The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-01
TELLING THE TALE
CANDIDATES HAVE FILED SOME OF
THEIR EXPENSE ACCOUNTS.
It Cost None of Them as High as Three
HUNDRED DorIsrs, According to Returns,
and Some Of Them Made the Race With
out Spending . Cent-Nothing b CharE-
ed up for Those Big Beer B!ow-Outs
That We're Known to be Gfven-Futufe
Geueratfons WIN Never Know That
There Was . Cigar Smoked.

There Was Cigar Smoked.
All the candidates for Office at the re-
cent election have not reported their cam
paign expenses to the county clerk yet,
although the time is growing limited in
which to do it.
The Democrat and Populist committees
through Treasurer Spencer, have made
their report. but as yet the Republican
committee has not been heard from.
Jesse n. Haymaker was the first man
to make his report. He is the probate
judge-elect, and he managed TO get there
with little wad Of $25s. OF this amount
$500 was given TO the .double-headed
campaign committee and the remainder
was for meals, horse feed, railroad fare,
and printing.
L. j. Mathews, road overseer for Ohio
township, has filed an affidavit as long
as the moral law alleging that he spent
nothing during the campaign, and the
word nothing" is underscored with a
heavy line of ink SO that it could be easi-
ly seen.
F. E. Keller of Ninneseah. spent IS
cents and that was for township assess
ment. He was candidate for treasur-
er or his township.
The Cheney Mckinley and Hobart
club certifies that it received during the
entire campaign s34 .46, and the presump-
ton is that all Of it was spent, although
the affidavit does not say so.
Charles Hatton, candidate for repre-
sentative in the Sixty-eighrh district,
made his campaign for 2.25, and that
amount was not expended for the CAM
paign fund, cigars. or any other in-
cidentalS that go with a canvass OF the
district.
E. ". Joslyn, treasurer, Fred Kohler,
trustee, and Sam Whitehead, justice,
made their campaign without the use Of
money in any shape.
Ed. Goldberg, candidate for represen-
tative in the Sixty-eighth district, had
That was cheap.
The Mckinley and Hobart club of
Clearwater had $Sin their campaign fund
and not piasta of it came from Mark
Hanna, either. They spent all of il.
P. L. Arnett, district clerk-elect, spent
s250.90. OF. this sum 500 went.to the com
mittee and most of the remainder went
for horse feed. Whoever wrote the
statement had horse feed in it about
twenty times, and the word feed was
spelled wrong every time.
D. T. Sealock, county commissioners
elect, gave s125 to the committee and
painted the district red outside of that
for the small sum of s3.35
J. B. Kell, trustee of Ninnescah town.
ship, spent $6 and was beaten This
shows that money will not carry an elec-
ton
John Davis, candidate for county at
torney, gave $500 to Ben Downing,
chairman of the county committee, and
outside of that his expenses We're S19. 40.
Zarah McClung, road overseer, John
Snavely, justice OF the peace, George
Withrow, road overseer, VIM. Cooper,
road. overseer, ]. c. Hammers, treasur-
er, Joseph Nichol, constable, and L. V
buckingham, all of .ninnescah township,
made their campaign without the aid OF
a red cent
]. II. Corbin of Ohio township. and Jas
McMunn, Of the same place, also made
a campaign without Doodle in any shape
form or color.
1t cost Charles J. Mackey in his fruit
less effort TO be county superintendent
s125 for the campaign fund and $3.50
for horse feed and incidentals.
L. D. Lewelling. for senator, put up
i$45 to the campaign committee and S7
for horse feed, etc.
The Pop committee taxed j. V. CoIville
for superintend, $3.50 and outside of that
he spent s12.
d. Hillman. treasurer of Grand River
township. spent so cents for his campaign
and that was for public speaking, TO some
orator named James Estes.
Herman Schienbeck also believed in
public speaking as a factor in political
success. He appreciated it more highly
than d. Hillman, or the speech was bet
ter. because it cost him s1.50. He was
candidate for treasurer in Morton town.
ship.
Siias Rutledge. candidate for represen-
tative in the west district gave S33 TO
the campaign committee and outside OF
that his election cost him S10.60.
Chris. Clasen ran for treasurer of I'm
ion township, Thos. j. McRedie ran for
office in Ninnescah township, J. a. Sad
Ter ran for road overseer, and J. NJ.
Finn ran for constable in Ninnescdh
township, also, and neither one of them
put up a copper.
Some one would immortalize himself
for truth and veracity in politics if he
would put into his bill of campaign ex-
penses an item for beer or cigars Tha:
great deal of money was spent for beer
everybody knows. and yet not one man
has said so. For instance, the Demo-
Pops on one night drank nine kegs of
beer at the Stewartairon works, and nary
a cent has been paid for it according to
the returns. In campaign expenses il Is