The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-05

spend it say that there was never a finer
distribution, not even excepting 1896,
when ii was something phenomenal.
circular written in typewriter in. ia
tion, which the sender was wiss enough
not to sign. but which was addre ssed TO
a prominent Republican, came into the
hands of the Democratic COMMITTEES the
past week. 1t contained no preliminaries,
but simply gave instructions as to how
to defeat the Australian Ballot law. and
buy votes and be assured that they stayed
bought, ,'the money not to be paid till the
vote was cast and assurance secured that
it aad been east right
The scheme is 10 forge one ballot. send
the bought voter into the booth with the
forged ballot marked, then not pay him
tin he has delivered to the buyer the
signed ballot deliFered to him by the cleo
ton ofiCecs, this ballot TO be used by
the next bought voter, who in turn viii
bring out another signed ballot.
The Democratic Committee has in Us
possession figures to show that in 1896.
east for the Republican ticket The fig
ures are as conclusive as if they had been
furnished by Chairman Dawson, OF the
Republican Committee. They also show
that these votes were cast in the solid
Republican counties. while the election
machinery was n the hands of the Repub
licans. The same devices are TO be tried
again next Tuesday, but they viii not
work this time Following the lead
of Richard Croker and Chairman
Jones the Democratic Committee has
set punches of Democratic watchers at
every polling place in dangerous dis
trict, whose duty it will be to see that
every Illegal voter is arrested the mo-
ment he offers to vote. The persons max
ing the arrests win not have to bear the
onus of prosecution. for the committee
has reserved an ample fund to Iook after
all that Furthermore, any Democrat
who may make a mistake in his zeal to
stop an illegal voter will be reimbursed
for any damage he may sustain.
With a fair election the Democratic cleo
tors will get at least 7.0oQ votes more than
their Republican opponents The Demo
cratic poll, taken with the utmost care,
and complete for every county, revised
carefully shows that the Democrats have
majority Of over 5000. Some of these
may be lost. but with all contingencies ac-
counted for, the result cannot fall below
1900, with fair election, and that is wnat
the managers Of the party are determined
to have.
The Legislature is sure to be Democratic
no matter what the State does for the ma
tfonal and State tickets. The Republican
split in the Third district, and in Kanawha
county and the repair Of the factional fight
among the Democrats in Lewis and Tay-
Legislature will stand.
In the First Congressional district, it
will be close, with the chances in favor Of
the Republicans. In the Second. Col. Tom
Davis has put up wonderful fight, and
reports from every county in it show that
he will win by a bigger majority than the
district has given in years In the Third,
Judge Johnston, who was elected two years
ago by good majority, is as good as elect
ed. His opponent, Gaines, the former Re
publican district attorney, is weak. and is
not liked. Besides Judge Johnston's popu-
larity, he is in a Democratic district
Hughes, Republican, in the Fourth district,
has a bad labor record to overcome, while
Collins, Democrat is the most popular man
in the district. He will win by a handsome
majority.
AS was said above. all these things de-
pend upon fair election, and the Demo
cratic committee is determined to have
such