The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-28

terssn- ~ns tas7ry Is rAzt tss aga-ss Sers
reversed al this box
Tun-Yrn L. the 6esectah's name OF TIE
wosIrz p.ses scr the Fourth district Of Fay
ette. where some OF the noet rerparkaass
Incidents Of election day occurred Ins
negroes we're organize; In that district
for tire support Of the Republican nation
a. and state tickets, ard for josiah Pat
terson for congress- David Qaarses was
president ara James Robinson vice prsss-
dent. both cosored. OF tire club. II was ar
ranged TIA. on election day oaarses Was to
distribute the Republican tickets and was
20 keep q record Of the Republican votes
cast.
But Quaries ch not pu, IN an appear
ancs on election day. In fact he has not
been seen In Fayests county since
on the Saturday before the election there
came 20 ouar.ss through the mails an
enve1op bearing an illustration OF skniis
cross bones and coffin. with words OF
warning The document was prepared
with red ink. When ouarIss had taken in
the ssgnfncance OF this message he lost
interest in the election and even concluded
that there were healthier sections OF the
country than Fsyette.
The Galloway box wes conducted In
renarkabls manner. There are ~ that
place eighty white and 24s coiored voters
qualified Cot Patterson had stanch
friends there who proposed TO see that he
got a fair ceai When the sherirs deputy
arrived in the morning to hold the election
he proceeded 20 choose officers 81 election
The two magistrates OF the district
showed him the law, which provides that
the magistrates shaE be consulted In thu
selection OF these officials. Thereupon the
deputy sheriff gathered up his box and
walked of, declaring he would hold no
election. -he time for opening Ia polls
had long passed. and IL o'clock came
around. when the magistrates decided TO
provide an election as set forth In the
election regulations OF the state. The free
holders chose officers Of election, who
opened a ballot box. None but Col. Patter-
sons supporters voted there. But the
deputy sheriff seeing that an election was
proceeding without him. opened up his box
at noon. and the supporters of Carmack
patronized his establishment.
sixty-two votes were cast for Carmack
in the Carmack box; 247 were cast for Pat
terson IN the Patterson box.
T'As sheriff accepted thu Csrrnack vote.
ard threw out the Patterson vote in toto.
These are but samples out OF vast
mass Of testimony which has been taken.
and they are supported by incontrovert-
ihls proof. There can be no question that
with an honest count of the votes in the
ballot boxes not even taking into consid-
GRAFTON the systematic intimidation prac-
ticed. the vote OF the state OF Tennessee
should have been recorded in the Mckin-
ley column last fan. but by system
attic fraud or the most glazing description.
Ne viii OF the voters OF that state was
overridden.
The exposures have now been made by
the Democrats themselves the benedict
aires OF just such frauds in previous cleo
tons. and are given TO the public through
the columns OF such Democrats news
papers a. the Louisville Courier-Journaf
and the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the
latter OF which supported the Bryan tick
ct in the last election.