The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-03

cate of his death has been presented t.
the board.
How Votes Were Made for the Mayor
AT lelst sixty persons, probably not
all of them quite so dead as this man,
who were stricken off the lists for Nov.
s, on proof satisfactory to the canvassers,
were placed back upon the lists for the
mayoralty election by the same canvass
ers, in this and other wards OF Provi-
dence, and for their action la one or the
other case the members OF the boards
who voted for such action are liable TO
prosecution under the statute.
This same board of canvaSsers placed
back upon the list for the may orally cleo
tion the names of four other dead men
and four non-rrsidepts, which they had
stricken off for Nov. at the request of
tie United States supervisors, ami re-
tanned them upon the list when they
again canvassed 1t on the 27rh Of Febru-
airy of this year, and they appear as
| qualified electors upon the lists which
| are now posted up on the Great Bridge.
During the canvass OF the lists in the
| city of Providence Tor tie election of
| November Stb, the names of 365 dead IN ell
| were stricken from the lists upon the re-
quest OF the United States supervisors,
| and in all the names of 500 who were
dead, resident, or in some way not
qualified, were. by the same agency,
taken of.
The Present Registration.
With reference To the present registra-
tion and canvass equally improper
| instances might be cited almost iudef-
nitely.
In one ward in Providence the names
of three men who gave the same add ress
when registering, each appeared twice
on the same voting list. as property and
registry voters. Inquiry at the house
| which they gave as their residence showed
| that the people now living there had
| lived there con tinuously for fifteen years,
| and that they never heard OF the three
| men in question, and no trace of them
| could be found anywhere else Yet each
of the three voted twice at the election
year ago.
In another ward a man who for at least
| fifteen years has been disqualified By
| two provisions of the constitution, as a
/ lunatic and AS person under guardian
ship, has been during all that time. and
| is now, on the list as qualified voter
| In another ward supervisor reporting
| on eleven men showed that one had not
| been heard from for six years, another
| had moved TO Massachusetts in 1890,
another to New York five years ago,
another was living IL New Jersey,
another I'm Denver, and three were dead.
This bunch OF reports was taken at
random, aud is simply sample of what
was found in that ward not the total.
| Rottenness In Pawtucket.
A bunch of eighteen reports from one
ward in Pawtucket shows eleven nom
residents on the rsal estate list, one OF
whom moved to Massachusetts ten years
ago, and four of whom the city records
show bavs sold their real estate from one
To nine years since Five more who are
| residents have recorded sales of their
real estate, all but one at least five years
| ago. Another mau who is on both real
aud registry lists never mad any real es
tate, aud one had IN owed To Haverhill.
| Another bunch OF reports from a Paw
tucket ward showed twenty-six persons
on the real estate list VINO were dlsqual-
Itied by death. non-residence or Dy sales
OF their property which were on record,
and one man who was not natural z I'd,
and VINO owned no real estate, was on
| Dot Ii lists
These are not the totals for either
ward but simply samples or the dis
| qualifications which have been found.
Most of them have existed Tor long
time, ia some cases six aud eighJ years.
| Wherever the supervisors have been
| placed tuese things have been found u
| exist, and any falr-minded man will ad-
| init that there is need tor their services;
vet tue work which has resulted in
| showing up these fraudulent practices Is
| termed IAN effort to dlsirIncnise honest
voters"