New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-01
4 SCHEME or DESPER4TE MEN.
DELIBERATE PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTION FRAUDS
BY BUTLER AND HIS FRIENDS.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l

BY BUTLER AND HIS tIIENDS
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.I
BosroN, Sept. 3O.-The action of Mayor Palmer,
approved by partisan Board of Aldermen, in
appointing men to serve officers at the next
election. is bitterly denounced by fair-minded men
of both parties; for it is plainly movement with
the intent of counting in Butler whether elected or
not.
Mayor Palmer, in the discharge of his duty, is
required by law to appoint Republicans and Dem
ocrats co ually in each ward The Republican City
Committee sent him list of names, as is customary
fral which to select the Republican quota I;
but he disregarded the course of such DEM
ocrats as Mayors Prince and Cobb, and
filed the Republican quota IN some Of
the Democratic wards with lot of shabby bum
mers - who have no political afliliaticn and work
solely for hire For instance, In Ward Twenty-Five,
Highland District, one Of his appointments on the
Republican quota is Royal b. Conant, who is aD-
pointed Warden. He served Il term IN Dedham jail
for embezzling money from the Eliot bank. He Is
a Butler man, and Butler did all in his power at the
trial to thwart justice and let the offender go. One
man in this Ward, appointed to the office
of Inspector as a Republican, was delegate
t5 the recent Democratic State Convention. In
Ward Twenty-four he appointed as Republican
supporter of Butler named Goldthwalt. This man
was formerly clerk to the Board of Police Commits
soners and was compelled to resign under serious
cloud not very long ago.
Investigation by reporters Of The Journal shows
that of the 81 election officers appointed by
Mayor Palmer, in place of an equal number named
by the Republican City Committee, only very
small proportion are genuine Republicans Or AZ
men substituted in of the wards only are found
to be respectable Republicans, while Il are Demo
Gratis IL are doubtful, cassed as Butler
Republicans and arc unknown to prominent
gentlemen who live in those wards. o.
those not Republicans are given very bad
characters by respectable members of each party.
One OF the men appointed 10 succeed Republican,
and who, according to law, ought to be y hepuD-
can, Is an old New Hampshire operhead, whose
Democracy is so rank that he would not vote for
man who ever was Republican. and Tor that
reason will not vote for either Butler or Palmer.
The old gang of ward strikers, under the guidance
of % Bill" Simmons, noted wlTe-puller, have been
employed wherever it has been possible. Never
since Boston was a city has there been known such
a disreputable piece of partisanship. lhe Butler
managers have become desperate, and Will leave no
stone unturned to secure his return to tho office lie
has disgraced To show Palmer's trickery, lt may
also be said that when the warden, clerk and IN
spectOr are present the deputies are powcrless and
have absolutely no duty to perform. Knowing this
Palmer appointed to these offices well-known But
Ter men, and the Republicans in many cases will be
loOkers-On powerlcss to prevent fraud on the part
of Buffers agents.