The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-04-01
FINDING MORE FRAUD
Committed by tho Republicans In Gin
oinnati on Election Day

| Committed by tho Republicans In Cin-
oinnati on Election Day.
At Cincinnati every senator WAS on
hand when the investigating committee
was called TO order Salurdly morning,
Senator Lawrence having returned late
Friday evening Sergeant Keegan and
Lieutenant Werner, who were at the
Third street station honse on election
day, testified that the election there was
very quiet and orderly.
Anthony DOnnelly. q police officer,
who was staliOned at the Nineteenth
ward, said there was no trouble mere,
but that the election was more quiet
than usual.
W. T, johnson, who has lived for thirty
Years In precinct d OF the Eighteenth
ward, saw several men vote VINO had no
legal right TO vote there, and supposed
that they voted the Republican ticket
He was member OF the challenging
committee, and when Mr., Glenn Caldwell
came up no challenged his vote, and no
then put him out OF the way, 40 there
were other voters waiting. Caldwell
then tried TO raise o disturbance. but
was finally quietd. The witness testi-
fed that he saw two col0re men vote
the Republican ticket and swear In IN, ir
votes, claiming that they lived at 81 or
98 John street, but that no afterward
went 10 that number and found That
they did not live there,
The next witness called was James
B. Kelley, councilman Of the Eighteenth
ward, who testified that he was at every
precinct In his ward on election day,
but spent the greater part OF the day ~
precinct E; that In the early morning
two men who we're not entitled 10 a vote
In the precinct tried TO vote the kepn0-
lican ticket: that he saw no one VINO
had a legal right TO vote there lnterfer
red with, that Mr.. Thompson, one OF the
Republican judges, refused TO stay and
count the VOlea, aud that by the agree
ment OF the other Republicans Mr.. Han
naford was pul In hla place.
George Stacey, a Democratic Judge OF
Nineteenth ward, O, testified that no had
served az a judge a great many times,
and that he had never seen q Quieter
election that no saw persons attempt
TO vote illegally, but that no refused
their votes; that q few minutes before 0,
when II was growing dark some one from
the outside said that the Republican
Judge, Mr.. Benjamin Buckley, was
scratching tickets, and that the Witness
asked him II II we're 30, and that he re'
piled II was not, but when the accusa'
lion waa made again, the witness
grasped Mr. Buckley's hand and found
three tickets In II, which witness did
not look at but threw into the hre, az no
was very much enTaged at the conduct
OF Mr.. Buckley, whom he had known aud
trusted for long time.
Harry Prosbasco then put the follow
Ing question: u.,,
7sappose that you we're Republican
Judge, and that short time before the
polls closed q parcel Of men shonld
come up and ask you TO take their tick
eta, threatening you with personal In
Jury II You did not take their tickets,
wouldn't you feel justified In taking
their tickets and not putting them la
the ballot boxp"
The witness had some DIN 'ulty Ia
understanding the question, out when
II was finally explained 10 hin, sOid;
II cannot possibly imaSiae myself
Republican"
Probasco insisted on an answer 10 the
question, when the witness said:
III | were Republican judge, and
they were Republican votes, ! suppose
that would put them In the box" and
Pr0basco wited and deci cd that no was
through with the witness
Michael n. Kelley, the Democratic clerk
at precinct q Of the Nineteenth ward,
testihed that the election was very Qniel,
The witness corrOborated MIR. Stacey
testimony as TO the trouble with Mr.
Buckley. The committee then adjourned
until Monday morning.