Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-10-23
WILL BRYAN CONDEMN
ILLEGAL RATION


ticket. In this connection we desire
TO call his attention to an article from
the Denver Post, a Democratic sheet
which supports the Nebraska gentle
men. 1t goes without contradiction
that the most flagrant violations
were practiced in Denver last week.
and that the only salvation of the
Democratic party is TO win by fraud.
And in the face of this w. j. Bryan
Will ask the honest and intelligent
voters cf Colorado to elect men who
are willing to profit by such corrup-
tion. The Herald asserts that no self
respecting man will accept office OBJ
tanned by repeaters and thugs and
this applies to E. C. Stlmson, who
claims to be the embodiment of hon
or. From all reports Mr.. Stimson
and every Democrat on the state
ticket knows full well that their only
hope of election is through carrying
Arapahoe county by large majority
and the entire Democratic machinery
of Denver is being used for the pur-
pose of carrying the election by fraud
and not one word of condemnation do
We ittil llOiu SStIilSOu OF
sanity Teller Mr.. Teller is appar-
emily willing aid in the work of frau
dulent registration. What kind of a
state government can we expect from
people thus elected? Candidates who
stand in with and contribute money
towards fraudulent registration can
be safely placed in the category. Con
oerning the fraud that is being prac-
ticed in Denver we cite the following
from the Denver Post:
The peniteniary doors are yawn-
ing for the men responsible for the
outrageous registration frauds that
have for three days past been bringing
public digrace on the city of Denver
The party that allows such infa-
mics as have been practiced at the
district registration booths is the par
ty in power and the party that has
been making such an active campaign
for the support of the decent law-abid-
ing citizens of the community on
election day. In nearly every district
OF the city the registration lists have
been padded as they were never pad
ded before. Hoboes and members of
the criminal element have been regis
terede under assumed names in one
district, aud then handed to another
district where they are again regis
tered under names selected for them
by the Democratic registration bureau
of fraud. Republican watchers have
been forcibly elected from the vicinity
of the booths.
Men and women conveyed to the
booths in Republican carriages have
been refused their right of franchise
on all sorts of trumped up excuses"
The Democratic party controls the
police department and sheriff's office,
and has a large majority of the regis
tration officers. No other party could
commit frauds If it wanted to, and
every party or individual is powerless
to prevent them with the machinery
entirely in Democratic hands at this
time.
THE trouble for the guilty will
come later, however. The small fry
are doing the dirty work, but Frank
Adams is back of them, and they are
but carrying out his Instructions.
.'R. w Speer has charge of the
corruption fund that is being used to
pay men to do crooked work, and his
hirelings on the board of public works
are standing by and seeing that his
orders are obeyed.
Nobody in Denver is fool enough
to believe that there are four times
as many Democrats as Republicans
in this city.
Yet the direct registration figures
as given out daily by the Democratic
headquarters show that the Demo
Gratis are registering four people to
the Republicans one.
These figures, if there was no
other evidence in sight, ought to be
enough to prove the rottenness OF the
Democratic system in making voters.
In districts II and F, which take in
the tenderloin, the violations of the
election law have been particularly
fragrant.
Yesterday, in Fl. Sullivans and
Higgins districts, the Democratic
clerks registered hoboes two and
three times under different names.
THE Republican watchers who pro-
tested were jostled away from the
place. and policemen in citizens
clothes threatened to throw them in
Jail. The same hoboes were hauled
TO district f and G and registered
there. In F the returns show that
over 600 We're registered yesterday
and AIS the day before.
by the most rapid work on the
part of the clerks, ii is impossible to
register more than 275 people in the
nine hours in which the booths are
open. This proves that padding goes
on to a large extent after the booths
are closed.
Among the evidence which the Re
publican watchers have in their pos
session is one affidavit which says
that Frank Plummer, a saloonkeepel
at Nineteenth and Market streets, in
district II. registered in district A un
der the name of John Walters, and
that he registered eight hoboes who
were not residents of the district.
In district A the total names OF
the books for the day at the close ol
business yesterday was $50. The list
given out for publication by the coun
tv clerk showed that 252 persons were