Fannin Indictments Show Election

Some Ingenious Methods by Which Ducktown Copper Company is Alleged
to Have Purchased Votes

Republican After 25 Years' Democracy

Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 21.~ Ingenious methods by which votes are alleged to have been purchased in the fall election in Fannin County, this state, came to light today in the publication here of indictments which have been on file in Fannin County archives for some time.

This County is on the Tennessee border and after 25 years of solid democracy, it went straight republican, a state senator, J. R. Kincaid being the only man of democratic faith to win an office.

One of the main issues was whether the Ducktown (Tenn.) Copper Company was an aid or detriment to the to the County. Although Ducktown is in Tennessee, the effect of fumes from its plant spreading into Fannin County have occasioned some of the most important legal and legislative actions undertaken by Georgia in recent years, with the result that there are now two factions in Fannin County, one favoring the plant and the other opposing.

In the fall election the republicans were "Pro-Copper Company," while the democrats were against it.

Among the indictments on file are two not connected with the election, charging officials of the company, Frederick Lewlasom and C. W. Henwick, of New York, with maintaining a nuisance.

The other indictments, charging vote buying, alleges that a favorite method was to hide a five dollar bill in an apple and to hand this apple to the man whose vote was desired. Another method charged was that of handing a voter a ticket, telling him to vote that ticket and then go home and ask his wife "For a note to some one." At home the voter would find a sealed envelope in his wife's custody with money in it.

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