The evening world., 1894-04-07
other. II IL doubtful If any Of them un-
dcrstood the nature of the oath ken.
Perjury Appnrcnt.

the Abe Meyers Association arrived her,
"a minor, as they wcr" all run through
the naturalization mill on that plea.
Even n the men had been here for tho
number OF wears stated, thnrr vas fraud
in the nlturliilatiJn IN the face OF II,
I he law says that for Two years before
taking out paper, the alien must have
been ready and anxious to become a
citizen.
is conceded that a majority Of these
men hal no such intention AMI had not
. thought Of b, coming citizens until asked
to do $50 for election purposes by li,'-
v.r's agents. Som" OF tn" mon wno
swcro thov had arrived harG unicr dh.c
ug of cighte n We r ver, July forty-hN.
Years uld. in other words. they had
boon here twcnty-sevcn years without
having exhibited tho slightest incllnhti'H
to become American citizens.
When Assistant clerk boos. OF INC
Court Of Common Pleas, was QUESTION:
on that point, he said;
at IL irun many ~ these men looked
to be well along in years, and to nave
arrived here rs minors they must hay"
been as much as twenty years In me
country. We have no alt srnatlv" hui
to accept them on oath, although tweniS
years ago that class OF Immigrants dlu
not como here at all.
at Is only on the plea of arriving mere
as minors that aliens can b" admitted l,
citizenship without producing hrst paper
or fling the regular declaration 0i IN
@ter,lon. 1t ia under that section OF thc
law that nearly all the naturalization
frauds are I. rpetrhted. The courts nave
no aitgrnatlv" but TO issue me ""r,,i'
cate whrn the usual ~HiiidaNitS are MADE
They cannot detect pcrjur"rs.
nrpcntr-s voted for Them.
Abe NIcycrs says he knew nothing of
DIVERS promises to the officers Of the
Association. In fact, he was regarded
as littls more than a tgurchrai by IN.
others. 1t is ais, doubtful II he kne"
anything Of tn" wholesale naturalization,
but he hes evidently a poor opinion OF
thor Intelligence,
ii sought no favor from, Diver or any
one els" last election" he said to, an
Evening Worll" reporter yesterday
because | dll not know just what III,
m.mbcrs would do, nor how they would
vote. IT was our first year as a cup
and / was doubtful Il they would swa!.
low the Tammnnt Ticket. We viii kno"
better how to act next year.
Those people did not know who they
wer" voting for, ANYHOW. Th.y kmSM
nothing of the tickets nor of the can
diiat"s. II you ask any of them VINO
they voted for, they VIII tell you Abe
Meyers. That is all they knew. They
ih"4EE, | wHT TIE n G4nH nna@ or all TN
Meyers, had it'll" trust in the Abe Mcyers
1 Association it is certain his captains
had none. only thos" Hebrews who go
While the captains saw that every mar
registered, they took no chances on now
they would vote. Early on election
morning the rcpeatcrs got in their fine
work. and when later the registered
voter came along. he was told his ,nam'
had been already voted upon and wa:
advised TO clear out.
Hundreds OF honest Hebrews who wen
to the polls early and insisted on swear
Ing In their vote knew It would not ever
In one election district as fast as every
Republican, ballot was handed in 1t wal
carefully laid aside instead of being de
posted in the box. During "A lull in tn,
the Republican ballots and then de
posted. one man who saw his own bal
lot treated in that II and protested
was told to mind his W business anC
get out.
Every repeater was compelled to use {
paster, and the pastors were, in near ri,
every case. perfumed. by that means /
was easy for the election officers to dis
delivered.
Morris Lev.'s Statement.
Morris Levy, spokesman OF the depu
tation from the Abe Meyers Associa
ton which waited Oh Divver. told par
or the above story to an ''EveninI
Mor'dn REPORTER in the presence of sev
In turn vouchcd for It.
a search among the east side tene
ments.' he added, will result In tn
discovery of hundreds of naturalizatio
papers in the hands OF men who ar
not entitled to them. The men who hol
tn" papers never for n moment imagine,
they were violating tn" law in obtninin;
,nen. they did not for he most par
understand thu" language. So far as
am concerned, | never wilfully violate
the law. and | can say the same 10
me other officers of tn" club. | say
enough. however, to be able to expos,
II good many men when tn" time
was on" of tn" men who spen
night after night trying to teach tn
Russian Hebrews how to write thci
the Questions that | knew woulI l.
put to them In court 1t was abnu
the hardest job | ever tackled in my III,
Thry did rot even know who they vote,
convinced they had voted for Abe Meyer
IN" latter knew nothing of the worI
that was being done. He wanted tn
Association named after him. and tina
"pivvcr's promises TO us have all bee
broken He told me before election tia
I would get a plac" as foreman in tn
Strc"t-Cl"aring Department. He tol
IN 70 go ahead and get all the votes W
could; that Thmmnny had the judE,
and that we would hc all right. We sa,
Croker, as well as Diver. n he ais
told us to bring out the votes
Croker Dodgcd.
"Wcll. we fulfilled our part ,
the contract, and ! have not yet obtaine
my position In the Street-C Cleaning u,
partment. When ] could get no sati
!, faction from Diver after election | wei
to Mr.. Croker again. He knew who
was, AMI when | asked him II | was
have the position as foreman. he "a
he did not know they had such n pos
zion as foreman in the Strect-Cleanl,
Department. ] told him that by for
!, man meant inspector.
on, WELL he answered, you W
have to see your district leader abou
that
Justice Diver cannot say that
; did not make these promises to us. /
also told us to go ahead with Il
! naturalization business, and gave Il
5O-Ccnt tickets to us. The men v
> wanted to naturalize were too poor
pay that amount. HOu can find lots
men here who voted nine and ten tim
and wcr" paid by the Tammany work.
for doing so.
II worked so hard for the party thu
/ before election they offered me the y,
: sition of captain. but | did not take
: for two reasons. First. | had no tin
: to spend, ana, again. | do not want
r yet into any trouble. | worked half
election day, and in the afternoon &
around to the polls.
In on" district a long line OF Hebrew
Y waS waiting to vote, and | was pre-