Show LET LEI US investigate fraud how tile the election returns beio doctored etc in great flading bill po poster eter headlines malk maik how the tribune still tries to manufacture sensational matter with which to excite the public aft after reading the startling stait ling announcement it no of forgery Foi gery and I 1 falsification fi of the li ts t out Ou outings tinge age 01 on the people aud and the alic rest of it tile the reader who despies to find the fads facts wades through the three or of four columns of type to rind find tile disclosures which ich justify the bio big black ugly letters at the head but he searches in vain the evidence so BO fir far has no proof of fraud framl that there has been some carelessness and bung lin too little cie cale in the keeping of the ballot boxes and over confidence tence in the correctness of the clerical il in the count is is very evident to the unbiased observer but as to any intentional wrong there is nothing but suspicion and implication nor has there been anything adduced to show reason reagon for prohibit ica the account of the ba ballota I 1 iota in f fact let it is made more and more ap patent that the full banass abich ibich the republican ale aie tiring to pie vent is the only method I 1 by bv which tile the will of the voters can be ascertained that appears now nov to be imperative we ve believe that all the examination of witnesses which has been permitted at this stage of tile the inquiry is improper that the legal question indol in voled led is is separate and distinct irom froin ever everything thing to which they have testified the right of the commission to male make the recount under the conditions disclosed is entirely independent indr pendent of till nil that the applications fur mandamus and prohibition have endeavored to piove giove cut but we nic are in favor of a thorough inquiry into all that has been done connected with the election that need not be stopped if tile the ballots ale aie counted a hundseid times over if there has ocen any fraud I 1 forgery or falsification of returns let it be brought to light and the guilty jergons persons be punished as the law 1 provides pio 1 oil vides ide 3 but all al this noise and the attempts to bring brina out in cobit something to give gie color to the outcries that have become familiar to the pub public lc ear car are simply political claptrap clap tra trap P they tire are furnished to fill the void occasioned by the absence of legal argument on oil the pai put 1 of the peti the errors in the returns no matter liow how or by whom made do not affect either the question othe or th Is powers of the commission cr the number of if ballots cast at the he election they have not yet been fully canvassed and they are what must determine the rights of the candidates the sooner they are appealed to the sooner will tile the matter be settled and there is ie nota not a scintilla of proof th that it the they hae haeb been cen tampered with as so often intimated the argus which at first was led to believe there was as something wrong because of tile noise that was made now confes confesses that though much has bas been said about fiand being pi practiced ac aced up to date not an iota of proof in of tile hharges has been presented ind and while there are aio ugly rumors afloat not a charge has been imade but what can readily be deprived of its feling feting by an explanation explanation however is not what the want it is first to stop the onla process by aich tile the rights of candidates of both parties can an be determined slid and next to put the democratic Demo crati party arty I in a false light before the people so that if the scheme to capture the convention shall fail enough excuse can be found echo the tribune cries of hand forgery and falsification for use in ill tile the political struggle that is i yet come coine it is ri 1 contemptible and ought to be battered to pieces herald it cures piles it cules obstinate sores chapped hands hand it il does doea this thia quickly ll in there any any g good d benson nley you oil na not i use loo se uc do wilts witch hazel salve Ol ormsby Disby martineus Martin artin I dingco I 1 |