Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-07
OPEN TO THE TRUTH
The Alliance Men Given q
Taste
IF DEMOCRATIC METHODS
How the Vote in Alabama Was Doubled
BY the Demoe1ats--PieAsed With
Eight Hours

0Asd4SUfOS, Aug o. VIII tno ~
lance people come out IN support Of
the elections bIliy' 10 = question now
attracting considerable attention here.
If they do not II will DO simply because
Of the apparent Inconsistency when
compared with their former record
against it, for they are sufficiently well
disgusted with the treatment they have
received in the Alsbama election to be
willing to accept any measure which
would insure them fair ballot. 1t 10
amusing TO see these men who have
heretofore co-opersted with the demo.
Gratis in defrauding the republican party
out OF votes and statesl now writhing
under the effects of . liberal dose OF
this same medicine. They cannot re-
strain their indignation. although they
know that it il of the same sort they
helped administer time after time to
the republicans. If it were not 90 seri-
Gus . matter il would give infinite
amusement TO the republicans, who see
IN it touch of poetic justice, as nine
tenths OF the men who are IN the ALI
ance party are ex-democrats. II may
show to the country the justice and
fairness Of the stand which the repub-
lcans have taken in favor Of bill
which will insure fair elections.
Specimens Of Democratic Fraud.
The alliance people tell soms aston
ishing stories about the frauds perpe.
trated against them by the democrats.
One of the alliance men in Montgomery
stands ready to make oath thathe stood
at the polls all day keeping an accurate
count of the number OF ballots cast.
and that although there were but $40
| tickets put into the box the officers re.
turned sos for the democratic candi-
| date and SO for the alliance candidate,
thus doubling the vote and giving the
democrats about 90 per cent the ad-
vantage. Another man reports that in
Bullock county, where only 900 ballots
were put into the box, the officers re-
ported q majority of 800 for the demo-
cratic candidate. In still another
county the alliance people insist that
there we're but forty ballots cast at Z
particular precinct, but that the OH.
Gers reported AS. and did not give the
alliance candidate a single one of the
| entire number. In view of this and
many other similar reports from vari.
Gus parts Of Alabama the alliance peo-
pie are rapidly coming to the conclu
sion that the "force BILL" so-called, il
= pretty good thing after all.
| E,eht-Hsur Men Happy.
The representatives of the Federation
of Labor here are tickled to death with
the passage of the eight-hour bill; they
have he'd meeting and passed resO
lutions OF thanks to every member oil
congress who was active IN aiding the
passage OF the bill, as well As their leg
is!ative committee; resolutions Of Gen.
sure was adopted against those who op
posed it, which viii be presented to
their constituents. They ordered or
expensive case to hold the peEs which
were used in signing the measure 10y
the speaker OF the house, the vice
president and the president of the
United States, which shall be kept on
exhibition at their headquarters. The
delegates from the navy yard ex-
pressed their pleasure and satisfaction
at the passage of the act, although
they will not receive as much pay O.
they did when the ten-hour system wa
in vogue. 1t Will give employment Il
large number who are now In en-
forced idleness. They expect gres
things from the moral effect of Thu
law on state legislatures, and, in tn,
event of its general adoption by tn,
states. a cure for existing labor trou-
bles. There are over $4,000, coo labor
ers IN the country now working on ar
average of ten hours per day, and it il
estimated that the reduction of hour
to eight would give employment to al
Of the unemployed laborers in tn,
land with lees friction or injury u
employers than any other plan.