The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-07

the district longer than the constitutional period Of ten
byta majority Justice Read and dissenting The de-
registry law no
electors is we cannot doubt and that uni
beyond all dispute. "
law adapted to the city Of philadelphia not suitable to
TS 9Ss with O all ss @ sso nCS o oe Is @
special provisions for police and for oonducti Where
srestest extremes 4 simple rural population needs no
nhy SSe9e the dsseted highways Of the farmers
low inns restaurants sailors boarding houses and houses
election day their pestilent hordes o imported
bulies and yagabonds and to cast them multiplied upon
In large cities such things exist aud it's proper popuIa
ton must come their relief The freedom and equality
which opd destroy free and equal election What
crime nave 81 me err seemeh S na b ed b the fraud or
force which springs their local circustance and
language Il another that would be ITO place the vicious
s se on NTH the ous and ood
level with the & 5 the P9GT and % Ss the nS TSh
non which t the polls of 1rss city to
BY adherpg to uniformity Of regulation unsuted to the
b Hg of PsnnsyySnia so deiormed and Sterile
that her laws cannot protect the balotbox of city from
broken system for ststeY such Interpretation Of
@ sS Aow S 1 G
OF Of e n ne aeas o The rea
electors usurped if the ballot box be stuffed with
mpuny suffrage can be exercised only at the risk OF
IFas is swept away the posuate of learned Judge
being that Of b q o S sHs S
equality of election; But when is shown that the Con
the contrary that the equality of ELECTIONS @
EQUALITY and aiTness existing in the city, his
position il overtuIned and % with it the entire srsu
s It to display the differences in this lay bstwee9
Let them be ten times it their difference
that makes AK them M n s % d S gons
prove them to be unlawful must SHOW wheree tney SUB
Of corruption or force Or rdr in the re city makes the the
T rShs O5e the sa Swn fn eecOT hardship but i IS
not by the law but by the crimes which make the
when the possesses qndOpbted authority
sbpess 81 VS. Ss & Of Harris in these
like this VIZ hp we & an SSt Sa 81 Ase@ yod
plainly and in such to leave doubt hesita
n in mnd o This his y Ss5eq % s d 6y 81
and by of them it is expressed with much soempity
is;i$ s. and R. i7s; p s. r. $3g Bnney, l23 Sec
wealth, decided at Harrisburg in ls68
We the question What provisions u Of this
vesve rights of city electors? The number Of these
bet%een resuon
laid on the right Of the people to elect the Officers of the
well be addressed to the Legislature in making reform
pie have, BY their, oonstitutOn, dspSssd Of all such
tRe consnton foTbds the officers of eectOn the can
%
Board OF CommissontrsY Let the Constitution itself
is no provided for in the
be or e h rse s sSSssdn he
people themselves expressly given in the Constitution
Board Of Appointment (the aIdermen have
aiOry i it of belonging to PSTts1
RSSr ssS majority Which GO is the Popqar
board created by it is eOmPOsed Of individuals
way the result popular elections belong
! rd Of me can he IN
b6nrS Sns wS or Se o
st5utoHal i such arguments were to prevail eva not f,
administer the laws among them # these men be unit
will s % s"s Sh the Board OF sS
POINT the Officers Of the eeCton 50 that political par
e so having majority or m in the eGSpgs tba
to be appointed So that each party
adding supervising power the Courts
What fair mind this abuse Of legislative
aSSSn fESns @
t1te ,s against is ba STEMS might he
BToan Maand Min 9 %heston
Be Sq%p9d 3S a9 p ~ Ts aD spS ws s
decided last year The position would overturn
acts as 1dGes in the Of prison 50
ct other @ e @ is m IN Sy
and township offices, such commissioners auditors sur
Of he pGo Ts Judges
constituted part Of the military
laws and the boards for revision Of and the
G6 as s RsSa ho sHe
and it is not likely they will refuse % and what authority
IN reas on their Ssha The truth is the %hoe
iory the board representing the popular majority hold
opposite to the and when new do@ OF
gentlemen of the opposite party will use the same argu
The obectonurged with equal and perhaps greater
ZEAL is that there provision for assessing in
regulation is obvious 1t is cut OFF the unqualified per
h % s see6r Po S S d d for Ro ae s a
assessment sufficiently distant from the day of election to
obtain false qualification. But what clause Of the Con
stitnticn requires the assessment of taxes to be
t6st system tsTnton tS
tuition Of 1890 that of 1888 pescrbes any time for the
Of the & Sd taxation though @ both a use the
gushing the eeetor and evidence of his residence
constitutional law to mistake restriction for an ninno.
tion When the Constitution provides that the elector
which shalt have been assessed at least ten days
the SO that Voters might not be fraud
neny made at the very polls but it did not require the
compulsory down to the tenth day before the election
protected when they allowed two years pending
ton period dnhaI INCLUDING certainly O and might
the 10th september The time of the asses ment Of
the has nowhere said it is to be subqrnated
discretion OF the Legislature and should be regulated with
regard to what they believe the best interests OF the
prevent frauds in the city elections is to increase the
period for the last senent i may be done the only
shall not be less than ten days before the election.
The sytm Of annual taxation has marked the Whole his
tory OF the Government He whose name Is on the annual
listed second time for taoH He is to be listed for the
The first list of electors is be made before the st of