Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-03-26
SECOND WARD CORRUPTION
ALL OF BRADBuRY'S STARTLING
STATEMENTS FOUND TO BE TRUE.
Men Were Registered Weekly to Fraudu-
lcntiy swell the Voting Population
of Some of the Precincts--Nan
Horn-Tursncy Contest.

All the testimony for the contestant in
the Van Horn-Tarsney congressional con-
test has been taken. Yesterday the depo-
sition of Recorder of Voters Arnold was
taken and the registration lists and other
records in his office were scrutinized. Mr..
Arnold told in his deposition of the condi-
ton in which he found the ballots and bal
lot boxes when he took charge of the Of
flee.
The examination of the Second ward reg
lstration lists corroborated the testimony
given in the contest by Isaiah II, H,Bradbury,
the Democratic negro politician who was
who was recently brought back TO Kansas
city by Constable Boley.
bradbury testified in the Van HOrn-Tars-
uey contest that during the summer and
fall of 1898 he ana another colored man
named Joe Pierce, who Is better known as
of colored street laborers, there being
about six men IN each gang. He further
testified that about August - of that year
OF streets, told him and "FreucHy" TO take
the men working In the two street gangs
TO the Office of the recorder OF voters and
register them from the Fifth precinct
second ward. They did So a few days
afterward May Instructed him TO again
register the men under any names they
could think of, such as Wilson, Jones
Smith ana Brown, and from any place or
places in the Fifth precinct. May, Brad
bury said, mentioned the northwest corner
OF Second and Wyandotte streets as a good
place to register them from, as that was
vacant railroad properly, ana II the Re
publcans should investigate they could
ind no one there to give them any infor-
nation.
Bradbury said the men objected to being
registered from this vacant property, but
May assured them that 1t was all right
TO do so Bradbury and "Frenchy," in
obedience to Mays order, had the men be-
longing 10 the street gangs register near
ly every Saturday night and sometimes
twice between Saturday nights. Some of
registered lR gnt
Chris tmas, 1893.
ally large number of names upon the reg
istruton books, That night one man was
registered nine times without leaving the
recorders office. There was some Of this
false registration from the Second ward
done during the spring of 1884, but the
Christmas, 1893 bradbury said that The
books in the office of the recorder OF voters
would show this, lie said further that
this way We're mostly registered from the
Flfth precinct. fut some of them We're
registered from the Seventh precinct He
and "E'renchy" We're instructed by MAY
not TO put any names upon the books OF
the Sixth precinct, because that was Andy
Foleys precinct and they, could not con-
troll It. In this way, Bradbury said, they
enth precinct and to about 800 i'm the ISifth
precinct by the time the spring election
was held.
Bradbury also said owing to trouble in
thr ,,'r eatP ny many fraudulent
He further testified that before the elec-
ton in November, 1894, a hundred or more
names We're transferred from the Fifth to
the Sixth precinct, because there Were too
many names in the. Fifth precinct and not
enough in the Sixth precinct. Andy Foley
was out of the precinct then and they
could handle the Sixth, In order to
equalize things these names We're taken
from the Fifth precinct books and put into
the Sixth precinct books.
Bradbury also testified that one of Ows-
ley's canvassers who was sent out osten
sibly TO report illegal names to be stricken