The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-09
BALLOT BOXES STOLEN.
How the Democrats Carried Alaba-
ma for Jones.
INTERESTING LITTLE PERFORM.
ANCES OF THE BOURBON RING.

They Steal Elections just as Badly
When White Men Are Concerned as
They Do When Negroes Run-Kolb
Still Claims That He is Elected Cover
nor-Alabama VIII Go for Harrison in
November, He Says, If Jones is Seated.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, August s. The
official count of the vote in the election
of last Monday took place at noon Satur-
day in every county in Alabama, and,
so far as heard from, there was not
ripple of trouble on the calm. The count
was tame; it was merely a ministerial
proceeding, and the attorneys who were
gathered in each of the counties to pre-
pare for contests sat silently by and
heard the returning boards read off the
report of the inspectors of the various
precincts. If the report was regular,
nothing could be done; if irregular, the
only thing that could be done was to
thow out the irregularly returned votes.
Contests must be instituted in the courts,
and they will be instituted in several
counties. In number of counties boxes
were thrown out because of alleged irre-
gularities, and in one county particular
ly, Pike, the organized Democrats threw
out enough votes to overcome majority,
as shown on the face of returns of 600 for
Kolb and give the county to Jones by $50.
This act has created a storm of indigna-
tion among the followers of Kolb and
many men of broad and liberal views
who are on the other side depreciate the
use of such means to carry an election.
Similar reports come from other
counties, and while there are some who
say the breach is healed, men who are
candid enough to stare facts in the face
as they are, can see no way to bring the
sundered Democratic party together. A
leader of the organized Democracy stated
tonight that he regarded the situation as
one full Of gravity when he thought of
how the late election would bear on the
contest in November. There have been
hundreds of incidents in this election
which tend to embitter the factions.
One of them was the fact that as a rule
the KOlb people were not allowed repre-
sentation at the polls in many counties,
and when they sent men there to stand
on the outside to watch the vote, they
were in some instances
lll-Ireafed ana Driven AWAY,
An incident which occurred in Selma
is told as follows: S. B. McIlwain was
appointed by the campaign committee to
see after the Kolb interest at the polls in
the city. His son, Wallis Nell. lin,
placed table near the yard gate, and
kept register of the Kolb voters. just
about the time for closing the polls the
table was overturned, McIlwain was
seized and held and his lists grabbed.
In Conecuh county one of the big Kolb
boxes was stolen, and it was telegraphed
out that the Kolb men stole the box.
This the Kolb people of that county
deny, ahd the denial, published in a
prominent Jones paper, concludes as
follows:
To stuff ballot-boxes is bad, for the inspec-
tors to perjure themselves is bad, to rob white
men of their votes is bad, but the crowning
piece of infamy is to commit all of these crimes
against your neighbor and then accuse the ones
you have robbed Of doing the actyou yourself
have committed. The county has gone at least
800 for the whole Alliance ticket, andif they
only, give their white brethren fair count it
will be so recorded Two-thirds of the white
men voted the Alliance ticket
Kolb still claims that he has carried
the State by majority ranging from 10,-
600 to 10000, and insists that he will be
the next Governor. He said today: ''If
am counted out of my victory won in
Mondays election, Alabama will go for
Harrison in November. In 1890 the ma
jority of Governor Jones was, in round
numbers, $1,000 over Long, white Repub-
lican. 1t will be $4,000 or less this year,
according to the returns"
Chapel Cory, editor of the ''Birming-
ham Age-Herald, "a leading Jones paper,
estimates Jones's majority at 5000.
The back counties have not yet been
heard from, and the exact majority for
Jones is not yet known, and will not be
definitely ascertained until tomorrow or
next day. There is hardly any doubt,
though, that the majority will finally
settle down to figure between 10000
and 5000. The most enthusiastic sup
porters of Governor Jones place the ma
jority at the latter figure, but the con-
servative Jones men pick out an inter-
mediate position.
Walking Delegates Declare Strike Off.