Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-31
DAMNABLE !!
Democrats Of Henry Co.
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YOU ARE CALLED BALLoT-BoX
... SUFFERS! .a..
BY Hired Republican Pimps.

A more dsmnable and outrageous attack
was never perpetrated upon an honest COM
munity than the following from the pen Of a
hired Republican pimp, whose business 1t is
to go over the State and make up lying re-
ports for his libelous sheet. Hear the dirty
pup. who writes to the Cincinnati Times
Star, one of the most unscru pulous Republi-
can papers in Ohio: II
Some days ago visited several Democrat
An old politician said to me: "Do you know
that ballot-box stuffing is carried on at every
important election by the Democrats in this
and several adjoining counties that are re-
liably and heavily Democratic?"
NO." said /; "this is news to me. Can you
be more specified"
"Yes, sir" was the answer. II can give
you places and times. We will take Henry
county for an example. Napoleon is the
county seat, and the population of Henry is
not dense. 1t is Democratic, and in many of
the rural townships, which are remote from
the channels of commerce and intercourse,
deeds are and can be done which will not
bear scrutiny. 1t is the custom in some of
the remote Democratic townships to have all
the candidates, or at least four candidates,
for trustee Democratic. Then the defeated
election. This plan puts the elections under
Democratic control and the judges and clerks
can do what they like. What they do is to
determine how much they want to increase
the vote. Then they add that number of
names to the tally sheets and during the day
slip in the proper number of votes to corres-
pond. This has been done in several pre-
cincts in Henry, Auglaize, Mercer, Defiance
and Crawford counties. know it to be
fact and M o. Einn NJ irroaDnncii,la and
reckless charge. A study of the returns will
reveal 1t in some places. The county chair
men promise the State committee a certain
Democratic gain, and they have upon several
occasions made this gain by stufing the bal
lot-box. There are a lot of unprincipled and
barbarous scoundrels in the counties have
named who are without respect for the law
and who will not allow it to interfere with
Democratic success" .3
Democrats of Henry county, decent people
of the northwest, what do you think of the
party advocating such politicsP Rise up in
your might on Tuesday next and denounce
the base SANDER by giving an increased Demo-
cratic vote and majority. Comment from
us is unnecessary. Words fail to express con
tempt for the party guilty of doing such
base act as sending out such an outrageous
report. The Toledo Bee, commenting up
on the outrage, says: "- ..'
"When Cincinnati Republican newspaper
permitted ruthless correspondent to attack
the honesty and integrity of Henry county
Democrats and asserted that the crime of
ballot-box stufing had been resorted to in
that county, and also in Auglaize, Defiance
and Mercer counties, it was guilty of gross
outrage, only excusable, if at all, upon the
plea of ignorance of the situation. But when
the Blade of this city, which knows better,
copies without comment the article accusing
the Democrats of Henry county with chang
ing tally sheets and making the returns show
a variance of hundreds of votes from the true
count, it ISLANDERS as honest people as ever
lived in this northwest section of Ohio, q
country the natural trade of which ls trlou,
tary to Toledo. The rural population OF all
these counties is very like, and both polltl'
cal parties are honest. They are not ballot,
box suffers or tally sheet manipulators. II
may help INSCRIPTIONS correspondents &c
good salaries by attacking the opposite party
in these excellent counties, but what gooo
can come from endorsing such falsehoods
here at home is past comprehension. 1t !;
decidedly of politics..