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Show VOTER SHOT DOWN AT POLLING BOOTH ' Vole-Catching1 jMania of Corsican Inyor Goes to Extraordinary Lengths. PARIS. Oct.. .12 To what, extraordinary ex-traordinary lengths the uiania for vote-catching- will lead inon has often been exempli lied before, but m-vor better bet-ter than in tho case of a Corsicnii mayor. This gontlemau had become unpopular during hia term of ofhVe, and was wejl aware that nt tho next election elec-tion J20 out of U00 voters would vote against him. - To establish the equilibrium, or rather to have a safe balance .over, he resolved to create sixty voters, Now any one who owns laud on tbo commune com-mune has Ihc right to hav( his name inscribed in the electoral list. Accordingly Accord-ingly our wiiy mayor purchased sixty small parcels of ground ami distributed them among his relatious, friends and clients. Tho night before tho olevtion was to take place tho mayor received a message, or rather found It affixed to his front door, to the effect that if any of his ncwlv created voters von tured to approach tho polling booth they would bo bhot on thu spot. The' mayor was quite - woll enough acquainted with his Countrymen to know that tho throat would bo carried car-ried out, but he did nothing lo warn his voters. Tho first who approached the polling booth was accordingly shot down bo-fore bo-fore he could record his vore. His assailants as-sailants then took (light. Turning to the other forty-nine, this heroic vote-catcher vote-catcher exclaimed. "Vote! Vote quickly, quick-ly, before they como back! We have only lost one vote so far." |