People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-30
The Fraud Of 1898.


beat the Populist ticket, but no one
has known just how it was done.
Woodcock downed Bruce Magee;
Judge Burnett had about % votes
the better of Judge Halsell; W. NJ.
Jackson was sent up the river by
W. ]. Newbold; Ben F. Myers got
his walking papers at the hands Of
Charles Sadler, Ezra Spencer could
not be choked off by II.
F. Harbaugh and Jim Heskett was
frozen out by Yewel Griffith. When
the new board of commissioners
came together the county printing
was let to the Standard at almost
legal rates. The contract included
the printing of all blanks and other
supplies, as we'll as the necessary
publication notices. This was a
departure from the custom which
had previously prevailed, all county
officers having been accustomed to
order their stationery and supplies
from whomsoever they pleased.
There was great surprise and CEN
sure heaped upon Commissioner
Faurot for voting this work to the
Democrat paper instead Of the Mon
itor-Press.
About six months later Campbell
& Hood of the Monitor-Press
bought the Standard, including an
assignment Of the county printing
contract. The board convened,
annulled the contract and relet the
work to the Caldwell News. Camp
bell & Hood claimed this action
invalid and proceeded with the pub
locations. They filed their bills for
such service aggregating about
$500, the board disallowed them,
and they brought suit against the
county, with J. S. Dey as their
attorney.
Now comes the county attorney,
H. L. Woods, and files an answer to
the Campbell Il Hood petition set
ting up several causes why the
judgment should not be rendered
the fifth and last of which is as fol.
lows:
V. The defendant for a further
answer and defense to plaintiffs peti.
ton says that two Of said commission.
ers mentioned and named in plaintiffs
petition tO-Wit. ]. P. FaurOt and
Ewell Griffith are Republicans in
politics and were elected as Repub-
licans, and that John T. Stewart the
other commissioner mentioned and
named in plaintiffs petition is a Dem
Ocrat in politics and was elected as a
Democrat. That said The Sumner
County Standard has at all times
prior to July 23rd, 1894, been a Dem
ocratic paper and the party organ Of
the Democratic party of Sumner
County, Kansas. That during the
political campaign of the year 1879;
and prior to the general election L
be held in the month of November o.
that year for the election of county
officers, Carrie II. Herring then
editor and publisher of the Sumner
County Standard, acting by herself
and Others to this defendant at thl
time unknown, and whose acts Sh
afterward ratified and fully carried
out, entered into a collusive, fraud
ulent and corrupt arrangement ant
agreement with said j. P. FaurOt, tn
terms of which cOllusive, fraudulen
and corrupt agreement and arrange
ment were in substance; that tn
said Carrie H. Herring was to publiSI
or cause to be published in said tn
Sumner County Standard, certain
articles and editorials advising ant
counseling the Democrats of salt
county to vote for the three Democrat
who had been nominated for count,
offices by said party and not to sup
port or vote a fusion ticket made u
Of Democrats and POpulistS and Gale
the Peoples or POpulist ticket. an
thereby secure the election of tn
persons to Office who had been nomir
ated by the Republican party and VIII
were candidates upon the Republica
ticket for election to the offices c
said county to be voted upon and file
at such general election, and that i
consideration thereof, the said ].
Faurot instead of voting for and i
accord with his political principle.
and predictions for a Republica
paper to have the county printing fC
the year commencing in the month G
January, A. D. 1894, he would vot
oooinct his nnlitical nrincinlps cor
yIctions and predictions and vot
for Carrie e. Herring to have tn
county printing for said year to b
published in said the Sumner Count
Standard. That the said Carrie 3
Herring and the said J, P. Faurot a
that time well knew that the sal
commissioner, John T. Stewart, was
Democrat in politics and that hi