The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-06

Efforts of Fusion Democrats TO Change
Vote i'm Dawser County.

Efforts Of Fusion Democrats to Change
Vote in Dawson County.
The desperate Efforts of the fusion
democrats to capture the vote Of Mon
tana by unfair methods was shown q
few days ago when the affidavit OF
John X. Perrault was received in
Butte. Perrault was one of the men
sent by the f~usionists to colonize
Dawson county i'm the interest OF
Thomas p. Cullen, the fusion candi-
date for state senator.
Nearly d month ago the republican
central committee learned that several
men had been sent from Anaconda and
Butte to Glendiye and the proof was
obtained that w. M. Bickford, one of
the fusion managers In Silver Bow
county, had furnished the transporta-
tion for the men. It is also alleged
that arrangements were made by the
fusion managers by which the men
We're TO be boarded at the Yellowstone
hotel in GIendive. They were to re-
main there and vote for the fusion
ticket.
The affidavit of Perrault is as fol-
lows:
State of Montana, County of Daw-
son. / John K. Perrault, of the city
of Anaconda, Deer Lodge county, state
of Montana, on oath, do say:
THAT on or about the last day of
September, A. d.. 1900, and while at
xunr1. i'm ANara.do rae .,nalnI
by q man who said: ttDoa't you
want 9 better job than yon have now
1 said: 4 don't savyy, and he re-
piled: a job that will pay 80. 80 d
day 1 asked him on what security
he would give me to leave a job that
would pay S3-a steady job. He re-
piled that We will give yon 80. 80 a
day and guarantee a good job when
yon come back
lin October, in company with
seven others, ! went to Butte and
went inbe an Office there, where we
me- a man whom / don't know. Int
later learned that bis name was Bick-
ford. He told us that we were to
have S3. 30 per day for our time here
and ~ while down at GIendiye, which
would be $5. 80 out Of which cur board
would be deducted, and he thought
that it would be 10 cents a day, We
understood from the party il Butte
that this vas a political move.
ION the afternoon Ut October B.,
1900, myself aud seven others left
Butte, one of the party having charge
of as had the tickets, We arrived at
Glendiye October A.. and registered at
the Yellowstone hotel. BickfoFd told
the party in charge Of us that a tele-
gram Would be sent to a person in
Glendiye 10 Look after us and take
of us, When we wanted money
all We had to do was 20 touch the but
ton, all the same dr. electricity,
sayyy?' and We got the stuff,
I'VE received the money here from
w 4, Jordan, have received from
him $40.
II registered at Glendiye and was
SWORN and signed a paper at the time.
~ understood what you read about
the constitution and law of your state.
but have not been in the state a
year. / will lack a few days Of il. g.
from Michigan and was work
ing in Anaconda before came here,
| have got all / want Of this sttae and
wanf 10 get out.
1.-The understanding in the office in
was that we were 10 get our
from w, II. Jordan at Glendiye, |
We have boarded at the Yellowstone
hotel and roomed IN the old Merchants
bank building,
ZIP to this time no one has sHg-
that we 90 to work, AMI moth
ing has been said about work to any
IF Ms, to my knowledge,
1--WE were TO get $3, 30 per day from
october 3 until our return to Butte,
and the ~ per day less the
BOARD, we were 10 receive nj Glen
live, and WE were charged ~ per day
Tor board. We were to have free
transportation back to Butte and $b
f1T expenses, /
(signed) HIohn y, PerraHlt,
nSHbscFibed and sworn to before
no this seth day Of October, a, p,,
900,
fsigHedl 'Charles y, Bean,