Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-10-15
FRAUD At POLLS
IS ANTICIPATED
Ss. Ky IHF NIFfN
Aim to Take Photographs of
Voters, if Necessary, in Sus-
pected Districts.
To prevent the defeat Of woman

To prevent the defeat Of woman
Nsffrags in New Jersey through cleo
wstion frauds. the New Jersey Commit
Of tee of One Hundred, headed by
81 Everett Colby, Colonel George Far
-ey United States Senator Hughes
and others. issued a formal statement
holast night. They plan to send TO the
Cepenitentiary any and all election Off
officials found conniving at election
nrirauds next Tuesday
Detectives will be employed in those
election districts, it is announced,
= where there is any reason TO antici-
-. pate trough work. Under the cleo
~ tion law of New Jersey 1t IS possible
7 TO photograph the line of voters out
side the poll, and according to Alfred
WIN Chandler, chairman or the cam
paign committee, the committee will
al keep continuous Photographic record
in of the voting line in suspected pre-
Sc cincts. In this way the use of re
sc peaters' will be detected and per-
he haps stopped.
The statement issued by the COM
TT mittee reads as follows:
81 Under ordinary conditions, New
Z, Jersey elections are as safe from fraud
X and abuse as the elections held in any
81 state in the country. But as the
ri State authorities have pointed out,
n this Is special election where GER
X tain safeguards usually present are
:, conspicuous by their absence and in
y vite a wholesale raid by those des-
=, perate interests which are determined
~ to keep the women of New Jersey dis
franchised. We refer particularly to
the fact that the ballots for this cleo
~ ~ tion will not be numbered and to the
= furtber fact that under the law it has
Y MT been possible to verify the regis
i'm Isa-fF nTac
o. have determined to take extraordi-
v nary precautions against fraud, and
tN we haVe ample means with which to
protect the good name of New Jersey
next Tuesday.
w Honest and PainstaISing.
y ut is our observation that prao-
tically all election officers in New Jer-
d sey are honest and painstaking In the
ii fulfillment of thei1. official duties, and
n that the exceptions to the rule have
II come speedily to grief. Those mon
Il who may be tempted, for personal or
political reasons, to conniVe at elec-
ton frauds ON the suffrage amend
& ment should realize how dangerous
n that practice has become. More than
thirty men of various political par
ties are now under indictment in Hud-
q son county for fraud in election.
Thirteen members of election boards
X in that county hare been sentenced to
u prison terms of from one and nam
n to- three years. Some of the charges
are repeating, conniving at repeat
ing false reading of ballots. In Pas
. sale county one man is under indict-
ment for violation OF the election laws
and prosecution Is now pending. In
Camden county, ~ conviction for
Illegal voting has been had. In At
1antio county g. number of office hold
Z. ers and politicians have been indicted
for election frauds, and several have
been sentenced to State prison.
TN short, the time has come when
the. corrupt measures OF few years
ago will no longer be tolerated. Be-
( Iieying that the good name of New
Jersey is peculiarly al stake in the
election next Tuesday, the committee
wishes formally to announce that 1t
will take extreme measures to see
that those who tamper with the cleo
ton returns are brought to Justice"
Mr.. Chandler said that legal conn
sci had been retained by the COM
mittee.