Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-19

portion OF them were prepared-and these
Democratic ballots they had laid alongside
OF Republican ballots that had been voted
and put throught the ballot boxes, and
they had taken them and copied of the
registration and voting numbers from those
Republican ballots onto these Democratic
ballots that had not been voted or through
the ballot box, and Martin said, Let us
string these and get them out of the road,'
and he said, Let us put two or three on
the string at once and put the needle
down on the table, and we showed 1t
right through the ballots and strung them.
and while Martin and were doing this
work Mullins was fixing up the balance of
the lis ballots = that is, he was
copying the registration numbers
and voting numbers and the folded ballots
that Morrison or Moses had furnished him,
and We strung these 115 bogus Democratic
ballots in place of the lis Republican bal>
lots that had actually been voted. These
bogus Democratic ballots had all been fixed
in advance. so that they would read for the
Democratic ticket, and all other tickets
were scratched. and the Republican ballots
were laid on the table face downward, so
that the registration and voting numbers
could be seen, and that was copied on the
bogus Democratic ballots, and then the
Republican ballots that the registration and
voting numbers were copied from, were
thrown in the second grain bin, and Moses
went there and got these lis ballots and
put them in basket: 1t was what is called
a ten-pound chip basket-that is what 1
call it. He put them into this basket and
took them out and set them upon a chair
and took a newspaper and covered them
up, and then he took the basket
took 1t out past Mr.. DAILY, the plumber,
and these boys, and handed the basket to
Clayton Ward, and he took it away, and
I don't know what became of 1t after that,
for I did not see any more of 1t. Well,
when that was done, or rather after the
ballots were disposed of in that way, then
the two clerks. Mullins and Rogers, credit
ed the lis ballots all the way down the line
to the Democratic ticket or candidates.
credting each candidate with one vote for
each ballot, or lis in all for each candidate;
and when they had done this there was
mistake made-they had credited lis ballots
to Jamison-one of the clerks did that, and
that was not according to the way they
had arranged it-and the other lis were
credited to Bremermann, and these credits
were made on two different tally Sheets.
How did that mistake occur in which
Bremermann was given lis votes on the
enc tally sheet and Jamison as many on
the other; and what was done, II any thing,
to rectify that mistaken"
"It was a mistake of the clerk doing the
taliying, he being in too big hurry and
giving the credits to the wrong man. and
they discovered the error and wanted to
scratch the tally sheet, and told them
that there could not or should not be any
scratching done on the tally sheet. and to
send for Owsley."
"Who was he?"
''Mr. Owsley. the recorder Of voters"
"Well, what was done them"
"Well, we sent for Mr.. Owsley, the re-
corder of voters, and he came out there,
and the situation was explained to him.
and he said: That is all right, boys; just
save out what ballots Jamison gets and
make a memorandum Of it. and then sub
tract it from the 1l5. and the balance will
be all right He said to draw two hori-
zontal lines through it, and he said, When
you do that, right under it write clerical
error and that was what was done with
reference to that correction"
Mr.. Canny also told of the subsequent
taking out and burning Of fifty-five Re-
publican ballots and the substitution in the
ballot box of the same number of Demo-
hol 1ntS