The evening world., 1891-03-16
BALLOT REFORM At HARRISBURG.
How Pennsylvania Republicans Are
EvadinG the Great Issue.
ESPECIAL coRRKsPoNDENcE OF THE WORLD.

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FORM and they will enact laws and shsms in
plenty, but they will permit nothing what.
ever which will destroy or even seriously
circumscribe the power to spot votes which
involves the power to coerce and corrupt
voters
The things needed In this State are. first.
system OF compulsory personal reeistrn tion
and second. a secret ballot. About these
there ia 10 honest difference OF onin,on. The
necessity for them was set forth in Gov. Pat.
tison's inaugural with the assent and an
piauss of all decent and honorable people.
without any regard whatever To partv unes.
But Il appears we arc not tn have than.
And why Pecause. and only because the
Republican machine has resolved Ia refuse
them. Neither the compulsory person.l
registration nor the secret ballot ia attain.
able without change in the Constitution as
II stands. The machine denies the change
in the Constitution. and 40 denies the re-
form. These tactics are simple enouub
and ipasmuch as the machine owns the
majority in the present Ieaislature Il will
succeed IN its purpose. unless the neonle
shall PROMPTLY apply the scourpe TO the
backs of n sufficient number to break the
| machine majority.
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dslus;vc. most ensnappoi The Constitution
OF Pepnpylyania proyides explicitIv for tho
Identification of ballots. To nccomplish this
IL REQUIRES each ballot to be numbered As
voted and the number set opposite the mama
of the yoter on the voter'a list No one has
over doubted that so long as this pro-
vision remains A secret ballot ia i'm.
possible. The whole controversy in the
late canvass Turned upon the reten-
tion or the excision of this odiors "marked
ballot" " clause. The workinpmen and the
people generally demanded its instant re.
naval Gov. pattisop declared that II
mnst go ont fiat there copld be neitber
free nor honest government in Pennsvl-
van;a until Il sbonld he ont and that mas.
| much Az Il would take yenrs TO remove il
| otherwise constitutional convention
| shopld he immedisteIy assembled for the
purpose. Upon ,bis statement of his SOL
emn conviction he was elected. and that
tbis-nn immediate constitutional conyen.
tiop to enfranchise the people and to emap-
cipate the State from the control OF corrupt
ripgs-was the main object OF the majority
which effected the late political revolution
| In bey ond any question whatever.
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