Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-11-10
RACINE, Oct. Z, 1910.

| bCl1ADlI Of Buell..
RACINE, Oct. 7, 1910.
Our New York papers come to US filled
with accounts Of "huge fraud" discove-
| red in New York city, connected with the
election in that city, in 1883. In some of
our papers the statement with tue docu-
ments connected with it, occupy from five
to eight and ten columns, and with an ca
sy facility, that under the circumstances is
not at all astonishing,e each party has it firm
ly nailed down and clinched upon its oppo-
nent. 1t is difficult to tell exactly where
the crime does lie, but we are inclined to
think that it cannot properly be attributed
to either party, but to individuals, who en-
gagged in it, probably to accomplish some
private ends OF their own. 1t does appear
however, from an examination of the case.
that the individuals implicated, are, with
one exception, wings, but we would infer
from the tone of the candid papers on the
subject, that it was not looked upon as inn
plicatlng the party. Both parties are &C.
lively engaged In using it as political CAPT.
tai, ana IN one paper II meets our eye CO
ga tremendous wing fraud" and in ano-
Their as "huge loco-foco conspiracy"
That fraud has been committed. there is
not much doubt, but to whom it properlv
belongs and how far guilty the individuals
are who have been implicated, is not vet
determined. We have cndeavored to find
in our exchange papers, a condensed and
impartial statement Of the matter; the near
est we can come to it is the following letter
from the New York correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune:
Ne'o- York October q, 1910.
Gen4lemen-
For week past the public
mind has been agtated by the rumors of
some forth coming developements, which
would astound the popular ear when
brought to light, and on Friday last the ap-
pearance Of numerous affidavits in sever
al public prints charging upon some of the
political parties in this city a deliberate and
unparalleled fraud, occasioned an excite |
ment that IS wholly unequalled in the his
tory Of our city. The chargd of importing
men from Philadelphia in the year 1885 |
to influence our elections by casting illegal
votes, has been most fully established and
now only remains for the men implicated,
TO prove that is was individual, and not a
party manGuvre.
The facts ofthe case, as they have come
to light thus far, are substantially as fol-
lows. In the absence Of all disputed tes-
timony, then, it appears that enough is pro-
we'd against James B. Glentworth, tobacco
inspector of this city, and James Young.
high constable of Philadelphia, to establish
the charge OF perpetrating crime, which
is little, if any, better than high treason,
and certainly and of the most henious that
can be committed under our republican
form of Government. Both these individ-
uals were arrested, and the former il now
in prison for want of BAIL
Jas. b. Glentworth, has been tobacco
inspector for two years past, but owing to
his limited acquaintance with the business,
he engaged Jonathan d. Stevenson, the
former inspector, to do the practical duties
Of his office.
From limitations that Glentworth had
thrown out, from time to time, to Steven
son, the latter felt satisfied that there was
something wrong in the political operations
of some of the most respectable members
of The whig party. Stevenson, by perse-
vering in his enquiries, finally drew from
Glentworth the following statement in SUBJ
stance, which he S. deposed under oath {
before the Recorder Gfentworth told him i
that in 1888, he went to Philadelphia, and /
made arrangements with John Swift now {
Mayor Bella Badger, and others, to send d
On number of men TO vote in the city Of +
New-York. That they came on, and some v