Nebraska. South Dakota. and Texas. Recognizing the menace to the safety of government of such a policy as this. a num)er of States have recently amended their constitutions so as to allow only nativeborn persons and persons who are fully naturalized under the regular legal process to vote therein. to wit. Alabama. Minnesota. Michigan. Wisconsin. and others that I can not recollect. "To show the abuses which arise under such a policy. which is contrary to the very spirit of the Federal naturalization laws. attention might be directed to the fact that the following methods have recently been applied in a certain Western State where the declarations of intention made by aliens in the course of a year would hardly approximate two dozen and the declarations made within 30 (lays preceding and including election daymade under the influence of vote manufacturerslhave approximated a thousand or more in several of the courts exercising naturalization jurisdiction In the State: The ambitious candidate has his henchnien line up all the foreigners in the district whom he can enlist. He makes his drive through the industrial plants. foregathers with the aliens in their club organizations. extols the virtues of his candidateand this applies regardless of partyand by various Inducements and blandishments prevails upon the foreigners to assemble at convenient places and in the day and night time the accommodating clerk of the court supplies the necessary blank forms and accepts the statutory fees coming from an appropriate source. Up to and including election day this business continues.
Identified stereotypes
Foreigners are easily manipulated into voting a certain way.