The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-18

| They're NeRten anu Are Prepared TO It's
sort 10 tho same Old AlSthOdS,
Ralih'oTs sun tDenA)
Tho army OF reporters 10 gathering,
During the past Tow days 1t has be-,
come evident to persons accustomed to
walking about the streets day and night
that Baltimore IL just now the Mecca Of
a large number OF strange characters,
their appearance either bordering on
the "lough" or the "aporly," and TO tho
| Initiated II means that these are out.
siders imported TO do crooked work at
growing day and day,
A we'll known ring politician told a
friend OF his yesterday that tho ring Rp.
preciates that it il beaten on u fair basis
and esBtrss is only hope iR Translucent
repatriation and voting. That wide
spread cheating has already been done
and will continue 10 be done until the
relurnl are SOnt in is evident to any one
who knows the methods adopted in
desperate emergencies. Tho facts here
gathered have been procured from many
sources and show what Is being planned
to defeat the popular will Of the people
oil Maryland,
Men who frequent bar'rooms en-.
circled with ring patronage, aud who
appear at other times as idle loatcra on
street corners, have openly Dragged ri
the number OF times each has already
registered. Some have ~ many rs
ten fraudulent names ready to DO voted
upon aud some have twenty
PLANS on 4 BIG SCALE
There has been much repeating done
in Baltimore in elections in the past,
but this time plans more elaborate than
ever before have been laid. Those
who are experimenting the plans are
believed TO be men high up in city aud
state politics. but they do their plan.
ming 40 SEilltully that Il is impossible
for the law to reach them. The poor
WretcheS who are paid to carry out the
plsHs are the only ones the law can
reach.
Not only have outsiders been brought
10 Baltimore to vote upon tho bogus
names registered, but hundreds Of
lulAu kIuutltIu uANp uuuN AANuu lNblll
Baltimore, Anne Arundel aud other nj.
jseent eoaatiss. Recently y man, at
least iorty.Gve years old, entered Bal.
Iimore street saloon and inquired the
location OF certain precinct in the
Ninth ward. lie said he had transfer
from Baltimore county. The document
was made out for man whose age was
stated 10 bA TWENTY-FIVE. Still this man
registered In the Nintk ward under that
name.
TWO KINDS or "cSooEEu WORK"
The work Of repeating AZ reduced to
a science resolves itself into two
branches. Oua Of theIe 10 the voting
upon names legally registered by those
who have no right to vote upon them,
lraudulently registered. In tho latter
clasG must be included the names Of
those who are dead or who have 70.
moved from their former voting places
and the bogus names which have bueu
put upon the lists by periurers.
In getting these votes into the ballot.
boxes definite plan has been adopted
in the past aud will likely be employed
al the coming contest In voting upon
names legally regiItered the repeater
usually makes it his aim TO got to the
polIing.plRcs early in the day before the
man entitled to the vote makes his ap.
pearancr. II tho rightiuI voter has
already besn there when the repeater
arrives, he escapes from his dilemma
by show Of righteous Indignation,
claiming that he is the legal voter Of
that name, and that some rascal has
proceeded him to the votinG.placs.
The art Of aIceriaining tho ttmO at
which certain legal voters ate in tho
habit Of casting their votes has been
we'll studied, aud there are few men
whose habits arc no. well known aud
ioltod down, so that whom election day
comes the bosses know comparatively
we'll who votes early and who votel
| late.