The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
THAT PURE ELECTION.
The Unblushing Frauds In Summers
and Kanawha Counties.

EZRA ALTA, w. va, August 10
The alleged dispatches from this
place, that have appeared in the In
teuigeRcer in the last few days, APP
pear worse than ridiculous in the
light of the truth. They are moth
ing less than part of a preconceiv
ed plan to prejudice the public mind,
and discredit the work of the Guber.
Material Committee. The author did
not find it convenient to insert even
grain of fact in the mass of gilt
tering and deceitful generalities. He
presumes to judge the gubernatorial
contest without reading a word Of
the evidence before the committee,
from the counties in which the depo-
sitions have been read,or making any
attempt to arrive at the true condi-
ton in those counties which have
not been considered.
REPUBLICAN BRAvADo.
1t is boldly proclaimed that the
investigation so far shows no fraud
on either side-in fact, that the cleo
ton was singularly free and honest.
Democrats have never made serious
charges of Wholesale frahd in the gu
bernatorial election except in five
or six counties. The facts in them
will prove every statement made by
the Democratic leaders, and justify
their wisdom in contesting the
election. In Green Sulphur dis
trict of Summers county, dep
ositions now in the hands of the
clerk show that over twenty five ne
groes voted after they had been in
the county less than sixty days.
Their names on the poll books are
manifestly false, for many of them
in their ignorance sought to deceive,
by assuming the names of we'll
known Democrats, and voted under
those false names. Within a month
after the election these men were
spirited out of the State, and are now
in Virginia or elsewhere, and yet the
intelligent Republican correspondent
says the election was singularly
pure and honest.
KANAwHA COUNTY CASE.
Every well-informed man in the
State is acquainted with the shame
less outrages perpetrated in Kanawha
county. Judge Fleming demanded
recount of the votes in that coun-
ty. The recount was conducted by
solid Republican board. In spite
Of its malignant partisan efforts
Judge Fleming gained 80 votes on
the recount. And then the pure
minded, upright Kanawha County
Commissioners refused to recognize
their own recount, because forsooth
Fleming had made a gain in 1t. Yet
we are told that the election was
singurlarly pure and honest.
MIR. GoFF RIpDLED.
When Judge Fleming gave notice
of contest he based his claims on the
existence just such frauds as these.
He did not include single techni
cal challenge in his notice. Gen.
COTS reply contained over 1,200
challenges ON technical grounds, and
in order to defend himself Judge
Fleming had to make like technical
challenges. Before the gubernatorial
committee, Judge Fleming's counsel,
Judge Okey johnson moved to dis
regard all technical challenges, and
refuse to consider them entirely, but
counsel for Gen. Golf opposed that
motion and carried their point.
Who then is responsible for bring
ing technicalities into the contest2
When Gen. Golf said in his Wash
ington interview, that Judge Elem
ing had made more technical contests
than he had, and had forced techni-
calities on him, he was either mis-
taken or told deliberate falsehood.
MERCER AND MCDOWELL.
The committee has not begun to
read the evidence in Mercer or Nc
Dowell counties yet. 1t was in these
two counties that the greatest fraud
was committed as the evidence will
show. The men who are now howl |
ing that there was no fraud, will get
an eye opener, when they are reach
ed. If it is any satisfaction for them
to keep up the noise before that time,
they ought to be allowed to do it, for
they will get little satisfaction after
wards.