People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-07-11

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bold, John G. Campbell. ]. s. Dey, ].
c. o. Morse, John T. Stewart, F. H.
Gilmore and Geo. T. Pitts.
a. A. Richards was the first witness
placed on the stand. His evidence
was substantially that he has resided
in Sumner county since April 10, 1879,
and has participated in the several
political campaigns since that time
and has kept posted on the situation
Of county politics: that he had less to
do with the campaign of 1893 than
almost any other; that he left for the
Worlds Fair On the morning of the
Republican county convention, July
%, 1888, and did not return until the
day of the Strip opening September
10, 1893: that he met and talked with
John T. Stewart in Chicago about
August 5, 1893; that in October, 1893,
VIM. IL. Carnes, then county clerk,
asked him to look up the new election
law on the point whether the county
clerk had the authority under that
law to absolutely control the printing
Of the official ballots, regardless of, or
contrary to, contract made by the
board of county commissioners or to
any order the board might make; that
he looked up that question and adj
yiSed Mr.. CarneS as a lawyer that the
county clerk did have the absolute
and sole right and authority to con-
troll the printing of the official ballots
irrespective of any action which the
board of county commissioners might
have taken or might thereafter take:
that Mr.. CarneS then asked his opin-
ion as to who he thought ought to
have the printing Of the ballots and
that he replied that Campbell & Hood
were printing the only Republican
newspaper at the county seat and
while it was not such anewSpaper as
suited him-and never had been-yet
ne advised Mr.. Carnes to give them
the ballots to print; that Mr.. Carnes
and ne then entered the county clerks
office and Mr.. CarneS told his deputy,
W. II. Maddy, to give Campbell &
Hood the official ballots toprint when
the time came; that Mr.. Carnes left
that day or the following day for the
Worlds Fair: that he was afterwards
Informed that John G. Campbell went
to the county clerks office, mace a
copy of the official ballot and had it
all up in type before the time for Civ
ing it out arrived; that he further
heard that when the Standard folks
did not get the printing of these bal
lots upon demand, there were rumors
afloat that Capt. Gilmore, editor of
the Standard, was threatening to Wig
orouSly attack the Republican nomi-
neeS and support the POpulist nOmi-
nees for those positions for which the
Democrats had made no nominations,
instead of letting both POpulists and
Republicans alone as he had been
doing since the campaign opened;
that he afterwards heard that some
OF the representatives of the Rerubli-
can party had repeated interviews
with John G. Campbell with a view to
adjusting the ballot difficulty, as
three other attorneys haG given the
opinion at the outStart that the
Standard was legally entitled to the
printing of these ballots under its
contract with the county; that he had
had many conversations on this sub
iect with different people and had a
distinct recollection Of three of them;
in the first Of these conversations he
had been informed that Campbell g.
Hood had offered to take 800 and
turn the ballots over to the Stand.
ard, provided it would buy the special
type purchased for the ballot print.
ing, which the Standard was willing
to co, but the question under discus
sion was how to get the 800 paid;
that in the second conversation he
was informed that the 800 had been
offered Campbell & Hood but they
had raised their demand to $500 and
in the third conversation he was in.
formed that the $500 had been offered
them and they then refused it and
raised their demand to $500, where.
upon he remarked that were be per-
sonally interested he would let Camp
bell & HoOc 60 to a warm climate
land use the county printing" and
passed on; that he could not remember
all the parties present at these three
conversations but thought there were
different parties each time but he
knew that during some one of these
three conversations he talked with
W. ]. Newbold and Geo. W. Bailey:
that thereafter he heard repeatedly
about the ballot trouble but never
heard even an intimation from any
source whatever, until the publica-
tiOn Of the MOnitor-Press article after