46 KANSAS. to vote at said election, and, upon being required by the judges to swear to their place of residence, they threatened to take the lives of the judges and tear down the house, and prepared to demolish the house. One of said judges ran out of the house with the ballot-box,’ and the other two were driven from the ground ; that the citizens of the district then left, and the persons from Missouri proceeded to elect other judges and hold an election. “ Tenth representative district. “ Oaths of H. B. Corey, J. B. Ross, and J. Atkinson, judges, according to form prescribed. Return of same judges, stating that having been sworn, they proceeded to open said election and received votes; but that a vast number of citizens from Missouri assembled on the ground for the purpose of illegally voting, who surrounded the window and obstructed the citizens of the Territory from depositing their votes, and caused many of the said legal voters to leave without voting, and that the said judges, in consequence of the determination of citizens of Missouri to vote, and no voters from said district voting, or offering to vote, they left the ground. “ First election district. <( Protest of Samuel F. Tappan and twenty others, claiming to be residents of the first election district, to declare void, to set aside the returns and election in said district, or that certificates be given to Joel K. Goodin and S. N. Wood for council, and to John Hutchinson, E. D. Ladd, and P. P. Fowler, for the reason that six or seven hundred armed men encamped in the vicinity of the polls on the 29th and 30th of March, collected around said polls, and kept them in their possession on the day of the election till late in the afternoon, and who left the district during the afternoon and the ensuing day. Said persons were strangers, believed to come from the State of Missouri. Citizens of the district were threatened with violence and prevented from voting. Affidavit by all the signers, together with affidavits of Harrison Nichols, Edwin Bond, David Congee, N. B. Blanton, and Samuel Jones, tending to prove threats, violence, and non-resident voting. “Protest of Perry Fuller andE. W. Moore, judges appointed to hold the election, and twenty-nine other persons claiming to be residents, complaining that the said election was opened by unauthorized judges at 8 o’clock a. m., and at a place-different from that prescribed in the proclamation, and that non-residents surrounded the polls with firearms and voted indiscriminately.” But omitting further extracts from the returns of the judges of the election, there were by the census taken under the direction of the governor, in February, 1855, 2,905 legal voters in the Territory ; yet at the election for members of the legislature held twenty-seven days after the completion of the census, 6,331 votes were polled,* of which °See statement appended.
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