The proof taken by the committees of the House shows that roughs and rowdies. jailbirds and penitentiary convicts. the very cankers of city populations. have been selected to do this dirty work. What freedom and purity of ballot could be expected with such guardian angels as these protecting the sacred right of suffrage ? The fact is established that they prevented from voting many thousand naturalized citizens who had been voting for ten years. upon the pretense that their naturalization papers had not been recorded in a proper manner. The courts overruled these decisions of the supervisors. but the election was over and their votes were lost. Many elections for Congress have been carried in this way.
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