Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-28

back ticket, but when the day came
they were found voting the Republi-
can ticket, and upon being ques-
toned as to their change of position,
evaded or wholly declined to talk.
Every available person whose servi-
ces could be had for money by the
Republican party, was called at once
to the work. Men whose positions
gave them acquaintance in various
towns, were found to be much more
valuable than those of simple local
name and power. Stage drivers and
mail agents, for example, were en-
ployed at preference, some of them
obtaining as much as one hundred
for their own services, to be expend-
ed during the hours of Sunday.
One stage driver, reckless and jovi.
al sort of chap. such as travellers by
stage often meet in back country
highways, when asked if he got fifty
dollars for his services on Sunday,
like some of the others, rapliod:
" No, nos quite, because L al 10
spend some Cf the money getting
around among the boys; but I was
well paid and have no complaint to
make" This man, it may be stated,
was employed all day Sunday-that
preceding election-in going AMONG;
his acquaintances i'll different towns
and hiring them to vote.
a mail agent who was told that
his district must be carried at all
hazards and was asked how much
money it would take, said that he
ought to have 5000 or $500. He was
furnished with but So, ana lie de-
clared through u confidence won in
talk about other business to a Globe
representative, that he spent S75
more of his own money. That al
most every Fal; he had to spend
more or less from his own pocket,
but that this year the emergency was
so great and the demand upon him
to carry his representative district
was so positive, and the necessity
also of carrying the county impressed
upon him in such a manner that he
spent great deal more than usual.
In one town member of the local
Republican committee exhibitedssn'
SIS bills early in the morning. and
made his boast that if he could get
ten votes for that fifty he was ready
to spend it. He was not q wealthy
man, nor a man who could afford
to pay such a sum from his own
pocket. He was not q candidate for
Office, and expected no substantial
return if this had been his own mon
ey. The fair Inference, therefore, is
that this money came from the Re-
publican State or county committee.
It was in district which was carried
against the Republicans last year,
and there was danger that they
would also lose it this years cam
paign, therefore the district must
take au heroic remedy. This man
was seen by reputable citizens to give
q S. bill to at least two men. At
night he declared with pleasure to a
friend that he had succeeded in bis
work, aud had obtained ten Demo-
cratic votes at SIS each. In the some
town an equally noteworthy circum-
stance occurred when three residents
of Massachusetts voted. Some Of
these Jealous Republican workers
grew either very stupid or very reck-
less in their efforts to fix up victory.
They even gave written orders for
merchandise in favor of the men they
bribed. Newspapers whose editors
have possession of facts similar to
those above alluded 70, in their own
neighborhoods, have been silenced by
threatened withdrawal of advertising
and other patronage. Some editors
went SO far as to institute local inves-
LEGATIONS of their own. They secrued
affidavits of the most positive, defin-
ite, and damaging character, show
ing clearly gross frauds at the ballot
box, which they did not,darc to pub
lish. The existence of these having
been ascertained by Globe representa-
tives, conference were had with those
who possessed them. They acknowl-
edged their anxiety that the truth
should come out. They deprecated
the condition of politics in Maize;
they discussed with as intense feel
ing of repugnance as any one the
way in which their Representatives
and Senators were elected, but when
asked for the documents which they
had accumulated, although swom to
before commissioned justices, they
positively refused to allow the use of
them, and their excuse was that they
did not dare to. They felt assured
as they confessed from their observa-
ton of events in the past, that they
would positively be driven from
business if they had any hand N the
matter. 1t is hoped that These edit
ors will yet assent to the publication
Of these facts, and the afiidavits in
their possession may yet become
public; but such is their feeling in
regard to the matter that possibly