The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-10-27
NEW YORK'S VOTERS.
A Registered Majority of Fifty Thousand
Naturallzed Cttlzens-Es0w Voters
New York Herald

tNew York Herald]
On the eve Of an election no place in the city
OF New York affords greater scope for study
than the Naturalization Bureau. located on the
ward politicians. like recruiting sergeants on
the eve of war bring their men to the front
ready to do battle at the ballot box, and for
iong array % Of en eagsr to shield hemseves
and their rights under the egis Of American N
Thomas Bose. Be- e. clerk r q the Superior Court
"Oh, about three thousand tlge hundred be-
was engaged In the naturalization business
This is a good deal for an off year. is 1T not ?"
No" replied the clerk. in presidential
years it is a good deal heavier.
Does, the native vote increase in the same
DO you know that it was only this morning
that was pondering over the same question, st; N
B9W e es bis yoc
pile of records. examined the last State census,
added on the estimated figures of the three
years and said, Here VIC have 1t. Now let US
put it down"
THE NATURALIzED MAJORITY.
The reporter did so and was surprised to as
certain the following results:
Natives entitled to vote -.................. 90 973
Naturalized citizens entitled to vote. ..l l41 ,l79
Total voting population. ...........,...2 1882, ,152
In addition to those 232.152 voters to-day in
New York city, there are 48 .3O5 males taliens)
WHO enjoy the privileges Of the laws live under
allied, do not fulfill the duties Of citizenship,
Should they take out their papers the actual
voting strength of New York city would be 27o'-
NATIVE" WARDS.
Only four wards in the city of New York can
claim majority of native voters These are
the second, the ninth, the fifteenth and sixteenth
wards The naturalized citizens have a major
ity in twenty wards The ninth ward is the
banner ward of native voters. There the figures
stand as follows
Native voters Observation-Disclosures. .479
Naturalized voters. 4,981
Voting population of ninth ward Ia, AGO
The fifteenth ward stands as follows
Native voters. 4. .370
Naturalzed voters. 2,45C
Voting population of fifteenth ward..... 6,82O
PER CONTRA.
The largest number of native voters is In the
nineteenth ward, but there is a spOndingly
heavy naturalized vote. The record stands thus
Native voters 9,1Sf
Naturalzed voters .'''.''.15.O .OSi
Voting population of nineteenth ward. "a. $40
In the heart of the German district tseven-
teenth ward) the figures are
Naturalized voters. .I5. .43s
Voting population of seventeenth ward 2o,267
Now" said Mr.. Boese, they talk about heavy
registries. have given YOU the exact figures
as to our voting population: You can call it
easily at a round figure to- day 100000: and in
the presidential election OF 1876 the registry was
not over 1876 900. and this year |, don't think it
will be 10000. thus leavin out about 100000 cit
liens who do not intend to go to the polls. It Is
indeed formidable army of Don-voters. But
the point wanted to make. and which will as
tonish even politicians. is that we have in the
city of New York 10000 more naturalized citi-
zens than native voters.'
THE NATURALIZATION MILL,
The reporter scanned the long line of men
marshaled by ward politicians awaiting their
turn in the courtroom and in the adjoining
clerk s desk and demanded either naturalza-
ton papers or required duplicates of papers
previously obta ined. but lost in the course Of
wart policemen to keep them in order as they
filed in