The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-03-28
SMITH WAS HOT.
He Resents Insinuations Made About thu
Registration.

| It looked for a while yesterday that
Wichita would be treated TO duel not II
any of those puny, sickly, b.oodiess
| French duels; but wild western fight fol
| blood: collins, funeral sermons, pail bear
| ers, graves aud headstones.
c. S. Smith, the city clerk, went to bis
Office in a genuine Chauncy Depew
| frame of mind, but he was not there long
| when the telephone bell rang
Us that you, Smith"
"Yes, this is me. Mr. Councilman Far
| ries; what do you want"
How is it that there are twenty more
| names registered in the sixth ward than
"There are not
~ say there are"
"Well, you're mistaken"
"Pm not mistaken, for / saw the returns
in the EAGEE. 1t looks pretty darned
strange"
Il say any man who says that my books
are not straight tells falsehood, ana you
can tell 'em 500
Both telephone bells rang simultane-
ously.
Smith was hot; be said he wanted no
man to insinuate that his books were
doctored. eff | am n crank on anything :"
said he to reporter for the EAGLE. 1T is
| in doing my work according TO the letter
OF the law"
Are there IDOEc BdlueS Registered III tue
Sixth ward than the number published in
the EAGLE?"
''There are twenty-one. You remember
the night 1 gave you the returns that
said they were not absolutely correct, that
they would run little over"
yes"
"WelI, in the final proving of the figures
the amount ran twenty-one over. The
mistake was made two nights before One
of ha clarEc tnttad II h. Of
figures and carried them over, bsIore the
books closed and twenty -one per56ns reg
iStered after that which he forged to add
to the former calculation. 1t makes me
mad to hear people insinuate about docter-
ing the books and If any man saws SO Eli
sue him for damages if he is worth any,
thing; If not I'll get even with him some
other way. can prove by score of men
that | would not register illegally. Dr.
Winters asked me 10 register his father, a
very aged gentleman, without compelling
him to come down aud did not DO it and
thus lost Republican vote. Mr..
Shepherd, another good Republican
asked me TO register his brother
who was unable to attend in
person and L refused. Mr.. Clapp who was
nnavoidably absent sent note with Mr..
Denny requesting me to register him and
that be would come next day and verify it,
but told him / could not possibly do it.
Captain John II. Shields of the EAGLE
made similar request. and while l would
do anything. almost, 20 obliee him l had
to refuse. | defy any man living to point
out single instance where | was not
governed strictly by the law in the regis
tration. They can't do it. and that being
the case l will not tolerate any insinua-
lions.
Councilman FAIRIES was seen last night
and he did not seem to be aware that his
controversy with Mr. Smith was otherwise
than of a friendly nature.
DO you know of anything irregular
about the registration?"
mo; nothing whatever. / only saw
that there was a discrepancy of twenty-one
between the EAGLES figures on the regis
tration in The Sixth ward and the figures
on the books. | know of nothing wrong,
whatever; only did not understand why
this discrepancy should be-"