| Show PURITY IN ELECTIONS ELECTIONS THE three great agencies by which dishonesty is 18 practiced at elections are colonization illegal registration and fraudulent voting the newspapers of 4 new york tell us that elections in their city are frequently carried by one or all three of these means if so it Is not the fault of the lawmakers or of the election laws thelah the law in that city provides that within 84 hours houra after the closing of registration there shall be published by the ouy my record a list of registered voters arranged by assembly districts d and by election districts d astri eta so BO that the names of all registered voters residing at any given number of any street shall appear together and those of each street in each election district shall appear arranged by house numbers in consecutive order each street separately the registry of each assembly dis die brict to is printed as a supplement to the atty W tie oord and must be sold to per sons wishing to buy it at not less than five cents a copy with such precautions as these it would seem that it only needs a little public spirit to maintain purity of elections the record shows the number registered from each louse house and also gives their names any residing in that vicinity can verify or disprove the registration this system excels the alphabetical classification complexly comple rely ily it chews at a glance where fraud in colonization or registration I 1 ic resorted to it only requires a little patriotism and public spirit to detect fraud but unless honesty rules in the public heart legislative restrictions will fall fail of their object and cur cor i 1 upturn at elections will prevail la in spite of laws and penalties and regulations |
