New-York tribune., 1903-04-05

supervisor and by buying supervisors party viii
be able i1literates well as tie insoxi-
Gated for its candidates. BY buying supervisor
for high a 500 or 500 money can
sometimes be saved in expensive election.
There are nearly four thousand voters in War
wick so that individual buying OF votes in this
township has high as 5000 Hence the buy
ing of supervisors has come into practice
1t is in this township also that the farmers are
bribed by the euphonious method of paying for
their time" This system Is also practised in most
of the districts which contain farmers living some
distance from the polling places In the Pawsuxet
Valley there many factories with large Tor
eign vote. which is purchased outright. ana the
longshoremen around Cowesett Bay barter their
votes openly for a one or two dollar bill. But in
the western farming part Of Warwick Township
the farmers have become accustomed never to stir
from home on Election Day until a wagon drives
up in front of their porch
Sometimes II makes us laugh, SAID a young
man OF Apponaug who said he had frequently
gone out with rig to get farmer Vote' 10
see these felers hem and haw before they give
up They have the Yankee instinct of bargaining
and will keep man in the front yard All Gay
over question OF a half-dollar
81 remember pioneer in particular VINO al
ways wanted 10 trump up some excuse before ne
would go down to the polls with me- The old sinner
is said to have told a new one for the last twenty
years, and this is example OF MS resource
fulness: At the last election pulled in my morse
behind a tree just outside of his gate ana "atcheo
for minute 1 him come out look up and
down the road, and then GO back TO his WoooPhe
and take up his saw again. He was waiting for
the election wagon
.Frinallv drove in but he pretended not 10 see
me. He kept on saving wood until had to shout
three four times.
WAL, waal,' said he at last, LOOKING up ho"
is the election goin'F
q. .pre,+v had Haven't you voted YETI said l.
Nav. don't think as I'll ter the village.
I've got bad case Of the rheumatic: ou' IL Soui
gon' down 1 might go down long with yer.
.'.AH right. Jump in and III drive you "o"ti
..R,t saw don't yer think party ought Yer
nov for NV medicine. I'll catch more cold In me
shoulder riding down. and think as yer ought 10
give me a bottle of fniment
..How much will it cost?'
| "sWaa1 the kind get costs me s2 bottle but
the feIler from the other side wuz around anu
sa,d he'd give me two bottles That'd be 81
.I knew the other side was only paying s-' anu
so told him I would give him 90 cents extra t
fauv drinks of whskey TO keep out the chill iro"
a.. s5a and after long talk he took the ~ 5o ana
got in .-. o.. .,. ooI,s
from their farms in these rural oistricls - ~ oe
( a man so much to hire another man. i"e '01
| versation will be something like thie:
Have you voted YETI
NO: haven't the time
| 'fIow's that?"
| Got too much work to do. and can't AFFORD to
| leave it,
| Cant you get another man.?
| Yes
| How much will it cost?
| ..oh about 81 would paw fer I'M
| Then the money is handed out. and the Ialnef
| ,umps in and rides away with oeamang lace,
| ...ooa1e., has come to be called iron IN the
| .ou-n of Warren which adjoins that of Bristol on
| ,he North and is squeezed between NafiaeaH'e
! raov and the Massachusetts, line Inc man "io
| ho,5Ies the money is called the Iron man, ana
4 acr{O
| ,urdred voters I'm this township fully one-fourth
are French Canadians who are employed IN manu-
| featuring plants - ,,,
| 6uck TO water" said a local Warren pontcian'
! 1-;tbout noticing his mixing of metaphors we
had a town election only few days ago. with us
the saloon is a big factor. and every saloon man
has to fight in order to preserve his business. FOR
! instance If a saloonkeeper did not blow on the
voters the party he supports TO 1ree drinks ana
| brfbe few on the side. his party on having
| elected the Town Council, would see that ne couid
/ not get a license If a saloon man happens 10
| support the wrong party why then he can't get
/ a license unless he pays a good sum for IT. we
| almost make the saloon men put up most or the
| iron and wine of the campaign
II was in the town Of Warren not long ago that
| LIQUOR was used for preventive instead OF suihu-
/ lating purposes The enemies of candidate TOT
! tho state senate came across a score of men who
| had promised vote for their foe. They onered
the men a larger sum each to vote Tor the othef
4 candidate and the offer was promptly accepteo
hut I'm a fashion which provoked suspicion Ihe
! -,,,looders then thought Of a scheme which would
he certain and cost far less. which was to paraiyze
the voters with liquor. This was done. while the
candidate for Senator securing the place IN
search of his ''lost friends.
The go voters OF Narragansett, a township on
the western side of Narragansett Bay, ana
consisting of a long strip terminating in Point
Judith were recently blessed" old inhap-
liant expressed it. with two successive elections.
The first resulted in a tie. and then the campaign
managers were compelled to go down in their
pockets and pay still Ito get the votes OUT
a second time According TO candidate, he
should have won at the first election If his ad-
/ versarv had not bribed the election officials to
throw out two votes.
Not nalf the voters in Narrag gansett would come
TO the polls" said of the candidates In this
election If we did go after them and all except
few of these would not vote then unless they hao
a 81 bill in their pockets. When we pay them
we say we are hiring them drive the carriage.
and then each takes turn at the rens for
Just long enough to say So"
As general thing. bribed will keep his
word. He does not do this from any moral motive,
but from the most fundamental instinct OF self
preservation. He knows that as bribers
cannot trust him for results they will stop spend
ing their money for nothing. For the few sus-
pcious persons who. If possible. will take money
from both sides and then vote they want to In
side the booth various systems have been devised
In a township adjoining that containing the city
1 of woonsocket IL is stated that country legis-
lator utilized poker chips to secure honesty
among those whom he purchased Previous to the
election TO every man promising TO vote for him
was given q chip. which the might cash In
the day after. in the brbing candidate was
elected. The experiment proved successful. and Is
still used in certain places at the present time