The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-29
THE MUNCIE TIMES PRINTS
SOME STARTLING STORIES
VOTERS SENT To.THE FAIR
Zig Four Tickets as Free as Water
-Four Thousand Given Away
-Slush Fund

The Muncie Times prints the fol-
lowing startling article concerning 4
Democratic attempt to deport Re-
publican voters in Delaware county:
A gigantic plot presumably of the
State Democratic committee, has
been unearthed in the city for send
ing out of the state Republican vot-
ers. From Connersville there have
been sent already at least twenty
men who We're to vote the Republican
ticket and 1t is stated that the ennis
saries of the Democratic party, liber-
ally supplied with money and rail
way tickets, have been working hard.
The objective point in most instances
is Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is said several
thousand Big -Four tickets have been
distributed to committees in the state
principally in the cities having a
large colored population, and that
next week the colored voters and 9th
ers who can be induced to leave the
state will be furnished with free
transportation to the st. Louis Fair.
This morning committee from the
Republican headquarters was sent
out to counteract the work OF the
Democrats and some Roadway is be-
ing made. A number of men who
had been supplied with railway tick
cts and money to go to other places
have been STONED and induced to re-
main in the city.
Tickets Over ingalls, Road.
All the tickets given out, accord
ing to information furnished, calls
for transportation over the lines Of
the. Big Four system, of which. NJ. F.
Ingalls, is president, and it is sus-
pected that the price paid for the
transportation is very small, if any
thing.
1000 Tickets For indianapolis.
Information received from Indi-
annapolis this morning is to the effect
that 1000 railway tickets over the
4
Big Four have been sent to that
place for one-way passage to st.
Louis and that next week they Will
be given to persons who can be in
duced to 60 to the Worlds Fair city.
In other instances, houses are being
rented by the Democratic committee
III various parts of the town and Re-
publican families are being induced
TO move by having their rent paid
end their household goods transport
ed free of cost AT Alexandria it Is
said large number of negro laborers.
have been approached with money
and offers of positions i'll other plac--
es and the colored men are being
sent away from the town every day.
Slush Fund of $250,000.
1t is said that "slusho fund Of
S250,000 donated by the big trusts
and collected by Belmont. Morgan
and others who are working in the
interest of Parker and Davis, has
been sent to this state to be used in
shipping Republican tickets from the
several large cities in the hope Of
losing the state to the Republican
ticket A large amount of this sum
reached Muncie and is now being
placed In circulation. In Corners
vile, where a number of Republican
workers visited this morning, IT was
an open secret that money had been
iavishIy spent in inducing laborers at
the plant of the Republican Iron and
Steel company to go to other towns,
end the same report comes from Ia
ton. Another scheme, according TO
advices at headquarters, will be the
securing of signatures of Republican
voters. principally colored men to pa
pers stating that they claim resi-
denee in other states, cash consid-
Grafton being paid for each signature.
1t is very evident that desperate
effort will be made to kill off thous-
ands of Republican votes in Indiana
in the hope of carrying the state for
The candidates Of the trusts.
The local committee asks that ev-
cry Republican who hears of any
vote buying, payment of money 10
induce Republicans to move or to
leave town. or other Democratic
scheme, report at once to headquar-