The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-08
BOTH MUST GO.
Senators Ross and Hopkins Are
TO Be Uhseated.
Remarkable Findings Of the
Senate Committees.
TOWNSHIPS PUT OUT.
Excuse For Doing so the Finn
siest ON Earth.
Paper Used For Ballots Was
Too Thin.
In Another Case Clerk Was Not
Regularly Appointed.

The senate contest cases of Ross
Findlay and Hopkins -Buschow were de-
cided by the senate elections committee
last night. Mr.. Findlay and Mr.. Bus
chow. Republicans. were both recon-
mended to be seated. The committee
had not prepared its full report, but it
will be fled by the first of the week
The ballots in the Land Caldwell con-
test from Bourbon county are being
counted but not much of a change has
been reported. The election officers for
got to clip the corners of many Of the
ballots and some discoveries were made
which are very embarrassing to the
politicians in that county The ballots
show that rOck-ribbed Republicans
voted the Populist ticket and that num-
erous Populists voted the straight Re-
publican ticket
The committee on elections has not
decided when Senators Buschow and
Fiudlay will take the seats now Occu-
pied by Senators Hopkins and Ross.
The committee decided to unseat Sem
atOr Ross and arrived at their decision
by throwing out three commissioner dis
tricts and one township in the senatorial
district. The commissioner districts
were thrown out because the paper upon
which the ballots were printed was too
thin or not as heavy as the paper called
for by the law. There was nothing wrong
about the ballots or in the voting, but
the only object was the paper. This pa
per was used because the ballots in the
first place were printed Incorrectly and
in the hurry to reprint in time for the
election the printer used the only
paper he could get in time and the pa
per was lighter than that ordinarily
used.
The committee threw out the town
ship in Barton county which is in the
-Findlay contest district because
one Of the clerks in the election was not
regularly appointed.
The commissioner districts and town
ship thrown out all gave naajorlties for
Ross and the count with these out gives
Findlay majority of about ZOO
In the Hopkins -BuschOw contest the
recount showed very little difference but
a township was thrown out which
gives Busch0W about 20 majority. The
reason for throwing out the township
was that one Of the judges who could
speak Russian went into the booth with
the Russian voters who could not read
English and when they said that they
wanted to vote as the majority voted
he marked their. tickets for the DEM
ocrat candidates as he knew the Rus
SLAMS voted that ticket and thought the
question referred to the way the ma
jOrity of the Russians were voting and
not as the majority of the people Of the
country were voting. The committee de-
cided the Russians wanted to vote with
the majority Of the people Of the coun-
try and as that meant Republican.
they threw out the votes Of the town
ship.
It is also claimed that number of
Russians VINO were not entitled to vote
voted for Hopkins. These Russians
were young men who came to this
country before becoming of age and
who thought they could vote even if
their fathers had not been naturalized
because they had become of age while
living in the United States
The law provides that if the father
who is foreigner has not taken out
naturalization papers the son must do
so on becoming of age. This changed
a large number of votes in the district