The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-02
Officials TO Unite With Best Cit.
zens To Prevent Fraud in
Coming City Election
CLOSE GUARD AT ALL WARDS
Parties Will Have Challengers of Nerve
Who Will See to It That Only
Legal Voters Cast Ballots
At Election

The word has been sent out among
the foreigners of the city that all of
them who voted at the primary cleo
tion on last Tuesday will be permitted
to vote at the election week from to-
morrow it being held that the fact that
they voted on Tuesday would do away
with any right to challenge the votes
at the election. This is a grievous err
ror and if the advice that is being hand
ed out by some Of the Democratic poll
ticians is followed by some of these
people it will result in the jail of the
county being filed to overlooking with
men charged with Illegal voting. Eff
forts were made to impress on the peo-
pie that vote at the primary would
register voters for the city election this
spring and the presidential election to
be held in the fall. However, this did
not give any man the right to vote lille
gally at the primaries or at the city
election and the fact that some Of these
men managed to get their votes
through lax election boards at the pri-
mary will in no way give them the right
to commit further crime by voting at
the city election. The law in this re-
gard is most plain and the recent show
ing at the primaries has awakened the
people to the idea Of safe guarding the
coming election IN every possible man
ner. The boards of election have al
ready been appointed by the mayor
and the Common Council, but the fact
that these boards may at some places
be favorable to any certain candidate
will not make it possible for that can
didate to vote a single illegal voter.
The party committees are planning to
appoint challengers to work at the polls
and these men will be men of back
bone and discretion and men who will
not allow man to vote or be voted I'M
less they are convinced that he has
legal right to vote. The fact that his
name was written ON the poll list at the
primary election will in no way give
him that right. He will be forced to
show to the challengers that he is en-
titled to vote by having lived in the
state year, in the precinct thirty days
and that he has taken out his first
papers as a citizen. It is declared that
none Of these things will be taken for
granted and that the man will have to
be vouched for by free holders well
known to the members Of the election
board or the challengers or else produce
an affidavit to show that he is lawfully
entitled to vote. The slip shod methods
of the primary election will be done
away with and the election will be con-
Quoted strictly in keeping with the de-
mands of the law. Detectives at work
in the city during the past few days
have gathered large amount of infor-
nation in regard to the men living in
certain districts Of the city and this
information will be in the hands Of the
election officials on election day. The
voting of twenty men from houses
where only four men reside will not be
tolerated for minute and vacant lots
will not yield men to swell the vote of
any candidate be he Democrat or Re-
publican. The man who casts his vote
a week from tomorrow must have the
right to vote.
The police will be appealed to in
order to have special officers placed at
every polling place where trouble is ex-
pected and the sheriff will render aid to
the police by putting large number Of
men into commission to see that the
vote is taken in accordance with the
law.
1t is not the intention of the leaders
IN this work to deny the right of suf-
frage to any man who is legally entitled
to vote, but it is the desire of these
people to see to it that the vote is prop
erly cast
The work of schooling some Of the
men to vote has already been started
and 1T is openly declared in Scholey
circles that every man who was taken
to the polls at the primary election is
to be voted at the city election. These
men have now 6een warned of the
danger into which they are going and it
is thought that the leaders of them will
be prudent enough to see to it that the
men not entitled to vote keep away
from the polls on election day.