Evening journal., 1912-11-01
GETTING VOTES
WITH PUBLIC MONEY

Sir: Permit me to give SPECIFIC
Incident Of the hypocritical and das-
sardly habit OF the Democratic party
OF Delaware to corruN the voters,
first corrupting aud bnNng the votes
OF voters of their own patty, and any
voters venal enough to be bought by
them; and the outrageous e1ronlery
and duplicity and puhlic-spirit-h -hypo-
crisy of that Democratic party. Ia
buying the allegiance of their own
voters. to their own party tickets at
the expense of the public treasury.
While standing on street corners
praisine their own purity and plead
ing for the purity of the ballot, they
we're buying votes and paying for
them directly from the public treas
ury
ln 1892 the writer held the book as
challenger for Republicans at a poll
ING place i'm Wilmington On the
same election day at the same polling
place c. c held a similar book as
challenger FOR Democrats We two
got along amicably and had pleasant
relations that day and afterward
On election day 1894 the writer was
helping gather in Republican voters
at same district polls Sometime in
the middle of that morning this same
C. G. came to me and said Look
here, have been working out Of
town for a time and p A. H.. the
Democratic committeeman for this
ward wrote TO me TO come home to
vote and he would pay my expenses
came and am here TO vote and now
p A. II refuses to refund my railroad
fare and expenses. Say. If you viii
pay or get me the money for my rail-
road fare I will vote the Republican
ticket for you
I replied NO. Charlie; ] am not
In that kind OF business"
w. T. G.. the Republican committee
man of the ward afterward told me,
he himself refused also TO put up any
money for Charlie
During the morning Willard Sauls-
hurry visited this polling place ana
from a buggy harangued and warned
against fraud, intimidation and brib-
cry. About a half hour later ! had
occasion to go to Republican head
quarters. In the Smith Building, No.
6l0 Market street, TO smooth out
some objection and make sure that
qualified Republican voter should
be allowed TO vote. After finishing
that errand on the second floor com
ing downstairs met this same G.. G.
going upstairs He stopped me and
asked lis Mr. Bach up there and !
replied that J didn't know. that ! had
not seen Mr. Bach.
He went on upstairs and ] went on
back to our polling place don't
know whom he saw. but am sure he
Eot no money there
The treasurer of Republican Coun-
" Committee afterward told me they
had hundreds of Democratic appli-
cants for money and offers 10 vote
the Republican tickets for money pay.
ment One offer was for thirty votes
in a bunch. but the Republican com.
mitee positively refused any sucl
purchasing of votes
About an hour afterward my younl
friend c. G. came down TO our polls
wearing a special constable" badge
and voted, supposedly, the Demo
cratic ticket
Was his vote bought?
I personally know Republicans re-
fused to buy his vote Democrats
bought his vote with a commission a,
special constable, the public treasur,
to pay the bill
September 20. 1894, the Democratic
Gee....ss l,xccesise Ger. .......ess . . Ne.
Castle county. through their chair
man Theodore f. Armstrong and Sec
retary John r, Callahan, formally ad
dressed a letter TO Pierce Gould
sheriff. demanding that he appoin
equal numbers of Republicans and O
Democrats, as deputy sheriffs, fo
election day Of that year, and demand
ing that he appoint Democrats tha
they should name.
Republicans We're opposed to thi
as they saw no necessity to put tn
large expense upon the county, am
after much talk. back and forth, fin
ally, October 27. 1894 Pierce Goult
sheriff a Republican, wrote the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee that h
would not appoint any deputy-sherin
Tor election day, and he kept hi
pledge
There was an agreement on IN
part of the Democrats to have n
special constahles appointed. an
leave the care of the peace of electio
DAY to the ninety special policemen.
remember rightly. appointed by III
bipartisan police commission of Wi
mington--two Democratic and on
Republican Commissioners Gu,
Ean-for Democrats to be
Their agreement to have no sneci
constables appointed was confrms
ty many references in all the paper
and by the discussions of the matt,
by the Police Commissioners an
City Council, and also by the hyp
critical and insincere words of n
Democratic Executive Committee
49, self and the Democratic leaders pr
nouncements against special const
bles
The mouthpiece of the Democrat
party the Every Evening" was
hypocritical and insincere. in its D
sition as the Democratic leaders al
advisers.
October 80, 1894. the Every Eve
ing by its insincerity. editorially /
cited the appointment of Democrat
special constables, two or three da
after the publication of Sher
Gould's letter that he would appoi
no deputy sheriffs by saying in
leading editorial of that date:
1t Is the duty Of the Democra
party TO protect election officers at
etc, ETC. when Democrats alrea
had control of the special policem
appointed
And another editorial further do,
same column called attention and e
phasized its editorial position bv 81
ing, Coy Reynolds was iustifi
under the conditions of two years a
in appointing special constables." et
and insincerely concluding. "W
present prevailing conditions
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