Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-06

County - The Register Statutes
Them-Republican Election OH
GERS Numbered Ballots, in Viola
ton of Law-Gossip About Com
ing Republican Appointments
Various Facts, Figures and Incl
dents.
good many people were wondering,
yesterday. where the phenomenal total
vote Of Ohio county came from.
More than 1850 votes were cast in the
county, adding all the scattering figures to
the votes registered for the three party
tickets, which is over fifteen hundred
more than were ever cast before.
These fifteen hundred votes represent an
increase in the population of 1900 and no
sane man viii say that has occurred. In
Madison district alone the increase in the
total vote over four years ago was about
three hundred. representing an increase
in population of 1900 In four years there
has possibly been an increase in the popu-
lation of the Seventh ward Of 300, but
there are probably not fifty more people
in the Second ward than there were four
years ago. Where did these voters come
from?
In Richie the total vote for President
four years ago was 3iG Tuesday It was
1,643, an increase Of 800. This again repre-
sents an increase of 1. 800 in the population
of the Eighth ward in four years. No
body in Wheeling believes that the Eighth
ward has increased even four hundred in
four years. Other districts under Bepub
lican management show heavy gains. In
plain language, it looks very much as
though nonresident voters had been
brought here and each voted at several
precincts under different names, for the
Republican ticket. The big increase in the
vote can't be reasonably accounted for in
any other way.
Another thought in this line: The total
Republican vote i'm the county. cast Tues
day. was just about, i'm round numbers.
what was polled at the Republican pri-
mary last April The difference is incOn-
seQuential Everybody who knows any
thing about Ohio county politics knows
and believes that the Republican primary
election was a bald-headed fraud to the
extent Of o00 votes at least. Hundreds
of RenubIicans did not vote nj that prf-
mary while hundreds of Democrats nom
residents and minors did vote and not
only that, but repeated. Yet the Repubh
can Presidential vote was about up to the
! fraudulent primary vote. Where did the
increase come from? There are not twelve
thousand legal voters i'm Ohio county. If
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When the returns from the precincts Of
This county were read off TO the newspa-
mar. mon M tb. Court T1oueo election
,,i,bt tboro. ,r,s an, omission of eight votes
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- 81 y1-,s,,i,,,,+o, district An insnec-
ton of the certificate Yesterday showed
+b.+ chose oiob+ votes were cast and
co,,ptod o1oro with one Prohibition vote
and tbav sbonld he credited
In the hurry of footing up the Register
table of the vote of Ohio county. an error
of addition i'm the vote of Mr.. John A.
White caused him TO be only given credit
~ '''e nv 90 -. -on 80 Tbn
- e'.o 'o'.' Nv Wa - 1i ric,t Nv nrecincts
and a glance showed the error of addition
Mr.. White polIed - more No'eS IMAM i'i y
an IN ONO county
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Nv 80 ,,,, 1,o,,,,t,lic,'1 conn
ty otiicers-elect IL is perslsIenl'y SUE ,i
that Niliiam Mc' o'ill'N VII III. W IN
Deputy oherl uuqer 9lie'lL i,i,,'- M, ,''
tH'l' Oouilci''l"' ie' mn -
We're denied before the election but it is
| insisted they are true. 1t is said that CIty
Clerk Dannenberg will be deputy clerk IN
the Office Of County Clerk Robertson, and
that Charley WATKINS ana w i,'' Sen SILL,
rival Republican candidates for City
Clerk. Several persons are named for
places under Circuit Clerk Henning, but
II Is lust possible that Clerk John Walton
will continue to have something TO do with
the books and papers. out of Difference to
the wishes of the attorneys. Clerk Moffat
will remain at his post as CSrk of the
The Board Of Commissioners viii cam
vass the vote Of the county next Mon
day.
This evening S'.-I -'l.'1'
entertain the Six Tooters at his residence