Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-21
WILL SACRIFICE OTHERS TO SAVE
LOWE. STONE AND CHILEs.
MAKING THE CAMPAIGN HOT.
BIG REPUBLICAN MEETING IN THIRD
REGIMENT ARMORY TONIGHT.
Major William Warner and Hon. j. II.
HarkleSs Will Discuss the Issues
Itinerary of Meetings. Ar
ranged for Kansas
City by the Com
mittee.

The Jackson county gang is on the run.
Stripped by Republican election law of
the vast power for fraudulent registration
and voting, by which for many years they
have been enabled to nnllify elections in
Kansas City and Jackson county and over
ride the honestly expressed will Of the
people by putting into stolen offices men
who fell far short of receiving a majority
of the legal votes cast at the polls, they
see defeat staring them In the face and
| with this certainty confronting them they
have at last realized that they are power
less to avert the disaster.
The simple truth is that the people of
Jackson county have decided to take things
in their own hands this year. and with
the first chance in many years for full
and fair vote they mean to wipe out not
only the notorious gang of election thieves.
ballot box suffers and forgers which has
| so long infested the county, but to relegate
| to political obscurity as well every bene-
| ficiary of the thefts of the gang and to
| bury under an avalanche of honest bal
lots every man who has ever been con-
nected in the slightest degree with the
| influence. This means the annihilation of
the alleged Democratic ticket, for there is
| not a man on it, no matter how pure and
| good he claims to be, who could have re-
ceived his nomination without the favor
and influence of the gang bosses and with
out making them pledges.
Around Democratic headquarters. or
rather the gang headquarters, for major
ity of the reputable Democrats do not
recognize the gang ticket and the gang
bosses as representing them, there pre-
| walls these days an atmosphere of gloom
thick enough to cut with a knife. Joe
Shannon and men of his ilk, who, for
period. the beginning of which runs back
beyond the memory of man, have made a
living out of politics by peddling offices,
are confronted with the terrible prospect
OF having to go to work for a living. An
astute leader like Shannon does not need
any handwriting on the wall to convince
him that the gang ticket is doomed unless
miracle happens to save it from impend-
ing wrath. Such crisis has been reached
in the affairs of the gang that with them
1t is no longer a question of electing the
4 ticket hJ,t of
which favorites may be saved from the
wreck. The orders have already gone forth
to the most trusted lieutenants that every
thing must be sacrificed for three men
on the county ticket: Frank NJ. Lowe,
for prosecuting attorney, who is the par
ticular protege OF Joe Shannon; Bob Stone,
for sheriff. who is simply an understudy
for John P. o'Neill, and Sam Chiles, for
county marshal. If the worst comes to
. worst even Chiles is to be sacrificed in a
| vain effort 10 save. Lowe and Stone.
The gang leaders are not thinking about
or caring for the national and state tick
cts in Jackson county. They know that
both Mckinley and Lewis will carry
the comfy by tremendous majorities, and
they are ready and willing to trade Bryan
and Stephens off for votes for their pets
on the gang county ticket. AT the gang
headquarters the old stereotyped plea OF
poverty is very much in evidence. but 1t
will be noticed on election day, and before,
that the bosses have plenty of money to
Il spend in the interests of Lowe, Stone and
Chiles. The gang bosses know that their
very existence is staked on the election or
defeat of these three men. If they lose
them in the general wreck of November {
they will lose all hold on the county Of
fees and this is why they are fighting the
fight of desperation to save them.
One week ago the gang bosses were smil-
: ing and confident and were even willing to
bet money that the entire gang ticket
would be elected. Since that time several
, | things have happened which haveNput a
new face on affairs. One of the most i'm
portant of these factors is the rise and
, unprecedentediy rapid growth of the Soun6
Money League. When this gigantic move.
urent was inaugprated the bosses did no.
| pay much attention to it for they believed
: il, affected oniy the national dicket and thes
5 did not care whether Bryan carried Jack
< son county or not. Later they began tt
% l
signing tht roll of membership We're COINS
|, TO record themselves on November no
e only against Organism and reputation bu
l also against a continuation of the rule o
William ]. Stone in Missouri under tn,
name of Lonnie Stephens and against thl
ticket nominated and supported by tn,
+ gang bosses in jackson county. AS th
;, thousands upon thousands of names con
S tinueds TO swell the list of the Sound None.
: League the bosses stood aghast, carrie4
off their feet by this unexpected showing.
Close on the heels of this movemen
: which boded so III to them and their caus
!, came other developments equally alarming
!. The committee representing the gang ha
just completed a poll of several of tn
wards of the city and some of the outsid
d | townships which Is the most dIscouragin
= in their experience. 1t is known that thei
n poll of the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth an
t Tenth wards alone shows clear Rsput
lican majority of over 1000 votes, and i
~ this poll every doubtful voter is counted a
~ with the gang. These figures Indicate
IS Republican majority of $500 in the city o
their own count; but -as a. matter OF fag