Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-11-16

| 337 for Col. Barnett and Tor WIN. L.
Greasy.
After the polls closed Kirkland expos
ed the crime and all wc Immediately
arrested and later released on $500 bail
each.
At the hearing on Friday last George
Kirkland, The North Americans agent,
betrayed the whole conspiracy in
sworn testimony before Magistrate
Eisenbrown. Kirkland lives in Wash
ington, but masqueraded in Philadel-
| phia by the name of George Wright
| and Clarence Boyd. He arrived in Phil
| adelphia the night before the election,
| together with w. II. Cook, an employe
| in the government mail bag repair shop
| In Washington; Harry r. McCabe, a
| clerk in the government coast survey
| Office; Reynolds Drinker. a Washing
| ton society man; John f. Sheehan. a
| bartender in the house of representa-
| tives restaurant at Washington, and a
number of others. Rogers, the Wash
| ingten police lieutenant, and a man
| named j. s. Birmingham, an employe
| of the Congressional library, are sworn
| to be the leaders Of the gang. Rog-
ers and half dozen other men from
Washington escaped. but they will be
arrested within week.
In an editorial of Saturday last The
| North American makes the following
intensely interesting claims Of what 1t
has done and proved in connection with
this gigantic conspiracy:
81. That under the leadership of Jo-
seph G. Rogers, lieutenant Of police at
Washington, gang of repeaters was
brought to Philadelphia on Monday
last.
-. That this gang travelled on FREQ
passes: that they were housed at the
Hotel Scott, under an arrangement pre-
yiously made by one Seger, a lieuten-
ant of Israel w. Durham, who paid
their bills.
"3. That this same Seger, lieutenant
of Israel w. Durham, year ago paid
the bills of a similar gang, under the
leadership of Lieutenant of Police Rog-
ers, of Washington, at the same hotel
"a. That the gang brought from
Washington by Rogers on Monday last
received $40 each and all expenses for
the days work at the polls.
"5 That the gang left the Hotel
Scott early on Tuesday morning, some
going forth to serve as repeatsrs and
others as election officers
"6. That George Kirkland, The
North Americans agent for the detec-
tion and exposure OF the bands oper-
ations, and William II. Cook. an en-
ploye of the mail bag repair section OF
the postoffice department at Washing
ton, acted as election officers in the
Thirteenth division of the Seventh
ward, Cook as Judge Of election and
Kirkland as minority inspector. Israel
w. Durham Ia the political master Of
the Seventh ward.
A LEGISLATOR INVOLVED.
"7. That Kirkland and Cook were di-
reeted by Lieutenant OF Police Rogers
to go to 524 South Sixteenth street, the
home OF the Hon. Samuel Salter. ex-
member OF the legislature. one of the
'stalwarts' who voted every time last
winter for the return of NJ. 8. Quay to
the senate
"8. That the Hon. Samuel Salter took
the two men to a room on the second
floor of his home and there gave them
200 ballots, marked. folded and sealed,
all ready to deposit in the ballot box.
as though they had been voted by 200
separate citizens, and instructed Cook
and Kirkland to vote them Immediate
iy on taking charge Of the polling place
of the Thirteenth division Of Israel w.
Durham's ward before the legitimate
voting began. This was done accord
ing to ths instructions OF the Hon.
Samuel Salter.
"9. That after IS legal ballots had
been received at the polling place OF
the Thirteenth division Of Israel w.
Durham's ward, the Hon. Samuel Sal
ter and John Silverman and John
Hanna. two members Of the election
board. marked and folded Is more bal
lots and placed them In the ballot box,
making a total OF 100 votes in addition
to the 200 fraudulently deposited at the
beginning.
40. That shortly after the polls
opened the Hon. Samuel Salter busy
in crime told George Kirkland that
HIS (Kirkland's) name would be Surf
for official purposes: that later the
Hon. Samuel Salter said he had con-
cluded to change Kirkland's name TO
Clarence Boyd. and gave him a card
SO inscribed, which name Kirkland
signed to the returns.
al. That "a persons whose names
we're included In the 200 fraudulent
votes FIRST deposited. honestly voted
later: that they we're given specimen
ballots. which afterwards were identi-
fed and thrown out in order to keep
the count straight.
ONLY 124 HONEST VOTERS.
"12 That 800 citizens were returned
as having voted, whereas in fact only
124 had done so.
"13 That when the polls closed Jo-
seph G.. Rogers, lieutenant OF the
Washington police. paid George Kirk
land SIS as wages for his day Of sup
posed crime
"All this, as we have said, Is but
beginning The case as 1t develops in
the courts will take wider reach. The
larger scoundrels OF the machine are
not to escape.
"Israel w. Durham owns the Sew
enth ward. Salter and Seger are his
deputies No systematic frauds can
be perpetrated at an election in that
ward without the knowledge of this
trio Of typical machine politicians.
Their regular relation to fraud is illu-
strated by the facts which the North
American has proved as to Salter
Seger and Salter are as close to Israel
w. Durham as Israel w Durham Is
TO NJ s. Quay in Philadelphia and to
Stone in Harrisburg, where Durham,
as commissioner OF insurance, sits as a
member of Governor Stones cabinet
In the course of the same editorial
the North American says:
THE North American invites the at
tention OF the people of Pennsylvania
and Of the United States to the condi-
tion OF things disclosed by the facts
brought out in court yesterday. We
have revealed state OF political rot
tennness and moral degradation that
is not exceptional, but which is merely
Indicative Of the regular methods Of
the Quay machine which rules and
robs the state.
THAT this machine Is Intensely pow
| orful nobody In this country. through
| out which It's crimes are notorious. needs
| to be Informed. It's influence caches
widely, and includes the city admins
| tration OF Philadelphia. This adminis-
tration has at It's orders a police force
| numbering $500 men When the North
| American get about exposing and
bringing TO Justice the Washington az
tachment of the machine which it uacs
| for repeating and ballot box stufiaG
| we proceeded on the assumption that
the first condition of svCce3- vas to
keep the police of Philadelphia IL IL
| norance Of what fse werC doing. THIS
was deemed ns important az thgt inH
| gang of LiecicJaut i,9gert siSgH f1-
suspect the real character OF the North
| as-,.rf tyHn had lppu NO.