Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-11-16

II has lcng been known that elections in
Pennsylvania. especially in the large cities
of Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburg
were but auctions, but it has remained fol
the Philadelphia North american TO pro-
duce the proofs. We quote from Satur-
days issue. what the North american has
proved
/. That under the leadership
4 g. Rodgers, Lieutenant of Police at Wash
ington, gaOg of repeaters was brought to
Philadelphia on Monday last.
2. That this gang travelled on free
passes I; that they were housed at the Hotel
Scott under an arrangement previously
made by one Seger, lieutenant of Israel
w Durham, who paid their bills.
g. That this same Seger, lieutenant OF
Israel w. Durham, year ago paid the
bills of similar gang, under the leader
ship OF lieutenant Of Police Rodgers, of
Washington, at the same hotel.
4. That the gang brought from Wash
iugton by Rodgers on Monday last received
$40 each and all expenses for the days
work at the polls.
5. That the gang left the Hotel Scott
early on Tuesday morning, some going
forth to serve as repeaters and others as
election officers
6. That George Kirkland. the North
americans agent for the detection and ex-
posture of the bands operations, and VIM
II. Cook, an employ of the mailbag repair
section of the Post Office Department at
Washington, acted as election officers in
the Thirteenth division of the Seventh
ward, Cook as Judge of Election and Kirk
land as Minority Inspector. Israel w.
Durham is the political master of the
Seventh ward.
T. That Kirkland and Cook were directed
by Lieutenant of Police Rodgers to 90 to
524 South Sixteenth street, the home OF
the Hon. Samuel Salter, x-member of the
Legislature, one of the stalwartsp who
voted every time last winter for the return
of M. S. Quay TO the Senate
s. That the Hon. Samuel Salter took the
two men TO a room on the second floor oil
his home and there gave them 200 ballots,
marked, folded and sealed, all ready to
deposit in the ballot-box as though they
had been voted by 200 separate citizens,
and instructed Cook and kirkland to vote
them Immediately on taking charge of the
polling place of the Thirteenth division OF
Israel w. Durham's ward before the legiti-
mate voting began. This was done accord
ing to the instructions of the Hon. Samuel
SalteT.
8. That after eighty-five legal ballots had
been received at the polling place of the
Thirteenth division of Israel w. Durham's
ward, the Hon. Samuel Salter and John
Silverman and John Hanna, two members
of the Election Board, marked and folded
fifteen more ballots and placed them in the
ballot-box, making total of 100 votes 10
addition to the 200 fraudulently deposited
at the beginning.
10. That shortly after the polls opened,
the Hon. Samuel Salter, busy in crime,
told George Kirklsnd that his, Kirkland's,
name would be Surf for official purposes /;
that later the Hon. Samuel Salter said he
bad concluded TO change Kirkland's name
to Clarence Boyd, and gave him a card SO
inscribed, which name Kirkland signed TO
the returns.
IL. That twenty-four persons whose
names were included in the 200 fraudulent
votes first deposited, honestly voted later !;
that they were given specimen ballots,
which afterwards were identified and
thrown out in order to keep the coanl
straight.
II That 339 citizens were returned as
having voted, whereas in fact only l24 bad
done SO.
10. That when the polls closed Joseph
G. Rodgers, Lieutenant of the Washington
police, paid George Kirland Sis as wages
for his day of supposed crime.
All this is bat a beginning. The case as
it develops in the courts will take wider
reach. The larger scoundrels of the ma
chine are not to escape.