Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-10-21
CAUCUS NJ 4. Mo- s.,s.

Bnckman men were denied the
privilege sofvoting. In 1896 Nc.
Kinley received 16 votes in the
town or Buh. Considering the
We 1lknown scheme Of Buchanan
and the Democratic leaders Of
Morrison county to carry by any
rossible means the Republican
c,ucuses for Buchanan, We trust
that every honest voter, Repub.
lican or Democrat, will consider
the Justice of bolt formed on the
failure to have 80 votes cast in q
Republican caucus IN Buh town
when the returns show that less
than half that number Of voters
supported the Republican ticket.
It was though the belief that
such methods would be successful
that the Banner and Mr.. Buchanan
were so sure that Fuller would be
defeated in the caucuses.
Charges are also made against
the caucus IN Swanville. There
the caucus was opened late, as at
5 &C ock aud for some time after
there were not enough Republic-
ans at the polling place to fill the
necessary caucus Offices. A. P.
McRae, caucus chairman, was at
the appointed place, his store,
from s o'clock until the caucus
opened, and it was organized as
soon as Republicans enough were
present to organize. Careful in.
qui1y has shown that no voters
left the caucus without voting, or
by reason of ths delay were de-
prived of votes. There were three
delegates from that town-and all
elected were favorable to Fuller.
Two of the Fuller delegates were
elected by vote of about 81 to IL,
and the other Fuller delegate was
elected by a small majority. This
was caused by the fact that the
voters favoring Fuller all agreed
on two of the delegates, but were
divided on the third, and the
Fuller votes on the third delegate
being divided, one of them de-
feated the highest Buckman dele
gates by only y small margin.
The caucus was entirely fair, no
one was Injured by the delay in
opening, and the delay was simply
because Republican voters would
not give their time to the detail
Of organization at an early hour.
The caucuses in the county held
before this year opened at Z
o'clock, and although the Septem.
bcr caucuses were called for 5, to
remain open till 8, it was lmpossi-
BILE in some towns to get the voters
to organize at so early an hour.
Mr.. Buchanan and his friends
suffered no wrong through the
proceedings in Swanyille town.
In Scandal Valley, the other
town discussed, the Fuller dele
gates unquestionably represented
the large majority of the
Republican yoters.::ss;. The eau.
Gus was properly organized, and
after Z votes had been cast it
was discovered that one of the
Judges had left the room. One
other voter had also gone. The
voters present questioned the
legality Of voting with one judge
absent, and it was decided, by
some process Of reasoning, that it
was best to send for the judge, and
do the voting over again. The alb
sent Judge was outside, at his
wagon eating a lunch, and he was
sent for. He returned, the. ballots
were destroyed, the voters pro-
ceeded to vote again with both
Judges present, {. Only one'.man
who had voted at the start had left,
and with that"exception::'all who
voted the first time did so the
second. The man who lost his
vote was an ayowed Fuller man
At the'close. .of sthe caucus the
Fuller delegates had IA votes and
the Buchanan delegates 4. There
were two:Fuller votes apparently
folded together, and both were
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