Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-23
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Our evening contemporary made q fu-
tile attempt yesterday to bolster up the
action Of the Republican majority of
the board OF ~canvassers In throwing out
the vote at the Tunnel precinct. The
burden Of the plea Inc their behalf was
that weak resort of the feeble-minded-
that fraud had been committed by the
judges at that precinct in counting the
vote cast on the day Of election there.
The fact that the vote there was solidly
Democratic is sufficient proof for the
Inter Mountain that the judges in can
wasting the vote committed deliberate
fraud in making such a return. For
proof OF this' it has nothing better to
show than the silly assertion that the
judges closed the windows and doors
during the count Of the ballots, from
which we are to infer that they then and
there conc0cted a damnable conspiracy!
How fiimsy this assumption is may be
seen to-day from the statement published
elsewhere made to a reporter Of THE
MINER by one Of the voters at precinct
"a, who am in unsolicited to see how
the outrage that Messrs. Jack and Hall
had perpetrated upon him and his COM
rades in depriving them Of their suffrage,
could be righted. The statement there
made is nothing more than what Demo-
Gratis have known andasserted all along,
and the legal proof lof the facts there
stated will be produced in the right place
at the proper time. It is shown, and the
men are ready to go into court to
prove 1t:
That not a single voter in the precinct
was asked before the election by. the
Northern Pacific contractors or any one
on their behalf to vote in any given way
or even how they were going to vote.
That every man who voted the Demo-
cratic ticket at that polling place knew
and felt that he was doing 80 regardless
Of the fact that Mr.. Keefe of the firm of
Keefe, Green & Barbour, their employer,
is as they expressed 1t a "black Republic
can" and in utter indifference of the ex-
pected result of the vote at the precinct
that they would be discharged.
That when those who were approached
were asked how they had voted the uni
versal reply was straight" meaning
straight Democratic.
That the voters at that precinct had
all willingly lost half a day to go to South
Butte to register and that the time was
deducted from their pay.
That they are all Americans, native or
naturalized, who have been in Montana
for years, have exercised their inherent
right Of franchise hitherto unquestioned,
and knew how to vote without anyone
advising them.
That they are indignant at the outrage
perpetrated upon them and will Not rest
satisfied until the glazing r~ascality of
Nessrs. Jack and Hall is reversed and
heir votes counted.
That in proof Of this they are willing at
my time to lose a whole days work to
come into court and swear under oath
low they voted with a unique contempt
or the secresy guaranteed by the Aus
ralian ballot. |,
It is such facts as these that will con-
ront the desperate gamesters of the Re- !
publican party who have by their tools, ,
'ack and Hall, entered upon the infam-
us plot to steal from the Democrats the
legitimate fruits of their fairly won vic
DRY. The day of reckoning for these po- !
itical blacklegs is near at hand, and ,
7hen it arrives there will be no men or :
ct OF men more universally execrated !
han those connected with this dastardly =
tempt to steal the vote of Silver Bow !
They have stolen the livery Of 9
eaven to serve the devil in, and will be r
in public attempt, alongside of q
Madison Wells and Jim Anderson as q
postates to the cause of liberty. +