The herald., 1896-12-06
THE LAW AND THE PENALTY
What the Various Sections Say on This
Particular Point
Democrats, PopuIists and Silver Republicans
on the Alert
Astounding Results From Three Pre-
cincts of the Third Ward-Crooked
Work viii Be Very
Dangerous.

The more the canvass of the city IS
prosecuted with view of ascertaining
what names on the various precinct
registers can be relied upon as being
those of fully qualified voters and what
names are not, the more does it become
manifest that the registration or the
city is hopelessly misleading. In the
absence of a proper canvass the most
wholesale fraudulent voting would
have been possible. Interested persons
could have simply gone to the polls and
voted the names of the absentees or the
fictitious names with which the regis
ters have been stuffed.
LET me tell you," said Mr.. James G.
Clark, Jr., the energetic secretary of the
Peoples party city central committee,
speaking of this matter yesterday after
noon, that you can count upon at least
1000 Peoples party votes in this election
for NJ. p Snyder and the union ticket l
know what I am talking about, for we
have made a careful canvass of every
precinct in the city.
"Of course know that the Republican
city machine will try to run in a lot OF
ing, and our challengers are all posted.
and if any attempt is made to violate
the election laws it will be dangerous for
the offenders. We propose to win this
fight by all fair means and this ought to
be satisfactory to all concerned. The
fact that the other side is endeavoring
to capture the city for the water monop-
oily by illegitimate methods is enough of
hnt fc q
perate one.
II am informed that they have colon
ized the Eighth Ninth, First, Second.
Third and Fourth wards with no less
than 1000 names on the various precinct
registers-names that are either ficti-
tious or are owned by persons who are
not entitled to vote, or are those of alb
sentees. Our committee and the Demo-
cratic committee have already taken
steps to prevent this coarse work from
being completed by these friends of the
water company and the Southern Pa
cific.
1--WE have a record of all these bogus
names and we will see that none Of
them are voted tomorrow. We will have
business with the grand jury about this
wholesale stuffing of the registers"
The Silver Republicans have had
number of men investigating the regis
tration, and some of the results of their
precinct, the Twentieth, in the Third
ward. out of a total of ATS votes register
ed there are n names, the owners of
which cannot be located; at any rate. #
they ever did live at the places of resi-
dence designated for them, they are not
now living there. Besides these there
are sixty-three names about which def
mite information cannot be obtained
This list includes seventeen names at
$40 South Broadway about which the
landlady of the lodging house refused
point blank to give information. She
refused to tell whether any of the list
are at present dodgers or not. or whether
any Of the persons named had ever lived
there. Thus. out of the AIS names It
seems only 23S are of responsible voters
positively found to have been correctly
registered. This is the result of three
weeks work by trustworthy men.
Here is list of 162 names. in this pre-
cinct, that of persons not now living at
the places of residence given on the
register. Some of them look like ficti-
tious names. for instance: &C. E. Cart"
"W. L. Eedkind," &c. w. Dusenbery,"
A. Mugrage" "B. r. Berlin" The list
Is that of reliable canvasser employ ed
by the Silver Republican club in this
particular precinct Doubtless many Of
the names are bona fide; that is, they
are OF persons who formerly lived at the
PidCeS VI TeSlueHce accredited TO them,
but the are not now residents, but many
are not. Notwithstanding the thor
oughness with which the work has been
done, it Is possible that some few mis-
takes may have been made by the can
vasser. so the list is here given as the
outcome Of his labor for the double
purpose Of showing how unreliable the
register is for this election, and yet,
where mistakes have possibly beer
made, to give properly qualified voters
an opportunity to have them correcte i
when their rights are involved. The
list is as follows:
]. r. Woodward, J. p Brockmeier, O.
D. Coomer. r. A. Cullen, A. jacobson
Joe Larsen. R. M. Wood H. B. Clinton,
W. Lazzarviich, G. S. Marygold, J. r.
Richards. ]. H. Starr. o. Fl. Stoetzer, J.
r.. Woodward No. 2, f. z. Barnett j. +
Jones, c. H. Wood. G. f. Barnes. H. J.
Dwinelle, A. H. Johnson, J.. F. Johnson
J. B. Tanning, w. II. Clark, G. w Cook
r. B. Jemison, David Dopps, s. J. VIII
kinson. H. Herbert ]. ]. Alderman j
n. Frost, M. J. Withers, C.. Harrison, ]
w. Bowden, F. Mccoy. William Pepper
A. Hampth. A. F. Arneke. Hans Becker
w. H. Cockefair, Frank Green. i A.
Porter A. w. Krone, ]. ]. Mcbride. E
]. Davis. W. H. Dilmuth. B. NJ. Linds-
ley, F. J. Wells. A. r. Weaver, A. e
Sears. A. Woodall, J. H. Murden, w T
Drummond. j. n. S. Martin ]. E. Stew
art, Peter Lamb A. Silva. w. Potter
W. d. Eadie. G. f. Caut, G. F. Cox, w
Love, T. p Rowe, A. Sadler. L. visalia
J. w. Rifenherick. Beni Atkinson, F. II
Cooper. c. Brooks w. L. Eedkind, w. S
Lynn, G. F. Wink. c. F.. Turner, NJ !.
Hilton, G. w. Dusenbery, III. Fl. Eaton
w. j. Weatherhead. H. Bailey, H. c
Deeter, G. H. Thomas. o. 2. Schnell, N
8. Jonah, F. G. Tolman, w. r. Wore. HI
A. Miller. w. p. Tobin, c. F. Howell. G
y. Beavers, T. A. Chelson, c. B. Henron
c. G. Garrison, f. ]. Throop. K. c. Troe
ger. T. M. Gibson, I. w. Pierson, r. F
Weiss. H. J. v. Blake, c. Bradshaw. T
Cantwell. F. X. Scofeld. J. ]. Findlay
John G. OFT, F. B. Coleman. f. NJ Smith
r. E. Cottle. James McMulryan, C. OF.
vera. A. ]. McCann, ]. w. Briggs. T. r
Troman, w. B. Best. G. K DGdson s
eickard. F. Mayo, H. r. Eaton, H. L
Morrill,. J. g. Relger. K e. Smith. James
4uchler. A. b. Campbell. b. Bogner, C
WilliamA r. c. Hall, A. L. Russell. Johr
4ates, g. !. HaFrat, 9. Hood. John Lloyd
= ~ Berlin. r. Parmentier, ]. C. Kof.
fold, g. y. sheckles. W. b. Sheckles. a
D0mnn. C. 8s4ahons. ". DwiGht. W. A