New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-22
BOLD ELECTION FRAUDS.
TA,fNANY.S WHOLESALE COLONIZATION
SCHEMES
SCORES OF REPEATERs REGISTERED FROM LoDG
1vc-tnrsre AID BAHROOMs-THE METHODS

SCORES OF REPEATERs REGISTERED FROM LopG-
1yc-nprsrs AND BAREooMs-THE METHODS
rMpLoYED-PossrBLE ARRESTS
Evidence Is not lacking that Tammany Hall
&c having racourse to its usual lawless methods
70 save from defeat it's municipal and State
Tickets Proof Of registration frauds have been
gathcrod bv Repubcans previous to the cleo
t,ons ~ racent wears So strong. however. is
the Wiswam's hold on the judicial machinery
Of the county that wrongdoers are bold In their
crimes against the suffrage
Lodging houses and barrooms are naturally
the Headquarters Of the colonizers In the
case OF such lodging houses in or near the
Bowery the opportunity for fraud IS most
tempting to Tammany. The customers OF them
are largely transient ones. who have no homes
and who drift from place to place Or course
In many of the houses which are pes' con-
Quoted. there are permanent dodgers. ihese are
often bachelors or men who have left their
wives and families Some are VICTIMS OF
drink. who work steadily for a season. and then
give way to their thirst for liquor. Ihey 90
not want TO live In boarding-houses. where
their habits might attract more attention than
they would in kind OF hotel
ONE MAN MAY HAVE HALF A DOZEN
"REsIDENCES."
These places have registers, but they are not
always kept with scrupulous accuracy. IL
man spends one night a week there TOT
month or two before election time. he can easily
be set down az a permanent ledger Thus ne
may keep a residence In half dozen places
from each Of which he may register ana vote.
Some such lodging-houses have a huhdre"
or two hundred guests night. and IL would DC
hard for any one but the clerk to be certain
about the frequency OF the visits oil the ma
jority Of the patrons
This year the amount Of fraud committed ny
registering droves Of men from barrooms seems
to be uncommonly large and bare-faced. MOST
LIQUOR stores have half a dozen or dozeh
'hangers-on" who spend their leisure time
waiting for some one ito set en- up Along
the water front and in the tenement-house quar-
tors Of the city this is especially the case Me,,
get few hours sleep in chairs ana then hhlSh
their nights rest. If the weather be GOOD IN
truck. in lumber yards or in one OF the Guy
parks.
rooms which they frequent II they lounge
about several rumshops. likely as not they reg
lister from all of them.
LIQUOR DEALERS NATURALLY HELP TAM
MANY.
The proprietors and bartendcrs have the
strongest possible motive for wishing ram
many's success. and can easily say. II neces-
sary OF such citizens: "Oh. yes he lives AT the
barroom He sweeps up the place and does odd
Jobs and we let him sleep in the back room
Cases came to light last election day of men
who registered from barrooms In when thefc
was not "A single bed yet two or three men would
swear that they lived in the place and slept on
chairs
This year that method has been pursued with
astounding holiness. investigations have been
made howeVer which promise t. lead 10 mum
ber of arrests The crime has been carried on
SO openly and on such scale that detection was
Inevitable sim Tammany H. 30 absolute
master of the city that its minions know no rear