The Ebensburg Alleghanian

It has been frequently alleged, since election day, that in Philadelphia, as in many other parts of the State, the Democratic candidates received many fraudulent votes. In the city named, three petitions have been filed contesting the election of the Democratic candidates for Clerk of the Orphans' Court, Register of Wills, and City Commissioner.

The petitions allege:

"The election officers in said divisions falsely and fraudulently permitted and suffered a large number of persons, not qualified voters of said divisions, to vote at said election, to the number of 1,949 and upwards, whose votes were taken and counted in the general return for said offices whose names were not on the list furnished by the City Commissioners to the election officers, without requiring or receiving proof of the qualifications of said voters, and without requiring or receiving proof by a qualified elector of the residence in said divisions of said voters, and without adding the names of said voters with the names of the persons making proof to the list furnished by the City Commissioners. They falsely and fraudulently permitted a large number of persons, to the number of 45 and upwards, not qualified to vote in said divisions, whose votes were taken and counted in the general return for the said office of City Commissioner, whose names are to your petitioners unknown, who voted in the names of those who were upon the list furnished by the City Commissioner to the election officers of said divisions."

About 2,500 persons in Philadelphia alone are believed to have cast fraudulent votes—of course, more than enough to change the result in the State.