The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-04
a MOST REMARKABLE CLAIM.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing that
the Sentinel has said of late is that the
Democratic party IS the party which stands
for fair elections. Beginning at home, there
is never a contest in a Democratic primary
in indianapolis in which one faction does
not charge another faction with fraud i'm
voting, counting and returning votes. At
the county convention last week, when no.
body wanted nominations, one reputable
Democrat who was a candidate for the
Legislature practically charged fraud
against the officers of the convention Has
the Sentinel forgotten the tally-sheet frauds
in Marion county few years ago, which it
/ defended? Has it forgotten that Green
Smith set aside the choice of the people
as the presiding officer Of the Senate in the
| face OF a decision of the Supreme Court
that the election was valid? Has it for
gotten the story of the tslly-sheet frauds
in Cincinnati few years ago, with which
its friend. the Enquirer had something TO
90? Has it never heard of the report of
| the grand jury in st. Louis few months
| ego by which it appeared that under Dem
| ocratic officers more than 1900 bogus
names were added TO the voting lists and
voted on? Has the Sentinel forgotten about
| the GoebeI law in Kentucky, by which the
selection of election officers was taken from
| counties and vested in a state board? Has
| it forgotten the famous letter of that now
sterling and very noisy Democrat, Henry
! Watterson, TO that millionaire New York
Democrat, Mr.. Belmont, a director of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, before the
election of Mr.. Goebel? 1t would not be in
teresting reading. but in it Mr.. Watterson
| did say in plain words that the Goebel law
was devised 10 elect Democrats, and 1t was
so well devised that no majority that could
be cast against Goebel could defeat him.
Did the Sentinel never hear of the election
in 1899 in Kentucky when the vote for state
officers was thrown out on the pretext
that voters were prevented from voting by
a military company, while the same votes
for members of the Legislature because
OF the gerrymander of the districts in that
county. were counted?
If the Sentinel has not heard of these
| Democratic frauds against the ballot box
| III Jul Vicinity II lOl lilduc a proper
use of its exchanges and the news of the
| Associated Press. Going away from home
the Sentinel. If it looks after the matter,
will find that Democratic ascendency is
usually the result of fraud. Tammany's
record is one Of ballot-box infamies, as sew
eral Investigations have shown In the
Democratic States Of the South there is
but one party to-day because voting is
played out" The chief reason assigned
for the Acknowledgement of the colored
voters in the South is that the Democrats
had become tired OF perpetrating election
frauds. That excellent Democrat often ap-
plauded by the Sentinel-the chairman OF
the committee which made the last Bryan
platform-has boosted in the Senate time
and again that the negro vote had been
suppressed by counting him out and shoot
ing him out. In the black district OF Ala
bama, where no black any longer registers
or votes. the largest Democratic majorities
in recent years have been obtained by reg
istering names and counting votes on them.
Weary of that, the whole colored vote has
been disfranchsed. Has the Sentinel not
heard of the frauds by which Mr. German
has got into the Senate again? The official
ballots given TO Republicans were printed
on tissue paper so that the marking of
them would show through the paper, and
this was a pretext TO throw out scores OF
votes in close counties.
But time and space would fail one before
he had begun the story of Democratic
crimes against the ballot box and against
suffrage. Democratic ascendency is a rec
ord Of suffrage suppression and OF ballot
box frauds
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