The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-12-01
More Proof
OF YHB EETzEL COUNTY FELONY.
The Archer's Fork Election OFF,
Cials Swear
The Altered Tickets were not
Scratched when Voted.
A Mountain of Proof Piled up,
Of the
DsSTARDLY DEED THAT WAS DONE
TO Get John 0. Pendleton what
He had Lost
By the Honest Vote of the Voters
oftLe District.
Explanations which only Make
the Matter Worse.
TO Get John 0. Pendleton what
He had Lost
By the Honest Vote of the Voters
oftIle District.
Explanations which only Make
the Matter Worse.
7HB FRAUD CANNOT BIZ DENIED.

Everything urged in defense OF the
recount in Wetzel county has added TO
the irresistible proofs that Pendleton's
increased majority on the recount was
due to a felony. The Register at first
denied that the election officials at Upper
Greene precinct had made any statement.
Their statements that the scratched bal
lots were scratched alter they were
counted at the polls, have appeared in
the lxrELLlGEXcER. Then Mr. Earnshaw
said the election officials were old and
could not see well. 1t turns out that
this is a false assumption. Another
prominent Democrat explained that the
election officials were ignorant men and
did not understand their duties. Men
who know them say they are as intelli-
gent aud competent as the average New
Maninsyille attorney. Another claim
is SET m that il can be shown that
enough Republicans scratched Akin
sons name 10 account for the scratching,
and in their desperation the mortified
Democracy OF Wctzel furnish names-
three names to account for 90 scratched
tickets. one OF the men named didnot
vote at the Upper Greene precinct, and
the other two are willing TO swear they
voted Tor Atkinson.
Everything said in defense OF the
irlOnious alteration OF the ballots makes
il more certain that the crime was COM
mittGd.
Last evening the sworn statements OF
the election officials at Archer's Fork
precinct were received in this city.
These statements were made and sworn
TO before Notary Snodgrlss, u Democrat,
and two OF them, those OF the Democratic
officials, appear below; they leave no
doubt OF the fact that the ballots in this
precinct, as in Upper Greene, were al-
tered in the Clerks Office at New Mar
tlnsville:
Sa1 Of IVjat Hirgiaid, Comty9 Wetse', 81
On this Goth day OF November, A. D.,
lSSS, personally appeared before the
Undersigned authority, Samson Starkey,
who is personally known to me to be
arcputable citizen OF said county and
State, and after being duly sworn de-
poses and says:
| was one Of the election commission
ers sat ArChcr's Fork Precinct, Grant Dis
trict, ut the election held November q,
lSSS. In counting the votes portion OF
the time took the tickets from the box,
opened them and examined them and
then passed them TO J. d. Brookover,
one oi the commissioners, who would
read all thenames and then pass them to
Samuel Fisher, another commissioner,
who would string them. A portion OF
the time ]. D. Brookovcr took the tick
cts from the box and read the names.
! do not remember having seen any
Republican tickets with q. W. Atkin-
sons name scratched of, and no name
written OH, and am satisfied that the
said G. W. Atkinson received los votes,
as certified in the returns made by us on
the 7th day OF November, 1855, and |
am confident that the name OF &. W..
Atkinson was not counted on any ticket
where the said name had been scratched
or obiterated in any way.
SAMSON STAREEY.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
Goth day OF November, 1888.
I. S. SNoDGkAss,
Notary.