Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-10-03
A Democratic Trick.

not be denied. Anything which tends
to secure an honest election, and pre-
vent frauds at the ballot box, finds no
favor IN their eyes, for they we'll know
that the immense majority which they
usually roll up here can only be Sc
cured by illegal voting and repeating
We can easily see. therefore, why
law which requires that at least one In
spector and one Clerk of election in each
ward shall be Republican, should not
be popular with them; and we do not
wonder that they first undertook to
override the statute, aud hold the elec.
ton under Films law which left the
Democrats in full control In. every
ward in the city. Having finally be-
come frightened, and fearing the conse
quences of their lawlessness, the Board
of Street Commissioners, with "a view
| to avoiding the serious consequences
| threatened, ordered an election of May
or and an Alderman in certain wards,
to make the appointments OF inspec-
tors and clerks, which they had once
refused to make, and which should
have been made on the Sd of Septem-
| Der. These appointments have now
been made, aud for the purpose of
showing that our denunciation of the
Board is well merited, We call atten-
ton to the selections made in two of
| the wards.
In the 4th ward, Christian Becker,
M. j. Gallagher and Richard Jones
are named as inspectors, and W. d..
Stacy and Charles H. Ferrey clerks.
In the 7th ward. the inspectors are ii.
Breckenridge, Thomas Forkenbridge
and VIM. DIN, and the clerks are z.
Cole and John Mooney. Now, we
would be glad to have some one tell US
which is the Republican inspector in
| the 4th ward. We all know that
Chris. Becker is Dem ocrat. Concern
ing him there is no question. As to
NJ. j. Gallagher, who never voted a
Republican ticket in his life, and who
is now one of the city assessors elected
upon the Democratic ticket, we sup
pose it would be dangerous to call him
Republican. 1t must be, then, that
Richard Jones is the man named by
the Mayor and approved by the Board
as the Republicans Inspector in that
ward We submit in all candor to our
| Democratic friends that this is carry
ing the joke too far. The Republi-
cans Of the 4th ward, We are sure, will
MOI feel honored with Richard Jones
as their representative upon the Board
unless he "has been born again" polit-
ically and eschewed all the old Bour-
ben notions which he has cherished
through life.
But the 18th ward case is still more
ghastly. Breckenridge and Forken-
bridge are dyed-in-t he-wool Democrats,
and the man daring to call either of
them Republican would likely be
soundlJ threshed for his temerity, Up
on William DIN, then, as q RepubH-
can, the Board has conferred the ap-
polntment of inspector Was there
ever greater impudence /? We dom
know nor care what Olin calls himself
! politically, but he cannot claim to be
a Republican. He is now a member
Of the Board of Street Commissioners.
elected on the Democratic ticket. He
is a standing delegate from the 7th
ward to Democra conventions and
when he is not elected as such in due
form he appoints himself, as he did
last week, when he appeared as dele
gate in the city convention with two
votes, to neither Of which he was en-
titled. But whatever doubt there NAV
be as to his politics, there certainly is
none as to his excessive modesty. He
was member of the Board of St.
Com. and helped to appoint himself to
the position Of inspector, when he
knew it was fraud upon the law, and
an insult to the Republicans of the
9TH ward. But We presume these
tricks-for tLey are nothing else
will be sanctioned by the party in
whose interest they are perpetrated.
We-place them on record that the
public may see how desperately wicked