Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-15

BryanNs Itinerary MADE Out
Judge Hollis Big Meeting.
Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, October IA.
While the Republican State Com
mittee is still claiming that West vir-
ginia will give a large majority for
the Republican ticket, their claims run
ming anywhere from ten to twenty
thousand, many things are t~ranspiring
to show the insincerity of their claims
| and that they are in reality very much
alarmed as to the outlook.
There has not been a time in the
campaign when the Republicans were
| more busily engaged. The headquar-
/ ters are about the busiest place in
town, and instead of relying on their
claims that the State is safe, the COM
| mittee had added new people to the
clerical force until the entire place Is
| so full of typewriters and clerks that
there is scarcely room to turn u
The literary bureau Is sending out
literature by the ton. Senator Elklnss
| frank, which was used on his Charles
ton speech delivered at the Republican
| State convention, has not been used
since the exposure by Democratic pa
| pers, but RANKED Congressional mat
ter and other literature is sent to
county chairmen in dry goods boxes
to be distributed by them. Speakers
| are securing the whole State and the
Desperation of the Committee
| can be seen when 1t is known that they
| are sending such men as Senator Frye,
of Maine, into the interior counties,
far from any railroads, where he has
to drive. They say that he has adopt
| ed the campaign methods of Judge Con,
but the fact is that the class of speak
ers usually sent to the back ountl
have utterly failed to draw crowds n
in sheer desperation theS are sending
men of national reputation on long
driving trips into the interior, in the
| hope of getting a few scattering votes
in the less thickly populated districts.
When they go hunting for scattering
votes with such big men as the Sena-
tor from Maine, they can hardly have
the faith in their own predictions
which they claim to have.
Another evidence of their desperation
is the
Attempted Use of Money
in securing the appointment of cleo
| ton officers. 1t is not only in Kanawha
county, where the president of the
| County Court was offered $4,000 to vote
with one other member of the cour for
the appointment of what was known
as the Elkins llst of election officers,
that money has been offered for that
purpose. In another county the same
tactics were not only attempted but
were employed, and the member of the
County Court has now the check Of 4
bank president in his possession, dated
the 7th of November, to pay for his
services in naming the election Off
| GERS chosen by the Republican county
committee and for any other services
Of a similar nature that may be re-
CURED of him before that date. The
facts of the case, the amount of the
check, the terms of the written on
tract which was entered into, the nam
of the bank president whose check was
given TO him and all the other details
of the bargain, are known to the Demo-
Gratis and at the proper time there will
probably be some trials for bribery.
In each of these cases the County
Court was Republican and the money
was offered or paid not that Democratic
election officers should be named or
that the Court should name officers of
any party other than dts own, but that
certain persons whom the persons offer
ing the money should name, might be
named for the election of officers. If it is
worth thousands of dollars to Republi-
cans to have certain men conduct the
elections, there must be some special
work for them TO perform. And there
Is but one thing that an election officer
| al do that is of benefit to his political
party.
The colonization of Negro Voters
in various portions of the State Will
be effective unless the proper election
officers are in control on the sixth day
OF next November. Unless they are
allowed to vote, their importation will
have been simply money thrown away,
and the election officers determine
whether the voter shall be allowed 10
cast his ballot. 1t is not known in how
many counties the use of money has
been responsible for the appointment
of election officers, but the fact that it
was used in one county and that an at
tempt was made to use it in another
indicates that it is a part of the Re-
publican programme TO buy the cleo
ton officers all over the State, SO far
as they can, with a view to carrying
the State in one way or another.
! The hold-up of the railroads of the
State by Secretary of State Dawson,
who is also the chairman OF the Re-
publican State Executive Committee, is
an instance OF the misuse OF official
authority and shows TO what lengths
they are willing to go In the effort to
hold on the State and its offices. Last
May the Board Of Public Works, COM
posed of several State officials, whose
duty it is 10 assess the railroad prop
erty In the State for taxation, fixed
the assessment of all the roads Of the
State, but the Secretary of the Board,
Dr. Dawson, has not entered the as
sessment in the minutes of the Board
TO this day, and 1t Is confidently pre-
dicted that no record will be made
Until After the Election.
The railroads may or may not have
been given To understand that the final
figures OF their assessment might de-
pend on their attitude in the cam
paign, but 1t Is certain that there u
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