Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-23
ORDINANCE

Providing place for holding of the city election
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen
of the City Of Meade, Kansas:
SECTION l. That the city election for the pur-
pose Of electing City officers for the year commenc
ing with the first Monday in April, 1905, shall be
held in the bhilding situated on lots IL and Il,
Block ID, o. ). Meade, Kansas.
LOUIS BoEHLER, Mayor.
Attest: W. S. BEksyMAS,
First published March, II, 1908.
You truly state thirdly, that
"the nomination papers were not
filed with the clerk in the time
prescribed by law" Nothing
unfavorable to the defeated tick
ct resulted from this omission;
no objection, written or other
wise, was made by anyone and
the statute just cited, Section
27O3 provides, "that the certifi-
cate of nomination and nomina-
ton papers being so filed, and be-
ing in apparent conformity with
this act, shall be deemed to be
valid, unless objection thereto
is duly made in writing within
three days from the date such
papers are filed with the proper
officer"
Your fonrth number, "that the
ticket was filed with the clerk
without name and went in this
shape to the printer and was so
printed" surely cannot be urged
as criticism against any officer
of the city or election board. If
fault could justly attack any,
where would not the caucus
which omitted to give name to
the defeated ticket be the right
full body to arraign?
The officers administer the law.
The state is the law giver. The
caucus must comply with thelaw
and so name its offspring that
when printed and deposited in
the ballot-box legal vote can be
counted by the election officers,
You sayfifthly, "that the name,
Meade, Kansas, was not printed
on the back of ticket, and no fac
simile of the clerks signature
which the law says shall be-"
Now while this is true, no harm
could result, because this require
ment is directory only, and no
ballot could be lost by such omis-
sion.
AS to your sixth, you are clear
ly in error, "colored ballots were
printed as the law Provides" and
were lndustriously circulated
and used, an many of our best
citizens stand ready to avouch.
Another quite serious charge
appears in NUN Der seven of your
''statement", to-wit; "all the
clerks and judges were democrats
which is a violation of law" If
you will examine our discussion
of your number2, in the fair part
of this reply, you will notice
that the Mayor shall with the
approval of the council, designate
from the council, three persons
to act as judges of election; and
the council shall designate two
citizens, not members of the
council to act as clerks" The
statute then provides for vacan-
cies at the polls by being chosen
by the bystanders. Mr.. Boehler,
you will see, was restricted to
the members of the council for
judges. To have gone outside
would have been a violation of
law, and the act would have been
void, Messrs Wehrle, Wood,
Cones and Adams constituted the
council. Mr.. Boehler designated
Mr.. Cones, the only Republican
then on the council, to act as one
of the judges, but he was un-
able to serve on account of
business engagement. For
clerks, Mr.. Boehler, acting for
the council originally appointed
Messrs. F. G. Hamilton and F.
c. Judd, one Republican and one
Democrat. Mr.. Hamilton could
not serve, having to be away also
on business. Mr.. Boehler seems
to have very fairly cared for Re
publicans, in the execution of his
duties, and the council, over
whelmingly Democratic, evinced
a very liberal spirit in it's APP
pointments. The subsequent
filing of vacanciesat the polls by
the bystanders, is in no sense
an over-reaching on the part of
anyone.
We pass overwhat you say as
to the personal of the regular
ticket and,the hardness" of the
fight waged etc" No one will
question your encomium, most