Show The New Jersey academy in was built by the women of New Jersey to teach the poor Mormons of Utah to the and to show them how to vote honestly and Much money was begged from New Jersey and other eastern states to erect that building and maintain Much money was recently gathered in to make additions to so that they would have more room to give poor heathenish youth an opportunity to learn That school must be maintained as its founders mission schools must be maintained to teach benighted Mormon the beauty and sanctity of the Christian If the conditions of Utah should ever get as corrupt in the sales of votes as it is in it would be such a big drawing card that money could be raised to build a New Jersey academy on every New Jersey academy better move to Adams where real loyalty to the government may be taught without The following press dispatch tells the story of vote selling in West That a contract system of vote buying existed in Adams in addition to other methods by which voters' were bought or was disclosed today in the grand that is being made of the selling of votes that has been practiced here for the past thirty The total number of those who have been indicted and are to be disfranchised today reached The grand jury has adjourned until but confessions from men who have ben indicted and from the higher-ups who are giving state's evidence in exchange for immunity will be received by Judge Blair every day during the Under the contract system of vote voters were sold in wholesale lots by the contractors who were small township statesmen of bi-partisan political would herd the voters and offer them to the party bidding the most This system greatly facilitated the business of vote contractors would go to the party leaders and have seven what will you giVe said Judge A. who started the investigation Seven men would bring about in the open The contractor would divide of this amount among the purchased and would keep the as his commission on the chattel deal Men were sold like I would say that about one half of the voters of Adams county were either bought or A more appalling picture of corruption among the voters than Adams actually presents as the result of the grand jury's action has never been drawn of any community on this Already indictments have been found against over voters for selling their and the total number may run to Judge A. in a charge to the grand said that the purchasable vote of the county was over one-third of the total and in the last thirty years there hardly had been an honest Lists of voters and the prices for which could be bought were found in four-fifths of the polling places of the and were used by both The election authorities openly participated in the purchase and sale of Farmers have been known publicly to auction off their votes without causing Conditions prevailing in Adams county are said to exist in parts of other counties in It is the country districts that are especially under and the same circumstance is generally to be observed where there is the least organized vigilance and publicity in fraud and corruption are most likely to |