The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

lighted and then the bundle of ballots was opened by Granger. Then Granger said he would tear off the the first or tep perforated strip with the number on it of | each ballot, and then we took off the sec ond numbered perforated strip. and all the strips were laid on the back of a chair After they were all off Mir. Grang- | CT put them all in his pocket, except three which took unknown to him.
 Then Miss Beswlck said the ballots must be marked as she said. She took perhaps a third of the whole number, and she marked two with the word Re publican in the blank space at the top of the ballot where the voter is supposed to write the name of the ticket he votes: another "Old Soldiers one Socialist one Peoples Party and one Peoples Demo- crat.' Then we all three wrote in the rest of the 125 ballots the different styles of handwriting. writing the words Dem ocrat,' 'Democratic,' Democracy and the Democratic Ticket in the blank space. wrote two of the ballots with my left hand so as to disguise my handwriting. <" They numbered and folded the ballots, and each took charge of some of them. On Monday Miss Beswick came for Mrs. Muhleman, and they drove around visit ing the women who were to do repeating and giving them instructions. A Mrs. Pritchard joined the two women, and they made the ballots correspond with the pollbooks which they had. The Democrat ic clerk for the precinct. Johnnie Bremen, came in to get his orders from Miss Bes- wick.
 Miss Beswick's Tireless Activity.
 Miss Beswick's last job that day was to arrange Q scheme by which the Re. publican judge of election was to be busted and a Democrat put in his plac9. Miss Bcswick was 10 insist that Young. the Republican judge. go to the court house to get a registration certificate. While he was gone she would elect Stodegale a Democrat, to his place, and when YonnE came hack hs would h" kept outside the twenty-five foot limit. Granger reported tc Miss Beswick. and | that fertile worker told him she had ar- ! ranged to have twenty-five men start fight at the polling place. in the course of which the Republican watchers and | challengers were to be thrown ont. | Lucius W. Hoyt raw five girl repeaters | go in the same polling place and vote | twtc.d within ten minutes. Asked if they were disguised the second time, he said: 'Oh, no; the same dress exactly; the hadn' changed it at all: It was a conspicuous drcss." Hcyt demanded their arrest. but was told to shut up;
 
 and the girls made faces at me and some other pleasantries of that sort"
 A Human Interest Incident. l Miss Sarah k. Stout was a Republican challenger and her testimony shed a | delicious light on the human interest side of woman suffrage. A man came uo and attempted to vote in the namc of d person named Soco. Miss Stout challenge ! him as not being Ecco at 1iI The iudc. es were out of patinece with her "Why do you challenge this mans vote9'' tr+y demanded. Here you are making your ! self ridiculous challe ngeing votes all day and it doesn't do you any good"
 "Mr. SocO used to be my beau" was the crushing answer This man I never saw before"
 "1he judges dropped their heads" shs adds in her testimony. but they let tn ! r2ln vote
 Mss stout's observations about the men who came in to vote under names they had not learned perfectly were acute and entertaining. She told me a. | bout a man who came in to vote under | the name of Stephen something He was q mere boy. and he carefully pronoun- red his name Step Hen"
 She gave the democrats a lot of troIo- le. and at last they resorted to violence.
 Another delightful picture of woman exercising the franchise was contributed bv William H. Medaris:
 l "A lady went to vote. She wanted to vote a Mckinley ticeket They told her there was no Mckinley ticket She sad | she wanted to vote the Roosevelt ticket They said there was no Roosevelt ticket. So after she had gone the judges said: well. we beat you out of one good Re-