The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12
return, this may be good time to tell them Be.
sideg these personal stories there are few bits
OF gossip and some sidewalk observations that
are not wholly embarrassing


are not wholly uninteresting.
Two well-known Democrats were discussing
the taNy sheet forgeres yesterday. One asked
the other, How can they connect Bernhamer
with this matterl He occupied a conspicuous
place on the canvassing board and did not leave
his chair did he"
Said the, other. a Democratic lawyer: 'The
suspicious circumstances III Bernhamers case,
and one tending to show q guilty knowledge
and that the matter had been talked over. and
he posted, was the fact that without any
suggestion in the board OF canvassers from any
one of its mem bers, without word being said
to call attention to the fact, Bernhamer pre-
tended to discover some informalities in the
returns of the second precinct of the Fourth
ward. Then on his motion. he laid that
precinct asideA for future investigation. and
when the papers were finally read, the bungling
erasures were found to have been made.
There is growing disposition on the part of
all decent citizens, Democrats as we'll as Re-
publicans, now that the partisan heat of the con-
| f1ict has cooled down. to the tally sheet
forgerS and all balot-box deprecators pun
ished. The feeling upon the street. yesterday,
set in stronger in favor of punishing the rascals
than ever before. In Chicago Democrats took
special pains 20 see that Joe Mackin was brought
TO justice, and in Cincinnati John Tosney,
Bremmagan and others made to suffer for
their crimes Thescoundres here are beginning
to feel that it will be men OF their own party
| who will oe the most unrelenting IN expedltlng
their punishment. This influence is growing.
and it will not be long before even those whom
they have thought they had political claims
upon will drop them. In conversation with
John Schey, yesterday he expressed himself
strongly in favor of Furnishing the tally forgers,
and uttered the wish that every one of them
would be caught.
Iu the first precinct of the Eleventh ward
man was brought 10 who could give no account
of himself The Democrats insisted that he had
q right to vote, the Republicans that he had not.
Some kind of a compromise was made whereby
he was to vote mixed ticket. mostly Democrat
ic but for two or three Republicans. He was
then permitted to vote. In his agitation, or per-
hans in endeayoring to change his ticket, he did
not vote at all, the vest-pocket ticket that he
gave aud which was put in the box proving,
when tie ballots were counted, to be rent re
cept.
The Democratic County Commissioners want
ed Ross Clarke to serve as inspector at the first
precinct of the Eleventh ward after two
three other Democrats had declined He refused
to do So ard VIM. H. Morrison, Republican, had
to be put IN Mr. Morrison's presence at the can
vassing Of the votes, it will be remem bered.
proved very annoying to Messrs. Bernhamer.
Coy, Span, Huegle, lemon ct al Mr. Clarke
is now being roundly denounced by Democrats
OF low degree for delinquency that gave SO
much trouble to the Democratic bosses.
In one precinct of the Thirteenth ward a little
Democrat paid so cents for each name voted on
the Democratic ticket He voted thirteen men.
but the number of fifty-cent pieces each voter
| received. aud the grand total will be officially
footed up by the grand jury
On election day two candidates on the Demo
cratic ticket went into the Fourteenth ward ac-
comnauied by their mutual friend They were
approached by three men who had not voted.
and little later of the three visitors handed
what appeared to be tickets to one of the men.
The singular circumstance is that there was
note. either So $40. wrapped round the tickets.
do you know, said gentleman to the re-
porter, that the most disturbing thing to the
tally thieves is that they have good reason to
believe that nearly all the reporters in the city
are doing detective work against them One of
the thieves is a neighhor of nine and he is get
ting to be afraid of his shadow" l don't know
of any class better able to do good detectiYe
work than tine keen witted, untiring newspaper
reporters"
There serious discussions in the Office of
the Indianapolis World. The proprietors,
Christy and Cooper, opposed to each other,
fighting for appointment TO a clerkship under
Sullivan. To still further complicate matters,
W. Allison Sweeny claims cierkshp from Sui
livan for political services.
A number of employees at the Hospital for the
Insane are likely to get into trouble for illegal
voting Among them is man who lives in the
southern part of the State. whose family has
never lived here, who has never claimed resi-.
dence here and who did report to the as
SCISSOR.
DR.. Theo. Wagner, coroner elect has had fifty
photographs taken, cabinet size, showing the
scratched ta.iy-sheet of the first precinct of the
Twenty-third ward. A number OF these photo
graphs were shown about the streets yesterday.
The photograph is good one and che scratching
looks as if it done with garden hoe
Grlfiths vote is changed from l42 to lis, Con.
gers from IA to 1l5, Wagners from lat to 100
and Twins from 1876 to 800 the stolen tallies be-
ing given to their Democratic opponents. .'AlI
this was done" said gentleman explaining the
picture, ''by a little bul-necked man, who hasn't
had much experience. He really ought to have
had somebody who had some acquaintance with
pen and ink TO do the work for him. e5
Begging, borrowing and bleeding of candidates
was never in any State election held here prac-
ticed to the extent that prevailed at the recent
election. zone man." said a candidate, came
to me and asked me to lend him half dollar
He was peddling Chris Drinks pastors and
doubted whether it would be good investment
put my hand in my pocket and found had
just 10 cents in change. | offered it to him He
asked if l had any bills. l told him yes,
Wheyeupon ne asked me to go into store and
get it changed. He seemed indignant that l
didn't do so, and, taking the IS cents, departed
looking like deeply injured man.
II have had number of men come to me for
s. and $40 to pay house rent, and any number
who have asked me for from 81 to s. to use
among the boys A day or two before the cleo
ton | refused 81 to one of this last class He
went away swearing he would do me az much
injury as he possibly could. During the canvass
think have done a great deal toward lifting
church debts as | have been dragged into all
sorts of church fairs and pious gambling schemes
and have uniformed O number of bands that
afterwards punished me by playing most hideous
music
While the citizens committee of one hun
dred is at work. it may not be amiss for some
fine workers who suspect themselves of election
crookedness to read the law passed by the last
Legislature and approved March IL, 1885,
Whoever hires buys or offers to hire or buy or