St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-30
FRAUDS IN TICKETS.
An Invention of the Enemy
to Cheat the Voters In
tention.
Quantities Of Spurious Tickets
Being Sent Out Through
out the Wards.
A Conference To-Day to Ar
range for Challengers at
the Polls.
The Workingmen Solid for
Daly--POlitics in the Sub
urbS.

Seeing that they cannot win by legiti-
mate campaign methods, the men who
are opposing Democratic candidates
have resorted to other means, and are
striking below the belt. Spurious tick
cts calculated to deceive voters who are
desirous of voting the Democratic ticket
are being placed in the hands of the
hired peddlers Of the opposition, to be
used on election day. The designers
have fashioned them in way that makes
it necessary for every man who desires
to vote the straight ticket to examine
not only the head of the ticket, but
every name on it, before he will
be sure for whom he is voting.
Several samples of the spurious
ballots were found by GLOBE
they seem to have been gotten up is to
put nearly all the Democratic names on
them, but we'll down toward the bottom
OF the list insert the name of some man
who is not a candidate, or who is on the
Republican ticket. If no votes are
gained for the candidates of the men
who have resOrted to this species of
fraud, at least they hope that enough
men may be fooled into using these bal
lots to prevent Democratic candidates
from getting the majOrities they are en-
titled to with legitimate and fair vote.
One ticket which GLOBE man found
yesterday, and which has been circu-
lated quite extensively, so it is said, is
headed in the regular form, ''Demo-
cratic Ticket. Sixth Ward" Then Il
FOLLOW THE NAMES
of all the Democratic candidates except
hot Of hTnln %I,a ,Inr II
candidate for alderman. In his place is
the name of Christian Gaefke, the in
dependent wOrkingmen's candidate. 1t
was one of the principles of this branch
of the workingmen'S clubs that they
would have nothing to do with either of
the two larger parties, and therefore the
placing of Mr.. Gaefke's name on this
list of Democratic candidates is charged
up, not to the WOrkingmen's club, but
to the opponents of Mr.. Melady. who
hope to get enough of these inventions
of the enemy into the ballot boxes to de-
feat the will of the people.
Another ticket GLOBE man has is
labeled democratic ticket, First
ward" 1t has the names of all the
Democratic candidates except two of
the aldermen at large, and sandwiched
down in the lists are the names of 0. o.
Cullcu anu "A. IuSu, Ill place Ol DcT-
nard Ryan and Joseph Minea. Unless
trouble were taken to read the ticket
carefully one might easily be fooled into
thinking it was the regular ticket. 1t
is said that similar tickets are being dis
tributed in other wards of the city. Who
is responsible for them is hard to say,
but the ticket as it stands is lie on its
face. 1t is not the Democratic ticket.
These are but few of the many de-
vices calculated to deceive citizens into
voting for men other than those for
whom they wish to cast their ballots.
They are weak invention of the enc
my. Candidates, and friends of all can
didates, can not do better service than to
60 out on the warpath for these false
ballots. The proper thing to do is to
make bonfire of them on the night be-
fore election. Get your tickets from
some one who is known to be loyal, and
study it until you know it bears the
names of the party candidates straight,
from head to foot. 1t is time that at
tempts to get in vote, ''unsight un-
seen," were sat down upon.