| Show WHY THEY ViERE CONVERTED V ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PAi EXPLODED Story of How the Rcpubllcan Cotmty Committee Secured Throe icmo cratic Workers and Lost One Secretary J U Eldrcdge Jr of the Republican county committee made the V following statement yesterday In reply to the charge of the Herald that the Republican committee was buying Democratic worker and the Insinuation Insinua-tion that Illegitimate use of money WHS being Indulged In by the Republicans V Mr Eldredgo said The three men Ilyrum S Schofield Isaac Jones and Wilson Saunders came into our headquarters head-quarters Tuesday night and asked for McKinley badges Schofield acted aa spokesman for the pai ty He said they were leaving the Democratic party which thoy characterized as a parly Mhieh never kept promise Sghoflcld said he would like to go to workKor us V I I told him we had nothing particular for him to do I said we might use him V a little on election day and on registration V registra-tion laY He said he was a married man and needed pay for what he did 1 then told him that If we ireedcd any I additional help I would consider ln > j 1 ease anti If we employed him would pay him the same as our regular workers work-ers The other two men hfd not iaki n any part in the conversation at all thus far 1 called them to one side and br gan to talk to them They said they I had thought of coming to us over a month before and having their nanuw put on our canvass books ns Republicans Republi-cans but the < Democratic leaders hal got hold of them and said It would hole V bad to quit the part in the middle of u campaign and would lcape the committee commit-tee in a bad hole They said they hart concluded the Democratic partv was I the Mrong one for a poor man and had concluded to quit It These iwo men did not ask for either work or pay Schollcld Len made me an offer to go tn work for ijs Hr said he was hard un I and would work for us If wo could pjiy him I told him he could help ua on registration day and election day and said he might go to work 1 nalwd the other tuo boys If they wanted to go to work They said they would If I needed them but they Insisted that thfy wanted it understood they had not Joined the Republican party for either V work or pay They told me if I vanted them to work they Mould hclp me and would accept pay for the actual time they were employed I said that would be all right and they have been doing good work for ua In their districts evc since receiving the same pay our regular regu-lar workers get After the three tamo Into the headquarters Tuesday night we all went out together Chairman Wilson of the Democratic committee called Jones to one side tad Jones told me tried to get him to go back with thorn I dont know what the Republicans Re-publicans are doing for you Mr WII pon said but you come back with ua and well pay you more than they are going to give you If you quit us now it will leave us in a bad hole They talked the matter over for some time and then Jones Joined the three of us i again saying Wilson had been trying to 1 get him back The three men Ment Into V Democratic headquarters the next morning to formally notify Him that they had quit him At that time Scho flcd allowed himself to be won over by Wilson and accepted the Inttcrs offer but the other two men have stayed Mith us This statement by Mr Eldredge is taken ta-ken as an Indication that Mr Wilson is not in a position to speak ot purchasing pur-chasing orkers I |
