The Globe-republican., 1897-11-11
THURSDAY. NOvEMBERf.. 1897.
LOCAL NOTICES
A POLITICAL PLOT SPOILED.

A POLITICAL PLOT SPOILED.
A political faction is at low eli
~hen they do mean things for a po-
aitical advantage, but the depths d
corruption are reached when an at
tempt is made to steal an Office with
out the sanction of Law or right.
On election day IL votes were cast
for John Kimble for county commits
sioner in the Sd district. No place had
been provided on the ballot for the
name of a candidate for this Office
for the reason that there vas no va
cancy and no call had been made for
an election to that Office.
The judges of the polling places in
the precincts where these votes we're
cast, certified on the returns to the
correctness of this poll. When tho
Board of County Commissioners met
on Friday as a canvassing board, j..
NJ. Kirkpatrick appeared on behalf
of the schemers. and asked that the
board canvass this vote for Kimble.
A defunct county seat promoter and
shot gun dictator would have turned
green with envy had such cool pro
ceeding and preposterous move been
made in the palmy days of the coun
ty seat fights in Western Kansas.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick must have felt a
tinge of shame when he demanded
the canvass of this vote. He assumed
that the board had right by law to
canvass this vote and give certificate
of election to Kimble. There were
only two members of the board who
were present-Messrs. Mayrath and
Lane. Mr.. Lane moved that the
vote be canvassed but that no certif-
cate be issued until there was va
cancy in the Office of commissioner
in the Sd district, or unless it were
obliged to be done. Mr.. Lane voted
yes on his motion and Mr.. Mayrath
voted no; 50 the motion was not car
ried. But Mr.. Kirkpatrick with un-
exampled gall, supreme ignorance of
the law and a GOODNESS that would
have shocked a highwayman, insisted
that the county clerk had a right by
law to vote ON the motion and made
. demand that his vote be recorded
Attorney Sutton argued against such
a high handed and unwarranted pro
ceeding and the motion remained ne
gatived.
This scheme to defraud the people
had its inception in the brain of
man whose mind is filled with dark
schemes and diabolical plots. and
whose knowledge of the law is limit
ed. The purpose to depose Mr.. May
rath had for an object the giving of
the county printing to the Pop organ.
The Democrats were not onto the
scheme. 1t belonged to a small frac-
ton of popocrats in Dodge City. The
secrecy of the plan was we'll kept. At
past midnight on the night before the
election, couriers were sent to the
precincts in the Sd commissioner dis
trict and the willing ones were urged
to do the bidding of the masters.
The plan was confined to few and
was imperfectly carried out, as some
of the voters did not fill out correctly
the title of the Office they pretended
to vote. No one Of opposition poll
tics had any information of this dark
lantern scheme and midnight assas-
sination, and consequently they could
not vote for a choice had they desired
to do so. sf 'ot
Had certificate of election been
issued in this base attempt to outrage
the people of Ford county, there Is
no telling what complications would
have arisen in our county affairs. Al
condition bordering ON chaos would
hardly have described the scenes that
would have followed this violation Of
law. We apprehend that The people
OF Ford county viii oondemn this
attempted outrage upon law and de
cency.