Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-25
THE DEMOCRATIC GAME.
THE LEGISLATURE TO BE CAF
TURED AT ALL KsAZARDS


The Kind of a Campaign that John 6.
Thompson and His Friends are ORE
ganizIng-RaIIOt-BO suffers and
RePeaIeFs 90 be Imported from Bal
ttmOFe.
Especial Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.l
COLUMBUS, Sept. 19.-It was known sew
eral days ago that John 6. Thompson
had despaired of the election of General
Ewing, and that he was at work organ
iZing special committees in the interest of
Senator Thurman in all the counties con-
sitlered close. These counties where special
committees are at work to secure the
election of Democratic candidates to the
Legislature in the interest of Thurman
are Franklin, Fayette, Madison, Mus
kingum, Williams, Belmont, Hardin,
Athens, and Hamilton.
Information coming from most trust
worthy and responsible source has been
received in the city to-day which goes
| far toward indicating the desperate
means to be used to secure the Legisla-
/ ture. 1t will be remembered that in 1876
a gang of repeaters and ballot box stuff
ers were imported from Baltimore to do
service in the campaign, and that the
work they did in Cincinnati was of great
service to the Democracy. 1t will also
be remembered that the gang of repeaters
| then brought into work were under the
control and direction of the notorious
Mccoy. The startling intelligence COM
ing from reliable authority is that, the
Democracy again intend to avail them
selves of the services of this gang of Bal
timore repeaters, and that a number of
them are already on hand to take part in
the organization of the plot which it is
expected will be enough to place Senator
Thurman again in the United States SEN
ate. With this end in view the work has
already commenced, and, as a proof of
the fact, tits an evidence that on Friday
tors rlEN
knockers left Baltimore for Cincinnati
On Saturday, the 18th, fourteen more left
for Bellaire, and on Monday of the pres
ent week eight more left for. different
points on the Marietta G Cincinnati Rail
road. It is understood that those tick
, eted to Bellaire and other points on the
} Marietta road will attend to and supervise
the colonization of voters from Kentucky
/ and West Virginia into Belmont and
; Athens counties, while the Cincinnati
: party will work Hamilton Coun-
E ty. A number of the same crackers and
ballot box suffers that did such effective
work in 1876 are among the gang thi.
a year, and it Is thought some will be rec
!, ogniZed in Cincinnati. One of the party
! of 1876, who played a prominent part
e was approached to again come to Ohio
: and negotiations were actually opened,
: : but owing to the meager compensation
: offered he declined, and said that the risl
: was altogether too great for the money
and that owing to the former expert
ence he believed he would be arrested
n and convicted, and that he had no desir
. to live in the Ohio Penitentiary.
e 1t is not vet known whether Mccoy
e the ringleader of the gang in 1875, is still
n that some who then took part are in Obi
;, to-day and working in the interest o
y the same organization that they labOre
for three years since.