The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-01
]: Davenport drew as Chief Supervisor Of New
York city previous to 1885 and here ate tho
nSures Tor each election. beginning with that

During this same period the total fees OF all
!he chlei supervisors In the country mounted
visors OF Chicago and of Philadelphia amount
81 to lees than $1,000 zach for each election
iLihnfere is good reason for believing that his
plls lor the past six years have been consid-
erably larger :han those for the years above
noted. but the figures are not available. And
nished evidence sufficient TO convict eight men
Of illegal voting In ten years
Inat the supervisor system Is n deadly men
ace to a tree and honest ballot was scandal
2nely demonstrated by Davenport in 1873.
APO the ptetext that there was a technical
tcntion tn arrest 10000 holders OF naturnlI2a-
Court Judges decided that the papers were
Naild 69t Davenport persisted il his intmida-
and did arrest hundreds. "f vo'ers, while others
relEhinod from voting for fear Of arrest or
course all tho accused were. discharged. The
matter was made the subject OF u ConRression-
al investigation. but Davenport was not pun
ished for his hiGh-handed attack upon the SUI
frage.
- From Tint day tho supervisor system in
New orE was used simply, for this, access 1t
it became positive Shield TO genuine fr,.ii
Two years later. 1t was n notorious fact in
1880 that hundred of repe eters from Washing
! ork, particularly in tho Eighth Assembly dis
trict. Chof Supervisor Davenport did nothing
people. Tammany Hall took hold OF the
matter and prepared to arrest many OF
from ne yotsrs hey
Gen. George W. WinRate personally took out
several hundred warrants. AS tho repeaters
DID not. OF course live ut tho residences from
which they had registered. and as the names
given we're assumed. the only way OF catching
them was by having the warrants sent TO the
polls on election day SO rs to arrest them when
they attempted to vote. 1t would not do to
case the name In which they were issued
would probably become known to the accused
and he would merely refrain from voting in tho
hA M hAnn mr. GtnI
and woul Id vote in perhaps u dozen other pre-
cincts where he had also registered
cretly, and 1t was arranged that they should be
Loliversd to the policemen at the polls Tor SER
abuse OF mower by the Republican Police Com
missioners. Superintendent Waing. by their
instructions; sent word on the morning Of eec-
ton day to the policemen on duty at tine polls
that they, should refuse 10 recognize any war
rant handed them that day unless II was given
obeyed. the result being that before the war
rants could be returned to Judge Duffy. who
issued them. and sent back by court officers to
the various voting places the repeaters had all
voted and disappeared
common knowledge that hundreds OF Repub-
lican reporters voted in New York. that day:
only two persons were convicted OF violation Of
chinSry. slightly elaborated. which it is pro
New York 1t has been held in contempt, and it
hos put premium on fraudulent voting
whlch has been constant menace to q FREQ
ballot. From n pecuniary point Of view 1t Is
expensive. The last Presidential election cost
for supervisors $35S.3f5, of which New York
city received S47.392. The sum paid to special
deputy !narshals, was si23,l35, Of which
New York city's share was S40,lOO The con-
victions in the Federal courts which followed
this great expenditure numbered 1876 There
348 remained pending July last. There were
no convictions in Alabama. Iowa, Kansas.
shire. !ennsy lvanin. Rhode island South Caro-
lima, Vermont, Wiscons in., Florida. Georgia.
one conviction in this city, two on Long Island.
sixteen 10 northern Now York. two in Now
Jeasey. five in West Virginia. twenty-five in
nine in Maryland. fourteen in Nebraska, ami