Show A FRAUDULENT BALLOT BOX A Ver Ineenlna Device by Which Votes Were Thrown Out at Elections WASHINGTON March IUp in tho room of tho House committee on elections today there stood a ballot box that will figure in the debate on tho FeatherstonoCato election elec-tion case next week Tho box is made of tin apd looks like any ordinary cheap ballot lot box But there is a peculiarity about I it that appears only upon close inspection Where tho ballots are placed it is double so that if a ballot is placed on one side it will slip in the box but if placed on the other side slides unperceived down into a basket or upon the floor Tho contestant Featherstone asserts that twentyone of those boxes were used in one county at the election in Arkansas and as the Republican Re-publican ballots were marked in blue to distinguish them it was an easy matter for the Democratic election managers to see they did not go into the ballot boxes and gQt counted The double lip around the oriiico can readily be taken off leaving the box absolutely honest in i appearance |