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McpoWELL IND ArERoER.
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Special telegram 70 The Wheeling Register.
/ In Mcdowell the fight for county offices
was very hot, and all the legal, as we'll as
/ illegal votes were brought out The vote
on Governor and President is 992, while the
vote on county officers and the Legislature
is only S77. The ballot boxes, after the
close of the count, were stuffed to the ex-
tent of ll5. The suffers in this region
were not shrewd enough to cover up their
tracks by having the tickets, which were
stuffed. filed out as to county officers, or
else they we're afraid if the county offices
were filed out the candidates would discov-
er it and kick up row.
They trusted to the first plan Of stufing
the boxes for President and Governor only.
COTS majority in Mcdowell is really only
about "A. Aside from this showing, there
we're only 81 votes in the assessors books
last April i'm the Elkhorn district, and only
that number were entitled TO vote. Yet
more than four hundred votes were cast at
the Elkhoru precincts. The coal and coke
companies operating in this neighborhood
have only been at work a few weeks, and
secured their charters as late as last winter.
The contests are now being proceeded with
I'm Mcdowell and Mercer.
LATER.
Three gentlemen came in from the Nc
Doweu and Mercer section to-day, and
their discoveries back up the statements
heretofore published in the Register from
the most trustworthy sources. The gentle
men who are engaged in looking after Re
publican outrages ON tine ballot in Mellow
Ell have got the names of one hundred and
sixty-six men on Elkhorn, who voted the
Republican ticket illegally. All have been
Identified and viii be indicted at the next
session of the Circuit Court Of Mcdowell.
The work of recouutiug and examination
still zoe, ON. and Democrats expect to be
able i'm a few DAYS to arrest a great many
more The Democratic Committee has
made diligent search and only find eighty
two voters ut the three precincts on Elk
Horn. who were entitled to vote ON the
sixth of November, although the total vote
was over AGO. These facts are in accord
auce with the statements made In these
dispatches. They are not rumors, or mere
savings of partisans, but the officers Of the
law. the records and the books Of the oper
ators. as we'll as the poll books bear out
these truths, as to the legal vote of the
county, I'M which the Republican candidate
for Governor was enabled TO secure a ma
jority of la
In Mercer county Judge Dave Johnson
has compelled the coal operators to produce
their books to be used before his court and
to be examined 10y the grand jury, which is
now ia session aud which win probably sit
unit, the 3l,t of December, or at least till
every illegal voter in that county Is in
dic.cd
By the recount in Wetzel county Juo. o.
Peudletoa, Democratic candidate for Con-
gress IN l,t District, gains IA votes, which
puts him ahead Peudletou's gains by
the recount thus far are y.
LATEST FROM CHARLESTON.
Judge Fleming and many prominent
Democrts. us well as Republicans, are in
Charleston Tonight, and the excitement
there Is great The returns now at the Of
flee of the secretary of State indicate ma
iority of 900 for the Democratic presiden-
tial electors and the candidates for supreme
Judges, and 200 on other State officers, ex-
cept Attorney General Caldwell, who will
have about 1000. This is outside of the
goycruorship, as Gof, Republican, ran
about /. POO ahead of hi, ticket. In Ka-
nlwha county the recount was Interrupted
by fire, but gross frauds were uuearthed.
Senator Faulkner thinks that in this