Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-16

Fowler and In a short time he was again
at the city hall for an Eighth ward afi-
dayit and back again to vote. The man
Fowler was met at the saloon q half block
east Of the polling place.
Lynch also said he voted in the First
ward, being furnished a name by a party
who talked with a man who held a book.
which appeared to be a copy Of the regis
try Of voters.
Easy Up In the Eighth.
at the Mcclellan camp a number OF
persons were met who were willing to
admit that they had visited Omaha on
primary election day, but they we're not
disposed to give the snap away How
ever, they were somewhat disposed to talk
when The Bee representative stated he
had been there and had been sent there
to work and vote for Mercer.
one Of them said he had been to town
and read an Omaha paper in which IL was
stated that graders had been over to
Omaha TO vote and that they might get
into trouble, and thls discussion, cut short
the conversation at supper on the even
ing OF Monday, September 20. That even
ing. at a later. hour, when INDUCING in a
game Of cards, one Of the men gave his
experiences. Hs a6ids 1900
7 made seas that Friday. 1 voted
twfcssfn the Eighth ward. aid was sworn In
Know me. me- 4 tRsm. / got a SIP with
the balance OF the boys .in the milwaukee,
sysiConi % STd i aeptoS Seni lie Il 9bbo hss m IL sSns
apiece. This was directly after the dinner
into a carriage IN Douglas street with two
out TO the Eighth ward, on Cunning street.
back to the corner. We had been told to
yellow pepers IN his hand and would be At
finally one man said THAT'S my name.
and took us outside. The slip I had was
like a railway ticket, and this 1 gave TO
him, NoEton,s name vas printed on the
When II was given me Norton took a book
from his pocket, and running down a list OF
names, wrote the word Fowler" and put
to reach the place. This ticket was taken
by Fowler. who called another party and
sent us to the city hall for ~afidavits. The
and to give any old name. This we did
and got afidavits on which we voted with
out any dificulty whatever. We had 20
held a check book, which we did after
marking them, and a fellow who stood at
Sne s,He jS aG0f before 20 sne we Su oTaWfied A through Ss nu !
hole In the fence 10 get out In the. street,
We all went up the street w-h the man
He thanked us and said that there was no
question but the Mercer side would win.
Asked II he would 60 to Omaha And tell
his story he said: Not me, with the trou-
BILE looking straight at me-
Repeaters Were Numerous.
Inquiry developed that the force at work
along the line between Mihden and Council
| nt..4. -. Al. 4aekr.s O.-t.-.kns - ~.
afternoon, was very small. The graders
started for own early, some refusing to
work in the forenoon. They came in
punches and no less than half a dozen diff.
ferent names Of parties to report to IN
Omaha were given the men by Norton. and
some of the men claim the n4mAe Of ths
parties they were sent to were bogus, be.
cause they heard them called by Othel
names by citizens about the polling places
III found thirty-two persons between Min
den and the Bluffs who were willing to ad.
NIT they had participated in the primaries
In this city, but they were not willing, Of
refused, 60 give the names under which they
voted. They did say they had all thel
wanted to drink. smoke and eat besides re-
oeiving 50 every time rthay voted. In eael
instance they we're sent 20 9 man at . car
tain place, who would have a. big rUli D
yellow papers In his hand. They wolfe
make inquiry as to the name and II proper
the slip would indicate to the worker tina
the bearer and party could be used in an!
manner, provided they we're paid. Thii
seems to have been the plan. On the ap'
pearance of the men at the voting places
they were to be used as time and ineiinh
tion suited the worker.
Did EMective work.
''There is no doubt but that the grading
force was used to good advantage
Scarcely a half dozen of the parties seeI
but admitted they had voted from twOt Il
Ave times. All stated they we're sivei
marked ballots, or someone went with then
30 that they could see, while in the Eight
the voters were compelled to show thei
ticket to u checker. OF the thirty odd per
sons admitting they had been In Omaha I
vote the Mercer ticket. all of them state'
that they had voted from two to Ave times
and they seemed to think they had accom-
plished a good days work for themselves
They claimed there was no difnculty to en-
counter and that they had, or many Q
them had, gone through the same progr4r
or similar ones In other cities for both par
ties. They had little fear Of . hersafteI
but owing to the publicity Of the deal I'm
mediately following the election they con
cluded that the Missouri river was 4 500
thing between them and parties who Nigh
make them trouble"
Record Verify the Disclosures.
Upon receipt Of this report a few day
ago q diligent search was made to verif
! the information and locate the persons i'm
) pllcated. It was found that the party call
ing himself ''WlIl Esaney'' Is not at i6l
Howard street and never resided Their
The building is q three-story brick on ii
I corner OF Sixteenth and Howard street,
Z The occupants Of No. 1913 had commence
4 to move to another locality on Esptembs
|. 10 and we're out OF the building on the dai
5 Of the primary election.
= Upon examination OF the records SC. wa
a found that Essncy had voted at the FourI
ward poll in The Bee building on a eertif
cate sworn to by J. @. Kuhn and +. B.. KeI
nRrd, who testified that they knew him
be a legal voter OF the ward residing At Il
u address given and knew that he was pr
y vented from registering last year BY reaSS
Of absence from the city. Parties who pa
ticlpated In the Eighth ward corrobora
other parts OF the story in several partie'
lars, especially the fact that a plank IN Il
,e fence al the back Of the building mentiOn'
J. WAS missing. 5000