Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-02-13

THE democratic ballot-box frauds per petrsted at the last general election 1T Cincinnati show the fine work of ezpe rienced hands. In the face of the e1- posures made, it IS hard to understand how even a democrat can countenanct such downright corruption, for the whole party membership are not utterly deprsved. As a specimen of the means employed to accomplish coveted results We produce a special telegram to the Inter-Ocesn from Cincinnati. detailing soms of the more recent disclosures. Il says:
 'Every turn of the legislative investi- gating suger strikes & new vein of oil. John Tosney, democratic judge ID Precinct A, Ward f. was examined. He said the tickets were all taken out of the box, sorted, and arranged on a table. The table was small, there not being room enough for the tickets. Some 2OO of them were put under the ballot-box. They were not discovered until the foot ings had been made up. The footings were 726 democratic votes. When Brummsgen found the 900 uader the box, one of the clerks changed the and put an 50" over it, and that is how PC was changed to 926. This confesses the forgery for the first time. Tosney said the signatures were made to the poll books by each one of the judges. Ennis said ssme one signed all the returns for him.
 The boss sensation was the following testimony of eK-Policemsn Evans this afternoon. Said he: "I was at the vot ing place of F precinct, Ward Nine, the night of the election, and took charge of the bsllot-boxes. Before l got up- stairs with the ballot-box some one hallooed for me, saying that I was wanted at the Enquirer office immed- lately. I answered would go Gs soon ss I took the box up. 1 did SO. and upon arriving at the Enquirer office I went through Roe's room and knocked at the inside door.
 "Colonel Morton L. Hawkins came to the door and said, How are you get ting alongY
 "'We are beat there and everywhere else,' said I.
 "'Is 1t too late to get the matter fixed up?' said Mir Hawkins.
 "I said. Tt IS, without any tickets"
 "Mr. Hawkins went back into the room, and some one else said, Don't let them carry that precinct don't know who said that. NIT. Hawkins soon came back to the door with 20O Democratic tickets, and told me to give them to a man who would call for them at the polls of Ward Nine, precinct F, and when I got there they had counted only five or six tickets. I got the Re publican iudge's attention attracted to one side. Bill Jordan went to Max we'll, the republican clerk, who is also clerk st the Palace Hotel, and got him to make out sn order for some cigars. While the republican judge and clerk were thus engaged l gave the tickets to a stranger there who motioDed for them. He showed the genuine tickets to one side and dropped the tickets l got from the Enquirer office on the table in their place. The stranger then took large number of genuine tickets out of the ballot-bo1 snd gave them to me, and I put them Tn another room. l destroy ed them. then went back where they were counting the votes. The tickets l brought from the Enquirer office were counted, but only sufficient tickets were taken from the ballot-box to tally with the dial on this box. There were sev- eral uncounted tickets remaining in the box after the count was over"