Daily Republican., 1880-10-07
FOURTH EDITION.
RkAUDN MIqH CARNlYAl.

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Some Msseesefnss Asoxs Demoe-.s-
10 nishesessy &C the Little Eaec.
t1en.
Many runors Of the NEST outrageous
toheating on part Of Democrats At the
IAlttle klectien are current on the streets
fOne OF them was to ths effeo. that a
young man dad been found who was
willing TO swear that be saw the ballot
box OF the Western precinct Of the Fifth
Ward stuffed with Democratic tickets.
"A REPUBLICAN reporter started out to in.
|vestigate this, and, failing at first to
find the young man who seemed to
snowso much, he ascerteinsd that there
were parties 70 whom the infor nation
on this point had been oonfded by the
gentleman in question.
WHO SAW rHs BOX STTPPgD,
This he soon confirmed bat found the
statsnents to have been considerably
enlarged and this morning called upon
tie young man who had such kuowl.
edge OF fraud. The young man is q
.Ssmolra, but not q politician. Being
engaged In business he does not want |
10 figure in the matter by name. When
asked what he knew about the report
ed frauds he replied that he had noth-
ing ic say, hat afterwards made a
guarded admission az follows "A per-
son told ms he saw a ballot box stuffed
but did no, say where or byiwhom. And
that was what 1 told the gsntlsnan who
has pat you on the track of this. |
didn't tell him il was in the western
precinct OF the Fifth ward"
WHO was it that told you 7" asked
the reporter.
II amt going to have anything rnore
10 say about the matter and deolins TO
give his name. There Is no use in you
lrying to look this up for you wont
Ind ont anything" II
And this was all the satisfastion the
reporter could get.
RKHVH-JeHBGox. e
To show how things were conducted
~ Lee and Mccall in the Western :
precinct Of the Fifth ward one little in
tance is quoted. A man, giving his
lame as Charles Reeve came up 70 vote, !
'Lets see your tax receipt" said J. II. X
Iudolph who at the time WAS at the g
Window. '
''oh we don't want to see It," mildly d
Mccall. II
The man hnowevsr, had taken It out Of +
Is pockst, and as he put it back in a
aste, Rr. Rudolph saw the name
Johnson" upon it. Afterwards Mr.. <
.udolph had talk with Lee about il 4
nd thu latter admitted that he voted y
nder the name OF Reeve while John. /,
IN was upon the tax receipt. Nv
THE MYTH WARD. vc
A great deal Of talk still comes from M
"a Ninth Ward. The Repu blicans -
lt there tell about how the ward was til
wen to the Democrats and attribute 90
chiefly to illegal voting. W
John Collins, Tenth ward youtb,
hose mother keeps the "Dew Drcp --
in, came up and voted under the r
ne Of John Jackson, The vote was T.
'iccted to ana Martin Farrell, who 4
ought him to the window youched DO, o
r him as knowing him personally as in
resident of the ward. Later, Mf. e
.rrell, admitted to Lindsey C. Pierce q Of; Of;
'publicaD, that he did not know tho lou
y Jackson. Then Mr.. Pieroe called col
) attention to the fact that he
d vouehed for him. "Oh," said J.
Te!l lightly, she told me lie lived T.
re-" And so The matter passed. u
Mr.. Farr' II, has grievance on &C. We
unit OF the report that he was the you
Ider for the Ninth Ward reporters. ~; !;
explanation and denial he willingly Beg
mits that he took very active inter stc
in the election in the Ninth yard, ~
Tuesday, yet he desired II distinctly
dersto01 that Ia was not the lssder C,l
an organized gang of repeaters, -
i:her was lie responsible for the ,a Il
asenee Of any Of the parties present res,
the Ninth ward, Tuesday, who were SoT,
oken Of as repeaters. He says fur. /"
DR., that he did not take "Brocky
M" or Jack O'HarrE to the polls, ~
t that the former was at the window II
en- he (FarrelD returned from i;
ef absence, and the only effort he son
de 10 nave the vote received, was to II
nark that II the man was resident WE WE
he ward, hisvote should be received. N
or Brocky Tom declined to vote ttaE
'reil told MIN If be was not going 10
Q, that he had tsttsr make way tor =
SO who would. RI
here is still another side to this. "
ames l. Hawkins says thst while it was
rue that Mr. Farrell rode UP III q sM,ra M
riage during the time the repsaters II
% voting and did not come with al t
N yet he did urge "Brocksy Tom"
70 up on the steps and vote, youch- :
that hs lived at Mag gaire's in the =
I'd.
Vhen Mr.. Hawkins who knew Brock "
Tom told him that he had Just got Gre
Of one trouble and if he 60: into an
er Mr., Farrell would not help him
ofit, Brockey then said 81 won't IS fl
. then," and stspped down when be be 2
n after that Mr. Farrell insisted isav S,v
II he was willing to be qualified NOR
he lived in the ward he had q -
At to vote. Mr.. Hawkins said that -
matter what is said Mr.. Farrell did VI
oh for one after the other of the re- w
ters, and when they had all voted Soor ,nar
called for more to come and vote.
CHANGING THE CERTIFICATE. ~