From Washington Straight

At this moment, an issue is bubbling up to the surface in Washington that could have profound effects upon the future of both major parties. It is an issue which had even the ordinarily unemotional pros steaming hot. And it deals with that old devil, vote fraud—an electioneering peril particularly close to the hearts of congressmen on this the third month of an election year.

This time, it’s the Republicans who are hollering foul. The GOP has a feeling that it might well have been robbed in a special election contest in Detroit two weeks ago in which the Republican candidate was beaten out by a slim 700 votes (Detroit has been known for this kind of thing). But what really touched off the uproar was the election in Queens County, New York, a week ago. According to the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, the GOP candidate Thomas F. Galvin won the congressional election by 40 odd votes. The Democrats, in Mayor Wagner’s new boss-free fief (Wagner, so goes the joke, is the only incumbent ever to have won on a reform platform), claim the victory by 193 votes and, at the moment, the voting machines have been impounded and Republican leaders are awaiting an official canvass before deciding whether or not to demand an expensive recount.

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At this moment, an issue is bubbling up to the surface in Washington that could have profound effects upon the future of both major parties. It is an issue which had even the ordinarily unemotional pros steaming hot. And it deals with that old devil, vote fraud—an electioneering peril particularly close to the hearts of congressmen on this the third month of an election year.

This time, it’s the Republicans who are hollering foul. The GOP has a feeling that it might well have been robbed in a special election contest in Detroit two weeks ago in which the Republican candidate was beaten out by a slim 700 votes (Detroit has been known for this kind of thing). But what really touched off the uproar was the election in Queens County, New York, a week ago. According to the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, the GOP candidate Thomas F. Galvin won the congressional election by 40 odd votes. The Democrats, in Mayor Wagner’s new boss-free fief (Wagner, so goes the joke, is the only incumbent ever to have won on a reform platform), claim the victory by 193 votes and, at the moment, the voting machines have been impounded and Republican leaders are awaiting an official canvass before deciding whether or not to demand an expensive recount.