Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-10
ACLEAR CASE OF DOODLE.
THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTIONS AND
THEIR COMMERCIAL ASPECT.

#E@a-
at the Polls, but Are overbid by Their
Republican opponents-The Purity of
the Ballot Box Badly Smirched.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 9-The
Journal this morning published a story
of scenes and incidents at the polls in
the town of Warwick during lastWednes-
of money for the corruption of voters by
both parties On the morning of the
election vehicles of all descriptions, load
ed with white and colored voters, came
into town. AS the polls opened John
Northup and N. G. Cuser stood at one
side of the passageway leading to the
ballot-box and gave tickets in envelopes
to those who came up to vote, BY the
side of Northup stood Willard Barney
with a small box and pencil, who wrote
the names of voters that Northup point
ed out to him. A reporter asked a by
stander what this apparently mercantile
transaction meant, and he replied:
He is Sleeping a record Of he votes
that are bought, and they will be settled
for after election
In response to a further inquiry the
man said Northup was a runner for the
Republican party, and was working for
Lapham. The price of voters started at
s., rose to 81, and the market closed at
$40. AT $3.50 p. M, McKusker cried out
publicly: LET her go at $l0," and 1t
went. In some instances a man would
be handed a brass check or button as he
| passed the ballot box, which articles were
afterwards apparently cashed at Atwood's
hotel. Albert Slocum distributed checks
for a time. Several persons inquired st
the bar room where they should get their
checks cashed, and were directed to the
pool room. The barkeeper informed the
reporter that there was a man with his
pockets full of greenbacks" in the pool
room cashing checks. Two men came
from the pool room with bills sticking
from the outside pockets of their coats,
and one of the bystanders grabbed in jest
at the pocket of one of the men who was
drunk, saying that that was a careless
way to carry money. While the reporter
was standing near William Martin, who
is q saloonkeeper, q workman at the
Charter Oak hotel said:
Martin, what is the best you can do
for meF' Martin said: ts3.n
The man said he could do better than
''oos : S%ld, Iou CAL u. lIe
man replied, II will bet you S. can,
and take you around the corner and
| prove it to you"
The man afterward said that he voted
for Lapham In Candidate Enos Lap.
hams barn the bosses were busy paying
OIL voters in the horse stalls William
Martin told the reporter that he had been
paid S25, and showed the money. At
Apponang ex-Sherif C~ollingwood would
take his stand beside Slocum, and nod
his head when q voter would be entitled
to Z check,
1T was the current talk that the Demo
cratic heelers commenced buying votes
in the morning, but were soon discour
aged by the amount of cash possessed by
Lapham's friends, and withdrew.
On Warwick Plains live a number of
negroes who gain their livelihood by
small farm work or by employment along
shore. These men were looked after on
election day, a number being induced to
vote early by the payment Of IS and the
promise that they should be paid as high
as the price of votes reached during the
day.
In East Greenwich the Pendulum
gives the following non-partisan report
of scenes at the polls, According to re.
POitS eHe DeulOCTdtS nau only SlU,UuU Tor
legitimate purposes. After spending
50, 100 in persuading men to vote their
principles at SIS a head, they found them
selves buried out of sight by money on
the other side, which was supposed to
have been principally from Lapham,
Republicans were paying SIS per head
in some cases more, and gave the Dem
ocrats notice they were ready to go up to
| SS5 or $50 If necessary. Than tba Re-.
publicans had it all their own way, and
marched up their freemen to the ballot
box by platoons, while a prominent
member of the Law and Order league
stood beside the stmoderator,n Hon
Thomas w. Chase, and gave each of the
elect" a slip of paper with the voters
magic figures 1915" upon them. Another
prominent member of the Law and Or.
der league, who is also a member of the
Baptist church, told the Pendulum man
that he acted as the g%o-between in a
transaction whereby twenty colored men
sold their votes to the Republicans for
sl5 apiece