Shameful

New York, 1895

Some Tricks to Deceive the Voters.

A so-called People's ticket has been placed in the field by B. Frank Wood and Excise Commissioner Bauman. Mr. Wood is the Republican nominee for justice of the peace, and Mr. Bauman, who was rejected by the Republican convention, is running stump for excise commissioner. Bauman disgraced the office of excise commissioner, and the Republican convention deserves credit for rejecting him. Nevertheless, Mr. Wood thinks it a good political stroke to make a combination with Mr. Bauman.

All the rest of the names on the ticket are Democrats.

The object of this ticket is to deceive voters. Citizens who might want to vote the Good Government ticket, and citizens who might want to vote the straight Democratic ticket, will have trouble to avoid becoming muddled. Men who can descend to trickery and deceit to secure an election deserve to be defeated.

Another trick has been resorted to in behalf of Mr. Wood. The Good Government Club made a ticket and nominated George Lester for justice of the peace, John H. Ludlum for assessor, John M. Baylis for highway commissioner, Michael Baisley for overseer of poor, and Charles W. Waldron for excise commissioner.

Wood has had a ticket filed called the United Good Government Club with his own name in it for justice of the peace. The purpose of this is to confuse and mislead the voters. Such trickery is despicable. Wood is compelling the town to pay for printing three tickets for him.

The Democratic politicians who took bribes last October, some of whom are indicted, are supporting B. Frank Wood. The reason is that Mr. Wood aided them in the concealment of their crime, and in their efforts to escape indictments, and now in their efforts to escape trial.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 29, 1895, p. 1.