Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-23

How Voters and inspectors Are Ter.
r0rised-IIlegal Registration.

How Voters and inspectors Are Ter
rorised-Hlegal Repatriation.
The New Herald. which is exposing reg
istration and election frauds in New York
says:>a =:
| The way leaders usually colonize illegal
voters was to bring into certain districts
tgroNpS Of idle. vicious tramps and distribute
them through various lodging houses. The
leaders paid for the rooms. and also made
it right" with the "seedhngs' who thus
were planted. This year. it seems, even
these audacious. disgraceful methods have
I beeU surpassed. At present the trouble is
not taken to plant" scores Of such groups
| in lodging houses; instead, the leaders mere
| ly collect them. march them to the polls to
be, registered, and there they swear that
| they have resided from thirty days to ten
years in houses where they have never been
for a single night.
OF course this plan does away with much
expense in the way Of room rent, and very
few men are required to I'LL the registration
| books, compared with the numbers deemed
necessary In years past.
That section of the city wherein this OIL
garchy has reached its fullest development
lies In the third assembly district which
overlaps the Bowery for many blocks on
either side. and which includes the toughest
portions Of such streets as Elizabeth, Mott.
Mulberry. Chrystie. Forsyth, Eldridge. XIV
ington, Delaney. Broome, Spring, &C.: a
region wherein are dives Of every description,
from queer saloons and ordinary gam
Ding rooms. down to rows Of cheap houses
whose shutters are never unbarred, whose
doors are always standing open a few
inches. i-s
A lott HUI in fhnoo
streets. Of every nationality. The great,
grim tenements rearing their ungainly roofs
far up toward the sky, are honeycombed
with rooms which swarm with humanity.
Therein men. women and children are close
ly packed by night. By day they overflow,
the men going to work, or to lounge about
saloon doors; the boys and girls to play and
hight in the narrow. dirty streets; the little
children. scarcely able to toddle alone, learn
ing from them oaths and expressions of
sickening vulgarity.
All, 1t is Ditiful!
In that region entire blocks of tenements
are peopled by the most ignorant Italians,
Slavs and Russians; In fine weather slat-
ternly women, nearly every one having a
babe at her breast, gather in groups on the
pavement to chat with each other or with
hucksters. whose handcarts, standing by the
gutter, bear fruits and vegetables more or
less decayed, and fish already rotting Com
paratively few of these people speak Eng
llsh. There the common language has been
German, but If one desires to get along with
ease he must also understand one Of the
many Italian dialects
over this third assembly district, unde-
niably the worst In the city, Timothy D.
suinyap holds sway absolute. autocratic,
complete He is the handspring of an or
ganiza ton, politically and commercially, the
perfect discipline of which has never been
surpassed. probably, in any assembly dis
trict at any time. He can make or mar the
M vvNav
men living therein. He can raise to pros
perity or ruin any man carrying on business
whose customers are residents of his prnci-
pality. So great is this mans power and
so greatly Is it feared that his subjects re-
publicans and Tammanyites alike, are afraid
TO own their very souls. Not merely are
private citizens so inundated. but sworn
officers of the law-inspectors of elections
For example, a few days ago Charles H.
Murray, republican leader of this third as
sembiy district, was called upon by a repub-
iican inspector who told him that the two
democratic inspectors on his board had al
lowed one man to register under a false
name, Notwithstanding that he had known
him by his real name for years and that he
challenged him. Naturally Mr.. Murray was
Interested. and more so when the republican
inspector added that another man who had
been allowed to register was a criminal
Mr. Murray did not tell me of this expert
ence The news came through another
source but when questioned he admitted
that the inspector had told him this. With
out letting him know the matter was pre-
arranged L managed to bring the inspector
ing evening. And then the inspector alb
solutely refused to repeat his words. He
became terror stricken.
Why. IL such a statement should come
from me- he exclaimed. Il would be
ruined! Some of Dry Dollars men would
put up job and get me arrested. They
would hound me out of business, out Of
home, out of this part Of the city
rBut the question is" remarked. "wheth-
er you will make affidavit to that which you
stated to Mr.. Murray"
MOI the inspector said. his face growing
pale. his fingers working nervously. Il was
mistaken about it."
Just then Mr.. Murray came into the room,
and he backed up the inspectors words
thus:
Should his name be used he would be
harassed out of the district"
One great reason why Dry Dollar Sui
livan holds undisputed sway over the politi-
cal rights and personal property of those in
the third assembly district Is because the
republicans are frightened into absolute in
| action with the exception of a few bold,
unawed workingmen AS a rule the G. o.
PIP. on the east side are thoroughly cowed
from ! the humblest inspector up to their
leader. Charles II. Murray. the republican
candidate for district attorney. Mr. Murray
has been offered affidavits from his own
lieutenants charging illegal registration,
Justification of books and perjury. He alb
solutely refuses to attempt any legal action
that would prevent further crime on the last
two days Of registration, saying the attempt
would be futile.
= Still another Of many instances of tyranny
is the experience in the nineteenth election
district, where one of DRY Dollars in
spectors is alleged to have seized and falsi-
fed the registration books. refused to allow
| the republican inspector to look at any
naturalization papers, and drank himself
into a state of intoxication while on duty.