The daily gazette., 1882-11-02
LAST STALWART MOVE.
HOW FOLGER WAS 20 BE
ELECTED GOVERNOR.
A SCHEME NIPPED In THE BUD.
Illegal Voters BY Thousands Placed on the
Registration List in New York City-Ar-
rests to be Made.

New YORK, Nov. 1.--Thousands and
thousands of illegal voters have been placed
on the registration lists. 1t is the last card
of the Stalwarts to elect Folger. The
scheme has been discovered aud tomorrow
o long list OF indictments of parties engaged
In the fraud will be sent to the grand jury.
For the last six weeks District Attorney
McKeon has had large force of Plnker-
toms detectives at work gathering facts in
regard to contemplated election frauds and
especially In respect to illegal registration.
Each of the men SO employed has made
daily report in writing of all that he has
learned on the subject. The results are of
3 startling character, showing systematic
frauds of the grcssest kind ON the part of
some of the Republican managers. The
amount of false registration has been enorm-
GUS. COLONIZATION" has been practiced
on an extensive scale, troops of alleged
voters having registered from cheap hotels =.
and low lodging houses, where they have
never stayed more than q few nights. In
some cases the registers of such inns have
been "doctored,' - or SO filed with fictitious
names as to indicate that the men register
ing from the place have acquired legal
residence in the district. Tramps have been
given local habitation and a name and the
same men have been registered at a number
of different polling places. The heaviest
frauds hayc heen committed in the Seventh
Assembly district, where Mr.. Van Cott is
prominent in Republican politics; in the
Eighth district, where John j. O'Brien,
Chief of the Bureau of Elections and Re
publican candidate for county clerk, Is the
Republican manager, and in the Sixteenth,
where "MilIe' Crcgan and Barney" Biglln
are the leaders Of the Republican forces.
MASS OF EVIDENCE COLLECTED.
According to Assistant District Attorney
Allen mass of evidence has accumulated
against the perpetrators of the frauds. Dis
trict Attorney McKeon, he said, gave
orders at the beginning that all cases of ap-
parent wrong doing III connection with the
election should be investigated impartially,
without any regard to party or persons, but
the reports of the many detectives employed
| showed that all the frauds in question were
perpetrated in the interest of Republicans.
The good faith of these reports was borne
| out by the fact that the Pinkertons were
Republicans and that their detective bureau
| was, in general, Republican COLI
| Germ. 1t was well understood that
some of the Republican leaders,
while openly giving up their cause
| as lost, were privately boasting that Folger
would carry the State and O'Brien be elected
County Clerk. Mr.. Allen said that he be-
lievcd the number OF names now fraudu-
lently registered as those of voters was not
opinion, not more than ten per cent. would
| be polled on election day, owing to the
measures taken hy the District Attorneys
Office, which would, of course, endeavor to
keep out the illegal votes entirely. Fraudu-
lent registration or an attempt to commit iL
was itself felony, punishable by imprison-
ment for not less than one or more than
five years. As many cases as possible of
"colonizers" and "repeaters," with the bar
room keepers, landlords, ETC., who were
their instigators, would be prepared aud
given to the grand jury tomorrow.
BUYING UP INSPECTORS.
MIR. Allen said that Oh election day It
would be very risky thing for any man to
attempt to cast vote TO which he was not
entitled, although i'll some of the districts
the inspectors, as well as voters, had been
bought by the conspirators. Pinkerton's
men would be stationed in and about all
the polling places, and as their identity
would be carefully concealed, and as many
OF them had already secured the confidence
of ward politicians, no man would be safe
in attempting any violation of the election
law. Mr.. Allen added that evidence had
been secured strongly duplicating certain
candidates for Office in the frauds committed
| or attempted, but it was not considered ad-
vsable to make the facts public at present,
as the District Attorney did not wish to be
euepeeteu VI attSAipe4HS " ihHuohSS thO
election.
ave are preparing list of cases." sald
District Attorney Mckeon, ''that will star
tie the city. l had no idea that this
villainous system of colonization could have
| been carried on to such an extent as we
| have discovered. 1t seems to have fourshed
In former years without any attempt having
| been made to check it. We have struck 1t
now, and you will find that most of the ring
| leaders In the frauds will be in State Prison
before l am through with them. l gave
ample warning to the Police Commissioners
OF my intention in this respect, and yet the
offenders evidently relying on the immunity
enjoyed in former years, treated the matter
with indifference, supposing that they
would, as usual, be shielded from the con-
| sequences"
An officer says ; 1t is our intention to
have same of shem railroaded to Sing Sing
| before they can have an opportunity to vote,
while as regards the ahers, whom 1t will be
| impossible to try in the interval, we will
hold them in heavy bail In this way we
will at ali events succeed in making such an
example that the people of the city may rely
on an honest vote this time,