Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1890 — HEARD ON THE CORNERS. [ARTICLE]

HEARD ON THE CORNERS.

“These fellows who always make themselves humpbacked circulating ballots and carrying the halt to the polls,” said an ex-politician, “are considerably bothered what they will do when the new law goes into effect. The general law, and the bribery law provides strictly against the use of money or other valuables in influencing voters; prohibits the hiring of workers, and drives every one fifty feet away from the polls, and a man found on the outside of the polling place with o ticket is a subject for the i penitentiary. It will be like Suni duy around the polls, and it not 1 only falls heavily on the* workers but on the professional leeches (who always waited for the highest bid. lam told of a conversation that was overheard between ’members of the above class when the question was sprung, ‘What’s the maL ter with we floaters being paid to remain at home, if we can’t get pay for voting.’ Now, that was a point pretty well taken, but is a feature that was foreseen by the state Solons and it might be well to call atteniou to section four of an act passed at the last session to maintain political purity, in which it is provided that any one who shall influence or prevent any elector to refrain from voting or remain away from the polls shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $25

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