Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-07-26
THE rAcrIONAL TROUBLE Is NOw
AT FEVER HEAT.
RANK INJUSTICE is CHARGED.
call FoR STATE PRIMARIES DOES
NOT GIVE SATISFACTION.
II, =. Alleged rhnt Marcy X. browns
Committee Did Not Treat the
Antis Fairly In LorntinE
poiIing Places - state
Chairman Coming.

Never since Marcy X. Brown. Fred W.
Fleming and their political associates took
charge of the affairs Of the Democratic
party Of jackson county has the anger OF
the antis been 30 aroused as now. 10 say
that they are mad is putting 1t mildly.
They charge that the meeting OF the
Brown Fleming Julian county committee IN
the Coates House club room on Friday art
ernoon. at which the call for the primaries
to he held on August was issued. was u
secret affair and was attended by only four
or Ave members OF the committee. ana
hence the call was Illegally issued. TINS "
not their only grievance Tor they hsetr'
that several of the polling places were pur-
posely selected with "a view to preventing
the ants from voting anything like their
full strength. and that the other polling
places will be in localities in which the
brown Fleming -Ju ulian followers VIII son.
bv threats. assaults and other forms OF
intimidation. -..,-, ,,,,,tr
ness upon the part Of the coWvmitsese vu,sss;dn a5e
given. The most notable Is Mashlnstoini ani Il
member Of the county committee i i,s
Democratic citizens are given chance 70
vote The toTnshif Il osn,ea sirs1 9h'S al Ken santa
corner H Sr' Of u the township 4 DemcSra; who
shin must travel eighteen miles TO vote IN IN!
going to the polls he VIII bass bys ,hs poiI. iI
through number OF towns WIe.c ~" some
Of them are very close to the center OF the
township. ,.o ,h.
Brown Fleming Julian agsregation iev.s rs
sure of elcctinE n committeeman mere a.e
i've, polling places While IN sine we on,v two
rolling places. This township is likely to
poll q big majority against the Brown
sas6 2; ns ags; six yards ,Ss hsts ss1sns Il
ward there are Two Which the nan anus ali a' the
high i1'' toned lDemocraiic residents Of the
east end OF the ward must go down IN the
avenue a distance OF from. one TO two
miles. Il they wish to vote. There are n,b n,,p
wg rolling npfs' II n the asEafisd EsFhIh bs 1 1hs
located with view 70 giving the BROWN
Fleming-Julian crowd an advantage:
Another outrage" from the antis' point
of view. was perpetraicd by the comimittce
when II located ne polling place lh r9r hsss msss
ner T Of the township,
the AN antls are "kicktng'' about. They, do
not like the provisions for selecting Judges
the townships. The committees call pro-
vides for the election of two committee
men from each ward IN ,hG city ,1g ana sns 9ns
the townships except Blue township. in
which there shall also be two committee
men elected. They say that the pretense
Of Marcy X. Brown and his associates
was made because of population will not
do, 1t is claimed by them that II the Sec
cnd ward is allowed two committeemen
on the basis OF population the Ninth ward
should have six and the other wards
should have n proportional increase.
The bosses Of the anti faction held a
number of caucusse- yesterday. at which
they discussed the situation thoroughly. It
was decided TO again appeal TO the state
committee unless the Brown Fleming -Ju-
lian committee issues an amended call that
will do away with the injustice In a mum.
ber Of the wards and townships complained
of. The state committees subcommittee
will be of little use to the ants II the pres
ent call is allowed to stand. Should the
antis he unable to obtain the desired relief
from thoSstate committee, they will make
an effort 10 get out an unusually large vote
at the primaries and Will, 1t is said, spend
several hundred dollars tor hacks and other
ccnveyances to take their voters to the
polls. They propose to drive the Brown
Fleming-Julians from power II 1t is posi-
ble to do SO, and they think 1t is, notwith-
standing the manner in which the polling
places We're located by the committee.