to be the sole originators of the conspiracy.
Ever since the day of the election this
triumvirate have been racking their brains
to find some method of subverting the will
OF the people, in order that they might re-
main at the crib. Finally they hit on it.
The apportionment of the district must be
attacked. That was the plan.
There have been several changes in the
apportionment, and all elections held for
the past seven or eight years have been
| held under the present apportionment A
law was passed by the legislature that
when a county had 80 900 inhabitants the
| commissioners districts should be the
same as the representative districts.
Charlie Duncan. "A Democrat, held the
office under this apportionment. S. Il.
Haden, a Populist, and Matt Bush, a Pop
ulist are both holding Office under this
apportionment, and no Republican ever
attempted to question their right there
notwithstanding, as will be shown here
after, that both of them are holding office
illegally, if the claims of Stewart, kies,
Ipey, ct al, are we'll founded. They found
in the law authorizing the present appor-
tlonment that the commissioners shall be
elected in the same manner and at the
time as the representatives, and as the
constitution provides otherwise the
law is unconstitutional and the
apportionment void. The thing then
TO do was TO fall back on the old appor-
tionment. 1t SO happens that only four OF
the townships in the old apportionment
voted at the last election and their COM
bined vote gave Shaup small majority.
The other townships, which gave Webb a
heavy vote, must, according to their plan,
be thrown out for the reason that they
were not in the district under the old APP
portionment. This was brilliant dis
covery and could not be made by any man
but Harry Stewart who gets $500 IA year
of the peoples money for doing nothing
but advising Matt Bush-or more properly
speaking, acting as county commissioner
for the said Matthias Bush.
Armed with this discovery, Kies took
his Rock Island railway pass and struck
out for Topeka to counsel Judge Webb
the man who advised aud encouraged the
revolution at Topeka last winter. Kies
could hardly trust "Ipey." but had to &C
to the state capital, where he knew he
could find, in the person Of Judge Webb,
| a schemer as low as himself Judge Webt
stated to him that if Shaup received
majority in the four townships that were
part of the old apportionment, thai
there was not court in the United States
or Canada that would not hold that ht
was elected. Before Judge Webb under
took to prosecute the fraud, however, be
demanded a fee of $3.50 kies returned
and reported, and then the work of raIs
ing the funds commenced. How was it tC
be donei kies always wants someboG J
else TO do the paying, and Harry Stewart
had furnished his brains already. The
only thing to be done. then, was
to levy a tax on the minor beneficiaries
of the fraud if it was successful The
jauitors must pay it and other Populistic
hangers-on around the court house. The
result is that Bill Haden subscribed 4
as we'll as the night wstchman-were K
do the same thing or be fired bodily. They
had to put up or get out This was THEN
only alternative, and as the winter is ap
preaching, and the court house is a nice
warm place, they preferred. Of course, Il
put up in preference to being kicked Out
III the cold.
Oh, reform; how many sins are com
mitted in thy name.
The plan formed, the advice of Judge
Webb being obtained, the financial
scheme completed all that remains to bs
1ona sS IN commenra procesdincS Tbu-S