The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World

chery of

Vice Trust-Methods of Corruption-Affidavits Showi

in the principles of government by the p

judge of his personal conduct; the maker of his surroundings; the master in

God's highest gift

hell's highest triumph; i

governing power is an America

hanism of self-government of the

you aim a body blow at the co

nd you destroy the pu

graft and iniquity today, as has been generally

spoken of her evi

almost impregnable. The secret of

ery of the

o has been debauched

ical value for municipal betterment, and made it the armament of their corrupt forces. With its aid they have

sastrous, political victories. Investigation has demonstrated that all the forces of moral-decaying vice have been used to

debauched ballot box is the secret power of the forc

ss sentence of life and death on good and bad, what oppo

GAL BALLOTS

palling. The foundations

investigating bodies backed by the reform element, 4

illery of the vice generals. This is the battalion th

f of humanity, of the wreckag

hip for a piece of silver, a po

the vice lords, a week or two before elections, and proclaim their unholy allegiance to their ma

e of some, brutal crime destroyed respect in others a

ty, those political territories

nest election and securing p

THE VICE CO

cago's elections come due. From Maine to Washington, from Fl

hteenth and Twenty-first wards-the vice territories of the ci

ssued the order. The

and underground hells furnish the

oncerned. A defeat of their rulers would mean financial ruin a

food the "floaters" and "repeaters" wallow in the mir

ppointed guardians of the ballot, cler

s have even resulted in fixing election

ballot, April 5, 1910. Sixty-eight saloonkeepers and bartenders qualified as judges and clerks for this

LECTION

the First ward was made by "repeaters" or personators, in the names of individ

president of the Chicago Law and Order League. This fact was ascertained by a comparison of

m the registry books of the notorious First ward. In a single precinct in that ward, with a re

e registry list. It also showed that 5,552 of the names were of persons who did not liv

ioned, and also known as the "river" wards, because they are separated by

e ballot" is too mild

E: A MASK FOR

re mainly prostitutes and their unfortunate victim

rner of the barrel-house and given

on day his names are successively, M. Graham, L. Wilson, B. Smith, et

rhaps ten votes for the vice lords.

subterfuge. Her name with but an initial for the maiden name appears on the regis

ystem was revealed i

autograph to the registered voters of the First ward in which he urged attendance at the primaries. Of co

dillac hotel, Wabash avenue and Twenty-second street. T

on the registry list as hundreds o

d it to the man for whom she daily sold her body for hir

It is certain that each one casts a vote by the proxy sy

hing be mo

an dig down deep enough t

ING HOUS

Eighteenth Ward there is r

75 to 100 men occupy these unsanitary

re then registered under meani

uffing of the ballot boxes. They are the supposed defenders of the greatest privilege given t

no matter how great the demand may be for laborers, no agency dares furnish these men with work just previous to elections. What agent

icago's ballot-box, we print below the affidavit of a young

e secured by Mr. Farwell of th

s:-State of Illinois

et, being first duly sworn, of my own free

Kenna's saloon, north-east corner of Van Buren and Clark streets, asked us if we were doing any voting. I said no. He said that he could take the three of us over and vote us and that he would pay us 50c a piece and give us a couple of cigars each. We said

ett told the man in charge of ballots to give me a Democratic ticket. He did so. I then went into the booth and was followed by another man who said he would fix it up for me and he marked the ticket, told me to fold it and take it out and vote it. He had small gray mustache, gray hair, forty-eight or fifty years old, gray suit. I gave the ballot to the man

(same ward and precinct), under same conditions as before and got seventy-five cents the se

d two at a time taken to the polling place at 146 LaSalle street, in a basement bookstore where I voted under the name of William Johnson, 172 Madison street (2nd Precinct, 1st Ward). The big man gave us the names on an envelope and a sample ballot marked as we should vote. It was a Democratic ticket. At the door of the polling place we met anot

er and I voted at the corner of Sangamon and Madison streets, under the name of Danford Stowe, 27 North Sangamon street (Pct. 11, 18th Ward). We went in three at a time. We got the nam

for "George" and were directed to a man who stood on the corner with a poll list. He gave me the name of Gordon Seymour (Pct. 5, 18th Ward). The fellow with me was given the name of James A. Sharp, 22 Bishop Court. I don't remember wh

street where we asked for Barney who gave me the name of Sheldon. The polling place was across the street from the brick-layer's hall. Barney took u

s Ba

fore me this twentieth day

. Mul

ry P

ecinct of the First Ward. The Union League Club, one of the largest and mo

y, cleansed of graft, crime and vice, these crimes

TING COSTS

eat for nomination as mayor for another term was due, in pa

he First Ward, J

stration day for the election, less than a month from the day the affidavits were filed, about 800 out of the 2,600 who registered by affidavit, appea

ered for the primary by men not eligible to vote and wh

of effort to build a city for the welfare,

L ON THE B

ll. Vice, crime and graft are heinous offenses in the body mun

t solve the social problems nor remedy the social wrongs until you have cleansed the ballot box of its pollution. I believe that

W ABET

erning the primary electi

mary law it is not a

shable by imprison

n of that travesty on justice. The tentacles of th

t who pay tainted dollars for

their birthrights, who sell their votes for th

ONCL

es the power to create, foste

only absolutely essentia

OOD FROM THE CITY'S LEVEES, MIGHT BE SWEPT AWAY BY A W

foundry where the iron manacles for the

ld still remain to

aters"; compel prostitutes to register their full names to show their sex; and send to prison the corrupt judges an

the only

ot box means "re

llot box means

ot box means put

box means 5,000 reg

t box means prote

ot box means not

lot box means p

ed ballot

nual graft to

ice Trust exists. Because it exists, Chicago is

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of The Chica

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