The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-05
HERE Is ONE or THEIR SCHEAiESI

From special TO the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The following official and alarming letter has
lust been IT ceyed nj tho State Central Committee
Rooms from Headquarters nj New York 10 con
tains full details Of the most shrewd and plausl
BILE plot ever devised for defraudlng the ballot
box at the coming elections but II VIII hardly
succeed ~ publication will be made of IL In all
the city and country papersOf Indiana and Ohio'
and the Committee hope and in that way to fore
warn all Democratic inspectors against the fraud
Here Ia the document;
"HEAp QR's DEM. NATIONAL Com,
"NEw YORK, Sept 20, 1876. !
"HoN, John q. THOMPSON Dear Sir! An ex-
Ceedlngly cunning and altogether vlllainous
scheme TO perpetrate fraud In your State In the
coming election has been devised by the Repub'
lcans Of Philadrphia, the particulars of which
were communicated To II we'll known gentleman
of this city last evening and by him brought TO
the attention Of THE committee
"a number of persons have been approached
and solicited to go from Philadelphia to Indian
apolis to confer there with the Republican State
Committee About twenty five (2b) men VIII bo
designated for this purpose, As the result OF their
COunsels that Committee is " send for one OF
more members of the Republican County Com
mttee from each county aud they are to be In
stfucted In the "plan, which Is rs follows; A
Republican Inspector at each polling place Is TO
put ten straight Republican tickets IN each pole
of ballots alta the voting is 0Ver The method Is
az follows The Inspector has ten tickets con
cealed In hla hand, AID when tho ballots are
poured from the boxes upon the table tob count.
ed, he adrOtly slips these concealed tickets upon
The pile. Upon cou ting the whole number of
ballots and ascertainng that they are ten In eN
cess of the propet number this Inspector, with
much seeming fairness, proposes to take out five
votes from each side aud destroy them To II
proposltIon so apparently equitable 1t Is supposed
that there win be no objection, aud the result
win be that the Republican ticket will receive II
gain of ten votes In each election district.
"Donot make the mistake ofsupposlng that this
Is mn election scare The scheme Is devised by
we'll known Republican leaders In Pennsylvania
They have ample funds TO carry II out, They are
now organizing and selecting tholr agents. Two
men came last night from Philadelphia to this
city bringing the particulars of the plot aud one
of these men had been himself approached and
solicited to make one OF the party 10 SO to lndi'
ana There can be no doubt of the existence Of
this Infamous combination,
"rhe same plRn VIII DO iesorteu 10 III uhlo' we
would suggest to prevent this, that you first give
through your papers the fullest publicity TO the
particulars of this infamy; second, that you send
for at least one member OF each of your County
Committee and thoroughly acquaint them with
the proposed fraud, so that they may put our
watchers aud Inspectors upon their guard
The scheme OF fraud proposed is exceedingly
easy of fexeC nhon unless carefully watched, tits
tho best conceived device for cheating the cleo
tors that has yet come to the notice of this Com
mittee, aud too much precauuon can not be used
to prevent It's success.
"FREDEkICK 0, PRINCE,
"Seo'y National Dem, Com"