The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 17, 1910, Page 4

7h & n . eastern end of the Eads bridge and count of the ballots in his precinct } The Butler Weekly Times went up in the air while passing St. Tuesday night, just as he has been : Louis. us to believe this happened as it is there were not less than a score of rhted on Thursday of each week The Republican who expects doing for twenty years, and that J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLE litor and Manager Entered at the Post Office second-class mail matter. utier, Mo., as PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR THE RESULTS OF ORGANIZATION. The Democratic victory in the coun- written in the -books at present is either a first-class chump or mistakes | us for blockheads. The ways of our opponents have been so dark and so peculiar that we want to study them “at close range. We will use the mi- croscope. If we don’t find germs, I shall be willing to admit the signs were very deceptive."’ | ballots cast which bore faint marks through names of Democratic cardi- dates. he said, and nobody noticed them till attention to the scratches were caled, invariably—by-a Republican_Judge or clerk. Dr. Rogers told the representatives of his party at the tabulation tables They were nearly invisible, | ty was a glorious one and Republi-| Here are a few of the many inci- | he had reason to believe these ballots can claims that it was a Democratic dents which point so strongly and|Were marked in advance. He brought landslide are puerile. The Demo-| convincingly toward fraud and irreg- With him to the city hall a sample cratic majority in the county was a ylarities in St. Louis: ballot marked, he declares, just as all natural one, and the increase over; Admission was made that twenty- those used in his precinct were former majorities wassimply the result | six ballots cast for Thomas Kinney, | marked. ofa perfect organization in every dis-| Democratic candidate for Congress,| Doctor Rogers’ revelations aston- trict in the county. To the untir-| were not counted in his favor. |ished even the Democratic watchers. ing efforts of every member of the) The returns of the offices of pre-|The sample ballot was immediately Bates County Democratic Central) cinct 1 ward 1 showed that three | taken in charge and, itis said, willbe Committee in getting out the Demo- more voted in that precinct than there | used as evideuce in the Grand Jury cratic vote, do we owe our increased were voters registered. work expected to begin soon. Doctor majorities, and especial credit should) Horace G. Beedle, Republican, Sec-| Rogers resides at No. 4606 Easton be given to County Chairman J. E. | retary of the Board of Election Com-| avenue and says he is willing to-help Williams of this city for the perfect missioners, backed by the Republi-| “arity the situation to the extent of county organization which he estab- | | his ability. lished and maintained throughout the entire campaign. Mr. Williams did | not content himself with organizing | the county committee, and directing | the movements of that body, but with | the able assistance of Secretary W. G. Dillon and Treasurer A. B, Stone, | personally appealed to every Demo-| cratic voter with whom it was possi- | ble to get in touch, either by mail, | telegraph or telephone, with the re- sult of a largely increased Democratic | majority in the county, and this in| spite of the fact that the Republicans | were better organized than. ever be-| fore in the county, and the Republi-| can Chairman, Thad Harper, devoted | his entire time to the perfection and maintaining the organization. | ST. LOUIS ELECTION A JOKE) Frauds and Discrepancies Found in Tabulating Vote---Too Nu- merous to Keep List of. That the election held in St. Louis | November 8 was so full of fraud dis- | crepancies and irregularities as to| have been a ghastly joke at the ex-| pense of the voters of Missouri, has | been found from a canvass of the re-| turns from the various precincts in| that city. | Democratic Chairman Jos. B. Shan- non, who has been on the ground} continuously since, has made the statement that the evidence found so far is more enough to convince any jury that frauds of the grossest char- acter were perpetrated throughout the city, and that so far as the propos- ed constitutional amendments are concerned, no election was held. Opinions of Prominent Missourians, When somebody remarked in his hearing that tie proposed amendment | relating to providing machines for counting ballots had been ovewhelm- | ingly defeated in St. Louis, Attorney- General Major said: | ‘Why shouldn’t they? Nomachine| ever invented suits Republicans in St. Louis as well as the one that bears the Hadley brand and which was in| perfect working order here Tues-| day.’”’ The Republic says. | The remark aply illustrated the} feeling shared by Missouri Democrats | of all shades of standing. They dif- fered during the year as to candi-| dates. They are united in the belief | that there was rottenness in the St. Louis election. It is boldly charged that at least 10,000 ballots were count- ed for Republicans that did not be-| long to them, and that Democrats were defrauded further by not hav-| ing several thousand ballots cast for their nominees counted as cast. | Former Governor Dockery said: “T don’t know who is responsible, but anybody with enough brains to fill the skin of a mustard seed knows there was crookedness of the rankest sort ever known in Missouri. They not only defrauded the entire State ticket of thousands of votes, but they | straight lines used as tally marks to can commissioners, refused to allow | officers of the Democratic committee | T ate Returns on ‘State Ticket. to examine tally sheets during the! tabulation. . | Following are the totals and plural- In the Fourth Precinct of the Four" ities for the various state officers as teenth Ward there were fifteen votes |complied by the St. Louis Republic. more counted on the amendments pein may be changed by the than were on the poll book. | official count: In the Fourth Precinct of the Thir-| . a. pre eg oa teenth Ward 270 votes were counted |B. Gantt (Dem.), 320,082; John C. on the amendments, whereas only | Brown (Rep.), 324,337. Brown's 226 voters had their names down in| plurality, 4,255, the poll record. | Supreme Judge, short term—Henry Kortjohn said the 270 would be al- . oo (Dem.), 317,880; John lowed to stand. ennish (Rep.), 323,259. Kennish’s The Tenth Precinct of the Tenth plurality, 5,379. Ward is considered by the Democrats) Railroad ~~ Commissioner—Thomas as another striking illustration of the M. Bradbury (Dem.), 320,983; Frank efficacy of Republican methods. At) Wightman (Rep.), 326,261. Wight- this voting box it was charged, and man’s plurality, 5,278, never denied, that the Democratic) State Superintendent of Schools— Judge went outside a few moments |Howard A. Gass (Dem.), 321,641; late Tuesday night. When he return-| William P. Evans (Rep.}, 324,478. ed the totals at the bottoms of the Evads’ plurality, 2,837. statements did not suit him, and he) United States Senator—James A. demanded a recount. The Republi. Reed, 135,118; David R. Francis, can Judges would not agree to this, | 107,104. Reed’s plurality, 28,014. but si a ey agree f ed tah tion wu haee Now, Isn’t This Just Too Bad? In this same precinct, Chairman} Orange, N.J., Nov, 14.—An adver- Shannon developed the fact by ques- |tisement which appears in the current +h rig nae page See iller and Andrew Meyer ,that the out this part of New Jersey is excit- six election officers had divided into ing wide interest. It koa three squads while counting the bal-! ‘Disgusted Republican offers his lots. Even Kortjohn and Blodgett| beautiful country house to some vic- could not overlook this violation, not | torious asd and intends to only of the law but of the plain, print- | leave a land that turns down Teddy.” ed instructions of the board. The} The name of the owner ofa well- law, which Kortjohn read to them, | knowd East Orange estate is signed says “‘all election officers shall count to the advertisement. He declares goes ‘ - ap oe plans to go abroad annon also brought out the fact to await a return of republicanism that after the election officials had | throughout the country. discovered the error in the returns, | rijhiaitege = aoeaat reas as certified to by the police, they had | Dickinson’s Plurality 3,139, not counted more than a third of the! Clinton, Mo., Nov. 14.—The official ballots before reaching the conclusion | plurality of C. C. Dickinson (Dem.) that an injustice to the tune of 100 for Congressman in the Sixth District — we a done to the entire for re-election is 3,291. sigue hoagie ania _,, | The official pluralities by counties In Precinct Eight, Ward Eight, | are Dickinson—Henry, 1,210, Cass, there are 260 names on the poll books, | 1002; Johnson, 779; Bates, 684; St. but 996 votes for the senatorial candi-/ Clair, 87. Total, 3,762. dates were counted. ; | For Devol (Rep.)—Cedar, 256; In the Seventh Precinct of the Dade, 367. Total, 623. Tenth Ward, 160 votes for senator | really were cast, but 1,224 were counted and certified to, in the state-| ments of the election officers there. | In the Eighth Precinct of the| Twenty-seventh Ward 1,168 voters were registered. It was said actual legal voters numbered only 790. Tally sheets of the election there show 789 of the possible 790 were present on election day and are counted. In the Sixth Precinct of the Ninth| Ward, where, by the way, the count aS shows John C. Brown got 214 votes) to Judge Gantt’s 107, there were four Hon. Jas. A. Reed in Butler. Hon. James A. Reed, of Kansas City, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, accompanied by his | wife, arrived in this city Sunday even- ing, and remained until Monday noon, meeting many friends. Mr. Reed is making an automobile trip through |Southwest Missouri as a recreation | after the activities of his campaign. indicate 214 votes. In many instances election officers used the ‘‘X’’ toindi- cate nothing. | John B. 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