The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-28
Organizing EIection Frauds.

delphia Times lind. for saying that there
are already fifty thousand more names
registered on the voting list than there
are voters in that city, and the registera-
ton is not yet completed. The Repub-
lican leaders of Philadelphia understand
how to organize frauds to carry elections
better, we suppose, than any persons on
the face of the earth. They can beat
the Mortons, of Indiana, or the Sandses,
of Cincinnati, and give them several in
the count, and that is saying much for
their ability and audacity. No matter
how great the majority may be through
out the State, outside of Philadelphia,
against the Republican ticket, the Re
publican managers. can return still
larger from Philadelphia, SO. that it is
impossible to carry the State against
them. OF course money is required,
and that they have in abundance. The
money they use In connection with the
fraudulent registration and other like
purposes. How? We will quote par
agraph from the report of the Chairman
of the Citizens's Investigating Commit
tee into the way the election was carried
three years ago:
RRPEATING.-The body of repeaters came
from Baltimore and New York, and the dis
tricts intervening or contiguous, and were
marshaled in this city by prominent local
politicians, acting under the orders of the
central organization. Added to this outside
element was the usual aggregation from the
suburbs and the desperate localities in the
city. Their work Twas done effectively in the
First, Tenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-sixth
Wards. In the First Ward they voted with
out opposition, the election officers in many
instances having been heavily bribed, and
the police having been instructed to cover
their operations. In one division of that
ward board was nailed up at the polling
window, so as to efectuaily conceal the
voters from the scrutiny of the minority
officers, and it was kept in place during the
entire day, notwithstanding the most earnest
protest of the Inspector and sOverseer. In
one instance the window-bookmen, both OF
whom had been bribed, put the votes in
themselves for the repeaters as often as they
appeared at the window. At the sixth di-
vision of the Tenth Ward the polls were
manned by three policemen, and under their
efficient -preteetion- more than half the en-
tire vote cast was polled by repeaters. The
same state of affairs existed in the other
divisions of the same ward. A careful esti-
mate from the detectives and the manner OF
distribution indicates that nearly seven thou
sand votes were polled in this way.
That is one of the ways the Philidel-
phia Republicans have of carrying an
election. That phaseof fraud originated
at Philadelphia. The repeaters were
first known by the name of "pipe-layers." "
A lot of this class were imported into
Ohio last year, and worked principally IN
Cincinnati and Cleveland, contributing
to the defeat of Governor Allen and the
election of Hayes. The Soldiers Re
union at indianapolis recently was got
ten up as cover under which repeaters
could be got into Indiana without de-
lection. Cincinnati and Cleveland will
again have their share, as also Columbus
and Toledo. Every year the necessity
grows stronger to stamp out such corrupt
practices by overthrowing the party that
encourages and profits by them.
A Compile Of Campaign Lies Nailed.
George M. Adams, Clerk of the House,
authorizes an explicit denial that Blue
Jeans Williams, as Chairman of the Com
mittee of Accounts, ever purchased tor
the use of the House any corkscrews,
feather busters or hair-brushes. Since
the publication in the New York Times,
making this charge against Mr.. Williams,
Clerk Adams has caused dlligent
search of all vouchers allowed by MIR.
Williams to be made, and the result is
that he is able to give an official denial
to the charge. The way in which these
expenditures were attributed to Mr.. VII.
lisms arose from the fact that Clinton l..
Lloyd, Chief Clerk of the Republican
Forty-third Congress, made purchases IL
cluding corkscrews, feather busters, hair
brushes, tooth-brushes, etc., during the
recess OF the Forty-third Congress, and
Immediately preceding the session OF
the Forty third Congress. The goods
were bought and paid for by him, and the
only official connection with these ex-
penditures had by Mr.. Williams was
to receipt for so much OF such property
as was turned over by the Clerk of the
Forty-third to the Clerk of the Forty
fourth Congress. The charge that honest
old Jimmy paid an exorbitant salary to
one Karr, clockmaker, for simply wind
ing clocks in the Capitol, is malicious
lie. Up to the time the Democrats got
the House of Representatives Karr was
paid one hundred dollars month for
clock winding. Two weeks after the
present House organized Clerk Adams
discharged Karr as superhuous en-
ployee, and imposed the duties heretofore
done by him on the messengers in charge
of the hall and Committee rooms, and 1t
is fact that when Karr was discharged
as one of the useless ssupernumerarles the
Radicals made the usual howl about
turning out Union soldiers to put in Con-
federates. They knew Karr was of no
use, but kept up their old howl from their
selection of stock in trade. N
Extract from the Speech of Governor
Hubbard of Texas.
Sir, you have been told that we are