Evening journal., 1900-11-03
BIG SCHBME
Oh A FRAUD
UNhARTHhD
Democrats Had Planned a
Daring Method Of Carry
ing the Election
INITIALS TO BIZ FORGED
Desperate Scheme to Gain Republican
Votes Discovered by Repub-
lican Committees
lTO OPERATE THROUGHOUT STAT.
Will be Tried Positively in Whit
CIay Greek and Pencader Hun
dred Election Districts
10 OPERATE THROUGHOUT STATE

Desperation has set Democrats to
thinking as TO how they may commit
the most glaring and daring frauds on
election day. Republicans have sus-
pected that the leaders of the Demo
cratic party would resort to desperate
means to carry the election through
out the state. and have kept a
careful watch on them. From Demo-
cratic source they have unearthed an
endless chain scheme of buying and
making themselves sure that Republl-
can voters will cast ballots in the way
that they have planned. Had not the
plan been discovered it is probable
that the scheme would have worked.
The scheme was intended to be
worked particularly on colored voters,
the plan being to have the ltepubll-
can voters cast Democratic ballots by
trick.
The scheme positively is to be con-
Quoted in White Clay Creek and Pen
cader hundreds where the Republi-
cans have been apprised of the inmost
workings of the Democratic tricksters.
The scheme is this: The Democrats
are to establish headquarters in each
district at some place near the polls.
The assistants to this machine are to
induce the Republican voters to the
headquarters and there they will be
kept until ready to vote.
The Democratic machine will start
the endless chain fashion OF voting by
procuring a genuine ballot but which
will be blank and Will not bear the
initials of the election clerks. a trust
ed Democrat and good penman is to be
sent into the polling place with this
ballot which hewill have concealed lie
will be given a ballot bearing the ini-
tials of the clerks by a clerk and will
enter the booth. Then he viii draw
from his pocket the ballot which he
brought from the machine headquar-
ters and with a fountain pen which he
will have with him will forge on that
ballot the initials of the clerks in the
lproper place. Then he viii place the
genuine ballot in his pocket. and win
place the forged ballot in the ballot
box before the inspector and judges
land since the procedure apparently
has the evidence of being genuine, he
will be recorded as voted" by the un-
! suspecting Republican election officers
and by the knowing Democratic Off
GERS.
Leaving the polling place this trust
ed Democratic voter viii go directly to
the headquarters of the Democratic
machine, having with him the ballot
bearing the genuine initials of the
clerks Of the election. Arriving at the
headquarters this ballot will be
stamped in the space containing the
q pillow by a genuine flve-pointed rubber
stamp with which the Democrats have
already been provided.
Now begins the endless chain oil
making votes and obtaining proof that
, the voter trusted with the genuine bal
= lot has voted. The Republican who is
! to be offered money for his vote is tC
, be brought forward in the Democratic
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headquarters and the genuine ballot
q will be given to him. He viii b,
promised an amount of money which
will be paid only on proof that he had
voted the Democratic ticket. This
proof is to be established in this man
! ner. When this voter goes to the poll.
he viii keep the genuine ballot con.
cealed until he gets into the booth. II
the meantime. however. another genu
inc ballot viii be handed TO him by The
. clerks of the elections and this ballo
also viii bear the genuine initials o
the clerks. Upon entering the boot
the voter will draw the ballot pre-
pared by the Democratic machine from
+ its place of cOncealment and will with
c out unfolding either place the ballo
G received from the election clerk in it
o place Then he will come out of thi
G booth and deposit the ballot prepare,
j. by the Democrats in the balot-bol
and will be recorded as voted"
: In order TO get his money this vote
s must take the ballot which he obtain
ed from the election clerk to tn,
e Democratic headquarters. The ballo
(. will of course bear no marks excep
o the initials Of the clerks and the proc
T. wild thus be established.
e This last ballot taken to the Demo
S lcratic headquarters will be prepared
q and will be given to another Republi
can, who will go through the same
procedure as the first Republican
voter. In this way the plan could b'
d kept up indefinitely with no possibilit.
p of detection had not the scheme beer
discovered.
The scseme would no doubt have
been worked in every district through
out the state. The Republicans have
d made preparations to watch thesl
L tricks and viii cause the arrest of the
first man who is found practicinl
them. At every polling place an oil
Ger will be stationed to detect thu
fraud.