Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-21

THAT the reimbursement will be made
without repairing the loss, which is
largely personal. One other deduction
can easily be made, and that is, in view
| of the fact that railroad building may
be overdone, every new line projected
should have warrant in it's own ex-
clusive territory of business enough to
sustain it or be SO connected with great
4 lines that it can not fall into disuse.
!
FRAUDS in KENTUCKY.
4 There appears to be little doubt that
frauds We're perpetrated in kentucky to
cariy the state for the democrats. Les
lie Coonlbs, the chairman of the repub-
| lican state committee, has given an in
jteresting description OF the methods by
which Kentucky was carried for Bryan
and Beckham.
We had hoped" said Mr.. Coombs,
that the Goebel democratic leaders had
underestimate the opposition to them,
and that the machine would break down
in places so that we would secure ma
jority that could not be overcome by
fraud. We found, however that the de-
fects displayed last fall had been COR
rected. Their system this year was to
work eight or ten votes in each of the
eighteen hundred precincts in the state.
The fraudulent plurality OF 10000 or 90
600 provided In this way was supposed
to be sufficient to procure Mr. Beck
hams election. 1t was thought this
could be done without attracting such
attention as would expose the plan. The
gress in the Third district broke over
the bounds they had set for themselves
and in the counties of Warren and Lo-
gan fraud was resorted to in the boidest
and most shameless manner something
like 500 ballots being sent up in the bai-
lot boxes in Warren county uneounted
on trivial technicalities, the grounds for
which had been prepared by the election.
officers themselves or by confederates;
while in Logan county. as a sample Of
the method followed. one precinct re-
ported only eighty-seyen republican
votes where over 14O had been cast.
In the Ninth district also the boldsst
frauds We're rife. In Greenup county
one precinct that gave Pugh a majority
of $50 was thrown out by the county
commissioners because the election Off
GERS had failed TO sign the certificate in.
turns were made in regular form III
other respects. while in lsizabethyille
precinct, in Fleming county. which gave
kshoe, the democratic congress candi-
Gate, majority of serenty-one. with
exactly the same defect, was counted
In the Tenth district in Breathitt
county, they refused TO allow either re-
4 publican challengers or inspectors in the
/ booths in one precinct and returned
from that precinct a democratic majori-
its of $50, while there are several less
l the precinct. which is normally repub-
8lican. In another precinct in the same
L county, upon the attempt of the repub-
ilican inspector to oversee the count, the
sheriff took the ballot box and the clerk
/ the stub books and ran away, meeting
/ subsequently, a mile from the voting
place and returning democratic ma
1jority of fifty or a hundred in excess of
| the fact. In the Eighth district, in Mer-
4 Ger county, they made deputy sheriffs
]of the democratic election officers and
put arms and badges upon them for the
i purpose of intimidating voters In Fay
ette county the delay methods were ems
4 ployed in two precincts, sdepriving the
Republicans of between four and five
1 hundred votes. / have with me pho
4 tograph taken Of precinct No. 10, In
| Lexington, at the close of the polls,
showing something like 200 men in line
who had been deprived Of the right to
| vote.
The republican party and It's allies in
Kentucky are not discouraged. So long
as the wrongs exist which are now in
fuencing the political results in that
state. 50 long will we fight to remedy
them. The better element of what was
formerly the democratic party is heart
lily with US in this determinations Near
| ly all that is best Of the old confederate
element, Of the clergy, of the bar, of the
1 professional and of business interests