, 1874-10-26
ENORMOUS RING-FRAUD9 IN PHIL.
ADELpHIA.
FRAUDULENT aEarsrnATloH or rgkuApa "a, ,G40


ADELPHIA.
FRAUDULENT REGISTRATION or EghuAPa 2Q, 900
NAsfE8.
From II. Ph'laltphia {0ct ~ corrsspondstes Of tbs
Ner Yors Tribune.
For more than week past tho Court Of Com
mon Pleas Of this city has been at work every
day purifying the registry lists by striking on
bogus nnlncB plaood upon them by tho Asses-
sora. 4 system Of fraud has boon exposed
10 extensive aud 10 cunningly aaYlacd
that thesc ia no question that 1t Ras
planned by, tho Ting managers, aud
elsctlon rs much Of farce aa olsclionH used to
bo under the old law, whom ratufns wore regu-
lnrly falsitied aud fictitious maiolitios fabricatod
for tho Ring candidates. Suffrage haH loug
citizon in philadeipha. i vas hoped, however,
that the now Consultation would reatore pure
elections BY making fruud difficult and danger
oua, but tho Hing wero not long IN huding way
t. got around its carofuliy; ;p,snned restraints;
system Of false counting aB no longer safe. and
to substitute 4 echomo Of wholesale "persona-
ton" BY mon employed to 90 from precinct to
precinct and vote upon mythical nan1oH placed
utructions were accordingly tasued to tho Ropub-
jicau AsgesaorB last june o1ld tho work OF fraud
wont un 60 systematically that, nor TINT It IL
partially discovered, it il obvious that 1t Was
planned by some authority In tha party whoho
orlora soro law to thooc posty officials.
Under their manipulation tho registry lists
BweIea to amazing proportions. Vacant lots
wcre credited with denBe population. Quiet
citlxons rho had tho curiosity to acrutintze the
lists wero astonlsled to discover that several
ab!o-bodtcd yotorH, Of who1o existence thay had
no knowledge. boarded At their houses. 0tlcra
1earned,thas two or threo merchants, !" "clerks,"
or y nlechan!cs" liysd in their stdo yards Or
utables. Butllers who had 1nat laid the founda-
+s.. = ft.n@& &nn
assossors had kindly assigned t4om tenants in
advanco. and that eyory prospective llouso was
tho residence of half dozen voters. Thu CON-
mon Pleas Court has power to a.rlho from tho
list any names which it is shown have boon
wropgiu1Iy placed there, and two Judges Lud-
1ow and Fiulottor, nEo giving their time 10 this
wurk. At tlrst tho Republican Committee In at-
tendance at tho sttings Of the Court resisted the
efforts Of the Domocra!c to have tho Lists turgel,
and conteated overy caae, but tluliug their
opponents pelalstent and tho Judges determined
to aid i'll securing fair election, thoy gago it
up, and now appear to hopo that The matter will
bo allowed TO drop whon the mythical namos aro
s1rickcn of, aud that no efforts will be maue to
against tile franchise. Every day'a proceedings
or tho Court furnish now evidence OF tito
magnitude Of the registration frauds. Up
10 lust night 1910 bogus na1nos Ind beon
10 Offset these tho Rcpuhlicane could count but
lit stricken from llsts prepared BY Democratic
aBsossors. Tho Democrats chin that these
namoa wefe put Oh by pretended Democrats III
tho pay Of tho Hing. In one eitting Of the Court
last week b79 names waro erased. tho RonuI-
Ilcans admitting that they weso all fraudulent
Yesterdays work OF purgatlon clohrea OF G1B.
Up to noon to-day Judge Fin!otEes's Court struck
cH CO...
Iu somo divisions, AZ the precincts aro nov
called, whcrc there aro but 200 Legal voterd, from
aixty 70 eighty boRuh nnlneA have hoop aiHcoy-
erod. In twonsy-four division-ists examined
yesterday the average Of boGus names to each
waa shirty-aoveu. II thto avarago holds good
throughout tho TO divisions ln tho citY,
fraudulent registration reaches tho onor-
mous total OF 2o,0u0 nau,ea il yot-
Ing population Of about 1l0.oM. It
j. Mann, the chief Of tito Hing. antl their candi-
date for ro-electlou to tic oDlssrict~Attornoyshp
uamod this figure Of 10000. u few days ago, ID
tho majority he waa aute Of getting, aud tint,
a!nca tho Court has bean alauEhtsring myil,icnl
ling yoters. tho protousiona OF thc1o friends
hare boon coming aown In proportion to the
number OF Fraudulent uan1eR that hayo bocn
stricken from, tho lista..
Now as 10 the proof that the Ring IL rcapons1.
ble for tLeao frauds: In tho frat place, oil Of
the fictitious uanios, except an Uncomfortable
humber, are acknowledged to bb the work Of
Republican Aaacasorn, and to have been put upon
tue l|sta for TIE so!e purpoao ot bstng, voted
that tic Democrats did not try to initiate
this scheme Of fraud In divisions wharo
they had tho hpseasofp, or the Republicans
nould layo found mora than III fictitious nnsnoa
III those dvisions TO ahow against the total Ut
nents, Finally, tho faat that tho Republican
frauds hIc not confined to any one ward, but Aro
discovered MI ovbr the city, and aro everywhere
Of tho sanlo character, ahows tlat there uluat
hkge b9eu concert OF action.