The evening times., 1895-11-07
CLERKS ROUGHLY TREATED
Voted the Republican Ticket in
Baltimore Out Of Pique.
IT COST DEMOCRATS DEARLY
BaItimOrean Who Are Employed In
Washington Found That Some One
Cast Their Ballots for Them-Novel
Method of Detecting Negro Repeat
ers-GOrman Takes 1t Calmly.

1 DcitiiioiN W tOtt WtTC
Indignation meetings In almost every branch
OF the service. Fully Thousand or more
Democratic voters left this city for Balti.
more the day before and on the day Of the
election.
Many of them intended to vote the
| straight Democratic ticket, with the cxccp-
ton of Hurst. He was to have been scratch
ed for Lowndes. The ward heciers did not
! know who the clerks We're, and in many
| instances thought they Were good govern
ment spies.
| AS the heelcrs We're expected to maltreat
the Republicans and good government peo-
pie, they Immediately began a systematic
persecution or the Washington delegation.
whenever stranger went up To vote he
was pushed an'l showed around thcpols aud
in many eases he was actually assaulted.
This. of course, soon began to have It's cr-
feet on the Washington crowd, and when
ever they cou.d reach the voting box the
straight Republican ticket was voted.
IL is estimated by the conservative Demo-
Gratis that the stories OF rioting and the NAL
treatment of voters cost the Democratic
party between 5000 and 10000 votes
in the city OF Baltimore alone.
The majority OF the clerks went to the
Monumental City TO vote the Democratic
Hurst, but now they are set against the
Democratic ticket. and some say that under
no circumstances Will they ever try to vote
the Democratic ticket.
DANGEROUS REPEATERs.
Several squads OF negro repeaters were
rung in on the people OF Maryland. This is
the most dangerous class of repeaters. as
it is almost impossible to tell one from an
other. few days before the election a
great number OF negro names were regis
tered. They consisted mostly of John
Smiths, Thomas Jeffersons. George Wash
ingtons, and other kindred titles. On cleo
tiOn day they were march ed up and voted in
several precincts.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller
tells good story of how negro repeaters
were detected during an election in West
Virginia. For some months 1t was known
that negroes were being ''colonized'' In
great numbers around the city.
The watchers could not tell one from the
other, and il was causing good deal of
worry TO the election officials. Finally an
old negro, Jim Semnles. who knew almost
every negro in the State, but who. unfortu-
nately, was at the time languishing in his
accustomed place, the city Jail. beca use
OF the nonpayInent of a fine. wastho ought OF.
The politicians paid his fine, and lie was
released on condition that he spot the re-
pcaters. This he proceeded To do in a way
that was entirely his own. He was sup
piled with money by the election Off
GERS, and after getting a few dollars he
went down to the hardware store and
bought several gross OF small fish hooks
He would then take his sta nd near voting
precinct, and as fast as one OF the willy
negro repeater voted he would have fish
hook stuck in his coat tails.
Several Washing gtonians, who are enti-
tied 10 vote in Baltinor ore, had rather anus
Ing experiences. Fifteen or twenty went
over to Baltimo ore and. arrived in that city
about O'Clock. The leader of the crowd
went up to cast his vote, and was, or
course, taken in charge by one of the elec-
ton officials. When he stated that he
wanted TO vote the judge laughed at him.
But when he insisted the judge told him
that he had voted at o O'Clock that morn
ing. This happened TO n large number of
people who work in this city and went over
TO vote. The heelers had voted other men
in their place.
DYING MANS PROPHECY.
"A most singular fact in connection with
the recent overthrow OF the German ticket
in Maryland and the victory OF the Repub-
iicans," said q distinguished Marylander
in hotel lobby last night, was the proph
ecy of Mr.. woOten. Mr.. Wooten was a
resident of Howard County, in which Mr..
Germans home is situated, and fought the
Senator, IL might be said, with his dying
breath.
"Gorman aSd Wooten had never been
friends. Wooten was quite well off in this
worlds goods and was very independent.
As far back as 1876 he was fighting the
Maryland Senator, and in an open letter
accused German of all sorts of treachery in
politics. In 1879 he also claimed that
certain politician had brought a gang of
negro repeaters into the district, with the
L tx-l -lortr and nnn nf
facts only served TO widen the breach be-
tween the two men, and ever since that
time each has been knitting the other when
ever opportunity presented itself.
Mr.. Wooten on his death bed, while
talking to some friends, gave Itterance to
the remarkable prophecy After talking
for some time on various subjects, the sick
man said:
THE campaign of 1895 will result in
the complete overthrow of German in this
State.'"
"The recent election in that State has
amply demonstrated the correctness of
the dying mans prophecy. German has
been turned down by the voters, and his
reign in Maryland seems to be at an end.
AT the time the prophecy was made there
was every indication that Mr. German
would continue to rule in the State. This
may have been only the dying mans way
of expressing his enmity to the Senator, or
it may have been something else; who
can tell?"
Senator German is a philosopher and the
terrible defeat he met with Tuesday is
being borne by him in a truly philosophical
spirit. To an inquiring friend who met
him on the street this morning and asked
pitifully for an explanation of the Ia ndslide,
the Senator simply smiled and said, ''Oh.
those things will occur occasionally"
The Democratic clerks and higher office
holders are disposed to resume their work
very quietly. They have in private great
many reasons to advance for the defeat.
1t is surprising to find such number of
Maryland office-holders who owe their po-
sitions under the government to the influence
of Senator German expressing the opinion
that he was the Jonah that wrecked the
party. Most OF them are now in the
classified service, and have no special