Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-04

| for Jamison-yes, sir, each had vote for
| Jamison.
q. Now you said something about some
| other ballots, scratched tickets? a. They
opened them out. and wherever the name
| OF Crandal and Jamison and Sloan APP
| peared they took and drew q line right
| through those three names and inserted
| the names of the Democratic candidates
in the tickets. They scratched line right
through Jamsons name and inserted
Bremerinann In II. and scratched n line
right through Crandalls name and in
serted O'Nclll in II. ana II read the name
"O'Neill" like that dndicating), and IL
the ballots are opened they will show II.
@. It Is half printed. written and print
ing style? a. Yes, air, half printed. half
writing; regular pool room style.
q. Didn't you say something about
there being forty-fivc or forty-seven-? a.
There was what they told me was forty
seven straight Republican ballots. They
did not touch them. they just saved them.
O. How many did they credit for Bro
mermanr on those scratched ballots? A.
could not tell. | saw them doing this work
all along, but how many there were |
could not tell. I could tell II I had the hnl-
lots here but could not tel now. Some
Of the men that wrote ON these ballots
wrote very fine business hand and the
changes were made In n rough hand, juSt
like the "O'Neil" dudicatinE). 4 good
many of the Republicans voted for Judge
Dohson
q Well. haven't YOU any idea Of the
number OF scratched ballots changed that
way? 4. oh, there was about twenty-five.
] would not swear they scratched all Of
them. but they were working ut it while
this man Mullins was doing this other
work
q. Now, then, what other stuffing of the
ballot box with Democratic ballots or any
other ballots did YOU see? 4. Well. about
I o'clock Hansen left his place at the dis
tributiug table and walked back into this
grain hin No. and while there he folded
M Nfty-iivc straight Democratic ballots
just like these others We're done and he loft
them lying on the floor. Now, these nifty
i've are easily shown because he got down
on his knees and the line don't extend more
his knees and the limo don't extend more
more than one-third Of the distance, there
is fractional part at the top, n part It
don't extend over and a fractional part at
the bottom
O. They were in a great hurry? 4.
Yes, sir; and we did not count the con.
sttutional amendment. The constitutional
amendment was not counted at all; 1t was
iust Jumped off. Morrison done the iigur,
ing and he Jumped the whole thing off.
Now these iifty-hvc ballots that Morrison
filled up and left in that grain bin were
taken and put in Morrison's pocket ana
ont of grain bin No ., and afterwards
Morrison took those ffty-ilvo Democratic
ballots. bogus Democratic ballots. bearing
A. +. Frankel the distributing judges.
and turned them over to Mullins |
changed the boxes again and these forty
seven Republican ballots that had been
saved out were lying on their face; then
they separated the straight Democratic
and straight Republican and scratch tick. |
cts and took enough of the straight Re- |
publicans to add on to these forty-seven |
to make tlfty-five and then these tifty-tive |
bogus ballots that Morrison gave to Nfull.
ms, he copied the voting number and tn,
registration number off the tickets on to |
the bogus tickets and they were strung
and those ballots that had been legally
voted We're twisted up and thrown into |
grain bin No. =. Morrison went into this
grain bin No. and put those twisted bal |
lois INTO his pocket. He came out of the
grain bin and said, Here. George. here is |
a quarter; take Bob over and get him Il
cigar ana Bob said, II don't want n |
cigar" and Morrison then said, Bob, You
G d fool. so and get a cigar" ana
then Bob went out. and then Morrison
went and took those twisted ballots and |
put them into the stove. They did not |
burn right away ana / said. "F'renkeI. |
what is he burning?" and Frenkel said, |
'Oh Just little waste paper" and | went |
over and looked at them, opened the stove |
door and saw them, and they were not |
burning, and then Hansen took a match |
and lit them. and that vas the last of |
them.
@ Well, what became of the 90? A.
They were strung up and put on the tally |
sheet the same as the other ones. They |
were made 80 because So would come out
even on the tally sheet
Q. Well, did they make any mistake in
adding them up? A. No sir, for | made
the additions myself and they put them
down all right If Mr.. Brcmcrmann had |
l35, why just added 5j on to lS5 and made
1t 100, and we just stopped right there.
Q. Well that isn't all. Is it? A. No
Morrison and Mullins and the rest Of The
judges and clerks out there concluded they
would let the thing go straight then, hut
Morrison was afraid they had not done
enough. so he had Hansen 20 in and MI |
ip twenty-five straight Democratic ballots
md put them in straight. We were going
to put these in anyway, and Mullins raised
he objection; he said the book would uoi
stand it.
q. What book? A. The poll book; he
said the poll book would not stand it, so
we concluded We would not put them in,
and so together with the other ballots they
md threw them behind the last grain hin
and Morrison says, you Cd ID fool"
and he went back and got them and put
hem in his pocket. We did not count this
asst batch. Morrison took these bal
ots and put them in his pocket and they
never We're counted, and my ballot was
amongst them. They We're probably on the
list, but did not go, When we got through
here was about 200 ballots with the dis
rbuting judges signatures THAT We're taxi
n back by Morrison, ana about 1000 un-
used ballots
@. How many ballots did You have out
there, do you suppose? y. Well, we had
enough out there to elect anybody we
wanted TO, ! guess. We had about a thou
sand to send back, and there was about 200
went back with the distributing judges
names on.
(To he continued.l