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1342 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29
form party. When all these facts are considered together,
the proof of overwhelming fraud in the election of November
2nd, 1875, in the City of Baltimore, amounts to absolute
certainty. Let us examine a tew precincts in each Legisla-
tive District, somewhat in detail. Beginning with the First
District, which is composed of the first seven wards, we find
that in the 2nd precinct of the 2nd ward, Wrn. H Slater
testifies that he has been Democratic Clerk of Election for
several years, prior to the last election, and also Clerk to Reg-
ister of Voters for several years, that the list of qualified voters
now contains about 3,400 names, while the legal voters of the
precinct do not exceed 2,000; that the vote prior to 1875
ranged from 1,300 to 1,600, but at the municipal election of
1875 ran up to 2,300, and at the State election to 2,9«)0.
This addition to the list of qualified voters of 1,400 names,
an increase of the vote at the State election over that of the
corresponding election of 1874, in the space of only one year,
by the large sum of 1,300, sufficiently explains the anxiety
of the contestants to have the committee examine the books of
registration, list of qualified voters and poll books, and the
determinationof the respondents that no such examination
should be made.
There is also found here sufficient reason for the opposition
in certain quarters to a new registration in the City of Balti-
more, inasmuch as it must necessarily verify the charges made
by the contestants in regard to fictitious names upon the lists
of qualified voters, etc., and show that the great Democratic
majority of November 2nd, 1875, has no other foundation or
Substance than unblushing fraud.
In the 3d precinct of the 4th Ward, Latrobe's majority was
36; Carroll's, 235, and there were 144 more ballots than
names on the clerks books.
At the 1st precinct of the 4th Ward, residences of voters
were not noted on lists of qualified voters, and the Reform
clerk was removed and replaced by one appointed by the Po-
lice Board, unknown to the Reform .Judge. Repeaters were
active and there were 39 ballots in excess of names recorded
as voting, accordingly we find Latrobe's majority of 18,
swollen by Carroll to 285.
Leaving the 1st district now for the 2nd, (composed of the
6th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, 19th and 20th Wards,) we
find the logic of figures more conclusive. In the 8th Ward
terrorism was rife and the Reform vote falls from 563 to
436, repeaters flourished and the Democrtic vote rose from
1,643 to 2,391.
In the 9th Ward, comparing the 2nd and 4th precincts, it
appears that in the 2nd, Carroll's gain over Latrobe is 7;
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