Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-31

the State OF Ohio, has hard time oi
it to save the money Of Republicans
who bet that Mckinley would get so,
900 plurality over Bryan.
He set up his ipse dixit that the
plurality was 81, 100 and wrote no END
of letters "deciding" in favor Of The
Republican better. On the Other
hand the betting authorities through
out the country decided that the Bar
votes went to the Bryan column, b.
cause Mr.. Taylor himself had Of
Pres:dent-Wm. J. Bryan" place
over Mr.. Barr's name on the Poupr
list ticket.
Then Sammy took another tack. j.
letter written to San Francisco, .
copy of which reached me recentl'
he explained why the Barr vol
should not be counted for Bryan l..
saying: The persons who voted t'r
Barr also voted for the % Democrs
lc electors and therefore they cannc,
be counted for Bryan twice"
Then he evidently looked at the
figures in his Office and saw that they
gave him away. If his statement had
been true, F. B. Cox, whose name
would have been cancelled by the q
6l5 people who marked their ballots
for Barr and the % other Demo
cratic electors" would have been q
6l5 votes, or practically that many
short. But the figures told differ
ent story.
There was only variation of some
200 votes between the Democratic
electors, emitting Powell, who like
Mack, Republican, at the head of the
ticket led the rest some 500. The
discrepancies between the Republl-
can electors were some so greater
than between the Democrats.
So Sammy's claim fell in the pre-
sence of the official returns.
Still he was not disconnected. He
evidently had taken a solemn oath
that the Populist ticket should not be
counted for Bryan.
In making up the "oficlal certi6-
cate" to be signed by Gov. Bushnell
he spread upon the papers the elec-
toral tickets (some full and others
with vacancies) of SIX of the seven
parties, with names of the electors,
aud the remainder of votes for each.
The Populist ticket, however, was
omitted from the certificate and at
first blush it looks as though Barr and
his vote we're left off entirely, l
found him, however-and where do
Tou suppose2
The willy Samuel had found q va
,ancy in the first district on the Ma
Lional Prohibition ticket and put Mr..
Barr and his vote in there as sup
porter of Beptly for the presidency.
Originally he had put Barr's name
nolens volens on the ballot, deciding
IN his official capacity that vote for
,he Populist elector was a vote for
Bryan. The Supreme Court sustained
aim and it was thus judicially declar-
ID that Bryan might be voted for on
The Populist ticket.
But when it comes to counting the
vote according to the Supreme Courts
Sammy discovers that 1t will
lose the Republicans mints of money.
So he reverses the Supreme Court
and himself, decides that Barr wasn't
a Populist at all, but an over-the
Rhine National Prohibitionist from
Cincinnati and he put him down in
The everlasting and eternal record as
9ne.
AS soon as the people OF Brlce find
out that VIM. F. Barr, by the decree
of Samuel M. Taylor is a National
Prohibitionist from over the Rhine
hey will treat him to a bushel of rot
zen eggs and ride him out of town on
rail. They might possibly stand
plain prohibitionist, but when it
zones to National Prohibitionist it is
asking too much of a patient and long
suffering folk. W. A. T.
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