Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-03
UN EARTH
ELECTION
r RAU DIS
Colonization System
on Immense Scale
Is discovered
In One Instance a Dead
Man Is Named AS
a Voter
According to One Estimate There Are
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According to One Estimate There Are
Five Thousand Errors In Great
Register In City of Los
Angeles


register of Los Angeles, is due to ap-
pear at the polling place of a certain
precinct of certain ward on the 9Th
day of November and cast his vote ac-
cording to the dictates of somebody
elses conscience.
Should he arise from the tomb, as
planned, and present himself with the
intention of taking advantage of the
election suffrage, he will be confronted
by man armed with a club, and he
will be asked why, being dead one,"
in reality as well as slangfully, he is
violating all political ethics and every
rule of natural history by appearing as
a voter.
Should he fail to satisfactorily ex-
plain his unseemly actions it is pre-
dicted that. like the corpse on whose
bier was placed by creditor ten dollars
long owed and which act caused the
corpse to sit up, he will fall back dead
again.
There Are Others
This political Banquo's ghost is not
the only freak that is expected to make
day.
Inquiries instituted within the bound
aries of four city blocks show that ac-
cording to the great registeria score of
men who have homes on vacant lots,
where registered do not exist or who
have not been at their supposed homes
for several years. will, like the dead
man, step up to the polls and attempt
to vote; but they too, will have an
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the proper official who will be on the
lookout for them.
Disclosures resulting from a canvass
of only four blocks Indicate that a fla
grant and wholesale system of colonial
ton for the purpose of frauds at the
coming elections has been instituted.
Many Frauds Uncovered
In the four blocks canvassed there
were discovered on the register l4f
names of people who cannot be found
at the locations given as their resi-
dence.
OF this number one is known to be
dead, three give their residences at a
mum Der where there is no building, one
is that of man who has not lived at
the number for years, and several are
known never to have had their resi-
denceS al the places indicated.
Out of the 147 names under suspicion,
twenty-five are known to be fraudulent.
OF the remaining 125 it is admitted
that some of them might have removed
to other precincts and that they hav e
been transferred, but it Is suspected
that a large proportion of them will be
found to be fraudulent.
One Place Suspected
The st. Elmo lodging house at 343
North Main street, which is known TO
have been place from which
repeaters registered at the last cleo
ton, again is under suspicion, as
forty-four men have registered giving
that place as their home address, while
it is declared by those in position TO
know that not over dozen men live
there permanently and that the patrons
of the place principally are transients.
Similar houses are being Investigated,
and 1t is hinted that disclosures will
show that the worst election frauds
ever perpetrated in Eos Angeles are
being planned.
Fraud Merely Suspected
According to the estimates of Presi-
dent Foshay and Secretary Lissner of
the non-partisan city committee not
fewer than 5000 names are enormously
recorded on the great register of Los
Angeles.
ii was not charged that these erroneous
registrations were fraudulent, but new
ertheless men representing the non-par-
tisan committee would challenge all
these names at the polls. Discussing
the affair yesterday Mr. Lissner said:
I'VE have sent out inquiries in all
parts of the city and our results to date
indicate to us that 5000 Is not too large
an estimate of the number of errors in
registration. The percentage of voters
who have moved, or died, or left the
places given as their residences is most
surprising. We shall challenge all such
names when they are presented at the
polling places in December.
They viii Be Watched
I'VE do not claim that all or even the
greater part of these erroneous entries
Will involve improper attempts to vote,
but we have reason to believe that a
great deal OF corruption manifests it.
self in attempts TO vote under these
questionable names, and we will test
@our work in the campaign so far
indicates to us that we will have enough
votes to win. We sent out letters TO
1000 voters whose names We're taken at
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