Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
PETERSON EXPLAINS.
CHAIRMAN OF PRIMARY COMMITTEE
ISSUES A MANIFESTO.
TELLS OF FALSE STATEMENTS.
SAYS HIS ORGANIZATION DESERVES
THE LAURELS.
Rivals Never Contributed One Dollar
In Conducting General Campaign
Home for Boys and Girls
Five DistinEuished
Speakers.
TELLS OF FALSE STATEMENTS

thoroughly post themselves as to the prop
er manner in which to mark their ballots.
Owing to the many candidates for the vari-
Gus offices, and the different party appella-
tions, person can very easily make a
mistake in marking his ballot, and thus
lose his vote. Voters should be very care
full not to vote for two men for the same
Office, or scratch any name on the ticket,
for by doing either the ballot will be for
feited.
County Clerk Daniels furnished all the
printers with the copy for the official bal
lots yesterday, and. according to the man
ner in which he has decided to have the
same printed, the two sets of Republican
candidates will be in the same column.
The Republican ticket will appear on the
official ballot as follows:
State senator-E. S. W. Drought, James
F. Getty.
County attorneys. c. Miller.
Probate judge. T. Sims, ]. P. Angle
Clerk of district court-T. T. Hoffman,
Robert Eagle.
County Observation-Disclosures Yenner,
Mrs. Margaret Hiatt.
Representative Ninth distrist-J. S. Ed
wards. Charles Schmelser.
Representative Tenth distr1ct-Dow Nc
Claim, j. K. Cubbison.
Representative Eleventh district-B. L.
Stine.
County commissioners. P. Denison,
Harry Mendenhall.
Voters who are not familiar with the
Australian ballot may get somewhat con-
fused in marking his ballot All that is
necessary is to find the candidate for whom
It is desired TO vote and then make a 'X'
in the little square in front Of the can
didate's name.
Chairman Peterson. OF the primary COM
mfttee. yesterday issued the following man
ifesto to the voters of Wyandotte county:
To the Voters of Wyandotte County KAN
saS.
Your attention is called to the fact that
by decision OF the court Of common
pleas all of the candidates of the rival
political factions of the Republican party
of this county have been ordered to be
printed in one column on the official ball
lot This column is the first one on the
left hand side. This decision places two
candidates for each county office in the
Republican column, except in the case OF
S. C. Miller, candidate for county attorney,
and that of B. L. Slime, candidate for rep
resentative in the Eleventh district, who
have no Republican opponents. Confusion
to the voter will result unless he thorough
ly understands the local situation and
knows what each candidate represents.
The county ticket which this committee
is supporting was first nominated at a
county convention held July q, 1886, and at
the primary election for this convention
more than 800 votes were cast This tick
ct was again nominated at an all-6ay prim-
ary election held September u, 1885, under
the auspices of the state central committee
pursuant to a written contract entered into
by an Of the rival candidates but one. Not
withstanding this agreement the faction
that was defeated at the September !:
primaries has kept its ticket in the field
and by legal technical contentious has
forced IT upon the official ballot in the
same column with our candidates.
False statements are being circulated te
convey the impression to the voters that
the supreme court and the court of com.
mon pleas had each declared that the
rival ticket was the only or regular Re
publican ticket. Neither court has SO de-
clared. The supreme court has only or
dered the names of all of the rival candi
dates to be printed upon the official ballo
and the court of common pleas has sup
plemented this with a decision of its owI
to the effect that all of the Republican
candidates must be printed in one column
We believe that this latter decision car
only confuse the voters and We issue thi!
address to caution each voter to be care
full in the preparation Of his ballot and t.
mark an ".X'' in front of those count,
candidates only that are entitled to Re
publican support.
We wish TO call the attention of all o
the Republican voters especially to TIL
fact that our organization is the only on
that has made any canvass OF this count.
in the interest of the national and stat
tickets and that we are the only committe
Is that has borne the expense of the cam
paign in this county for Mckinley and Nor
rill, with their respective tickets, Will
our efforts in this direction have been con
stantly hIndered and sometimes thwarte
by the attitude of the rival faction on &C
count of their zeal for their local candi
dates.
Not one dollar has been contributed b.
them towards defraying the expenses o
meetings held in the interest of the ma
tional ticket in this county. We believ
that our efforts and the work of our can
didates for true Republicanism state an
national, should be rewarded with vote
for our local Republican candidates.
To assist as much as can to reliev
the voter from the confusion of names tina
will confront him on the official ballot il
the Republican column, We give the name
of our county candidates. and after havin
properly marked the Republican elector
and the Republican state ticket to vot
only for the Republican county candidate
whose names are here given, to-wit:
For state senator-E. s. W. Drought
For county attorneys. c. Miller.
For probate judge-J. P. Angle.
For clerk of the district court-T. 7
Hoffman.
For slperintendent of public instruction
For representative. Tenth district-J. X
For representative. Ninth district-J. s
Edwards.
For representative, Eleventh district-E
l. Stine.
C Il Denisgr.