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Show Sixty Thousand Negroes j Taken' Into the Doubt- I f u! States, f Washington, Nov. 3. An official es- I: tlmate that 60,000 negroes have been I transported recently from the south I; into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and other Ij states, was made by the department fej of justico in a statement declaring I'l that a number of the negroes have l, fraudulently registered and that other M election frauds disclosed include pad- H ding of registration lists reaching in- P to Uiousands of false names in one I city alone. 1 The statement issued with the sanc- tion of Attorney General Gregory I gives warning that conspiracies to in-! I timidate votere will be promptly pros- t ecuted. It is the department's first I official announcement that actual I cases of fraud have been developed I I by Its investigations. I "Among other provisions of law," II says the statement, "section 19 of the W penal code, makes it an offense I against the "United States for two or 1 more persons to conspire to intimi-1:1 intimi-1:1 date any citizen In the free exercise li or enjoyment of any right or privilege fl secured to him by the constitution If and laws of the United States or to 1 punish him for having exercised such I? right nud the courts have held that 11 one of the rights so secured is the M right to vote for federal officers and tf to have their votes fairly counted and j ' J the result correctly returned. Con- s i spiracies to intimidate voters in the ' If free exercise of the right to vote for l federal officers are violations of fed- h eral law. Such a conspiracy need not $ be consummated and even an overt I act is not essential, nor is intimida- ) tion confined to acts of physical vio- ! i lence. The development of such con- i ditions will result In prompt prosecu- 1 j Hons. ; Instructed to Be Non-Partisan. S 5 "United States district attorneys f tuu mvesuyiiiurs uuve Deen msLruci-l msLruci-l ed to bo fair and non-partisan in in-1 in-1 vestigations and prosecutions. . "Information received by the de-3. de-3. partment of justice shows that with-1 with-1 in the last three months approximate-I approximate-I ly 00,000 negroes have been trans-I trans-I ported by certain southern states to 5 northern and western states, mainly ) to middle western states, principally t Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Investlga-ff- tion has developed the fact that a number of these negroes have regis-Fji regis-Fji tered in violation of the laws of the states to which they have gone and V have expressed the intention of voting in those states. if "Some information has been de'vel- ' oped indicating plans in different l: states to violate the federal statutes '! with reference to election in other ways, such as registration of non-naturalized citizens; false registration by padding the registration lists with fictitious names with the intention of having persons falsely represent themselves to bo the persons whose names appear on the list and vote un-I un-I der those names; what are commonly I known as 'repeaters,' false counts and returns by election boards; entering on the poll books as having voted fictitious persons or persons who have failed to vote; intimidation in various forms, including that by em-ployers em-ployers of their employes through threats which tend to coerce the will of the employes. i "Facts in the possession of the de partment show in one city the padding of registration lists which fictitious names to an extent which, in the light ;': of information Indicates that the ' number of such false names probably j. reaches into the thousands." Chicago, Nov. 3. Frank C. Dailey, in chargo of the government's investigation inves-tigation in vote frauds in the central ', district, announced today that inves- j tigators have found ovidenco of fraud- ulent registration, colonization of vot- crs, intimidation, and the use of money mon-ey to influence voters. The violations, he said, had occurred in Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. He declared ho was contemplating con-templating calling a special grand jury to hear the evidence, but said the call would not be until after election. elec-tion. oo |