The Falls City tribune., 1909-07-30

125, and proved by each one that
he voted at Rulo at the May county
seat election, and voted for Rulo.
Adding that number to the thlrty.five
Illegal votes put in the ballot box at
Falls City as already stated, and sub.
tracing the amount nominally cast
for Rulo,it gave Falls City a majority
of the legal votes cast at that cleo
Tic II so made her the permanent
county seat, and she has been such
ever since.
e. S. Dundy. Aug. S~choenheit.-
who had temporarily located at Falls
City-and myself. represented Falls
CITY, while certain local talent at
Rulo, and one or two lawyers from
Missouri and Kansas, looked after
the interests of Rulo. 1t was a fair
stand up fight, and the truth as ascer-
tanned and declared by the court. was
acquieseed in by both sides, and the
long drawn out struggle was ended
forever.
The actors in that drama of the
long g have nearly all passed over
the river, while those who remain
are in the "sere and yellow leaf"
few in number and to become fewer
every year. Many of these people,
and they were excellent people too,
went all through the rest of their lives
under the impression that the people
of Falls City had robbed them of
something of their own; deprived then
of an advantage that of right belon-
ed to their particular town or section.
The poll, before it was s%crutinized
in a searching, judicial examination,
showed prima facie, that their town
had a majority, and that was enough
for them. Many errors are older
than theirs and have been cherished
with the same unreasoning and dog
ged persistence time out of mind,
and 1T is not at all certain that their
votaries are any the worse or better
vi tudt dCSOunt nt ldCt TO- tltiG
are people everywhere who are so
constituted hat they will sit down
quietly and comfortably-and love a lie.
Most of such people like to tell one
too. The liar and the tale-bearer are
the worst scourges of civilized society
but like other social Affections, as
well as physical diseases, they have
to be endured a s. part of the burdens
of this life.
There was no wrong done anybody
by the result Of the election contest
mentioned, and the reflecting, fair
minded men among our friends
in the east end OF the county, after
the chagrin of the moment had worn
away, were manly enough to acknow-
ledge it.
Had Rulo been successful it could
not have retained the seat of govern
ment for long, and for obvious rea-
sons-the reasons in fact that de-
feated it, the controlling n of which
was location. 1t was in the extreme
southeastern corner of the county,
and to reach it the people in the west
ern end would have to travel forty
miles or thereabouts, and that incon-
venience, not to say hardship, could
not be tolerated, and so they voted
pretty unanimously for Falls City.
Notwithstanding. those troublous
days threw their dark shadows far
the material development of the coun-
try to a greater extent than most
people are aware of. Fol- one thing,
it defeated Judge Dundy for the Unit
ed States Senate in 1866, when in
anticipation of the admission of the
state two senator's were elected, n
were seated in the following March and
who were about as poor excuses for
senators as this or any other state
has ever had. Dundy would have
lone this city and county material
good, for he was a man of eminent
ability and force of character, while
the men who We're elected possessed
neither.
They were excellent men in their
way, but the senate of the United
States is no place for the mediocre,
and those gentlemen were misplaced
in that body.
The mass of the people have a
very imperfect idea of what the SEN
ate really is, and hence the flippant
manner of speaking of it, INDUCED in
by some of their loudest and most
senseless takers. To describe it
tersely and comprehensively 1t is suf-
ficient to say that the senate OF the
United States, is the United States
a body that by positive constitutional
o,,,+ noccoccac tho pOWprS Of every