Davenport set himself to do. and he did it on consultation with leading Democrats and Republicans. men like Mr. Whitney. who for awhile afterwards was corporation counsel. was to recover from the men who held them these fraudulent certificates. and why? In the first place because the men who were not entitled to naturalization should not be permitted to vote on certificates they had purchased or that the courts bad given them in fraud. Second. because there were thousands and tens of thousands of men who were fairly entitled to be naturalized and to papers who had received in their ignorance these fraudulent papers and bekeved that they had a right to vote. and were exposing themselves in every election to arrest. imprisonment. and fine. So for the honest as well as the dishonest itwas an imperative duty to take those fraudulent certificates out from the hands in which they were held. Mr.
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