Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-08-31
PURITY
In the Ballot Has Been a Cam
paiSn Cry.
BERNARD AND DOODLE Bet
TER TERMS.
Quiet NOrk Is Going on al ALI Stale
Headquarters.
FORAKER AND DEPEW ARR A STRONG
TEAM.
Bryan and Hin are Expected nj nemo-
cratic state Opening.

cratic state opening.
Special to the Leader
Columbus. Ohio. August 30-The
Bryan Democrats the country over are
confident of the election of their chief
tain to the presidency If they can only
secure an honest election and a fair
count. 1t is truly the party of purity
and honest reform. King Lewie Ber-
nard made the statement few days
ago that Bryan would have carried
Ohio in 1896 if he had received in the
count the ballots which had honestly
the Ohio election law. Bernard is
bitter partisan, and he does not like
anything which is non-partisan. The
election boards under the law are non
partisan, and Secretary of State Kin
ney, who, by irtue of his office, ap-
points the various county boards. Mr..
Bernard's remarks were a direct insult
to the intelligence and honesty of the
men who composed these election
boards in the various counties of the
state. AS a matter of fact the result of
the election in Ohio last fall was
reputation of Mechanism and Bern
ardism, but proceeding on the theory
that there was fraud (?) in Ohio last
fall and in 1896 the Democrats have
gone into court and are seeking to com
pei Secretary Ct State Kinney to ap-
point persons to membership on the
boards of elections, whom the honest
Democrats of the counties dc not want,
and against whom protests were filed
with the Secretary of State. The cleo
tion laws provide that the Secretary of
State shall make these appointments
upon the recommendation of the coun
ty central committees of the two par
ties, but where they fail to agree upon
man, the Secretary of State is auth
orized to make the appointment. The
whole trouble is due to factionalism in
the Democratic party. The one is
afraid to trust representative of the
other as one of the Democratic mem
bers of the board. The real cause of
the trouble is that Democrats are dis
trustful of one another.
DIsFRANCHIsEMENT OF VOTERS.
With the cry of fraud on one hand
and vast pretentions to honesty and
purity in elections, the Democrats of
Ohio, are secretly applauding the re-
cent work of the Democratic leglsla-
ture in North Carolina in disfranchis-
cratic legislature of Kentucky has just
been convened in extraordinary session
for the purpose of making more obnoX-
ious the Goebel election law which has
already resulted in the death of its
author whom it was intended to ben.
eft and many others, besides the CON
viction and sentencing of innocent per.
sons to the penitentiary by system ol
perjury, which would only be permit
ted by court which was organized tc
convict without regard to the facts ir
the case These are the methods which
prevail in some of the states south O
the Mason and Dixon line, and which
are justified and applauded by the Dem
ocrats of some of the northern states
where the honest conduct of the elec
tions have never been called into ques
tion except by demagogues of the Bern
, ard variety. The result of the elec
tion in Ohio last fall was due to tn,
personality of the opposing candidate
for governor, and the principles TO
which they stood The result in 1879
was likewise due to the anarchists
principles for which the Democrats
party declared in its platform and tn
issues involved in the campaign ar
= made issues in the pending on
1 through the simple reaffirmation of tn
Chicago platform. The pretentions Q
4 Ohio Democrats to honesty in election
\ are laid bare in the frauds which ar
being practiced upon the franchis
I rights of Republican voters in some q
d the states of the south. AS in Mort
i Carolina, the colored voters of Ken
e lucky are to be likewise disfranchiset
QUIET WORK.
While there have been no surface in
dications that campaign is on
A Ohio, and will not be until Senate
Foraker fires the opening gun at tn
= Youngstown meeting, the fat
/, of the matter is chat tn
work of organlzatin is prt
= ceeding quietly at Republican stat
n headquarters under the direction {
State Chairman Dick. This work Is
d charge of Colonel Jake Donaldson an
& Senator Samuel l.. Patterson, in who
e, Chairman Dick has the most absolu
!. confidence. A large number of clerl
are also at work sending out circular
and campaign literature. forwarde
from the national Headquarters, an