New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-16
RELYING ON FRAUD.
TIE DEMOCRATIC PLOT TO STEAL THE
HOUSE.
COUNTING OUT REPUBLICANS IN THE SOUTH
WHOLESALE FRAUD AND INTIMIDA-
rrov Nopru CAROrINk

Washington Nov l5-Signs multiply that q
Democratic scheme to steal the House of Repre-
pentatives has been planned, and that desperate
efforts are in progress TO make ii successful Here
is an extract from Washington dispatch pub
lshed in The New-York Star of to-day, under
the scare headline. Matt Quay's Cipher"
1t is stated here tonight that the following dis
patch has been sent in cipher by Matt Quay to Mr..
Estec, the California member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee:
House very close Important TO party that we
carry every district in California NJ. S. QUAY.
1t is secret that Quay here for the purpose
Of engineering the Republican scheme TO get control
of the House, and appears that he is sortina to the
tricks Of the who managed the great steal Of 1876
thar is a. first aim everything and then proceed to
mako the results justify the claim.
oh that's another forgery, pure and simple"
remarked Chairman Quay, who has become ac-
customed TO Democratic forgeries in the past few
months No such dispatch has been sent by him to
Mr.. Estee or anybody else.
As for Republican scheme to get control Of
the House. the assertion is as refreshing as it is
lmpudent, in view of the unlawful tricks and
frauds of the Democrats to obtain an apparent
majority in that body. In Arkansas they appear
to have counted out two Republicans who were
fairly elected; in Kentucky two more Republicans
have been thus disposed of; in Virginia, certlfi-
Gates will be given TO three Democrats who re-
ceivcd minority of the legal votes cast in their
respective districts; in Maryland one Republican
has been counted out and another one threatened
In West Virginia, the Democrats claim" every
Congressman, although the official returns in at
least one district elect a Republican; in North
Carolina one Republican has been counted out,
and the Democrats claim" the election of Sim
mons in the lid District, who was defeated on
the county returns by more than 1850 majority;
and now, after conceding, for nine days, the
election Of Coleman, Republican, in the lid
Louisiana District, General Clark, Clerk of the
House. declares that il is not altogether certain
that Republican has been elected in Louisiana"
General Clark further says that he does not see
how it is possible to tell the complexion of the
new House until the result of the official count is
announced in every Congressional District 1t
is so now that few votes in one or two districts
may change it either way, and he is not ready to
claim the House for his party or concede it to the
other. lie certainly has hopes that the Democrats
will have a majority of one or three. He says it
IS almost impossible for the majority to be more
than three either way.
WHOLESALE FRAUDS IN NORTH CAROLINA
General Clark of course, claims that the Dem
ocrats have carried every district in North Car
DINA, save one, when 1t is well known that
Brewer, Republican, has large majority in the
With District and will receive the certificate of
election, while Johnston of the Nth District
comedies that he is defeated by Ewart, Repub-
hcan That white district, in which
there was fair election, and it shows Repub-
lean gain of more than 1900 votes over the
last Congressional election. In all the black"
counties of North Carolina the most fragrant and
enormous frauds were committed, and enough
n,-iIa haoa AL
to land few score of Democratic officials in the
pententary.
The 'lrihunc's correspondent he's in his possession
q mass of interesting facts, hitherto suppressed
relating to the election in the Hid District The
district contains registered Republican majority
of more than 1000 voters On the face of the
returns canvassed by the County Board Cheatham,
the Republican candidate, received majority
of some 1880 votes. The county canvassers
reduced this majority to GO by throwing out
two entire counties and number of election
precincts in two other counties. Simmons after
ward openly admitted his defeat by more than
600 votes. The Democratic canvassers seem to
have been weak in their arithmetic and to have
failed to throw out enough Republican precincts
TO save their man. The Democratic State Com
mittee aStounded at the result and ordered
the mistake The votes cast for Chcatham in
the counties of Edgecomb and Nancc-mOrc than
5,000-were thrown out because of this heading:
Tor fifty first Congress. second District.
Exactly the same form-eXcept the number
was used in every Congress District in the State.
II was form agreed upon in writing after a
careful examination Of the law by the chat rmen
Republican State Committee in order to prevent
any controversary over the form OF the ballots
BALLOTS THROWN OUT BY THOUSANDS.
In BERTHE County two large Republican pre-
cincts We're thrown out In Warren County the
actual vote was this: Harrison. 1860; Cleve-
land, 1880; Cheatham, 2,324; Simmons, 1850;
giving majorties of 1880 and l,065 for Ilar-
rison and Chatham, respectively. The Demo
cratic canyassing board arbitrarily and illegally
threw cut the returns from seven townships so
10 make the vote stand: Harrison, $40; Cleve-
land $40; Cheatham, sos: Simmons, 544; thus
reducing Harrison's majority from 1.l30 TO $50
and Cheatham's from 1905 TO 325
In Northampton County the Democratic can
vassers threw out enough Republican ballots
TO reduce Harrison's majority from 500 to 3l2
and Cbeatham's from ASS to IA.
Halifax County has a normal Republican ma
jority of more than 1000, but Tom Emory.
the Democratic ringleader, boosted before the cleo
ton that it would return MAJORITY Tor every
pressed the greatest confidence in Emorys pre-
vision and was willing to stake money on it,
Emory was candidate for the State Senate
tissue ballots bearing his name were found in
the ballot-b0X. At another precinct, where about
$50 Democratic votes were cast and where the
Republicans cast large majority OF the ballots,
the boxes were carried into another room. the
door locked and Republicans permitted TO
witness the counting of the ballots. The re-
sui of the count was majority of more than
400 for Emory Simmons, Cleveland and " Re
form At another precinct hundreds OF Repub;
licans were prevented from voting by unlawful
challenges and other means.
INTIMIDATION ADDED TO FRAUD.
So much for the lid District. In MecSlenburg
County, which is in the With District, the chair
man and secretary OF the Republican County Com
mittec left their homes the day after the election
because of numerous letters they had received adj
vsing them to do so for their own safety. Press
reports from North Carolina contradicting the
story of c. j. Jordan, who driven out of Dur
ham, n c., on the day following the election,