The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-10

connivance Of the election officer voter
brings out the officI.l ballot after
voting q blank piece of paper. This is
marked for identification and given
brings out the official ballot given him.
Aud SO on until the corruptionists are
consumated. Another method, as prac-
ticed in Boston, was for u voter TO swear
that he was unable TO mark or write. A
friend, who was the worker" was al
lowed TO go into the booth with him and
help him prepare the ballot. The friend
saw that he voted as he was
paid to vote. The third method
was for the voter TO take a piece of car
bon paper and make fac simile of the
ballot as printed for Identification in the
newspapers under the law. and when he
marked the ballot he voted, he at the
same time made corresponding marks on
the tissue which he,brought out as proof
that he had earned his money.
HE SPOKE FOR CAMDEN.
Father Nash carefully laid his glasses
upon his desk, covered them with his
bandanna and said that he thought
that every county should be heard
from on this important measure,
and he spoke for Camden. She
was in favor of the bill. He thought it
grand thing that '.the glorious old State
of New Jersey, of whom we are all so
justly proud, should furnish to her
West the grandest and most COM
plete system Of exercising the right
OF suffrage yet devised MIR. Null
lone eloqnently advocated the bill and
Mr.. Williams, the solemn young Repub-
lican from Passaic, who looks like
divinity student, said he would vote for
the measure although he objected to the
method for distributing the ballot.
The debate was closed by Mr.. Voor-
hees, who logically and clearly demon
strated the superiority of the measure in
a manner which must have made his
senatorial colleagues vince, for their
bigoted and unscrupulous partisan action
OF Tuesday. He began by saying that he
spoke not as the representative OF pO-
litical party, but his words were his own
private views. IL is very easy matter,
he continued, when measure does not
meet your preconceived prejudices to
ure He had waited all
the afternoon to hear some argument why
this bill should be called sham, but had
heard none. Denunciation did not rise
to the dignity of debate The people of
this State have seen the corrupt practices
of rings and demanded that they should
be done away with, all of which the
speaker claimed the bill under discussion
would do. The ideal ballot, he went on
to say, was one which could be secured at
the polls only which is system for the
intelligent and has no facsimile. The
people of New Jersey are not prepared
the Australian and Saxton systems were
rorced to provide facsimiles The mo-
ment facSimileS are provided the door is
open for all the abuses which, it is urged,
the committees bill gives rise to. Under
the committees system degree of sec
recy can be obtained equal, at least, TO
that of the Australian system, and as
great a freedom from intimidation can be
secured under it as under any other.
YOU CAN'T TELL HOW HE VOTES.
s"The voter has two sets of tickets, " Mr..
Voorhees, continued. "One he gets at
home and one is hand d him at the
polls and | defy any one but Him who
knows all things to tell whether he voted
the ticket given him by the heeler or that
received at the polls. Under this system
the voter can't take any one into the
booth with him as i'll the Australian
system.
al am perfectly safe in saying the
methods in regard to the secrecy OF the
ballot in existence. The provisions
against bribery are most stringent and
provide that no witness shall be excused
from any questions on the Trial of a man
for bribery on the ground that it will
criminate himself, but no answers shall
be used or admitted in evidence against
said witness, except in case OF q criminal
proceeding against the witness for per-
jury in respect TO his answer. This places
The. man who buys a vote at the mercy of
the person whose vote he purchases for
two years, and will make him think twice
before he is guilty of bribery.
1.-The adoption of the official envelope
makes it impossible to put two tickets in
the box so that they will separate when
deposited
Mr.. Voorhees, pointed out other features
wherein the bill excelled all others, and
the vote was taken.
IT WAS FIFTY TO ONE IN FAVOR OF THE
BILL
1t is thought that after the action of the
House yesterday, when every member
present but one, irrespective of party,
voted for the bill, the Senate will pass it
also.