The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05
FILES CASE
Tells Why His Name Should Be
on Ticket.
He Charges Mr.. Bewersock With
Fraud.
THE HISTORY is GIVEN.
Shows How His Opponent Was
Nominated.
Says He Depended Upon Contest
Board to Favor Him.


Allen as Republican candidate for con-
gress were filed with the secretary of /
state this morning, and this afternoon |
Mr.. Aliens attorneys filed his protest |
to the nomination papers of ]. D. Bow |
ersock. Mr.. Aliens attorneys in pre- |
pairing the papers were w. S. jerks of |
Franklin county and D. r. Hite of To- |
peka. The contest has to be set for
hearing within five days, but by agree
ment of the parties it can. of course, |
be postponed.
The nomination papers were received
Dy secretary OF state Burrow h1nSelT,
and it was not required that the pro-
test be filed with them, as was done in
the First district case.
When the papers were filed Mr.. Bur-
row asked Mr.. Allen:
Have YOU stated that you cannot
get justice from this contest board?"
mot much,' said Allen. 'Bowersock
and his friends are the ones who have
been saying that
The protest covers seven typewriter
sheets and is signed by F. NJ. Harris.
secretary of the Allen convention at
Garnett. 1t first sets forth in legal
form objections to Bowersock'S nomi-
nation papers on the ground that they
are false and fraudulent: that they are
not certified to by the regular officers
of the convention: that Bowersock is
not the congressional nominee and that
Allen is. Then the protest continues:
This objector more particularly
charges that the said J. D. Bowersocl,
conspiring with certain persons. his
agents and political advisers many
| deliberate design, purpose and plan of
organizing false and fraudulent and
! boiling delegations from the regular
Repub lican conventions that might be
held in the Second congressional dis
trict of Kansas; that in pur-
suance of such fraudulent conspiracy.
design and plan, the said BowersOck,
his political advisors. agents and at
| torneys, proceeded to carry out such
| fraudulent PURPOSES in the following
manner
Then follows detailed account of
the manner in which contests were got
| ten up in each of the contested coun-
| ties, Johnson, Anderson, Miami and
Wyandotte. The protest then contfn
ues:
| This is the history of the methods
| employed by Mr.. Bowersock in the
| counties where he could not win. His
| friends have been announcing for two
months that there would be a dual
convention at Garrett, and that Mr..
| Bowersock would receive the decision
| of the contest board. At Garnett in
| the congressional convention Mr.. Bow
ersock attempted to seat his illegiti-
| mate delegations by having the con-
| gressional committee make up the tenn
| porary roll. There were eight members
| of the committee and one vacancy. Mr..
Bowersock sought to fill this vacancy
and thus control the committee by
| seating a man who had no claim to
| membership.
| 1.-THE chairman of the congressional
committee, Mr.. Tucker. refused to at
tend the convention. saying that Mr..
| Bowersock had asked him to do some
| things which he could not consistently
| do. hence he remained at home and sent
| Mr.. Metcalf as his proxy. After Mr..
Bowersock's members Of the committee
were defeated in their effort to seat Mr..
| Vaughn they bolted the committee
meeting. At the hour when the con-
| gressional convention was to meet Mr..
| Bowersock caused thirty-four delegates
| elected to such convention to separate
| and bolt from the majority of the con-
| vention and such delegates consDiring
| with said BowersoOk, pretended to or
| ganize a separate convention, all with
| the purpose and design of carrying out
| the fraudulent design of securing some
kind of nomination papers to file with
| the secretary of state. Mr.. Stubs then
asked the candidates if it would be sat
| isfactory to allow the chief justice of
| the supreme court, sitting in an unoffi-
cial capacity, to pass upon the contest
cases. All agreed but Mr.. Bowersock-
He stood for his position that the con-
| test board must try the case.
| Mr. Bowersock deliberately and fraud
ulently planned to make case for this
contest board to try. When he realized
that he was honestly and fairly defeated
by the majority of the Republican voters
of the Second district, he set about to
| create a contest in the tsarnett conven-
ton, which would bring the matter into
the contest board. He, his friends, az d
numerous papers representing his inter
ests, have for weeks prophesied that this
contest tribunal would settle the contest
| in his favor, and this objector says that
said .Bowersock procured his pretended
certificate. of nomination filed with the
isecretary of state, from. the fraudulent
organization thus formed by his thirty
| four delegates, with the belief that by
filing such fraudulent certificate of nom
| nation with the secretary of state, ne
could prevent the undersigned the reg
ularIy chosen nominee of the convention,
from filing his certificate of nomination
with the secretary of state
| TO BE HEARD THURSDAY.
+ The Allen-Bowersock contest has been
informally set for hearing by the state
election board for next Thursday after
noon at o'clock. This is to give time to
all the politicians interested to attend
the Wichita convention. It is not yet de-
cided whether it will be continued after
Thursday.
RUMOR OF BURGLARY.