Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-12-05
FRAUD IN CHICAGO.
Corruption of the GOldbugs shown In the
Illinois Returns,

Illinois Returns.
The Chicago goldite press is boast
ing that $4,000 more votes were polleC
In Chicago than in New York. Thil
is strong evidence of what the Stat,
Register has claimed, that the goldite'
carried the election In this state ant
in the country by fraud.
Everybody knows that Chicago Il
not as large a city MS New York, anc
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
Of proportion to its inhabitants, and
$4,000 more than the larger city, there
must be behind these returns a fraud
ulent 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 a chance to work
the scheme, the Seventeenth not ex-
cepted, was colonized and the vote in
fated by repeaters.
The vote in Sangamon county, for
instance, was over 1900 greater than
in 1892. The total vote of Sangamon
county was 1912. This would signify
that this county had over $4,000 popula-
ton. Everybody knows that there is
no such number Of people in Sangamon
county. The increase of democratic
votes in this county since 1892 is not
more than normal, the democrats hav-
ing polled 1864 in 1892, and 1866 in 1896,
or nearly 5000 more than four years
ago! If we add the populist vote of 1892
(1S1 and two-thirds of the prohibition
list (about 500) to the democratic vote
of 1892 the total is S,346, which Is a DEM
ocratic increase of 652. This is a fair
conclusion, allowing that the free sill
vcr republicans who voted the democrat
ic ticket this year offset the gold demo-
Gratis who voted for Mckinley. If the
republican voters had increased in the
same proportion as the democratic vot-
crs, they would have polled less than
1000 votes. Where did the other 1000
republican voters come from? That
they were furnished either by coloniz-
ing or repeating is becoming more and
more evident as the vote is studied pre-
cinct by precinct. There was gigantic
fraud perpetrated on the genuine cleo
torate of Illinois at the recent cleo
ton. 1t is shown by the vote in Chi
cago more clearly than anywhere else,
and is more or less manifest in all the
cities Of the state.
Add the 1000 votes the republicans
might honestly have polled in Sanga-
mon county to the $500 polled for the
democratic ticket and the total is 49,
EGG, indicating a population of nearly
10000, which 1t is probable a census
would show the county really has.
The tens Of millions of dollars of
corruption fund raised by Hanna and
his associates, i Is becoming %STe md
morf evident was used for colo
ni|ihg and repeating purposes. Let
'he free-silver forces of Sangamon
County bear the above facts and figures
IN mind. They have 1866 voters
who form q solid phalanx. 1t is
doubtful, if the republicans could
count noses to-day, that they could find
their s,99s. Where did they get them?
--Iuinnis Sfate Rnnister |