Show NEW YORKERS SELL VOTES W f KITING IN IX HARPERS WEEKLY y John Speed calls attention to tl the common practice I of or vote ote buy buying buyIng ing big in Ia New York state and makes out outa a L vary lY bd bad ease It has long Jong been known that votes are bought bou ht and sold soldAn in An New e York City Cit but the up state stat people P were ware supposed to be fairly lion hon lionet et Mr Ir Speed finds linda that this theory thet ry is incorrect in The conditions outside out Id the metropolis are as bad or worse than the conditions inside the city Spooking Speaking of Albany he says sas that men active actie in local politics estimate that tI at from rein SO 50 O to 76 75 per par cent cont of the avail available available available able election funds is paid to voters oters who actually sell seU their votes and these include de from 26 2 i to SO 10 O per the total number of or voters Some years ago a man long Ions active in local politics made a careful study of at bribery and corruption in elections and concluded that 7 00 of ot the votes rotes cast in inthis Inthis Inthis this county wore purchasable The Theote vote ote now east aest in the county has in increased increased creased to considerably more than 40 Men Wen now active in politics are agreed that commercialism is i steadily on th the increase that men who ho own houe houses es s and lots Jots and aDd who would re resent resent resent sent any of selling their votes dp d nevertheless e to a degree ever growing greater reater demand and expect to receive money at elections their share of or tk lB the campaign fund as they term It Jt This Iki applies to contested primaries maries aa well as to general elections In the rural districts farmers store storekeeper storekeepers keepers keeper and supposedly suppo respectable men M see e no harm tarm in selling their votes Yot And it was as a New Ne Yorker who talked about bout lot the tha rotten boroughs h of or the west We Ve may ma not know as much macit out here as seme Ie et f t our e eastern tern friends but It half hale of the stories written about abo t the tiie eastern ern states teas are true we could give he them a good many practical lee ls Sons sona in common nunon c honesty llone t in elections |