Show INTIMIDATION AND BRIBERY It is rumored that efforts are being made to bulldoze the worKingmen into voting the Liberal ticket It has been said that some frantic Liberal contraptors are letting it be known that they will discharge those of their employees who vote the Independent Workingmens ticket It has been reported that a contractor who is erecting a large building in this city when he heard one of his carpenters addressing a workingmens meeting the other evening declared that the man could not work for him after Monday I Mon-day THE HERALD suggests to the contractors I and employers generally that they are treading on very dangerous ground in this business Intimidation of an elector V happens to be a misdemeanor in this country coun-try Section thirty of the election law reads as follows Any person who shall offer any bribe threat or intimidation to any elector for the purpose of Influencing his vote or shall examine any bal lot offered or cast at the polls or found in any ballot box for any other purpose than to ascertain ascer-tain what candidate has been elected or who votes more than once at any ono election or knowingly offers to vote two or more ballots or in anymanner changes any ballot after the same has been deposited in the ballot box or adds or attempts to add any ballot to those legally polled shall bo deemed guilty of a misdemeanor misde-meanor Workingmen should bear in mind that I the ballot is free and secret and also that I the man who undertakes to intimidate them I by a threat to discharge from emplo mentor ment-or in any other way lays himself liable to fine and imprisonment Jf any such threat I shall be made the workingman should at once report the matter to his committee I that the guilty party may be made known and brought to punishment I There is another section 29 of the sta tute which we will publish as a warning to repeaters and to fellows from Pratts sid ing and P V Junction who may be offered money or railroad passes if they will come here and vote Any person who shall give or promise or offer to she to an elector any money reward or other valuable consideration for his ote at an election or for withholding tho same or who shall give or promise to give such considerations con-siderations to any other person or party for such electors vote oc for the withholding thereof or any elector who shall receive or agree to receive for himself or for another any money reward or other valuable consideration consider-ation for his vote at an election or for with holding the same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall also forfeit the right tot to-t at such election If electors will do their duty in reporting the names of the Intimidators tho bull dozers and bribe givers there will be some fnn |