Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-12
VOTING OF DEMOCRATS AND NOM
RESIDENTS CARRIES EAST WA
.TERLoo FOR GOVERNOR
FRAUD is CHARGED
More Votes Shown to Have Been Cast
at Republican primary Than Were
!, Noted by All Parties in Presidential
Eiection-state House Squadron AS
sists in Fight.

Waterloo, June 9-(Special to the
Burlington Hawk-Eye)-By polling the
combined republican and democratic
vote at the East Waterloo republican
primary yesterday afternoon, the gov
ernor's flying squadron of state Off
Gals was able to secure a majority OF
1886 over the Perkins-Richards ticket.
The total vote at the primary was:
Cummins, 1858; Perkins, 927. This
makes the total vote of the primary
2,190, or four more than we're cast
here for the republican and democratic
presidential candidates combined in
1904
The Perkins Richards delegation at
once filed notice of contest, and the
dispute will be fought out in the con-
u-yention this. afternoon. Without the
East Waterloo delegation Perkins has
sixty-six delegates in the county, and
Cumnins forty-one, eliminating the
West Waterloo delegation for Cum
Minis, which is also contested on the
ground of gross Irregularities on the
part of the Cummins voters.
Perkins People viii Control.
The Perkins people thus have
enough uncontested delegates to Or
ganize the convention and win ten of
a majority.
The notice of contest filed by the
Perkins Richards delegation in East
Waterloo alleges that several men on
the Cunnmins delegation are not re-
publicans; that they were not selected
by majority of the republican voters,
the apparent majority being brought
oh NV he Of
cialists, illegal voters and votes cast
by non-residents; that the ballot box
contained more ballots than the
clerks records showed were cast; that
the credentials of the delegates were
prepared and signed before the full
record of the caucus was completed
and that the credentials were prepared
by Alfred Longley, who was not a
judge of the caucus, at the Gictation OF
n. D. Chassell, Of LeMars, a non-resi
dent, and w. Weaver, of Iowa Falls
also nonresident This notice OF
contest was signed by w. F. Parrott
George e. Lichty and Julian Richards
on behalf of the Perkins Richards dele
cation.
Ballot Boxes Stuffed.
When the primary officials came tc
check up the ballots found in the bal
lot boxes it was discovered that there
were eighty-three more cast than the
clerks had records of voters. In ex
PLANTATION of this the two clerks signed
an affidavit that they were unable to
keep their records up with the call o.
names of voters. but this only tends t.
further inValidate the entire record o.
the election as it is an admission thai
the records of the voters is grossly in
correct.
The primary election officers made
a record of only the names given b,
voters. They were not required t.
state their residence, preference o.
qualifications. Thus there was abso
lutely no check on repeaters or illega
voters
AS all the voting was done at a sin
gle polling place for the two wards O
East Waterloo and East Waterloo
township it was impossible to kee]
tab on the identity of the 2190 voters
and challenges had to be given up aft
er an unsuccessful effort to thus stol
the illegal voting.
A Phenomenal Vote.
The total Roosevelt vote in 1904 wa
only 1,611 for East Waterloo, and tn
vote at the republican primary yestel
day exceeds that by 529
Manager w. w. Miller, of the. Cum
minis machine here had predicted tina
they would vote $500 men at the pr
mary, and he came near making goo
his estimate. 1t was conceded by eve
the Cummins leaders that they wer
beaten up to seven O'Clock in the ever
ing.
At that time about 1000 votes ha
been cast, which is the normal repul
hcan vote, and the Perkins Richard
people had by far the best of that vote
AS soon as it grew dark, howeve