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rendered under peculiarly trying circumstances in connection with a branch of the inquiry which did not meet at the time with the same degree of public approval as did the investigation into the general subject of police corruption and extortion, that your committee is able to place before this body revelations demonstrating the manner and method prevailing during recent years in the conduct of elections in the city of New York, which must be of absorbing interest to the people of this State. The branch of the investigation conducted by him apart from sentimental considerations, so closely touches the interests of all the people, affecting as it does the right of every citizen within this jurisdiction to cast but one ballot and to have that ballot counted as cast, that it furnishes in itself abundant reason for legislative insistence upon conditions that will measurably prevent a recurrence of manifest fraud against the whole people so conclusively established.

Upon the second branch of the investigation, your committee was especially fortunate in having at the outset the active support and cooperation of many representative organizations, notably of the Society for the Prevention of Crime, and its distinguished president, Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst; of the Chamber of Commerce, represented by Charles Stewart Smith, Esq., and of the metropolitan newspapers,

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