Other affidavits show that three men voted thirteen times in the fourth precinct of the First Ward. The Union League Club, one of the largest and most influential clubs in the country, stands in the center of that district. While the members sat and discussed a renovated city, cleansed of graft, crime and vice, these crimes against every upright citizen were being committed. ILLEGAL VOTING COSTS MAYORALTY. Edward F. Dunne, former Mayor, declared that his recent defeat for nomination as mayor for another term was due, in part, to illegal votes cast at the primaries in the First Ward. In speaking of the First Ward, Judge Dunne said: "Over 2,600 affidavits for registration were filed for men in the First Ward. These men all voted at the primary, February 28, 1911. On March 14, registration day for the election, less than a month from the day the affidavits were filed, about 800 out of the 2,600 who registered by affidavit, appeared at the polling places to register for the election. This was due to the vigilance of reform organizations which centered their efforts on that ward. "The inference is plain. Nearly 1,800 votes were registered for the primary by men not eligible to vote and who dared not face the challengers for the forces of good." And that is the result of seventy-four years of effort to build a city for the welfare, happiness and advancement of its inhabitants! MR. FARWELL ON THE BALLOT CRIME. "Chicago has never faced a graver problem," declares Mr. Farwell. Vice, crime and graft are heinous offenses in the body municipal, but they are secondary to the debauchery of the ballot. "Corrupt that and you sweep all things to ruin. Honest elections mean honest officials and the end of vice conditions. You cannot solve the social problems nor remedy the social wrongs until you have cleansed the ballot box of its pollution. I believe that today 50,000 illegal names stand on Chicago's election books. That means 50,000 votes for crime, graft and ultimate ruination." THE LAW ABETS EVIL. Even the present laws governing the primary elections seem to abet the crime. According to the primary law it is not a fraud to buy votes! It is a crime punishable by imprisonment to sell a vote! The Vice Trust evidently had a hand in the creation of that travesty on justice. The tentacles of the octopus reach into Springfield, the State capital! To the agents of the Vice Trust who pay tainted dollars for votes, freedom and prosperity! To the starving, human wretches, forgetful of their birthrights, who sell their votes for the price of food or drink--shame and prison cells! IN CONCLUSION. That is the source whence comes the power to create, foster and nourish vice and crime. It is the first and the only absolutely essential link in the vice chain. THE POLICE FORCE, ASSISTING IN SUCKING THE STAGNANT BLOOD FROM THE CITY'S LEVEES, MIGHT BE SWEPT AWAY BY A WAR OF PROTEST AND REFORM, BUT THE EVIL WOULD GROW ANEW.