New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-01
MORE ILLEGAL REGISTRATION.
GROSS FRAUDS DISCOVERED ON WARDS AND
RANDALL's ISLANDS.


GROSS FRAUDS DISCOVERED ON WARDS AND
RANDALL's ISLANDS.
Every day brings TO light additional evidence oil
the high-handed frauds perpetrated by Tammany
in the illegal registration of voters Colonization
is not the only method adopted by the Tammany
election manipuators to swell the vote for Flower
Patients in the Homeopathic Hospital on Wards
Island have been registered by Tammany heel
ersS and are to be brought to the polls on Tues
day. Paupers and idiots on Randalls Island have
been registered, and on the registration lists of
those two districts there appears large number
of names of persons who have never had resi-
dence on either island and are unknown to the
officials Of any OF the institutions there.
Captain" William Smith, who runs the small
boat which carries passengers to and from Kan
dalls Island, is the Tammany manager Of the
FOrty-eighth Election District of the AAIlId AS
sembly District in which the island is located
He knows how to handle elections, and was re-
warded for his faithful work in this line with the
place he now holds. Just about the time the
registration began he made canvass OF the Island
and personally urged every man whom he Thought
would cast Democratic vote to register. Pali-
pers, idiots and patients who have never been
qualified voters were gathered up by Smith and
escorted in SQUADS to the polling place. For the
to this work. The registration list of that dis
trict bears the names of ia voters from Eandals
Island. A Tribune reporter who went to the isl
and Yesterday discovered that nearly 100 of these
are fictitious names, or persons who are not
oualified voters As the election laws OF New
York have been interpreted heretofore, only those
rersous who are regularly employed on The Island
and make it their permanent place of residence arc
qualified voters The pay-rolls show that less
than fifty men are employed by the institutions on
Randalls Island.
John Connors, a pauper, is among those who
are frauduently registered. lie is cousin OF
Dry Dollar Sullivan, and says he proposes TO
vote the straight Democratic ticket unless some
one prevents him. Peter Fitzgerald. another
pauper who does odd jobs around the work
house in the branch penitentary, and John Pearson
patient in the hospital: John Rockford, an idiot
and pauper. are among those who were taken to
the registration place by the Tammany heller
The frauds on Wards Island are worse than YVES
at first reported. An inspection of the regHtra-
ton list and visit to the island shows that out OF
1l3 registered forty-nine are fraudulent This
work was managed by Mike Devinney, rotor
Gus Tammany 1ixer who was appointed steward
Of the Homeopathic Hospital on Wards Island as
a reward for his dirty work in other years. lie
has been holder than ever in his operations this
year, and there be no question that ne Is
at the bottom Of the crookedness In the Twenty
second Election District OF the XxIIId Assembly
District The following are known TO be among
those who are fraudulently registered III that
district as Wards Island voters: John
j. Taggart, Wallace c. Martin, Thomas Wear,
Edward Jordan. John Keesebart, Thomas Nlalloy
Daniel Shea, Michael Heating. Patrick Collins,
Timothy Mccarthy, William Eealey. Robert Man
well. Andrew Warling, William Clark Edward R.
Newton, Adolph Leclair, Henry Mansfield, John
Gillespie John Rock James Edwards. Alexander
Reddington, James Miller, and Joseph OConnor
George NJ Kimball, Patrick Green Edward Jon1-
son, William McIlheny, Patrick Rogan, Patrick
Jennings, Thomas Faulkner Paul Wetzel. Alista
Traynor, John Scbefin Luke Reilly. William
Byrnes, John J. Fox, James Roche. James Jameson.
George Wilson. George w. Seaman, James Raynor,
Walter Levy Adam Hacb and Anthony Fluhr.
1t is probable that warrants will be issued TO-
morrow for the arrest of number of persons
who have been connected with the illegal reg
istration of voters from the two islands. and
Republicans will be at the polls in these two dis
tricts. on Tuesday. prepared to challenge every