Excerpt from The Methods of Bribery and Its Prevention at Our National Elections: An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Reform Club, Boston, Jan. 12, 1889

From five dollars to fifty dollars was paid for a single vote, those in the small towns receiving the most, owing to the fact that the change of but few votes there would elect two representa tives, and it is said on good authority that twenty°eight thousand dollars was Spent by one party in Hartford alone.

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