The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-30

to right it.
authorized by law to subpoena wit
lnesses when requested and inquire
into all the facts, Attorney General
Coleman stated upon the witness
stand that the board declined to issue
lsubpoenas and call witnesses and re-
fused to try the case on its merits, and
declined even to read the evidence
submitted in briefs
1 THE Curtis-Walker element of the
party had the committee in Jackson
county, with all the factional advan-
tageS that fact gave. After can
mary nearly the entire Republican
vote of the county, the delegates to
the county convention stood 76 for
Frederick and Thompson to At for
Vaccinations of the new machine,
aided by the chairman of the central
committee, the minority in the
county convention bolted, withdrew,
delegates who voted for Curtis in the
convention of disorganizers, and no
official board or court has ever in
quired into these outrages, although
they have been petitioned and i'm
portuned to do so.
THE congressional convention was
called to meet in Holton- The chairman
/ of the county central committee, Cur
/ Walker partisan, engaged the
Tabernacle, the only building suitable
for convention purposes, and gave no
tice that the convention was to be held
there. Under the supervision OF Chair
man Logan. and according to his in
structions. the hall was arranged for
the convention by putting in
carding seats for the different
delegations. According to this arrange
ment and understanding, seventy-two
legally d@cted delegates from the coun-
ties of Leavenworth. Donipnan, jack
son, Atchison and Nemaha assembled
there at the hour set for the opening
of the convention. A few minutes be-
fore the time the congressional commit
tee changed the place of meeting to
lodge hall that would barely give seat
ing room to the delegates. Less than
five minutes before time to call the
convention to order, the delegates as
sembled at the Tabernacle, were noti-
fed that the place of meeting had been
changed. At this time every seat In
the small lodge room was filled with
the delegates from Shawnee, Jefferson
and Brown counties and the bogus del
egates from the other three counties,
and the Curtis-Topeka crowd The
legal delegates here numbered only 81,
and no official board or court mas taken
cognizance of or considered these facts.
lit is, therefore, clear to US that Mr..
Curtis was not nominated, and that his
pretended nomination is a fraud, as
he received legal votes only from the
delegates from the counties of Shaw
nee, Jefferson and Brown, lacking
eight of a majority of the convention.
AT the state convention, which was
held at Wichita a few days later, the
legally elected delegates from Atchi-
son, Jackson, Wyandotte and Miami
counties were, by a partisan credential
committee, thrown out and illegal and
bogus delegates were awarded their
seats. Without the votes OF these ille-
gal and bogus delegates, Mr.. A. d.
Walker would not have had a majority
of the votes of the convention for
railroad commissioner. and therefore
we assert that he was not nominated
and that his pretended nomination is
a fraud and that he has no valid and
binding claim on Republican voters.
If the legally elected and rightful
delegates from the four counties above
named had been allowed to retain their
seats in the state convention, Judge
Atkinson, worthy and able member
OF the supreme court, would, we be-
lieve, have been nominated instead of
defeated, and we feel it to be our duty
to regard his defeat as another of the
results of the base frauds enumerated
above, which furnishes an additional
reason for this protest.
We commend D. r. Anthony, jr., whom
we believe to be the rightful nominee for
congressman by the Republicans of this
district, for the efforts he has made at
great expense and trouble to have all the
facts connected with this political OUT
rage, including the arbitrary ruling of the
court, and to have that eminent body de-
eide the case on it's merits. We regret
that the court did not see it's way clear
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board. The fact that Mr.. Anthony went
to SO much expense and trouble to have
the matter decided on its merits con-
vinces us that he had the most implicit
faith in the Justice and legality of his
contention. And the further fact that Mr..
Curtis did not want the case decided on
its merits and his lawyers interposed ev-
cry technical obstacle to prevent it Is
equally convincing to minds that he
did not have confidence in the justice and
in his alleged nomination, and that he
is not only willing but anxious to take a
nomination so strongly tinctured with
fraud as TO wiring protests from thou
sands of as true and loyal Republicans
as there are in the district. To serve his
own selfish interests and retain his posi-
ton as congressman. Mr.. Curtis was will
party in most of the counties of the dis
trict-
These are some of the facts which leo
ton. The effort to secure for them con-
sideration and review by a legally conSti- |
tuted tribunal having been defeated by
tiles and bubbles, it devolves upon each |
voter to consider them in his individual
capacity We hold with President ROOSe- |
Welt that "A nomination obtained by |
fraud are used to secure nominations it |
IS better for the party and more patriot |
&c 70 scratch than TO vote straight When
unfair and dishonest methods are en- |
plOyed and given force and effect by the |
party, there is only one way to right the |
wrong: and that it is to see to it that the |
doing The last appeal under our Sys- |
tenn is to the people. When courts re- |
fuse to act upon the merits of such Ques- |
lions because they are political the peO- /
pie must pass upon the merits of the |
methods and questions in their capacity /
as electors. This they will do in Novem- |
ber."
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