CAMPAIGN: Open Season

Almost every year, when the leaves and the ballots are falling, the U. S. Government takes out a license, takes down a fowling piece, and goes gunning for election frauds. The bag is never very notable, but the bang-bang is heartening and salutary. Last week the loudest shooting came from New Jersey, where vote frauds shook every clump of underbrush.

Beaters for a Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, stationed in Newark, flushed one witness after another to tell what he knew about the partridge dances in neighboring Hudson County, where Democratic Committee Vice Chairman Frank Hague is boss of the bush....

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