The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-27

parties implicated have made full con-
LESSONS.
Early in September the national COM
mittee was informed that the state was
TO be manipulated by the colonization
OF voters and reporters in Albany, Troy,
Troy, Buffalo and other cities. Detect
ives we're sent out, and they convinced
themselves that scheme for political
debauchery was meditated in Albany
and Troy. They also learned that
prominent Democratic workers were at
the bottom Of the job.
Pike, president OF tho Buffalo Club,
admitted that money talked in Albany,
and that the Third ward cost the Demo-
Gratis from 1000 to 81, 500 for purchases
of votes at each election. He sent his
ouestioner to see James McGrane, OF
No. $40 Broadway, who cheerfully con-
scented to explain how votes could be
purchased underthe Australian system.
This he did at some length, promising
that a Democratic Judge OF elections
we're necessary to the success OF the
plan. After this information Mr.. Nc
Crane sent the inquirer to Secretary
Masterson, OF the Democratic General
Committee.
Masterson said that the new ballot
law was great to the party, as the
pastors were readily detected through
the folds, and il placed on the ticket,
AZ agreed, the Democratic inspector
signaied the TACT to the challenger and
he TO the watcher outside. In this way
the voter only received his money in
case he played fair. The police "had
instructions" Masterson said.
The detective went to Troy and called
upon Mr.. Holmes, prominent Dem
ocrat. Holmes said that. as the DEM
ocrats had two inspectors to the Repub-
licans one, they could fix the count as
they wanted.
The investigator ran over to Cohoes
and interviewed John ]. Jenning, the
present Democratic supervisor OF cleo
ton. Jennings thought the Australian
ballot q good thing, but advised that
working the boarding houses was the
best scheme, after all. Sect" said he, q
dozen or more boarding houses, and
have an understanding with their pro-
prietors, then give man money TO pay
his board at each and every one OF
these houses. He can use different
name at each one. Then get some one
to register from there, and when the
officers of registration come around,
this fictitious person is reported as a
genuine guest living at their houses.
Then get the votes, and you have it"
Interviews with prominent and talk
alive Democrats convinced the Repub-
lican managers that it would pay to be-
gin prompt work. The first thing &C.
complished was to spot the heelers.
One Patsy Hogan was found working in
connection with a saloon and a lodging
house keeper named McDermott. Nc
Dermott, who with Hogan is now under
arrest, is a Democratic election inspec-
tor. He has repeatedly boosted that he
could vote one man fifty times in AL
bany and vicinity and promised 500 to
a Republican to permit him to use him
for this purpose on election day. Nc
Dermott received S. vote for every
voter whose ballot he got in the box.
Inspector McDermott had fourteen cots
in his house and his ambition was to
register 140 men or ten to cot.
Through the kindly influence of these
stars OF Democratic reform the Republic
can investigator was soon put on a
friendly footing with the entire gang in
Albany, Troy, Lansingburg and Cohoes.
All protested themselves confident OF
being able to carry out their instruc-
tons undisturbed by the courts. All
had received pledges OF Democratic as
-. 49, al Nkat nut fNT o.
into which they might tall through
violation OF the election laws. 1t was
decided to arrest the leaders OF the
gang.
Hogan was apprchended on the night
oil October 20. At O'Clock the next
morning he made full confession OF
his part in tho attempt to pack the
registration lists. He implicated
large number OF prominent Democratic
workers against whom information had
already been obtained. Among them
was Judge GrogaH, Gleason and ono w.
i. p. Flannigan. The latter, in an in
terview with Patsy Hogan, called for
fifteen men to do wholesale Democratic
registering in West Troy. They prom
Used TO SEQ that the men got paid for
each time they registered. Hogan gave
the names OF lurge number OF repeat
ots OF Troy and West Troy, who regis
tor under the lead OF Mike Devine, OF
No. l3 Naa Xandt street. He implicated
John Scullv, who works the Fret and
Fifth wards in Albany; Jack Gillespie,
OF tho Fourth and Sixth, and Riley
Kelly and Bergmnnn, who help in roll
ing up the Democratic vote III the Sixth,
Seventh. Tenth aud Eleventh wards oil
tho same city.
AIorgan's confession developed the
names OF number OF crooked Demo-
cratic inspectors who had requested
him 20 bring around fellows to register,
and who are now furnishing names OF
houses from which intending Demo-
cratic voters can safely put in their bal.
lots. These men had all been spotted,
and Hogan's disclosures simply con-
firmed previous Investigations. The
result Of the work OF the Republican
committee shows that the Democratic
scheme contemplated the voting OF sew
oral gangs OF reporters on election day,
who were to operate in turn in Albany,
West Troy, Cohoes, Lansingburg, Troy
and Wateryiet until fifty votes were
polled 10. each man. Mike" Glynn,
nm eminent Democratic reformer on the
canal front in West Troy, vouehe1 for
tho safety OF the system, and boosted
that "Pat' GroGan, the police justice,
was at his back. Glynn has already
fifteen persons registered from his place,
but wants at least ten more TO equal in
size the gang which ne voted repeatedly
at the last election.
Interesting Decision.