Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — TO PREVENT ILLEGAL VOTING. [ARTICLE]

TO PREVENT ILLEGAL VOTING.

Everyone is fam liar with the fradulent voting practiced in 1908 bv reason of which most of the Republican State ticket was elected in that year. When the legislature met Governor Marshall asked for the passage of a law that would make that sort of thing impossible. A Republican senate defeated the bill. Upon that subject Governor Marshall had the following to say in his Indianapois speech: "Beyond dispute. more than two thousand five hundred persons who landed at the port of New York in March and April voted at the general election in November, seven and eight months later. When I asked the general assembly to pass a plain and simple law. the purpose of which was not to curtail the elective franchise in Indiana, but simply to obtain information as to whether the voter had been in the state long enough legally to become an elector, it was promptly turned Mown by a Republican senate upon the theory that I was seeking to play politics. The Democratic party proposes, if entrusted with further power, to take this question up and see that every man who has a right to vote shall vote and that every man not entitled to vote shall not vote."