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STAND UP TOE EUBOPEAIT WD
HOLDEBS. Such is the Meaning of the Kansas Bepubll
can Motto, as Interpreted by Harry L. Pes
. tana, Republican Candidate for Congress,
at Beloit, September 1, 1892.
To the Editor of Thjbadvocatk.
After weary weeks of waiting and ex
tensive advertising the "grand republican
rally" at Beloit for the Sixth congres
sional district was ushered In by the
appearance of Hon. E. N. Morrill, Hon.
E. W. Hoch, It, F. Moore, candidate for
lieutenant governor, and Hon. H. L. Pas
tana, candidate for congress in this dis
trict Vainly the leaders looked for the com
ing of the class; they came not; and after
waiting until 2 o'clock p. m., the 200 re
publicans who had assembled from
various portions of the Sixth district
gathered with doleful faces at the opera
house to listen fto the exposition of re
publican doctrine from their law-givers.
Manifold's military band (which by the
way, is the finest in the state) discoursed
the most entrancing music; but the "pro
cession" which the republicans fondly
wished for, failed to materialize. With
the opera house two-thirds full and not a
newspaperman at the press stable, the
chairman called the meeting to order,
and introduced Mr. Pestana.
After making a few feeble stabs at the
tariff," like a man feeling for an open
door in the dark, he paid his respects to
the People's party. Taking up the
Omaha platform, he attempted, to ridi
cule the propositions therein laid down,
but got no further than the first few sen
tences in the preamMe. The proposition
that "corruption dominates the ballot
box" he denied as false, and tried to make
himself solid with his hearers by saying
that he believed that the majority of vo
ters were honest.
That the "common people" are honest
I affirm, and am very sorry to have to
disabuse Mr. PestanaVmlnd of his
opinion, but Mr. Pestana is a very poor
observor of passing events if he attempts
to deny the truth of the proposition
stated In the Omaha platform. But I
submit evidence from the Chicago Trbi
une, a radical republican sheet, under
date of September 1, 1892, which speaks
for itself:
BALLOT BOX FRAUDS.
TWEHTY-03TS EJSPECTOBS 8EOTB2TCED EJ
NEW JERSET.
Law vindicated after rniteh delay and heavy ten
tenet imposed upon the- election inspector.
New Yobx, Sept 2.-Special.---Poll-ticians
crowded into the Hudson county,
N. J, court room this morning when
Judge Upplncott and Associate Justloes
Kenny and Hoffman ascended the bench
It was the time for the sentencing of the
twenty-one election inspectors who either
were convicted or pleaded guilty to ballot
AND TOPEKA TRIBUTE.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2i, 1892.
box stuffing in the November election In
1889. There were in all sixty-six election
Inspectors Indicted, and thirty-eight of
them were some time ago sentenced to
various terms in the state prison or peni
tentiary. The defendants who were in
court this morning were the last of a
batch and while they were waiting to
learn their fate they showed much ner
vousness. Many of them were respect
able looking men and were accompanied
by their wives and other relatives. Their
counsel had exhausted all means to pre
vent them from going to prison, and when
finally unsuccessful, directed their at
tention to having the sentences made as
light as possible. This was the cause of
there being a number of postponements
In the carrying out of the law. The
Judges after deliberating for a half -hour
Imposed sentences as follows:
Nathaniel Fowler and James Jordan,
recommended to mercy by the jury, six
months In the penltentary.
William E. Keen, of the same batch,
who was drunk on election day, and has
a bad political record, was sentenced to
state's prison for eighteen months.
John Farrant, Tnomas Nelson, Gears
Heller and Charles H. Scott all pleaded
guilty. All except Scott were sentenced
to fifteen months each in state's prison.
Scott was given nine months in Snake
Hill penitentiary.
Michael Hughes, James Scanlon and
Michael Caslday, who pleaded guilty,
and Theodore Schultz, who stood trial,
were each sentenced to fifteen months In
state's prison.
Charles Carr, Lawrence Costigan, Wil
liam Sweetingham and Richard T. Huy
retta, who pleaded guilty, were sentenced
to fifteen months each In state's prison.
John S. Daly and John Mahoney were
sentenced to Snake Hill penitentiary for
nine months each.
Richard Whalen, James Connell, Thos.
Burt and Frank Herrlck, the last of the
batch of six arraigned who had entered a
plea of non wit, were each sentenced to
nine months In the penitentiary.
In answer to a question by Senator
Hudspeth for the prisoners. Judge Henny
stated that he dissented from his col
leagues, as he opposed a greater sentence
of Imprisonment than six months. The
prisoners were then removed to JalL -
1 append the names to the above so
that Mr. Pestana may verify the state
ment If he desires; and what I have to
say in this communication will be backed
up by the very best evidence obtainable
from republican and plutocratio sources
authority which every republican is
forced to admit la authentic It is barvj
posaiDie mat mr. resianawuiiaiereiuge
in the assertion that the above were all
democrats, and in order that he may be
placed where he will have no kick com
ing, I submit further evidence from the
Sun and Republican of Denver, as to re
publican methods among themselves In
their own primaries.
The Denver Sun says:
As was to be expected, some of the
most disgraceful and outrageous pro
ceedings of the day took place In some
precincts 6f district 6, or what is more
familiarly known as the Fourth ward.
