The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-09
THE BALLOT SCHEME.
How Pennsylvania Republicans
Were to Be Cheated Of Votes.
DEPEw SPEAKS At BROOKLYN.
John Sherman speaks 1t Phflads1phia-
Gen. Weaver Delies Tennessee Dem.
ocrsts and spssks 1t PULASKI.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. a-State Chairman
Wright today gave out copy Of the much
talked about ballot letter:
HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct
Hon. J. Marshall Wright, Chairman Demo
cratic Committee-Xv Dor Sir: ! want to
call your attention at once to an tmpor-
tant matter. 1t 10 evident TO my mind
that . changs In the size Of the ticket viii
prevent some counties In this state from having
an election. We are now preparing form OF
ticket that viii be Official, and the Erie county
ticket Is the one to be used. 1t viii take paper
22x52 inches In size for the tickets, and
coiored paper for the specimen tickets, 22x46
Some OF the counties may have less names than
Erie county, bat am OF the opinion that no
county will take sheet less than 22x50 for the
ticket and 22x46 for the specimen. The time ~
CURED for printing 10 limited by law, and but
very few printing onnces in the state
have . perforating machine. You. as
chairman, should notify the commission
ners of Democratic counties 70 be on the alert
and get contracts made wherever they can.
There is not enough paper in the coun-
try OF sufficient siss to print the tickets. Fay.
e,ts county has contracted for her tickets
tby wire) with X. Z. Meyers He can do work
for three or four counties, and viii not go be-
yond his ability to complete. Our strong
Democratic counties ought first to receive at
tention, for Philadelphia wfll by some means, get
her tickets Bsrks, York. Lehigh. Northampton
and others whose status you know better than
can tell you. could be given pointer. Do you
think l am an alarmist in this matter?
that presents ITSELF. and you may
do well to remember my prophecy that some
localities In the state will not be able TO vote in
November for want Of ticketsA Yours truly,
WILLIAM HAYES GRIER
HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 6.-Superintend-
emit Of Public Printing Grier tonight made
an affidavit in reply to Pomeroy. It is to
the effect that while he had sent letter to
Pomeroy he did not say word about Har-
rity. nor that any one would hold back
until October 6. or any other date
before certifying the ballots to the
county commissioners. He (Grier) never
wrote or said to any one that anything
would be done to prevent any county from
getting the ballot foAm. Pomeroy never
asked him what effect this would have
upon Republican counties. and the con-
versation that Pomeroy details did not
occur.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. Seen. Reeder,
chairman Of the state Republican commit
tee, had many caAers TODAY. In an inter-
view Reeder said:
u had the nomination papers filed in
the secretary of the commonwealth Office
gone over once. yet l am having it thor
oughly done again. SO that there will be
no mistake. By Monday 1 will have a
ticket prepared and regularly set up, but
shorter than the one decided on at Harris
burg. to show that smaller ballot can be
printed and be uniform in size and make
up with the provisions.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. S.-J. Marshall
Wright, chairman of the Democratic state
committee, today gave a verbal denial to
the charge made in the affidavit of Pome-
roy that w. H. Hayes Grier, superintend.
ent of state printing. had written to him
that Secretary Harrity would hold back
until October I6 the new form of ballot de-
cided upon and requesting him to notify
the commissioners in Democratic counties
to place their orders with the state printer,
so they could secure the preference. He
also denied emphaticaliy the sworn state
ment quoting Harrity as saying that Re-
publican commissioners could not have
their ballots prepared before the election
and that the state would be carried for
Cleveland, special election being required
to choose state and county officers
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-Chairman Harrity,
Of the Democratic national committee, de-
clares that there is no truth in the charge
made by Chairman Reeder. of the Penn
sylvania Republican committee. that
Democratic state officers are scheming to
delay the issuance of official ballots. 1t
says that the law provides that certificates
of nomination may be filed to September
13, and nomination papers to- Sep.emb Der
80; that objections to these may be fled
within thirty days thereafter, so that no
certificates of the exact form Of the of
fetal ballot can be made up till October 90