Evening journal., 1894-11-06

ed him. and he wss unable to get It back
He was advised by Captain. Mitchell togo
back and make affidavit to his having
paid tax and registered, but that his
receipt was In the hands of the city and
Its possession had been refused him. II
he was arrested bail was ready for him
again.
Out in the Bloody Seventh.
The vote in the Seventh ward is very
heavy aud nearly ell the Democrats
registered have come out and voted. This
ls the heaviest Republican ward in the
city.
Father aud Four Sons.
II isnot often that father and four
sons vote Ia the same precinct of
the same ward, one right after
the other aud all the same ticket.
This was a feature In the First pre-
cinct Of the Fourth ward to-day
John Q. Sasse, Sr, and his four
handsome and stalwart sons marched
between the chains according to their
ages, and voted the Democratic ticket,
The sons are Magistrate Lewis Sasae.
John O Sasse. Jr., and Henry w and
| George w. Saase 1t was rare sight.
Swearing That They'd Never Been In JAN
4 MhRlhtKhbb mbNf uoTtbf Whb hcpt uuby
all the afternoon taking affidavits Of men
| who had been registered as May become
| qualified but whose votes had been
refused at the election places
| One peculiar case was that OF William
| Hszzard who swore that he was not a
convict had never been convicted Of
/ a N felony nor had he been
Ia prison charged with misdemeAnor.
| The negro said II was Hazardous
/ undertaking but he meant TO vote If he
had TO ''shed blud.
The case Of Ambrose Wilson, colored
was different. He did not make oath to
Ihis assertion that he had never
been punished by Imprisonment, but
his friend William Boyce. made
lafidavit that he had known Ambrose
Wilson for fifteen years and knew
him TO be good citizen who
was never convicted OF penal offeuse.
Wilson tried to vote at Sixth and Church,
in the fourth district Of the Eighth
ward
The Tax Receipts Turned over.
shortly before 3 o'clock City Solicitor
Elliott secured from the Police
Commission an order directing Captain
Chambers to turn over TO him as prose-
cutting attorney the TAX receipts taken
from parties arrested for violation Of the
election laws, and take his receipt for
the same. This was done.
Neary at the Department.
Ex President Of the Board of Election
Commissioners Patrick Negry spent most
OF the day In the rear office Of the De-
partment Of Elections, giving instruc-
tions to Democratic workers.
As the EVERY Evening" Sees It.
The ring ia denounced even by Samuel
Bancrofts Jr.'s paper In It's Issue of
this afternoon II will say:
From the beginning Every Evening
has been firmly and positively opposed
10 the appointment Of special constables
We have the satisfaction Of knowing
that the Democratic party Of this county
; and state, have stood firmly and p Bitively
j on the same ground How could any
! man with spark Of genuine Democratic
3 principle In his breast stand anywhere
. else2
"The Democratic principle Is for eco
nomicRl government These special
constables will cost Ell her the county or
! state treasury thousands Of dollars.
I That will be an unnecessary expense, an
uniustihable extravRgauce
4
people can be trusted TO carry on their
I own affairs. Among the aafflrs that
/ they can carry on is the affair of voting
> They need no army of special constables
TO watch them at the polls
There is,,no visible excuse. .forthe doing
8 OF this thing The Police Department is
' non partisan with Democratic ma ajorlty
| The Department OF Elections Is non.
partisan with a Democratic majority.
The Republican sheriff has promised to
appoint no deputy Hheritfs, and, all honor
, to him, he has so far aa we know at this
! writing kept his word like man. What
! | need then, what excuse then, for the
! appointment OF Democratic special con-
J stables2 Who can defend, who can
excuse the thingl
I'VE see no difference between Re-
= publican force bill coming from Wash
Z ington aud Democratic force bill
? coming from Dover We are taken by
surprise here on election day by the
appointment OF these special constables
We speak calmly on the subject but
we distinctly wash our hands Of all re
sponsihllity for their appointment anc
y state that the deed was done without
+ our knowledge and most distinctly
p without onr approval
q Bancroft's Mills Shut Down.
y The mills Of the Bancroft and Son
81 Company. at Baucrofts Banks, shu
"a down at noon. with the exception Of tn
weaving department, In which onl.
women aud children sre employed. AFte
!, voting, most Of the men came to this city
,d Arrested on No Crime
n At 3 30 Special Constable Saville cam
a into police headquarters with Josep
re Wiggiesworth, charged with "handin
ts out receipts at Fourth and Popla
or streets Chief Dolan, who chanced t
ut be present gave look Of disgust at th
le embryo officer and said THAT Is n
O. crime. The prisoner is discharged"
Paul T. HoIten votes.
After being bailed out Paul T. Holte
II returned to the polls at Sixteenth an
. French streets, and voted. He WAS 9
e once arrested by Special Constable Still
ia well on a cha ge. as the officer pu5 it, @
lg 'unlegap voting HeAwss again bailed
: He works on the 0dole, and the IN embei
Of the Department Of Elections said b
be bad a right to vote
lAl w~yn.-. xu.. t1,a nruoIatrotaq