The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-19
SEVEN CHARGED
WITH REPUBLICAN
PRIMARY FRAUDS.


| that about 700 more votes had been count
| ed against Boettger than there were bal
lots In the boxes.
BALLOT BOX DISAPPEARS.
Boettser was Becker judge yesterday.
When the returns, from his district. the
| Second. were counted. 1t was found that
the Becker delegation had 1873 votes and
| the Bartholdt delegation 3l. leaving the
Indians out of consideration: Boettger and
| his fellow-B Becker officials signed the re-
turns under protest.
On the way to the City Hall the Becker
| officials learned that the Bartholdt-Dutzi
| delegation had carried the other precinct
by vote of 262 to lie. thus giving Bar
| tholdt the ward by a vote of 39G to 25i.
BY the time the polling place officials had
reached the Election Commissioners Of
fee the leaven had worked.
Fred Hutzfeldt, the Dutzi judge, had
the ballot box containing the ballots and,
according to him, Boettger had the box
containing the official returns. Whoever
had II walked out of the Election Com
| missioners' office and failed to return.
Secretary EllSpermann refused to accept
the Hutzfeldt box without the other.
Clerks at the Commissioners office had
remained until midnight waiting for the
ballot box to be brought in. when a watch
man at the City Hall found it in a hall
way.
The returns. it is said, had been changed
from 13s to 4SS votes against Bartholdt or
enough to defeat him in the Seventh
Ward
The Bartholdt managers at once an
nounced that they would demand an in
R-I
guilty of forgery.
This will probably result in n contest at
Clayton to-day. when 1t will be up to the
Congressional Committee to fix the tenn
porary roll of the convention, as it is con-
sidered certain that Becker will contest
the Seventh Ward. What excuse his sup
porters will offer for decamping with the
ballot box is not known. With one side
caught using Indians and the other side
with a missing ballot box, Seventh Ward
politics is considered to have reached the
limit
Bartholdt delegations won by big
maiorities in both the First and Nine
teenth wards. where there were contests.
In the First it was by vote of $50 10 IS
and in the Nineteenth by 523 to 49,
FRED ESSEN TO DECIDE.
Politicians agree that it is up to Fred
tho,at .t,oI, hac,, =, C,,~
r1,a- p.,,r,bor. oo,,tsarss T.,
,-ira :. 49, 49, -. -. . '
os+i,.,,, ,f ,ho-ec,o,asas.,,,. = 'tte
sac,,rs ~. ra-,,t,,oI ~ pos,r,a..a =. w
po,,robors haIna ,oora I,hio,, tt,o,. t,,'o
determined to settle by a mutual eI,mjna-
tion.' II possible.
NO ISSUE mas oeeh raised against Bar
have a hard fight ON h,s hands I'd, w.
less Essen stays with him. Otto Stifel
withdrew from the race for district dele
gate In favor of Essen, a political move
which Bartholdt's friends claim should ba
rewarded.
Charges of bribery and corruption have
been made in connection with the conyen-
ton, though none OF. II has come to the
surface. >Congressman Bartholdt has been
home a week attending to his fences Fed
eral officeholders have been active in his
behalf Friends of the Worlds Fair also
have shown their appreciation of his work
on behalf of its legislation by using their
influence. Caucuses innumerable have
been held.
kccordinp 70 --o,-,r,. -rh,.h
announced son,s t,r,a q -, E,ro5 I,,s., ga
louis p Aloe would ho ~. 5I.t-i,, daIo-
gates to tho N,tiora1 Con,ort,on 7, 10
said that nerbans Otto s,IfeI NAV re-entor
the rare -tbouyh tb,s bos not ha.r do,or-
mined. His friend. cav that he will rot do
so excent ,nder certain oorti,,anc,s.
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WIN the exception OF two nights In Clay
ton between white men and negroes and
the .rrest of Horny Arnold negro The
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weber oniy one hs' Oh names was voted
Upon.
IN bonhomme township there was To-
cal nsht ana TWO sets Oh delegates were
voted on. Inc winning ticket contained
tne names OF ). ID. Dletrlcn' 1onn "A. MY
ers' lheooore heese anu herman stemme.
OF Henry Bopp' ). u. hisKaooon' oscar
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