The deputy clerk. a Democrat. who had performed all the duties of the office at the time of the election. and who knew all about the matter. testifies that they had no such books. that such books had never been furnished. and that the only lists which they had were on loose sheets of paper. on none of which. save one perhaps. was the form of oath prescribed for the registration officer and the form of oath for thb voter. At four polls out of twelve in that county even these loose sheets of paper were not sentinto the clerks office. Now. as to the 74 foreignborn voters. it is conceded on the other side that if those voters had been challenged and voted without producing their naturalization papers. which the Constitution commanded and which a Democratic statute commanded. then their votes were illegal. Out of the 74. 18 were challenged. 2 testified that they had lost their papers and could not produce them. 10 gave no reason why they did not produce them. and 44 testified that they did not produce them because they were not asked for them.
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