Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-13
EVIDENCE OF BLAINE FRAUDS.
Specific Charges of CoIOnizing Made by
the Democratic Managers.

| Specific Charges of CoIOnfzing Made by
the Democratic Managers.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 10.-Through their To-
cal organ the Blaine managers have issued
an address to the public in the nature OF
warning against what is termed the
Democratic tactics which will be resorted
to on Tuesday next. 1t speaks in shock
ingly general terms of the repeaters that
are to be impressed into service, of the
boarding houses that have been opened to
accommodate those who have been i'm
ported into the State to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, OF how the employees on some
of the railroads are to be induced to vote
for Newman or to take free excursions out
of the State on election day. 1t alleges
that William Dickson, once foreman of a
notorious Washington jury, left Washing
ton Tuesday night with 80 accOmplices,
bound for Cincinnati, as if the Cincinnati
Democrats could not manage their own
affairs without the assistance of outsiders.
The one specific charge that provokes
mirth over the whole OF this solemn warn
ing is cOuched in these words: 1.-The Dem
ocratic managers have called IN the prom
inent county managers to Columbus.
Toledo and other points to appOrtion the
free trade gold of the Golden Free Trade
Club and of the mOnopolists to attempt
l1An
this clause been omitted, and had other
allegations equally as loose and absurd
been specific, the warning might have
had the effect of dtVerting to the Demo-
Gratis that attention which is now being
riveted upon Pension Commissioner Dud-
ley and the horde of government employas
VINO are travelling up and down the State
in the interest of the Blaine cause. Both
Mr., Filley and Mr.. Dudley, the leading
IN fo bo
citoUs about repeaters. If they would
visit the Democratic headquarters and
notify Col. Barger that they are sincerely
desirOus of preventing election frauds.
and ask for proofs ~ frauds that are con-
templated, they would receive facts which
might not be new to them perhaps, but
which would be found, on investigation,
to be facts nevertheless. They would see
evidence of colonization that has been at
tempted by the Blaine managers and that
will be fully disclosed il the further at
tempt 10 vote these colonists is made on
election day. Madison and Greene are
strong Republican counties, with large
cOloreG populations. The colonization of
colored people in such counties is not so
easily detected as to prevent the attempt
on considerable scale Both of these
counties contain several hundred colored
men more than they did five weeks ago.
In NeisonvIlle, Athens county, the names,
faces and residences of between so and
100 cOlored gentlemen, new to the neigh
bOrhOod, have been noted for Use On cleo
tiOn day. In this city the claim is made
that 100 colOred men will Illegally vote in
the Ninth ward. ChillicOthe, PomerOy.
GallipOlis, IrOnton and Bellaire are points
which offer special inducements to those
engaged in political colonization, and
careful watch by hired detectives has been
placed over them oil by the Demo ratio
State Committee. The States from which
this class Of Blaine voters are recruited
are Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and
North Carolina.
The Democrats descend to details in
making charges OF crookedness against
the Blame managers. The latter ignore
details and make the general charge of
rascality on the part of Democrats. If
they would produce the evidence of the
charge on which they ask the hanging Of
their opponents, they would find a fair
jury ready to hear and decide the case
upon its merits. In the absence of it, it
seems fair to conclude that there are no
such frauds as those of which they COM
plain, or that the cry has been raised as
cover to their own crooked schemes.