Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-30

| liity re lOOhlhB lot repedtefS,
| The secretary said.
Where do they think they'll find 'emT'
| Said Files on parade.
IN every blOomin' precinct"
| The secretary said
For from Claremont to Redondo they
| have wrote their bloomin name,
And we find from the certificate the
signatures the same,
And well send em up to Folsom, there
| To eat their beans in shame
| When they've tried to do repeatin'
| In the morning.
The women who have been working
so hard are those employed at the head
quarters of the non-partsan county
committee, and the secretary is Ed
ward North, under whose instructions
they have been working.
AS a result of their combined efforts
there have been disclosed as originally
irtimated by The Herald several weeks
ago, thousands of illegal registrations.
Twenty per cent of the registered
persons In Los Angeles are not entitled
to vote from the places from which they
are registered" says Secretary North,
who has evolved duplicate card sys-
tenn, by means OF which the frauds
have been discovered
There are registrations from vacant
flcts, saloons, school houses and even
churches.
1--WE will have men at every polling
place." said Secretary North yesterday,
and II any great percentage of the
men who have illegally registered APP
pear to vote it will be necessary to at
once add another story to the Jail to
hold them"
Gives No Details
Secretary North preferred not to go
into details regarding suspected cases,
as it would place the men on their
guard, but he declared that every man
suspected would be watched and that
arrests could be expected in each case
of attempt to Illegally vote.
At Japanese lodging houses in pre-
cinct 1877, Seventh ward, there are more
than a score of white men registered,
although 1t is known for q certainty
that not white man lives at any Of
| the places.
About 1000 duplicate registrations
have been discovered, but Secretary
N North admits that possibly in major
| ity of these cases there has been no in
tention to vote illegally; but in cases
where registra tions have been made
from vacant lots, school houses and
churches he considers them fraudulent
on their face.
cover $50 instances where men have
registered twice in the same precinct
have been found" said Secretary North,
land while all possibly are uninten-
| ticnal they leave loopholeS for fraud.
Not less than 1000 cases have been
found of registration in two precincts.
The only method of detecting these is
by the card index system.
mo blame is attached to any one at
the court house. The registration
bureau is run honestly and as near per-
feet as possible under the present sys
tenn.
Will Make Arrests
GAS a result of a house to house
checking of voting lists 1 am satisfied
that not far from 20 per cent of the
registered vote of Los Angeles is not
| entitled to vote, as not at given ad-
dresses at the present time.
1.-THE checking has been such that we
expect to challenge every person not
entitled to vote, and we anticipate MAX
ing many arrests.
'The registration in the Tenderloin
district is notably suspicious, the 127th
precinct alone showing over twenty
people registered from japanese lodg-
| ing houses where no whites can be
found.
II do not think we caught all the sus-
ricious cases, as the time has been too
short to do the work as thoroughly as
I would like. Many cases require, in
order to convict of fraudulent registra-
tion more thorough Investigation than
we have had time to give.
1.-THE task of copying over $4,000
names from the great register out OF
office hours and to arrange them on the
card index plan, which is the only sue
cessful way of catching duplication, is
an immense job, and we have been
working night and day on it for several
weeks
''The registration department clerk is
cooperating with us cheerfully in our
effort to bring the register down TO It's
proper proportions, and feel under
obligations for the courtesies extended.
Twenty at Work
at have had nearly a score of as
sistants at work in the committee
Headquarters. and / have been ably
assisted in the work by Miss d. Il.
Hamilton and Miss s. E. Brobst. They
are certainly experts in this line OF
work"
Members of the non-partisan commit
tee express qualification that they Sc
cured the services of Mr.. North, who Is
an expert accountant and who devised
the index card system while employed
by the Gothenberg committee last Will
ter.
Marshall Stimson, chairman Of the
fraud committee and non-partisan
nominee for the assembly against r. o.
Bell in the Seventy-founh district
yesterday issued the following address
"There are two important features OF
the coming election November thai
must not be overlooked. First, 1t Is
essential that ais large a vote as pos
sible be brought out. The machine
needs no urging to get 1T to bring ouf
the voters upon which 1t depends tc
preserve it's existence, 1t is the normal
citizen, who has no selfish interest tc
serve, who has to be urged to vote.
"Second-In bitter contest, such as
is now being waged, the machine lead
ers will bring into play all their tricky
resources. Men will undoubtedly be
voted who have no legal right as elect
ors, and i'm many instances boards oi
election Will, unless carefully watched
manipulate the returns contrary to the
interests of good government,
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"This is no commonplace assertion
| I personally have seen such statements