The Portland daily press., 1893-04-06
TO ELECT MIR. BAXTER.
Enthusiastic Meeting Of Republican
Delegates.
THE DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS ROUND.
LY SCORED.

There is No Shadow of Doubt that ME-.
ton, and That He Was Counted Out
by Deliberate Plan Concocted in Ad.
yance-stirring Speech by Hon. j. H.
Drummond.
The Republican delegates from the sew
eral wards met in Reception Hall yester-
day afternoon, to nominate anew Hon.
James P. Baxter for Mayor. 1t was
harmonious and enthu, iastic meeting.
and abounded in expressions of strong
determination to wipe out the disgrace
which Democratic methods have brought
upon the city.
Mr.. H. S. Trickey, chairman OF the CITY
committee. called the meeting to ordef,
and Hon. Josiah Fl. Drummond was
chosen chairman, upon nomination. py
Mr.. Charles S. Fobes.
On taking the chair, Mr. Drummond
thanked the delegates for the compil-
ment of being called to preside over their
deliberations. 1t is but little while,
said he. since we met to nominate can
didate for mayor. Since that time events
very new and strange have happened in
our fair city; events the like of which
have not happened here in the past.
We nominated mayor. and we went
to the polls and elected him. Applause. ]
This is something new in this city that a
man SO elected should not receive his
seat. We were defrauded of our rights
by a shameful and disgraceful fraud, en-
gineered according to
Imported Tammany Methods,
I say we elected our candidate. AT
first the Democratic candidate was an
nounced as elected by a majority of rs
votes. But it was soon found that about
100 votes had been added to the Demo-
cratic vote in Ward 1. The deduction of
these hundred fraudulent votes did not
of itself leave a clean majority for Mr.
Baxter. but from another source we
know that he did have a majority.
The famous warden of Ward burned
part of his ballots and part he preserved.
An examination of the ballot box shows
that he destroyed the Republican ballots
and kept the Democratic. That is, SIT
votes for Mr.. Ingraham were kept. Now
the total vote of Ward 1 was about 1853.
These ST Democratic votes, with the
II prohibition, make total of 5SS, and
subtracting this from the total vote We
find about $50 votes thrown for Mr.. Bax-
ter. This elected him. But the evidence
does not end there. Our tally-keepels in
Ward reported when the polls closed
that 56S names of voters were checked as
understood Republican. When the count
was announced, the Republicans were
credited with less than 500 votes This
would mean that our friends in Ward l
were mlsinformed as to enc voter in
every seven who were counted as Repub-
licans. That, of course, would be alb
surd.
I believe the plan to count out Mr..
Baxter was concocted in advance. There
were two ways whereby the warden of
Ward could falsify his count. He
could increase the total vote, giving the
increase to Ingraham, or he could take
Republican votes and count them for In
graham. Neither of these plans could
be carried beyond certain extent, with
out the result being apparent as fraud
on its face. So this warden determined
to use little of each. He increased his
vote about 100, which he thought woulo
eseape detection, and then took bundle
from the Republican pile of votes anc
counted them as Democratic By these
two methods he hoped to escape detec
ton entirely.
Then in Ward 3 there were the famous
proceedings of the count, which the Su-
preme Court condemned SO swiftly and
sternly.
For few days the Democratic party
were in repentant mood. Even the
Argus repented, But very quickly they
repented of having repented, so quickly
that in the future we might have the
saying that thing can be done as quick
ly as Democrat can repent of having
repented.
Since then the conduct of the Demo
cratic managers has been most astound
ing and outrageous.
They have by the course of their or
gan given out that
If a Democrat Exposes a Democratic
Fraud.
he is to be bounded to his political deatl
and bounded also in every way that NAL
ice can devise This is a serious matter
monstrous policy.
Because man in a moment of weak
ness winked at fraud perpetrated in hi
presence, and then afterwards denounced
3 it, he is to be abused with every form
malice.
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