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Show The Philadelphia Times estimates esti-mates that there hava been registered regis-tered illegally upon the polling list of that city the present year, 30,000 names, of which it is probable 15,000 will be stricken ofi under the operation opera-tion of democratic legislation. This Bpecies of wholesale illegal registration, registra-tion, is the key to the large republican republi-can majorities which have been so long maintained in Philadelphia. To give an idea of the extent of these frauds, it is stated that in a single election district, 1,819 illegal names havo already been stricken from the lists, with the prospect of a large addition ad-dition to this number. And this ia tho method by which the will of the people is Escertaincd in the great and good city of Philadelphia. |