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‘Federal’ ‘Statute. Covering | Congressional | Primaries, _ Carrying Rigid Penalties, ite Be Invoked, He eAne Het Civil Rights to Be Protected, Home Rule Committee ‘Head Asserts; Cites ‘Evi- « dence, Past Experience’: 3 Federal law making interference ‘with clyil rights at an’ election. in- wolving congressional candidates punishable by maximum imprison-. ment of 10 years and fine up to $5000 will be invoked in cases of % dteoncentrate on af bo ong /peraong, at the outset. * THE TPES ELGAXUEE ORLEANS, LA. ANUARY 6, 1036, fy : aed . anyone to.conspire to injure a per- e exercise of civil zichts, SS “Bectlon Applies” | *."#° . “Th ‘the approaching primary elec- tion candidates for the United States te Congresa andi United States: Senate vesfigating ~ fraudulent reeaife n the city of New Orleans,’I krow the exact spots where such fraudu- ient registrations will be most likely attempted, and know the .names of the persons most. lixely: to be guilt attempted fraud, and 1 eneirpeiet these } spots,” and sl 2: !Grossly Padded : nm many instances, . from informa- Ryo ae “REPORTS PROMISED son! already in ‘my possession, we have! discovered that certain loca- jtions ‘have been’ grossly padded with ‘pérsons*. net now living.there, and who never resided there: that some of the names of registrants are fic- titlous; that some persone are “reg- istered from - different wards and some {n different parishes; that mi- nors have been registered and that ,jsued in blank by the registration of- fice, tobe signed by’ the: precinct workers with the name.of the pte- terided registrant (the precitnet work- ér also signs the original registra- tion book, 86 that the gienatures will OX, 80 1na IGnatures Will compare, if checked); that 1934 poll- all persons suspected of frdudzinsas. réceipta have been issued after tha January 21 primary, former Dis-/the béoka have been closed. Ev: Stanley ito ‘prove these statements da already in my possession. oa trict Attorney Eugene Warned in a statement Sunday. Mr. Stanley, chairman of the legal ¢eommittea for .the (Cleveland Dear Home Rule ticket, ° asserted that Pwe Intend to rake every legal ef- for to prevent the casting of fraudu-. ‘lent votes, or the fraduient count- _ ing of the votes cast and the mak-| _ ing of a fraudulent return by any eommisalon Mr. Stanley said that “he and his ,sommittes wiil thoroughly investi- “We intend ‘te avail ourselves of vary conatitutlonal and very eOnatitution FRG BLS. iory fright granted ts by the’ constitution and laws of the United States of ‘America for the protection of the civ- ‘H1 rights guranteed us under the con- sicution: and, Jawa of the United |; i Btate . we martlowlasie, Intend ta an 7) Pariciuany aniend wa ‘seek | the protection. afforded us -by the ‘gate reports that wholesale fraud|United States law (Section 5508 of has ‘been perpetrated in registering the United States Revised Statutss} atatutaed.| .of voters, and poitted out that as[Which makes it a felony, punishable a result of his experience in such (RY # fing not to excemLusiiend studies in the past he knows “the imprisonment for not more than 10 exact spotd where such fraudulent'years in the federal penitentiary for registrations ‘will be most likely at- tempted” and the “names of the persona most likely to be guilty.’ His statement follows:: % . “As, chairman. of the: Cleveland, Dear tegal committee ‘to "investigate the’ claim, ‘that: wholesals’ fraud -has pben’ committed in the registration'of | “wotéra In «thia® ‘btate;"it:Jx\ my inten-" ton—iopmake thig tnyeblbgatinn ee. complete, a5. possible." +i will be‘ voted for, and. the- United Btates supreme court and United ./ States courte of appeal have held ; (stat the above section of the United of the statute in a primary election when congressional and fenatorial candidates participate. - “In the Herndon case: in ‘Texag the supreme court held that in a primary tlon where candidates ‘for’ Con- 2 were voted for that such an ze cases coming ‘within the terms election was equivalent to a final ‘Telection and was within the jurisdic- ‘ tion of the United States court." ‘Every Legal Effort’ a “We do not desire to hinder or to make it difficult for any citizen of eta kat antitied ta uote ta E Slate lawfully €nwwed 16 Vous to east his vote election day, but we do intend to make every legal effort to prevent the casting of fraudulent wotes, ot the fraudulent counting of the votes cast and the making of a fraudulent return by any commission- ere of election and wherever the ' 2P5 Gl GitCiicn, SNa Wierever wal lation of the United States laws we intend to submit the facts to the United States attorney for lavestiga- dion and actidn. ry “The making of a false return by Sny commissioner of election in a estate primary where candidates for Congress and the Senate are voted for an offense under the laws of ‘the ‘United States, and has been decided ‘numerous times by the United States ‘wupreme court: "a . decision in point is that: ot 'nited States vs Mosley and Hogan jXdecided in 1915), Vol. 59.U. 8. Sup. Ch Rpts, (Li Hd.) 1355, Wherein, it ‘was aaid::' ’“<‘Conspiracy of ‘ptate ‘election of “Ficiala to omit the returna from cer- tain precincts at’ an election for member of Congress from their count and from their returns to the atate _@lection board 1s indictable under the €riminal code of the Unite ates. | (Signed) “EUGENE STANLEY." *! | leegistration certificates have been : facts submitted to us show a vio- ’