The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-12-04
ThE G FRAUD.
CsssuptSea Of the Geldbuss shown II NE
Illinois Returns.


The Chicago goldite press is boast
Ing that $4,000 more votes were poileh
In Chicago than in New York. Tins
Is strong evidence of what IA State
Register has claimed, that the goidites
carried the election in this state N
in the country by fraud.
Everybody knows that Chicago Is
not as large "A city As New York, and
that the proportion of votes TO the
population should not be as large IN
the former as in the latter city. When,
therefore, the returns show that the
smaller city cast a vote altogether out
81 proportion TO its inhabitants, and
10000 more than the larger city, there
must be behind these returns n fraud
ulcnt scheme that has been worked out
successfully.
There is no doubt in the minds OF
those who have studied the returns
that the colonization OF voters in Hi
nois was carried on by the wholesale
Every congressional district in the
state where there was Il chance TO work
the scheme, the Seventeenth not ex-
c.pted. was ~colonizcd and the vote in
flatcd by repeaters.
The vote in Sangamon county. foi
instance, was over 1900 greater thar
in 1892. The total vote of Sangamon
county was 1872. This would signify
that this county had over $4,000 popuia
ton. Everybody knows that there il
no such number Of people in Sangamor
county. The increase Of democratic
votes in this county since 1892 is no
more than normal, the democrats hav
ing polled 1864 in 1892, and $500 in lso6
or nearly 5000 more than four year
ago. If we add the populist vote OF 1S9'
isl and t~wo-thirds of the prohibition
list (about 500) to the democratic vot'
OF 1892 the total is s.34G. which is a dem
ocratic increase of 652. This is a fai
conclusion, allowing that the free sil
yer republicans who voted the democrat
ic ticket this year offset the gold demo
Gratis who voted for Mckinley. II tn
4, republican voters had increased in til
/ same proportion as the democratic vol
, crs, they would have polled less tina
1000 votes. Where did the other 20
republican voters come from? Tn;
, they were furnished either by coaonl'
G ing or repeating is becoming more an
more evident as the vote is studied pr
n cinct by precinct. There was a gigant
n fraud perpetrated on the genuine ele
: torate OF Illinois at the recent ele
e ton. 1t is shown by the vote in On
e cago more clearly than anywhere els
q and is more or less manifest in all u
u cities Of the state.
5 Add the 1000 votes the republical
V might honestly have polled m Sang
q mon county to the $500 polled for Z
II democratic ticket and the total is i
tos. indicating a population of rear
10000. which il is probable a Gems
r would show the county really has.
Ie The tens of millions Of dollars
5 oorruptiSr fund raised by Hanna a
his associates. il is becoming more a
n more evident was used for co
III nizing and repeating purposes.
k. the freelilver forces of Sangam
ne county bear the above facts and figul
ic in mind. They have $500 vot'
CT who form Z solid phalanx. 1t
ne doubtful, if the republicans co
re count noses to-day. that they could II
ne their s.g9s. Where did they get the
Illinois State Register.