The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-11-03

Lexington, KY, OcpbIar 27..-Scanda
stalks through kentucky and thr1 a--
ems to overthrow the carefully laid
plans of Dsmccras ito buy dha forth
coming guIbsrna.orial and legislative
election.
1t was laarned here today THAT d. s.
Johnson, manager CT tIhe johnson De-
tactive agency of Cincinnati, has had
SCORE. of dslectiv working thhroug
out the slate for ths Mast two Wi SKIS,
gathsning Iavidence and affioavits in
cases to be pnes srtad IN half dczln
courts.
The arrsst here OF II. S. SaraScha
was the opening gun lin the crusade
against the alleged plan for whole
sale purchase of the "a ction
Some time ago it b,came known
CHAT Democratic lead-rs, Desperate at
the lack of enthusiasm for thu Nc
Or airy ticket decided 1T would be
nsc sssary TO git two hundred negro
.regisration csntificaEs in every Hcwn
If over 5000 inhabitants I'm tho S5ase
in ordar TO insure dine elac:Ilon of thlir
ticket.
In the past money has baan SO sue
cassfully used that thae was no fear
of consnquences and SO ,bna4en weru
the attempts to corrupt che Electorate
and the in5stigation of Detective john
son and his assistants has rssuAted
in tracing negotiations ba.wElsm fllilu.r-
ate gross and police and o.hsr Gift
cials inharesb5d in this continuance of
, Democratic domination.
DdCrAGRAPH USED.
Through the uss of Negro spies and
this dlctagiaph. the mysterious insJru-
mert which was so startling and ef-
facsiysly used i'm the LHg.sla una graft
casas i'm Columbus, o., De.ectlve john
son succeeded in securing confessions
from number of the n-grdss who had
sold their voting certificates.
+, When comfronttd with their own
sro,ds aiken down by a stenographer
81 +h., oth.r end of the dictagraph,
MANY 90 +,e. .1,~ rs broke down and
iis1iDy on Ono hesh~ - hao,, j.,
confessed, impllcaatils ~ 's" !"
the councils of Democracy )" w
town affectad. 49,
The announcement chat Tho da.ac--
tives are armed with affidayits from
a number of ngreoes who have sold
THAR citaflcates has CAUSED panic
in the Democratic camp, both among
those who have b,en engaged in the
work of buying up regishation and
among. THE negroes who ware not
awerae Ito securing SO, the pravailing
price for the privilege of voting.
The crusade was started Oct. 3,
and among the cities i'm which con-
fessicns and affidauits have been Sc,
cured are Frankfort. Lexington, Ash
land, Mount Sterling. Hop1inswilla.
and others.
Henderson. She'bywlle. Cate1tsburgI
JOHNSON is RETIclSNT. II
When saan at his hota here to-
night ID. S. Johnson, head Of the
cineinnati dslectlvs agency which IS
making the Investigation, w2s nverse
to discussing the situation lbut III
nally admiuted that his operatives had
been at work i'm seusraa Kentucky
towns for nearly month and that .
the nasnlts .of their combined work
had been very satisfactory. il
He admitted he had securad a mum
ber of affidavits from nagnoes who
bad sold registration csludficates and
laid there would be sansatiopaa do
all along Tive line whan
he got ueady to spring dlhs information
ke already has in hand. Nv
Late today 1t baoame known that
johnson yesterday called ON the Mt
tornay general OF the State and was
closetad with that official for swer-
Al housand II rs rwporod hssne Tonight
that as neanlt Of that oonfenancs
the prosecuting attorneys of several
coaintins will be asked TO call for
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