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Show Sill E , ' 1 1 IIU flL vn I Where Votes Are Bought as They Are in Umon. town,- Ohio Danville. ,Uls., Jan. 21. Cltv Attorney Attor-ney Frank Jones and Sheriff John Shepard today confessed to buying votes In tills (Speaker Jos. Cannon's) home city in the last two cnmpalgns. Jones had promised to ?o before the grand jury. Monday, and make a clean breast of the alleged vole buying, buy-ing, and selling in this (Vermillion) county, but the sheriff declares he will not make any statement before the grand jury, contending that It would be impossible to obtahi a jury in this county to convict a man of buying voles The two confessions have created a sensation in political circles and it Is believed others will follow. Jones has started a plan for a mass meeting of all successful and defeated candidates and ward workers in which it is proposed to adopt a resolution reso-lution that all go before v tho grand jury and give as many names of those who sold votes as possible. Jones told a number of men that tho last campaign cost him about ?S.000. |