New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-21

The most valuable and useful cog in Mr.. Addickss
machine is unauestionably the voters assistant
ballot system it was thought necessary provide
the illiterate voter-and especially the neEro-wth
Governor therefore empowered and directed 10
sppoint for every polling place TWO No'eI s-ies
whose duty il should be TO read or eNp ,i ne ~
Ii not long before these voters assistants pc
came-as Willard salisbury said IN ms lel.eI -
chased voters delivered the goods" AS the LhlOn
Republican party in recent elections has 5 a. own
voters assistants and has used them Z, 10 ~
xxatch and tally of its purchased vote II Mr. 8. Al
dicks had not been able oy means ~ 49, SIRE that
check Cp his expenditures ana mex s' -Io;5 he
p-ould not now have twenty-one senators anu
Representatives voting for him n me i e lust
.4s freely. but many Of them would hot haNe w
In nracfice the voters assistant part Of Mr. Ad-
t5icIs's machine consists of secret b9oth d 80
a-ssbier The workers make deals with purchas-
able voters before election DAY. ano lhti uI
The cashiers with lists Of men bousht ana otT
Of money promised. When the purchased NoaeI
goes the polls the corrupt voter S 51osir5d
That his ballot is properly marked 'ti'u 49, 81
and then gives him something in the ma tuIe OF
Iivered The voter thereupon goes TO the CASHIERS cashier
office slrrenders the token and receives ue
list, which has previously been turned over 10 lhe
cashier for the latter's guidance 40 hundred II,
leoIlisr the BaltiTn ore ililiul
the early DAYS The token given TO the paTC.a 49,
r-ofar MS Chestnut which the assistant put INTO
nc v,tsr.s nocket Ii soon became noised about
among the colored men Of the NlilaEe 70. SIo
chestnuts the cashiers office were ot tlal,,es
srjece Two or three negroes proNlded ,15
with chestnuts from priFa sout .ss "a 81 money
went boldly into the cashiers Once 70 &C. To their
for which they had rendered no ser tbe1- we're
,,i,. i,,lfIad ON minus chestnuts and without
money All chestnuts looked ankle 10 lellI' ,,.i,b
they could not understand what va ~ a,te later
fheir rbestnuts until they learned lew ua3s
that all the chestnuts OF me oiled for easy
Identification. and as a precau'loh as'
The kddcls managers now provide their yoi ter,
assistants with tokens that have been ami
s3. OF the State and that cannot 2e SaTns ny, faITs
Gated or oounterfeited in Dagspor9' IN !aSI IF o.
election they used a red cealoi 10 "btained in
nelsware In the Baltimore hundred they mao in
tags stamped % X Tin tags were also ustg ~, 20
Milford. Nent County. IN olnei ;Ira,5 a certain
districts purchased voters were nv PECULIAR
is-1s bes,led black pins which they stuck in theIr
coats when they went TO the cashlei ; oliOe "
TIE system was ingenious and worked vel; but
in some parts of the State Nnefe me 49,. rs
sistanfs could be fully relied upon mon ,5e ~d IN
given directly to Them. and they PAID to settle
merits outside and involved less trouble mol,
member Of the present eglsla'qbae b ,o honeht
known citizen Of Wilmington that ne ndu ng vet
his own voters assistant and two others. ah3 SSt,
49, recuired To swear that mad not directly
or indirectly paid offered, or promised 20 pay t
on ,an rg~ai - NJ ,hsch he was elected
Purchased voters, in. many cases. aNoWSo -, ~
waters assistant 10 mark and fix Up their ballots
ae,essl Of The Hotel Richardson. in Dover. upon
/, siag a. ked by white man in whom ne mac con- cor,
rdence whether he got his pay for ms vote n and
tails election replied T Si5 srH q eot SEQ;
xasn poin' TO vote Sin / got my money 1
evv@ited al pretty nigh O'Clock and then got
" You were a sensible Niger, You wouldn't a,
y ot moren ten in the forenoon VINO you N''9
vote for? How sh'd l know? Billy Blank
- voters assistantD did the vojin'.
IN one village in Sussex County the AdolckS
lsfisr a general storekeeper- Between eItc-
ons ha sold goods credit to poor Union tSepuD-
.ran va.ers and then on Election Day. deducted
the amounts that they owed him from the money
.,ui into his hands g buy their votes with.
Vote buying in Sussex County was SO common
and general mat evidence OF II appeared IN an
kinds Of unlocked for places and in all sorts OF
Transactions. just before visited Georgetown an
IS sba P SIa Prne In me course of the pro
sesfifei thai her husband with whom she had had
5sa - noodle 81
husband you sold your vote and you showed me
t he "'oHFS anu - "'1'''' WI 49, 'S
In another place a Union Republican col
Hector went &c the Addicks cashier on Election Day
and asked the cashier give him the names OF
voters purchased :" THAI he might collect taxes
list Of tpenty-seven delinquents. and proceeded at
In the same county the levy commits
sioner, whose duty il 10 make up the panel
Of iurnrs told friend that il was becoming more
and more difficult TO keep off the panel men who.
10 his certain knowledge. had sold their votes
lie was a Union Republican official, but he ad-
nifted the probability that man who had taken
money for mis- vote as an elector would also take
money for has decision as Juror ano he dld not
think it right TO include in the panel men Of that
when Mr. Addicls's agents first began TO buy
votes in Southern Delaware. they could get only
naIL o. ,ae LEI ST. aiiI o., M r,;I Ia IN
1ueHce of money. used boldly and with imDunity
effect upon men o. a higher type-men who could
not plead poverty an excuse for their acts
t,eir farms and have money in bank now sell
their votes regularly every other year. and as