The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-09
DEFRAUDING FREEMEN.
WHY DEMOCRATS COULD NOT
ne S VOTE.
Gotai ihment Employees Discharged Because They
voted for Butler--FiVe Hundred Demo
ia crats Left of the LSts In WOr-
eester, Massachusetts,.
new haven tconn.l ResIster. Aug. 10.


New Haven (Conn.) Register, Aug 49,
The Wallace Committee voted yester'
day to end its session in Boston to NOR
row ornext day. Michael Kilduff, war
veteran of nine months service, testified
that he was employed on the new post
Office extension prior to the last election,
that he was always a Democrat, that he
was discharged at short notice, that he
had been talking with one Brown, a son
OF the superintendent, on the subject of
voting and had announced his intention
of voting for Butler. He was told by
young Brown that there was no use for
any one expecting to work there who
was friend of General Butler, Noneof
the men discharged about election time
we're Republicans. Michael DAILY, an
other workman on the postoffice exten-
sion, said that he and his two sons had
announced publicly that they were But
Ter men, and that on the 29 h of October
he was discharged. Martin O'Connor
testified that he was discharged the day
after election last fall by his employer,
James Rowland, because he had voted
for Butler. Daniel A Mccarthy, su-
pervsor of the last election from ward
l2, precinct l, was questioned as to his
opinions on the necessity for strict su
pervision. He had been at work about
10 days, claimed pay for 10 days, but re.
ceived compensation for only days; he
was and is Democrat. N. A. Plympton
of Worcester testified that when the as
SCISSORS made up the list in Worcester in
1876 they left off the names of 300 Demo-
cratic voters. The effect of the meeting
of the Worcester manufacturers was in
favor of Butler. The employees reported
to him (witness) that they had been in
formed that if they persisted and voted
for Butler it would be found necessary to
close the mills. The employers did not
Coerce them, but presented the alterna'
tive with unmistakable distinctness.
Witness testfied at considerable length
as to the diffiCul y encountered by Dem
ocratc voters in Worcester and Temple
ton in securing registration. Upward OF
200 applicants for suffrage in Worcester
were refused unless they could produce
their fathers naturalization papers; the
only men who found any difficulty in
complying with the requirement were
foreigners, and presumably Democrats.
Native born citizens had no trouble in
this respect, and the rule was thus found
to operate directly against Democratic
voters. Witness exprrsEed the opinion
that the inf renee of the Templeton man
ufacturers was the cause of the small
vote there poIled for General Butler.
Jonathan A Perham, of Ashburnham,
testified that last fall he voted in the Town
of Gardner. He knew Warren |. New |
ell. Witness was Democrat, Two or |
three nights before election Newell Wis
tied witness at the latter's house, took
out roll of bank bills and threw them
down on the table, saying, Here are
$50 given to me this morning at the Ma
tional Bank here to buy votes with. II
YOU vote for Talbot you shall have $40;
if YOU keep away from the polls and
don't vote at all you shall have $5. !
There's more where this came from"
Witness refused to accept the money.
Newell said he was going to see other |
voters in the town. Newell knew that
witness had been somt what active But |
Ter man. Newell stated to witness that
he. was having good success and had
bought up several voters, but mentioned
no names. The bank officers were known
to be Talbot men Leander c. Lyons, of
Gardner, testified that John G. Bryant, a
pail manufacturer, who employs twenty |
men and is Republican, said he should
close his factory and discharge his help
if Butler was elected.
Witnesses in rebuttal were then heard
Ex Mayor Scott of Lowell denied that
there had been intimidation of men in
the employ of the firm with which he
was connected. He was at the polls try.
ing to Influence votes for Talbot. He was
not there actively in 1875 Edward
Moore, agent of the Douglas axe factory,
denied the charges OF intimidation of
JnOlI OuplOy0o ldpb year ohu dooOiGOh
that the men we're allowed to vote as
they preferred. He was at the polls dis.
tributing Talbot tickets. He did not re-
whether he was there in 1875.
The tickets given the men were open,
and the foreman of the corporation, one
Butler, could see from where he stood
what ticket they voted. Butler was next
in authority to the witness in the mills.
A. P Butler. foreman of the Douglas axe
factory, Prohibirory Republican, was at
the polls as one of committee to chal-
lenge votes. Before the election he had
talked to the men il the shops about pol.
itiCs, telling them that he was for tenn.
peranCe and asking them to vote against
Butler. A. J. Thayer, William Abbott
and A. ]. Jones were at the polls in
Douglas in 1873 They knew of no con
straiDt ON the voters there then. WV.
Fletcher. superintendent of the Webster
factory, was at the polls. He drove teams
to the polls and took many of the factory
men to vote. He had heard it said that