Show The Fourth Precinct Pyper People u 344 Williams Liberal uu unu 311 Matters were probably livelier here than at any other polling place The Liberals went in to win by hook or crook and by striking off names of many wellknown men in the Peoples ranksnames which will be forthcomingand by rushing in a herd of touqhs who never saw the Fourth precinct befqre theyhoped to carry the day In this ward there occurred the most barefaced bold and unblushing attempt at fraud yet recorded in the whole history of Liberal swindles At about 230 oclock John Faringdon a wellknown hack driver was at the Rio Grande depot when a man approached him and asked him to take a load of men up to the Twentieth ward to vote As the men looked more like tramps than reputable citizens Mr Faringdon declined de-clined and soon afterward he saw the whole crowd some six or eightin number drive off in another vehicle His suspicions being aroused he drove at once to the Twentieth ward himself and posted the Peoples party managers Not thirty seconds sec-onds later the cargo of Rio Grande citzens arrived and evidently being well posted marched up to the door and a HERALD reporter re-porter having received an intimation of what was going forward stopped close up 1 to the judges to note what ensued Three of the gang came inside the door two stepped step-ped up to the polls one remainedwlthm earshot about six feet away and tbe others clustered near the door The first man proffered a ticket and Judge Hogo asked his name Bates was the prompt reply The judge took big ticket and was about to drop it in the box when Mr Roinnoy Peoples party challenged theman on the ground of nonresidence The judge then asked him i he was willing to be sworn He said yes The judge then told him to raise his hand and be sworn He hesitated and the request was repeated Still he hesitated and lot till the request had been mad a third and fourth time did he raise his hand Mr Roinney and Mr Murdotk lund no sooner asked him three questions a to where he lived than it developed that bo knew no more of where be was then aid Robinson Crusoe when ho awoke on Juan Ferdinandcz in in i i the face of all the Liberal judges held that i if tbe man swore ho lived in the Fourth precinct he could vote and vote he would I I I have aono had not Mr Murdock abked him if he knew lie was liable to arrest for I perjury when he grabbed his ticket out of Judgo Homos hand and boted for the door I Tho next man was asked bib name and he gave taut veritable chestnut whoso very utloranco suggcattd somethi tug crooked j Thomas Collins H > took the oath cheeifullv but being asked where hQ lived suj1 at Murplijs Being asked who I j Murphy was he couldnt tell couldnt t l I the street or number but said it was about I three blocks to tho south which would locate i lo-cate it il the Thn teciith ward and conse I quc ally in the Fifth precinct When his attention was sarcastically directed to this I j fact by TIr Mur lock be said no matter he lived in this precinct and the Libara judges gravely thought he would julgcs lacj pass I Then Mr Mildock very pardonably got hot in the neck and challenged the man on I tho ground of perjury whereat he too asked for his ticket back Judge logo lovingly retained hold of it and intimated i to Mr Collins that he could vote i ho insisted in-sisted on i but Mr Collins didnt insist took his ticket and vanished The thirdman Lad alroady vamosed when hs heard tho questions put to Bates und the remainder of the gang were nowhere to be seen The names of Bates and Collins appear regularly on the lista list arranged ar-ranged and compiled by that distinguished I Ainerican and shIning disciple of Blackstone Black-stone Mr Fred Kessler There is no manner of doubt that tho gang was stirred i up from the Rio Grande and that they wore promised so much per head i they succeeded in getting their votes in The question is who was the steered l One of Marshal John M Youngs men who stood near and heard the whole thine j might have ascertained had ho cared to I I haVu taken tho fraudulent voters in hand and pltvil them wltlu l 1 few questions but ho deyoled himself to warning Mr Farhlgdou to keep outside the ropes as soon us it flawued on liiiri that Furinjiaoii was tlin man who was posting the Peoples committee Another individual whoso name THE reporter did not catch but which sounded like Elkins applied during the I t afternoon t vote Ho admitted ho had come from theeast in April last and the question is bow did Mv Kessler get him on the listJ Mr Murdock for the People challenged him Judge Hogo thought he might vote but the thing was too palpable for the other judge Mr Fisher to swallow swal-low and be was ruled out About live minutes before the polls closed j two or three mOle wagon loads of tho sale kind drove up One of theso American citizens citi-zens wqs so drunk he let the cat out of the bag by saying he would not vote for any such money a remark which led a PeeP Pee-P los party man who was standing by to caution the whole pang that he was onto their little game and that it would not be safe to try it on there they pot back into their conveyances and returned to the I Rio Grande Western depot from which the driver said he brought them There was in tense excitement and breathless breath-less suspense in the room when the judge narrowed the count down and it was seen that Williams was 4 ahead and Lippman 15 behind Mr Murdock went over Williams vote and found two tickets counted from other which precincts reduced re-duced his majority to 2 Mr Murdock was outspoken over tha frauds of the day and I believes enough swindles can be shown to change the result |