The Bessemer indicator., 1894-11-03
CHARGES UNANSWERED.
The Gang Has Not Denied Them Be-
cause 1t Cannot.
They Now Stand in Guilty Array Before
the Court of Public Opinion.

by the republican party and the men
upon it were not the choice of the re
pnblicans of this district: that Seaver
and Me 'oy, the clerks of the district
court, for months prior to the election
had wrongfuily and corruptly manipu-
lated the drawing of jurors and the
placing Of men on jury panels so as to
influence the nomination Of men who
would favor their retention IN office
that in one precinct 40 at the primaries
Seaver boasted that he had spent $3.50
to elect five delegates; that in another
precinct (9l he promised Dave Sponsilier
500 to carry the precinct, and it was
carried by electing negro prostitute
one of the delegates, from whom an ex-
convict, Ed Knight, afterward secured Il
proxy; that in another precinct voter
was promised jury duty by Henry Nc
Coy in consideration of his support and
the promise was afterward made good
and the man put on the jury: that in
the convention Elwell said to n reputa-
BILE citizen, That last vote cost me
$780," that Ed Knight was made teller
in the convention through the manpu-
lation of George Seaver: that E.. G..
Glenn was actually nominated but was
counted out aud DIXON counted in by
the manipulation and sleight of hand
work of Ed Knight that Ed knight
said after the convention that he had
counted at least twenty Glenn votes for
Dixon; that when Jim Elspass, one of
Dixon's closest henchmen, heard that
statement, he claimed it was not so but
that the Dixon men had bought enough
votes to nominate Dixon, and that he,
Elspnss, had put up $50 Of the money
himself; that Elwell. Dixon and Collins
were all parties to the corrupt scheme
by which their nominations were
brought about: that since the conven-
tion Dixon visited "A low dive on lower
Santa Fe avenue, hob-nobbed with n
lot of Hungarians and other low char
acters and SET up the drinks to them;
that Collins is an utterly discredited and
discredltable person; that last fall when
the nomination for judge vas fairly
made and Dixon was fairly bea zen, never
having had even respectable following,
he, Elwell, Seaver and Mccoy all bolted
the nomination of their party and de
feated the nominee, electing populist.
And these are only samples of what oc-
Cured all over town. These specific
statements of fact have been made re
peatedly and they are known to be true
by a large number of voters of this dis
trict. Many of them are grave charges
and the INDICATOR knew just what it
was doing when it made them, and has
been and is ready to substantiate every
statement it made.
How have these charges been
answered by the gang?
First, they caused little sheet to be
started for the campaign under the
names of two colored men, of which
Seaver assumed editorial control under
a colored mans name, and through the
columns Of which he attacked some OF
the men supporting the independent jul
dicial ticket, but neither denied nor
answered any facts stated against him
and others of the g;ng. Then. seeing
need of more help, for Il consideration
they secured the use of the editorial
columns of the ever purchasable Chief
tain, which for more than slx weeks
after the nominations had been made
was silent as an oyster. In some able
ali int. F,,r iSl, al t,N,t hn Ii
date for Judge the public was informed
that Dixon was a magnificent lawyer
with a magnificent record in Maryland;
that for long time it had been con
ceded that he was the best qualified of
all the candid ties: that Elwell was an
upright and honest Judge; that Collins
was a gentleman against whom nothing
could be said; and that anything and
everything which had been said or which
might. could or would be said against
any of these high minded and honorable
gentlemen was simply viliiication and
vituperaton and as matter of course
untrue; that the voters opposing the
election of these three worthless we're
soreheads and disappointed candidates
who were actuated by motives of re-
venge, malice and chagrin-and so on
and so forth. Not a single charge has
been refuted, not single statement of
fact denied.
When the INDICATOR charged that
Dixon and Walpole visited Mike Eagan's
and set up drinks, Dixon loftily an
swered through the editorial columns
of the Chieftain that it was well known
that Mr.. Dixon and Mr.. Walpole did not
frequent such places and proceeded to
talk Of abuse, vituperation and vilifica-
ton. He well knew that he dared not
specifically deny the fact charged.
How different from these men OF ques-
tionable characters and methods are
the men on the Independent judicial
ticket Neither on the street nor in the
newspapers has word been said reflect
ing on the honor of any one OF them, for
1t could not be. They are clean men.
Their election would insure integrity in
the courts. Seaverism would end. The
Seaverian operation would no longer be
performed in the drawing OF jury pan
els. No longer could Mccoy promise to
put men on the jury and keep his prom
Use. Economy would follow.
The INDICATOR asks every thinking
man and woman, every citizen who has
a conscience and who desires to do
what is for the best interest and the
welfare Of the community to consider