The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-30
CONTEST is FILED.
KIES AND HIS GANG DETERMINED
10 sUBVERT THE POPULAR WILL.
Indignation Expressed on Every Hand
Shaup Lends Himself to the Bold
0utrage-0ld Man Webster in
the Job Also.

They have dared the people and have
flown in the face of public sentiment.
The contest against the election of E.
Webb who was honestly elected by l4g
majority has been filed.
1t was thought that genuine express
sion of public Indignation might cause
the bold trio of political desperados to halt
in their mad scheme to overthrow the
will of the people, but it did not.
The ragged adventurer who was saved
| from the poor house, or the highway of
trampdom, by the good people Of Sedg-
wick county, who brought him from New
| ton three years ago, has turned around on
| these very same people and with an
audacity unparalleled tells them that
they must have the man in Office whom
they said at the poll that they did not
| want.
This fellow is aided in his bold and dar-
ing scheme by al cOld-blooded co-conspira-
tor, who is afraid that if he is kicked away
from the public crib he will starve; a man
who boldly asserted the day after the cleo
ton that if the Commoner and Beacon
gave him the money he would buy enough
votes to defeat Webb, the bribery law to
the contrary notwithstanding. And with
this sweet-scented pair the lawyer comes
in who hopes that he can make few hun
dred dollars out OF the outrage by black
mailing the spittoon washers and janitors
| Of the court house out of months wages
each.
In country less civilized than Wichita
this trio would be tarred and feathered
and kicked out of town il they attempted
tf,n ,lycr i,h h., 81.
| they have in this case. OF course they are
held in contempt by the people, and
ever will be SO, but for this
they don't care. They are too cold blooded
| and mean to weigh public esteem In the
balance with money and few dollars are
more to them than any favorable estimate
their fellow citizens might place upon
them.
1t is now also asserted that old man
Webster is into it also. 1t would not be
surprising II he Were., A few years ago
kies hypnotized him into investing few
hundred dollars i'll the Commoner, aud he
has been ever since trying to get it back.
LII the county printing Can be kept at the
commoner office little longer, Farmer
Webster may be able to play even with
kies and return to his pillow in the rural
districts. The old man is surpris-
ing his friends on account of his
actions in this contest and not
lew of them are apologizing
for him on the ground that Kies has him
under hypnotic influence. When Duns-
more Was blaming the Republicans in the
| opera house for their alleged contest of
legally elected members of the legislature
Mr.. Webster made everything hideous by
his yells from u balcony box; and no man
| who saw him that day, in his excitement,
would ever think that in less than five
weeks he would be standing in with
gang whose object is to steal an Office for
a man not entitled to it under all the rules
OF decency in politics.
The good opinions the people expressed
for Shaup seem to have been wasted, also,
and one of the men who ex-
pressed most confidence in his fair
hess was his neighDor and opponent
Mr.. Webb. Yesterday he came into
town contrary 10 the expectations Of all
his friends and filed the contest against
Webb. This action on his part illustrates
the wisdom of the electors Of his district
in defeating him. If anything was needed
to convince them that they did what was
to their interest in electlng Mr.. Webb it is
the action of Mr.. Shoup in bringing the
contest. 1t shows them to their satisfac-
ton that he has not backbone enough to
resist the influence of three or four
unprincipaled shysters and that If elected
he would be their tool in Office at
the expense of the tax payers. Gracious,
but wouldn't kies, Stewart and Campbell
have picnic with such a man on the
county board with Matt Bush
To demonstrate their sneaking coward
ice In the matter, they denied right along,
since the matter was exposed in the
EAGLE, that they were going to file the
contest; but as the shades of evening were
about to fail over the city last night, they
sneaked into the county clerks office and
fl. ed it just before the office closed. IL
was the twelfth hour, as tomorrow is the
last day for filing contest, and that being
n legal holiday, no business could be done.
They kept it till the last moment SO that
the reporters would not get it and thus
prevent its publication while the
matter was being condemned so
freely by the citizens generally
without regards TO party. Out of the 49,
600 IN the county II is entirely safe 10 say
ANA wager tina. AZ 800 are opposed to thu
contest Of Mr. Webb's election.
Notwithstanding their attempt to keep
the matter secret over the holidays it be-
came public last night and the people
were very indignant. The most bitter
epthets We're used in denouncing the out
rage and If either Of the schemers appeared
in the street they would be publicly
scoffed at.
Col. Bean, chairman of the Demo-Pop
committee, whose Candidate Calvin
Schaup was, was thunderstruck when he
heard that the contest was filed.
III did astonish me-" said he "to think
that they would attempt such thing.
read in the EAGLE few days ago that
they were about TO file contest and / did
not believe IL for n moment Actually
l thought 1t was a fake or a
joke Of some kind and didn't pay
much attention to it. You can
say that do not approve of such thing.
Webb WAS elected fairly and Schaup WAS
defeated fairly. When l am beaten l !
acknow ledge it and lay down till the next !
and then / go at them again. |
They shou d take their medicine like little |
men and not play the baby act. About I
the way the tickets were printed, some |
for the Sixty seventh representative dis |
trict and some for the Third commissioned |
district, there is nothing in that. Before |
the tickets were printed our attention was |
called to that and we thoroughly under |
stood it and were satisfied about it. Yes 1
sir, you can say that | do not approve of /
the contest and am mot in it,
Every other man expressed similar but !
stronger opinions on the subject, and not |
o fsw said fhaf kies and his fellnrr