Mercur Miner | 1905-09-06 | Page 3 | Want Honest Elections

WANT HONEST ELECTIONS. Effort to Purge Philadelphia' Assessors' As-sessors' List of 60,000 Fraudulent Fraudu-lent Votes. Philadelphia. The director or pub-lie pub-lie safety on Thursday issued orders to tho various police lieutenants of the city directing thum to detail policemen po-licemen to appear beforo the assessor! of their respective election divisions on the ovonlng of Soptcmber C, and present to the aBriCHmrs all flctttlouc names and thoso of persons who have died, moved or nro Illegally upon the voting lists,, and request tho assessor to strlko tho samo from tho roll. After a recent ranvasH by tho police It was nnnounccd that they discovered moro than 00,000 names Illegally upon the election lists Tho department ot public safety has prepared C0.000 affidavits af-fidavits sworn to by policemen and tiles' will bo presented to tho assessors asses-sors when tho domand is mado upon them to strlko off tho alleged bogus names.