Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-26

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nor write and needed assistance in
marking their ballots.
Percy Moore and George Potter,
Seventh ward. accompanying voters
into booth to assist when said voters
did not make affidavit to the effect
that they needed such assistance.
w. P. Alexander, judge of election,
Second precinct. Seventh ward, per-
voting when they had made no affi-
davit that they needed assistance.
William P. Thompson, it is said by
those familiar with the circumstance.
did not live in the Seventh ward at
the time of the primaries. He did not
serve as an election officer there, and
it is difficult for his friends to under
stand why he mas been accused of the
Irregularities charged. Thompson
moved out of the Seventh ward last
Spring and the city directory, which
was published early in June, shows
that he then lived at 1910 Thompson
street, which is on Allison Hill. He
still resides there and is not a voter in
the Seventh ward, much less an cleo
tion officer there.
These arrests are the first of several
hundred, Guyer said. All deal with
the September primaries.
Guyer said the membership of the
League" is made up of prominent
men," but he declined to give names
Guyer is the Patriot reporter who
spent some, time in the Dauphin county
Jail half-dozen years ago as a
prisoner investigating conditions there
and as a reward was made clerk to
the Poor Board by the Mccormick
faction of the Democratic party when
il came into control. He was also
identified to some degree with the
s.fY NF ha IL II
here some years ago, it being generally
understood that he was very close to
Pierce. the Socialist leader of that
unsuccessful labor disturbance Guyer
fears he would lose his job, it has been
reported, in case of a change of ad-
ministration. Up to this time. it is
noticeable, the activities of the
league" have been directed against
Republicans only.
Guyer said he had been investigating
the cases since September 81 and that
he had been doing so without recon-
pense." Mr.. Guyer's statement as to
his connection with the league, its pur-
poses. etc, follows:
The Dauphin County Law and Or
der League, of which l am general
secretary, is a body of permanently
organized patriotic citizens VINO regard
the constant and widespread violation
of election and other laws as a grave
scaIluai ana menace to good govern
ment.
This organization knows no party.
II seeks no partisan advantage, II
means to trail the ballot crook and
other law Violators. It's life is not for
day or campaign. 1t will continue
until this territory is purged of vice
and restored to decency.
The league purposes to be ready at
all times to render what assistance IL
can TO the proper legal officers for the
suppression of vice and crime. Since
the primary it has learned of and
taken cognizance of stories of sensa-
ttonal fraud and violation of the pri-
mary laws. To run down these stories.
sift the evidence and prepare cases has
been its work since the primaries.
The league is as nonpartisan in its
membership as it is in its purposes. II
welcomes and asks the moral and
financial support of all those persons
who regard law observance more
highly than party loyalty"