The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-09-25
PLAIN FACTS.
Hon. w. r. Power the Nominee,

EDITORS Journal: Chairman Hartridge
and others have had much to say about
the late primary in this county. Mr.. Pow
er was nominated in this primary and
now propose to prove this assertion. At
four O'Clock in the afternoon of he prima.
ry, the returns were telegraphed from Big
Shanty, giving Dempsey 81 majority a:
that box. If you doubt this, see Mayor
Glover, Messrs. Clay or Power who received
the kilograms. The polls we're then closed
and the vote counted. Nothing more was
heard until Big Shanty' returns came in
Monday when they showed a majority for
Dempsey of l0l. Murder will out and
in this case the ta,ley sheets furnished the
proof 1t was kept in pencil and opposite
the names of Dempsey and Rainey where
the total vote is put down, there are great
blurs made with dirty rubber in erasing
the figures first written. In these blurs
can be seen the figures first written and
they are the same that were tele>
graphed in on the afternoon of the prima-
ry. If you doubt this statement, come
look at the talley sheet Ore look at the
talley sheetwill satisfy and: convince any
honest man, The sheet is just as it was
when the committee left it When they ad-
journed. Whether or not the polls were
closed and afterwards opened, one thing is
certain, the result was put down. after
wards erased and greater majority given
Dempsey. The election was either closed
reopened or the sheet was tempered With
after it was known how many votes Denp-
sey needed. Both solutions are fatal TO
Mr.. Dempsey's nomination And this
crookedness at Big Shanty furnished the
reason for throwing out two of Power dis
tricts. IT Dempsey was nominated why
not declare the result and there let the
matter rest? Why resort TO such arbitra-
ry measures as throwing out districts
What authority did the committee have to
throw out districts and TO enact rules to
govern primary already held? Their on,
y authority was to consolidate and de-
clare the result, and if Dempsey had had
majority, this they would have done
There is DO occasion for any man 10 &c
to extreme measures when he has a ma
iority The fact is Dempsey's friends
knew the only hope for them was to get
rid of Marietta box they knew that the
Marietta committeeman had resolution
prepared to investigate the methods of Big
Shanty box, and they knew that such an
investigation would seal the doom of their
candidate. The first thing to do was to
kick out the men who would demand an
investigation and this they proceeded to
do without investigation, evidence or cer>
emory. The conduct OF Chairman Hard
age since the primary has been very much
like the pickpocket who cries stop tibet IT
the innocent to divert attention from his
own crimes. He has devoted large Dor
ton of his time to keeping public opinion
away from his own box The primary al
Marietta was as fair as any in the county.
Dir. Dempsey got more votes there than
anybody expected him to get. II the
management was SO very corrupt, Messrs
Hardage and Mcmillan, it does look like
you could have found some evidence O.
the fact When George Owen demanded
an investigation, why did you not.grant it
Because forsooth one man violates th,
law, is the whole community to be slam
dered and outlawed7 All there is agains
the Marietta precinct is lot Of vile Sian
ders circulated by men who do not know
what the truth is or who wilfully perver
it. There were l79 Dempsey men at the
Marietta box that day and if anything wa,
wrong some of them ought to have known
IT Two OF the managers were Dempsey
men. Had the majority been for Demp'
sey instead Of against him would the boz
have been kicked out? Assuredly not
Mr.. Power is the nominee and he should
be elected by such a majority as will tor
| ever bury such methods as have been uset
against him. VOTER.