Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — Elections in Corsica. [ARTICLE]

Elections in Corsica.

The Corsicans have nothing to learn in the art of carrying an election. They vote for those who are out of town and for those who are dead. They stuff the ballot-box. They scratch a ticket with a bit of lead pencil under the thumb nail, or with a sponge dipped in oil. They run away with the ballot-box. They fight, and a Corsican will bear a bullet like a wild boar, but in that land of fidelity bribery is unknown. To fancy an Italian republic of the fourteenth century one need not get pale over old chronicles, but spend a month in picturesque Porto Vecchio at election time.— New York. Times.