Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1912-05-02
THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1912.
ELECTIONS IN THE NINTH.
CHAPTER TWO.

t-Sc tuaI we WOuiu publish IN THIS week
issue chapter two about Elections In
The Ninth" We now proceed to COM
ply with that promise.
Last week chapter one was concluded
with mention of fraudulent ballots that
were used in Pulaski, Russell and Dick
enson counties at the election of 1900
We declared that the ballots used in
those counties upon their face show
they were intended to be used fraudu-
lently," and that they were so used.
Below we copy part of the ballot used
in Russell county.
From the Official Ballot for Russell
County, Election Tuesday,
November, 6, 1900
For President:
William Mckinley, of Ohio.
For Vice-President:
Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York.
Electors at Large
Warren S. Lurty, of Rockingham.
George W. Butler, of Warwick.
For District Elector: First District S.
B. Hsrdwick, of Westmoreland.
Second District, John ]. Deyer, of
Southampton.
Third District, Jonas Marcuse, of
Richmond City.
Fourth District, R. Boiling Wilcox, Of
Prince George.
Fifth District, NJ. D. Martin, of Car
roll.
Sixth District, Jacob S. Bear, of Roa-
noke county.
Seventh District, Samuel j. Hoffman,
of Shenandoah.
Eighth District, NJ. K. Lowry, of
Stafford
Ninth District, D. F. Bailey, of
Washington.
Tenth District, E. L. Mattice, of
Rockbridge.
For Representative in the Fifty Sew
cath Congress OF The United States,
From the Ninth Congressional District
OF Va, William F. Rhea, of Bristol.
For President:
William jennings Bryan, of
Nebraska.
For Vice-Presldent:
Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois.
Electors at Large:
William Hodges Mann, of Nottoway, ].
L. Jeffries, of Culpeper.
For Diotrief Erlao%ore. E,--A
T. J. Downing. of Lancaster.
For Second District, John Whitehead,
OF Norfolk City.
Third District, S. L. Kelly, of Rich
mond City.
Fourth District, Robert Turnbull, of
Brunswick.
Fifth District, Eugene Withers, Of
Danville.
Sixth District, Graham Clayton, of
Bedford.
Seventh District, R. S. Parks, Of
Page.
Eighth District, L. H. Machen, Of
Fairfax.
Ninth District, R. T. Irvine, of Wise.
Tenth District, Pembroke Petit, of
Fluvanna.
For Representative In The Fifty
Seventh Congress Of the United States,
From the Ninth Congressional District
Of Va, James A. Walker, OF Wythe.
1t will be seen from the above exhibits
that the name of William F. Rhea was
placed at the foot of the republican
ticket and the name of James A. Walk
er was placed at the foot of the demo-
cratic ticket. That this was not done
accidentally is proven by the fact that
the name of William F. Rhea was placed
at the bottom of the republican ticket
on the official ballots in two other coun-
ties-Pulaski and Dickinson. General
Walkers name was put at the foot of
the Prohibition ticket on the Pulaski
ballot, and his name was placed at the
bottom of the democratic ticket in Dick
enson. In that election all the ballots
were marked by democratic Judge, as
republican judges were never permitted
to enter the booth with voter. There
was never anything done that was in
tentionally more crooked than the prep
aration and use of these ballots in Rus
sell, Pulaski and Dickinson counties.
The perfectly obvious intention was to
fool the republicans and to fraudulently
procure their votes for Rhea. For inst
snce, down in Russell county, when an
uneducated republican would enter the