Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-29

torney and the ablest juriest in north
east Kansas, became the candidate
of the opposition.
| Tho rest is matter of history and
will be told in the evidence submit
ted to your honorable body in the
trial of this case. Such campaign
of debauchery and Doodle has never
been witnessed upon Kansas soil.
From the substituting of revolving
partisan press to the debauchery of
the electorate and the violation of
every code of morals known to de-
cency and honor smoung men.
Leland aud his henchmen decended.
At Troy preciect while the election
board was organizing in the Office of
the probate court Cy Leland and
Stuart at the head of gang of neg
roes and roustabouts, entered the
polling place and Stuart himself de-
livered from his own hands no less
than fifty ballots to the unregistered
voters who proceeded to prepare
their ballots and vote after which
they were supposed to register. More
than fifty votes were cast by men
who registered after voting or did
not register at all at this precipt.
This is only sample Of one precinct.
Three counties were over-run and
lsimilar methods aud similar scenes
were enacted throughout all parts
of the district. In this instance
Stuart himself who was expecting to
reap the reward of the fraud was the
party at fault.
| Gentlemen of the Senate, the ell
ectorate of Doniphan county and of
the 22nd judicial district are power
less to obtain relief through legitimate
political action. They find their will
defeated at every turn by the hand
of fraud aud trickery. Thousan ds
of dollars have been expended in
hopeless contests with foe which
knows not the meaning of the word
honor, and in whose vocabulary the
word virtue does not appear. We
are bound hopelessly hand aud foot.
Our official machinery has becom 9
the means of our despoilment. Our
courts are to be made the vehicle for
the protection of our plunderers and
despoilers. The hour has come when
hope is dead in the hearts of our
people. Fear has paralyzsd the arm
of justice and the dogged silence of
dumb driven brutes give silent ac-
quiesence to official acts that woul
bring forth armed resista nee ia a
community less servile and less hope
less than our own. The situation is
deplorable and can be realized by
none unless acquainted by actual
contact with the situation. We come
before the honorable Senate. not for
favors, but for justice. We acknowl-
edge ourselves unable to cope with
so formidable and unscrupolus foe.
| He has debauched our electorate,
polluted the public mind, and by
constant sue ,essful intugues and
violation of every sense of decency
and honor, benumbed the public NOR
ais of the community. Unless some
check be placed upon the methods
thus employed; Unless the hand is
stayed " hich pollutes the suffrage
of the people and renders nugatory
their voice and will, then the larger
community OF the state will sooner
or later become affected and our
Republican form of government
prove an abortion and farce.
Weigh well the evidence that will
be adduced in this contest. Remem-
Der that in the decision of this
, contest. remains the last hope of an
t outraged community. We shall lay
/ the matter before you for de-
termination, resting in the hope
t that, finally justice may come to a
people who are within, and of them
, selves, unaole to conquer monster
: so heartless and conscienously as this
: with which they have uusuccesfully
d contended for more than a quarter o
D a century.
I'll FRANK w. ELLIOTT.
eI In the Troy Times.
P. d. Armour is i'll at his hom,