Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-08-31
TO JEFFERSON,
NO. 1,

NO. l.
Ny DEAn JErrERsoN:- Being great admrer
of yours, and noticing in the last Democrat
your communication, No. 1, Ito the Democracy
Of Howard" read il with great attention. /
see you give the democracy majority OF 133 in
the county! Genius toiu show itself in every
condition OF life! ], poor mortal, have been
figuring away ever since the election, and to save
me, could not make it any other way than that
the Wings had the county, when all at once you
show to the asonished democracy Of the land
that they have 1873 majority! You make an
actual majority Of 70 at the polls by making the
vote for Governor the test. Now |, knowing
that Edwards and Allen were both democrats,
and finding that the whole vote for the two was
only 1999-while the whole vote for Senators
was 1916-whie Edwards got 1S more votes
than Owen Rawlings the democratic candidate
for SENATOR concluded that we must look some
where else for the proper test, and. what is far
more important, that we could not convince the
"dear people" that the vote for Governor showed
the relative strength of parties.
In forming that conclusion | looked also at
these facts, that the vote for Davis, the foremost
Wing candidate for the House was ga, and that
for C. F. Jackson was 900, which together make
l1934-which is IS more votes than were given
for Governor. The average vote for the three
wing candidates for the House was $50; for
our three democratic candidates was 957; which
together make 1916, the same number that was
given for Senators and consequently 81 more than
were given for Governor. Now, between our
selves, if there were more votes cast for Senators
than for Governor, and If, as is the fact several
persons voted for Governor from other counties;
if the vote for the foremost democrat and fore.
most wing for the House is Is more; if the aver
age vote for all the democrats and all the wings
for the House is 81 more than the whole vote for
Governor, and if our dear democratic friends
know these things can we convince them that
the whole strength of the two parties was shown
in the latter vote!
To the 73 majority for Edwards you add $40
OF our democratic friends who did not attend the
election on account of sickness and otherUiSe,' D
and deduct 90 or 25 wing votes illegally given.
How unfortunate, my dear Jefferson, that so
many of our democratic friends were too sick to
vote, notwithstanding we hauled in so many, and
that all Of those rascally wings were 'cell What
pity those ''otter,oise' did not vote the demo
cratic ticket. Betw cen US, don't you think that
the majority OF them, if they had voted at all
would have voted for the wings! And to crown
all, for misfortunes never come single, some 20
or 25 COMPOUNDED wings were wicked and cum
ming enough to give illegal votes, although oul
county court, by accident you know, had ap
pointed two democrats to one wing as judges o.
the election in every township in the county, all
of whom acted, except in Bonnie Femme, where
one Of our judges not acting, wing filled hi'
place! Isn't it astonishing under these circum
stances that those wings voted and there were M
illegal democratic votes given? Do you thinl
you can make our dear democratic friends believ
this? am sorry you think it so troublesome ant
expensive to purge the polls as to advise our dea
friends "to submit 10 the Fraud" although Their
are two U. S. Senators to elect and this tn
revising session too! Miserable dictu.
Your dear friend,
BENTON.
| Aupust 2Sth 1914