The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-09

Cox and Hanna's tools will attempt
to register them for voting purposes,
Just as the false registrations were
made last year.
Four or five hundred imported ne
groes in Cincinnati, registered a num-
ber of times in different precincts and
under different names, would form
basis for two or three thousand fraud
ulent votes, if the scheme is carried
out as the big bosses direct.
But will they be able to carry out
NOC IN CINCINNATI this year. The
dupes of Cox and Hanna will be start
ed to the penitentiary before the No
vember election, and effective steps
will be taken to block the entire
scheme, and it is proposed by the COM
mittees, which will be composed of
both Democrats and anti-Cox- Hanna
Republicans, not only to mete out
punishment to the imported and fraud
ulent voters, but to the men who are
instrumental in importing them.
But there are other points along the
southern border of the state where Wig
ilance and prompt action will prevent a
large fraudulent vote. This year Cox
and Hanna can afford to draw votes
from both Kentucky and West Virginia
to help Hanna out in his senatorial
fight.
Commercial travellers report that all
the river towns and towns back from
the river are already overrun with
negroes, whom they recognize as hav-
ing met but a short time ago in the
towns along the south side of the river.
From Steubenville down to Ripley
they find them, generally without any
visible means of support, but appar-
emily well led and wearing a higher
grade of hand-me-downs than their
brethren who hav legal residences on
the Ohio side.
A commercial man who is well
known says that he saw large squad
Of negroes coming over the Norfolk
and Western a few days since who
were dumped in Columbus. They came
from the old state and are to be in
corporated into the voting population
Of the capital city, although it is prob
ably their first visit to the Buckeye
state. One of the latter said to the
salesman, in resOpnse to the question
whether or not the colored people
would support Bushnell:
"The largest colored vote ever cast
In Ohio viii be cast this year, and it
will be all right"
Being forewarned in Cincinnati, the
friends of an honest election will be
forearmed, and the tools of the arch
conspirators will be turned into fugi-
tives long before the election. But un-
less the friends of honest popular gov
ernment act with equal vigilance and
promptness in all sections of the state,
and especially in the larger towns,
the railway centers and functional
points, they will wake up the next
morning after the election to find that
a new series of election frauds have
been perpetrated.
In hundreds of election precincts OF
the state the names Of persons have
been found on the pool books who
are wholly unknown to any resident
Of the precinct, and who can not now
be found, and have never been seen or
heard of since last November's cleo
ton.
These were Hannas importations
They came and went in a night, as 1t
were. Messrs. Cox and Hanna know
what satisfactory methods followed
this method of doing things last year,
and they will repeat 1t in some form
this year unless honest men take an
active part in preventing it.
Every stranger, black and white, in
every Ohio community, should be
spotted from this on and not permitted
to vote except upon the most indublt-
able proof of his right to do so.
The rank and file of the Republican
party in Ohio had no idea of the sys-
TEN practiced last year, and had they
known 1t would have done what every
honest man ougt to do, try to prevent
it. They know as honest men that they
can stand party defeat, but they can
not stand wholesale corruption at the
polls.
The Republican managers, or rather
the men of the Hanna-Cox stamp,
ascertained the number Of silver Re
publican votes they were sure to lose,
and then formulated their scheme to
Offset the loss by swelling the total
vote by as great or greater number
and thus carrying the total poll of the
state far bsyond the legal voting
strength.
That thes twins OF corruption ard
Doodle intend to make the attempt to
do the same thing this year is proven
by the preliminary steps they are al
ready taking. .... -.
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