South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-15
SAYS real REASON Is
FRAUD" IN ELECTION.
South Bend. Nov. Is,

Soulh BEND. Nov. Is, 1917.
3 Editor News-Times.
! / want 10 add my Endorsement to
the letter signed "A. NJ. b." as il ap-
I peared in your valuable paper Tues
I day morning with reference to in
suits and slurs directed at Americans
/ of German birth in the recent cam
paign, and then the hypocritical
attempt of the republican newspa-
I per 10 smooth il over. At the same
time, a letter in that same repub-
lican paper, the same day. signed
! "A Democrat presume OF the
I ROstiser-kyser-L Luther Engel- Talbot
| Sullivan type,-eXplaining why Ru-
! dOlph Ackermann was defeated and
DR.. +. r. Carson was elected. also
interests me. 1 want 10 discuss this
I latter letter rather than the former.
"A. NJ. b having done that for
mer substantial justice. while T. be-
! ing one Of the democrats who
/ brought YOU the Kubacki letter. and
translated it 10 you, feel that mas
much as YOU followed my transla-
I ton and report, YOU should be pro-
tected against this So-called demo
Gratis" Misrepresentation
You did not say Fr. Kubacki
preached from his pulpit against
Ackermann and for Carson. You
said ne distributed circulars at the
! service which he did The writer of
that letter prevaricates, but regard
less Of il, the letter is an attempt
TO 'softsoap" FIR. Kubacki and make
of him. if possible, a permanent cog
i'm the republican machine by tell
ing him that ne turned the election.
while the returns show very little.
if any. effect upon the voting in the
vicinity of his church Mr. Acker-
mann carried those precincts in
much the same proportions that the
democrats have always carried them
and that was as much as anyone
respected.
The question is. are the repub-
leans, having through the years Of
false pretense with reference to their
attitude toward vice and the liquor
elements in politics, humbugged the
Protestant churches into believing
the party santifed, now seeking to
appropriate the Catholic churches
by the same process? II looks to me
very much as though that were the
purpose of the letter above referred
to, probably written by some repub-
lican leader and not by any demo-
crat at all. One might suggest in this
respect also that before explaining
any further how DR.. Carson came TO
be elected, il might be well 70 make
sure whether or not he really was
elected. The recount may prove that
he was not. and. at least not with
out fraud.
And this fraud feature, whether
i'm the counting the votes or not, or
taking them from the machine, is
standing forth more and more
prominently every day. Fraud, or at
least gross neglect. in the matter
of registering democratic voters, Is
more likely TO be the cause OF Dr.
Carson's election than anything else
II is too bad that no federal officers
were before the people 10 throw the
case into the federal courts ApprO-
priation of Terre Haute methods
might result in South Bend hearing
the doors Of Leavenworth clankinS
behind some Of our citizenship 1t is
possible for there TO be such thing
as fraud in an election without it APP
pearing prominent on the face Of
the returns or the voting machine
We suggest that the republicans
and their false pretending demo
cratic" friends, consider their fraud
a the grounds for Or. Carson's cleo
ton. a prospect more in keeping
with the facts of the case.
w. c. L