Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-07

termined upon by the campaign COM
mittee. | know that General Banning
spent a great deal OF money when he
ran for office. He was my partner. II
it is wrong TO employ Democrats 10 hold
tickets for Republicans, have ecommltted
this wrong frequently. 1t is customary
here To employ men of the opposite
party to work for candidate, II they
express an intention to support that
candidate; it is common practice for
candidates TO employ men to'hold tick
cts in their interest. To Durbln Ward
Il didn't see Eugene Hale when he
was in Cincinnati and | did not want
to: never saw him but once. My cam
paign cost me something less than So
600.
Mr.. Ward-Then you don't care to
tell.
Gen. Young-No, l don't; l hardly
think it worth while.
After some discussion on the proprie-
ty of the question, Gen. Young said
| paid 81 900 assessment to the commit
tee and | spent about 900 mysel.
in all. Ny campaign expenses were
in the neighborhood of -, 400. / did
not pay any man dollar for any illegal
purpose.
Thomas Edwards sworn-He had had
a conversation with Hayman about two
weeks ago. Hayman told him he had
sue thing and wanted witness to get
the names of parties who had voted IL
legally. Witness told Hayman that he
knew of no such illegal voters. Con-
tinuing, he said: He asked me to 90
over the river with him and see 81 Hof-
man; went over to house on Seventh
street, below Freeman, and Hayman
went in. He came out and said that
Hoffman would meet us at the Freder-
lex House. Hayman tOtd me to ask
Hoffman for five hundred dollars for the
information concerning the illegal
votes. Aiterward Hayman told
me he could not get $500, but could get
$500. When he came for me to give him
the names / asked him for my share OF
the money, but he could not give 1t to
me, and he did not get any names.
Hayman told me first that he did not
care whether the names were legitimate
or not so he got them. When cross-ex-
amined the witness said that he did not
intend to furnish the names or take
the money, but that he accompanied
Havman to this side of the river to find
out what he knew. He had party to
write out list of fictitious names TO give
Hayman. He could not remember who
the man was who wrote the names for
him. The witness also stated that he
had been advised to get up this list of
names for the purpose of catching Hay
man.
Benjamin Eggelston testified that he
was Judge in the first precinct; the
election passed offquietly; saw no depu.
ty marshals handling tickets; the ward
is Republican; the custom has been to
assess the candidates by the committee,
outside Of that the candidates, both Re-
publican and Democratic, are bled pret
" freely. The grcener the candidate
the more hc is bled, generally. They
hire men of influence on the other side
10 hold tickets for them and secure votes.
| have had Democrats 10 say to me that
they had Republicans working in their
interest, and have seen it in different
wards. | don't think the supervisors
were of any particular use in my pre-
CinCt, or the marshals either.
J. j, Desmond sworc Was Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney. under i. w.
Irwin, in October, November and De-
cember, 1S7S we had an investigation
of the elections, and the use ofmoney
by Mr.. Butterworth and other candi-
dates; no bills were found; concluded
that there was evidence sufficient to war
rant the finding ofindictments and sub
mitted the matterto the grand jury, but
they found no bills; | was interested in
the result of the October election, as Mr..
irwin was candidate for reelection; |
paid one man, Republican, think, to
secure votes for Irwin; the grand jury
was composed OF both Democrats and
Republicans,