Crossword-Solution: REPEATERS 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Blaine and the Tilden housed a livelier and a far less select class--the "boys"--the active politicians, the big saloon keepers, the criminal lawyers, the gamblers, the chaps who knew how to round up floaters and to handle gangs of repeaters, the active young sports working for political position, by pitching and carrying for the political leaders, by doing their errands of charity or crookedness or what not.

There, on either side he recognized, in the farthest rim of the crowd, several of the men who did Kelly's lowest kinds of dirty work--the brawlers, the repeaters, the leaders of gangs, the false witnesses for petty corporation damage cases.

They are committing wholesale frauds now--sending round gangs of repeaters, intimidating our voters, openly buying votes at the polling places--paying men as much not to vote as they usually pay for votes." Davy, though latterly he had grown so much older and graver that no one now thought of him as Davy, contrived to muster a smile of amusement.

Third, that these results were brought about by wholesale fraudulent voting, one gang of twenty-two repeaters casting upwards of a thousand votes at the various polling places; also by false counting, the number of votes reported exceeding the number cast by between two and three thousand.

These gangs were thieves, blackmailers, kidnapers of young girls for houses of prostitution, repeaters.