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From Party Tickets to Secret Ballots
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FIGURE 6. 1888 Prohibition Party Ticket: An example of the elaborate
illustrations sometimes used on
parry tickets. (Maryland Historical Society. Photo: Jeff Goldman.)
power but declared, "I cannot fail to perceive the terrible and growing
evil of
fraudulent registration, voting, and election returns; nor the inevitable
certainty
with which it is converting the Democratic majority of Maryland into a
minority
. . . we must correct this evil at any cost, . . . the ultimate permanence
of our
party can only be secured in this way." 3°
In 1889, as in 1887, the issue of election reform dominated the Maryland
political campaign. Believing that electoral success again depended on a
strong
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