Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-03

the watchers of reform roughly in the
past. A few years ago man VINO was
fighting the gang. in one OF the wards
was attacked in the polls itself; he de-
Tended himself with a stick of timber TIL
the police came. and to them. officers in
uniform, he surrendered. After tt this
surrender he was maltreated indescrlb-
ably and died in the hospital: A few
years ago some young men from the
Y. NJ. c. A. volunteered to serve as
watchers at the polls some l.,o', or cr,nSas tnem
have happened. Reform workers have
been insultcd. threatened, arrested;
they have had their window BOOKS laktn
from them and torn up ana ,irgS ihTown ,,,in t,a
that on Tuesday. for, l tell 9ou' the
machine is desperate.
"You citizens of Philadelph'a do not
like to have me refer to these things.
me it shames the city before re world
and gives il bad name. Remenper'
that It was not ! who shamed and gave
the city the bad name. 1t was the @ @illell
who did these things in the city wnere
il was first written and widely adNer
tised that all men were created ire ana
equal My appeal to yol Is, tnao ,,s nr"te, to
dauntless men surround & ne potiIS iS,rus- 'o
morrow, and make these thlhss l''PoS-
sible by their presence.
"Rut when YOU come out for this, KISS
xour wives and mothers Eood-bS. .ior
Won may die as George EppieE aien' ne
fore your loved ones see you again.
This sentence was melodramatic. put
II was apt 1t made memory conhec
lions with an incident that still burned
derp in the public consciousness.
Right along in his speeches Jerry nad
been taking potshots at misuse OF ,ne
Assistance to Voters clause IN the elec-
Vow | want to remind you,' he was
in the habit of saying, that every Not'r
who. not requiring it. asks for asls'athot tt,a.
perjures himself, and ! warn you that h
the Real Republican organization mas
nrovided the necessary machinery 10
check every such case. and ] pledge you
nv word that. whether l. am erected or
defeated, every man who asks tor ASSIST
ance who does not require 1t Will race
criminaj prosecution. Some of you say,
But I'll lose my job If | don't ASK Tor
assistance ] say to you that you II loSe
some years of your liberty If you do ask
for it" and there was snap to Jerry $
chin as he jerked this sentence out that
showed the whole conviction of the man
was close behind the announcement or
his purpose.
| "That's the alternative. and just so
YOU may know that it will be real pros
| ecution, | want to add that Victor Rol-
linson will volunteer as special prose-
cutor in election fraud cases this gear
Now. you men who have been in the
habit of delivering your vote weakly to
the enemies of good government in thls
CITY picture yourselves sitting in the
| criminal dock with Victor Robinson
Shaking his long forefinger at you an6
saving. Thou art the man and see il
il doesn't stiffen your knees little. See
| too. if il doesn't make your old boss a
| little wary about telling you to vote for
This man or that one, because. as you
well know, that's against the law itself
and we'll get the boss who tries to de-
liver his workingmen as hard as well
! get the man that let's himself be de-
livered."
CONTINUED ON FRIDAY