The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-26
A nErupLIcAN yupoE p,uNcEp.

One Oh tuelh got MN Dy Tue arm anu
ssidi "Get out. You have no business
there" He told him that he was clerk
and that he had bsen sworn in by the
Oouucllmen. They raised q fuss outside,
but he staid there as Clork, To his best
knowledge ono hundred illegal votes had
been cast. Non.residentBvoted, aud there
were many repeAters. AS u usual thing
the voter would swear IN hlS vote, swear.
ing that be lived at No. l46 Sycamore or
No. 81 or 98j West Third street. All these
voters were Democratic. He knew them
personally. lie had lived in the precinct
twenty years, and ne knew the voters per.
Sonally. The polls were not closed until
seven minutes alter o'clock. There was
such rush Of voters the three Judges
could not grind ballots in as fast
as they received tickets. He re.
fused to write any more names, and he
watched the Democratic clerk to see that
he copied the names and he wrote the
names as fast as called Tor. He called
upon the police TO close the doors, and in
this gang that came up TO vote there there
must have been twenty-five or thirty.
Some Of these resided in the Fifth ward,
some in the Eighth. At the count the
man claiming to be a Republican Judge
said: II will not sign this tally sheet,
You stick with me. There are alot OF II.
legal votes counted In" Then he was
the llrst man that signed the tally sheet
Tho special police kept the Republicans
away from about the polls and the reRu.
lar police went out after voters. No one
was permitted to see the count who was
q Republican from the outside.
George B. Fox was cross.examined by
Judge Follett In regard to precinct A.,
Fourth ward. He was present at the polls
OF that precinct on The morning after the
election, on the morning Of the l4th OF
October. II was between | and 1:90 In
the morning. lie left the Lincoln Club
in 3 carriage with William TAFT, George
r, Topp and William Stevens. viii.
Stevens being Police Commissioner, was
requested to ask permission to go In. He
knocked upon the door, and Samuel Nc.
Farland said: "Who 10 there?" Stevens
ssid; "PoliCO Commissioner steYens.''
Mcfarland sAidl "Wait 4 moment, and
/ will open the door,p and he
was admitted, When lie came out
Stevens Batd "The Jig is all up. Next
he went to precinct In the Eighth
ward at the Hammond street station house.
Mr.. Taft Reked II there were any objec.
tions to him going In and looking at the
counting OF the votes. He said Ia young
man whom they call "Jim") that he didn't
knog whether II was any Of his business.
He said no one could 20 In but capdi.
date. He then told him he was q CSridi-
date, and lie asked what bis name was,
and he told hihl George d. Cox. Then be
answered: "You can't go In now. That
Is all. When they get through, II you
don't like 1t you can lump IL"
GROSS FRAUD.
Joseph ReiS was recalled and cross.ex.
amined az " The names contained in the
ledger Of his boarding heuse. He ans
wered ell questions put to him by Mr..
tollett, and IL became obvious that some
thirlytwo Of llis b0aTders had voted the
Republican ticket at the last October cleo.
tion, and yet only thirty.six Republican
votes were counted III the precinct: The
can yaes made prior 10 the election showed
over two hundred Republican votes In the
precinct.
City Clerk 7. ]. Mulyihill made bis ap.
pearGnCe before tue committee In response
10 b HubpNna duces tecum for the copy ol
Fourth ward, precinct A returns left Ia
his custody. Examined by Mr.. Ptobasco,
he acknowledged that lie had not brought
with him the returns from precinct A,
Fourth ward, because they had long ago
gone into a Junk shop. lie had received
Instructions from Ills predecessor In office
| In fOsatd 70 the disposition Of election re-.
turns, and lle acted accordingly Accord.
ing 10 those ilBttuctiOns he bad kept
them lot thirty days, and % lie he'd moi
been advised Of contest he had himself
thrown them on the floor at different
times for waste paper HR. supposed
the janitotr had swept them to-
geLhef and disposed Of them
. ieStionsd BY Governor Noyes MI
Mplvlhill tAld that according 70 hII
best knowledge the returns wanted had
been destroyed. He had made diligsnI
hearch for them and did not ilnd them
He had indeed read Of a contest In the las
October elections In the newspapers, bu
paid no attention 10 such inioftnatiuu' III
had not received any official notification
OF a contest, OF an impending contest
The question was pdt to MIN how II hap
pehei that the pOll.book and tally aheell
Of precinct Of the Seventeenth watC
we're produced from his olIl0s In response
10 subpoena duceS itcun, Although on thC
previous day he had sent word that they
had long ago been sold as waste papef, III
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