New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-27
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In the cities of New-York and Brooklyn tho
real work of the November election will prac-
tically be performed on Friday and Saturday
of this week, when the boards of registration
will meet to revise and complete the poll-ists.
1t is on these two days that the principal part
of the frauds by which Tammany Hall annu-
ally seeks to Overpower the honest choice OF
the State will be peTpetrated. On these TWO
days the gangs of repeaters will go from district
to district, entering the fictitious names under
which they purpose multiplying themselves on
the second of November. On these two days
the thousands of unnaturalized foreigners, the
thousands who have been put through the natu-
ralization mill without fulfilling the legal condi-
lions. and the thousands of animated voting
machines who have not acquired legal resi-
dence, will be brought up TO the registry Offices
by the Tammany agents and enrolled as voters.
On these two days good half of the shame
full work will be performed for which the Su-
pervisors of Kings County have excluded Re-
ublcans from tho Office of inspectors, just as
they did last year. We entreat our friends TO
watch the enemy closely, for except on Friday
and Saturday we shall have very little oppor-
tunity of preventing their frauds.
The inspectors of election, sitting rs regis
tiers, are TeuulItO W 10 lH uN'ChN"h'o ~ wv
polling places in their respective districts from
s q. IN. to 0 p. m. on these two days, In order
to complete and revise the lists Any voter
who has not already been enrolled may then
appear and give in his name. Any name inn
properly inscribed may then be erased Any
person entitled to vote has a right TO point
out errors in the lists, in any district OF the
city, or TO challenge any person applying to
L IL Il
to erase any names which are proved to their
satisfaction to have been improperly inserted,
and to reject any applicant who is shown to
be not entitled to vote No name can be en-
tered on the books unless the owner of it
comes in person to be registered
SO much for the cities of Ncw-York and
Brooklyn. In all other districts which lie within
or include the whole or any part OF city or
incorporated villageIIthere will be one meeting
of the Registers, namely, on Friday only, from
0 a. IN. to D. m. No man whose name is not
on the registry Friday night will be allowed to
vote on Tuesday In the rest of tho State,
that is in purely rural districts, there will be
no further meetings Of the board of registers;
but any voter whose namo has been omitted
can vote on Tuesday provided he makes aflivavit
that he is qualified, brings some known legal
voter to testify for him, and offers valid ex
cuse for neglecting to be registered
Persons qualified to vote are all male citi-
zens 81 years of age who have resided in the
State for one year next preceding the election,
in tho county four months, and in the cleo
ton district thirty days. Aliens by birth must
also have been naturazed ten days before the
election Colored men must have been three
years citizens of the State and be possessed of
q freehold estate of at least $780, In order to
be registered it is not necessary that tho ap-
plcant shall have completed tho full term of
residence or age on the day of registration ; it
is sufficient il he will be qualified to vote on
the day of election. Naturalized citizens must
exhibit to the registers their certificates of nat
uraization (unless the fact of their naturaliza-
ton is known personally to at least three Of
the four. inspectOrs), and must prove, by their
own oath or otherwise. that they arc the
persons named in tho documents which |
they produce. An alien who can show, how
ever, that he is unable to produce his certif-
cate, may after due examination still be regis
tered. An alien may become naturalized after |
five years continuous residence in the United |
States provided he has taken out his first pa
pers two years before applying for the rights of |
citizenship. III NC dITlNeu HeIe uhucT inc dRo |
of 1S, the previous declaration of intention is
not required. If he was resident of the |
United States and under 81 years of age when
his father was naturalized, he is by that fact
made citizen and becomes entitled to vote on
reaching 81. HOnorably discharged soldiers
may become naturalized after one years resi-
dencs, without previous declaration of inten-
ton. The following classes of persons lose the
right to vote: /. Persons convicted of felony.
2. Deserters from the army or navy who
did not report for duty on or before
May 10, 1865, or who deserted after
that date. g. All persons who left
the country to avoid the draft. 4. All who
have bets or wagers depending upon the result
of the election. No one is deemed to have
either gained or lost residence by presence
or absence while employed in the service of
the United States, or while navigating the
seas or the waters of the State or the United
States or while student in any seminary of
learning, or kept in any asylum at the public
expense, or confined in any prison. Persons be-
longing to any of these,categores must of course