And the precinct olthe district in which
the boldest attempt was made to carry
the election by fraud was, of course, the
precinct In which that self-confessed bal
lot box stuffer, Max Jarecki, is commit
teeman. In precinct 7 of the same district the
committeeman, Thomas Patton, acted as
one of the Judges. Soon after the polls
opened he saw that he could not honestly
carry the precinct so he began to stuff
the box. He was discovered putting in
the ballots and very soon afterward was
arrested. Had he not stuffed the box the
honest voters in the precinct would have
won by a large majority.
In the third precinct of the district an
attempt was made to carry the election
by fraud, but the judges would not allow
the box to be stuffed, and so the honest
voters' ticket was elected.
In both of these precincts there were a
horde of sluggers and repeaters acting as
deputy sheriffs, and Sheriff Butchinell,
when present made no effort to have an
honest election and preserve the peace,
not even when guns were drawn and
there was danger of murder being com
mitted. Thomas Patton, one of the judges of
election, was caught stuffing the ballot
box. He was seen by Mr. Koffman, who
about 3 p. m., swore out a warrant before
Justice Stidger, charging him with stuff
ing the ballot box.
Constable Welch was sent to serve the
warrant and trouble ensued. Jim Con
nors attempted to prevent Welch from
serving the warrant Justice Stidger and
District Attorney Steele, who were pres
ent, called upon the. five or six police at
this voting place to . assist Constable
Welch In serving the warrant but they
refused. Connors by physical strength
and violence shoved the constable away.
" Sheriff Burchinell coming up, Connors
began to abuse him for permitting the
arrest of Patton. Trouble ensued be
tween Connors and Jack Divine, Con
nors drawing his gun. A wrangle fol
lowed, but the sheriff did not attempt to
Interfere and prevent a breach of the
peace. Connors also threatened Billy
Woods.
The following bon-mots are culled from
the Denver Republican:
In the same district a pupil of Jareckl,
who was a judge of election, took ballot,
wmcn ce Buspecwa were against nia
f;ang from the box and substituted others
n such an open bungling manner that
voting was stopped altogether until such
time as a warrant arrived for his arrest
Some difficulty was encountered in re
moving the criminal, as the Connor's
crowd objected, and the policemen at the
polling place were not quite sure whether
they should obey Connors or the law.
William Arnett, a deputy sheriff, took
advantage of the sheriff's office and ap
pointed all the people favorable to him
in his presence deputy sheriffs, and they,
with the assistance of outsiders who also
wore deputy sheriff's badges, carried the
primaries to suit themselves.
Leonard DeLue, another deputy sher
iff who poses as a detective of the dime
novel order, attempted with the help of
the Brady crowd, to run the Sixth dis
trict At 2:30 p. m. William Arnett, deputy
sheriff and assistant to ."Old Sleuth" De
Lue, left the sheriff's office with a dozen
or fifteen men he had secured deputy
sheriff's badges for. They were as dis
reputable & gang as ever uartoa com
( OfFIOlAX. PAPER OT TJI2B
1 PEOPLE'S PA1&TY OF KANSAS,
missioned, and some surprise was
expressed as to where the estimable Mr.
Arnett got such a bodyguard of plug
uglies, cigarette fighters, wlnd-heeleia,
saloon bums and hangers-on. But Arnett
seemed to be proud of them, for ha
walkod at their head through the princi
pal streets to the polling place fcr his
precinct fit 309 McNasser avenue.
At the polling places along Larimer
street the judges only allowed one ticket
in several Instances, and when a voter
remonstrated he was told that the ticket
selected was official With the ex
ception of the Arnett precinct the voting
was not as heavy as it might have been
because It was found that only in some
of the precincts was there any use at
tempting to vote. In precinct 8, things
were carried with such a high hsud that
a threat was made to close up the polling
place and send for Chairman Coe to es
tablish a new place with new judges.
The above are but a few of the buds
which grow so luxuriantly upon the re
publican flower of politics.
But in discussing the Populist demand
for government ownership of railroads
is when Pestana came out strong. He
said: "How are you going to buy the
railroads and telegraph lines? Wh&t
country In the world to-day owns Its own
railroads? I don't know of any." "But,"
he continued, "don't you know that the
railroads of this country are owned by
citizens of England, France and Germany,
and that they are not under the juris
diction of the laws of the United States?
Don't you snow that they are owned by
persons across the water, and if you at
tempted to take the railroads, you art
liable to stir up a hornet's nest? Iam
telling you the truth. International
questions are liable to arise if you
attempt to carry out government owner
ship, and the entire armed -force of
Europe would be called out to protect
the Investments of its citizens In this
country." Poor Pestana 1 presume
that he fondly hoped that the law of emit
nent domain had been suspended so as
to prevent the People's party from inter
fering with the profitable plunder which
the gold-bug European friends of the re
publican party are carrying on In their
robbery cf the American public,
Mr. Pestana, for the republican party,
thus comes into open cnrt and pleads
guilty to the indictment filed against
them by the people. And this man, who
is fearful that the interests of the Euro
pean bondholders may be jeopardized If
the people claim justice, asks the people
of the Sixth congressional district to send
him to congress, where he can mors care
fully attend to the Interests of his Euro
pean clients.
Mr. Pestana and his republican friends
seem to be laboring under the Impres
sion that conditions as they exist are all
right, and that we do not need to own
the railroads in order to give to the peo
ple fair treatment at the hands of thesa
cormorants. But I am assured by a re
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