The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-18
FROM WOULD-BE VOTERS.
Questions Relating to the Right of
Franchise Submitted by EVEN
ing World Readers.

Here is another batch of questions on
election matters submitted by Evening
World" readers Some Of them are SO
| obscure as to render direct and salts
factory answers impossible.
To the Editor.
You viii rr,atly obllge few readers Of " The
Evening WUgld' by answering the following
by name Patrick Joseph Brown, which is his
real name but he lands goes by the
| name ot Joseph brown, and is known by no Other
here ten years can he get his citizen papers in
the name Of Joseph Brown, and can he vote?
1t has been held that a man may as
sumo as many names as he sees fit, yet
we do not think 1t advisable for you,
without an order of the Court, to apply
for citizenship under any other name
than the one in which you were baptized.
| To the Editor:
| Kindly answer through your paper this ques-
| ton used TO live at 229 Broome street corner
Of Essex opposite the dispensary. ! renoyed from
there to ~ Forsyth street the 9Th " October,
| just one month before election day. Please
answer II both places are in the same district,
and II yes or not, II have right to register
ana vote on election day next? Enclosed please
find four cents worth Of stamps, and send to me
your paper, with the answer, by mail Yours, &c,
Il. MENDELsON. a. Forsyth street.
You may register If You have been
resident of the election district in which
you live for the thirty days preceding
election day.
! To the Editor:
Being constant reader OF your valuable paper,
| take the liberty Of asking you for the following
| Information: man Is arrested and brought be-
| fore the Court OF Sessions and found guilty OF
burglary in the third degree; he is sentenced to
| three years and three months in the Kings County
Pententary but is given his liberty after serving
two and a half years. Can he become citizen
OF the United states? II he get his citizen papers
a 4
vote? Is. q.
You have not informed us whether the
| convict is an alien or a native. If
native he has undoubtedly lost his cit
izenship which the Governor may re-
store. If an alien, then 1t is for the
Judge to pass upon his character and
fitness for citizenship.
To the Editor:
Kindly let me know through your valuable
paper what steps must take to become cit-
zen OF the United States. | am Spaniard aud
years Thanking you beforehand for your great
Kindness and wishing your paper great success,
| am respectfully yours, SUBSCRIBER.
If you arrived in this country under
eighteen years of age, then without hav-
ing filed u previous declaration in court
you may become a citizen by applying
to court Of record and proving that
eighteen years old, that you have con-
tinuously lived in the United States five
years next proceeding your appliCatio
and one year in the State, and by prov
ing that II has been your intention to
become a citizen for at least two years
before making application. If you ar
rived at eighteen years or over then 1t
will be necessary for you to first declare
your intention before a court of record
and then two years after your declara-
ton of intention you may apply to
a court of record for naturalization; but
upon making such application 1t Will be
necessary to show that you resided in
the United States five years and one
year in the state in which you apply
next preceding your application.
To the Editor:
Being a reader OF your valuable paper look to
You to enlighen me. How am ! going to get my
in March, 1883, and took my first papers out in
bradford. Pa. April q, iS92 ! have since re.
Twel 10 New T ass ia aI Know what have to do
to get my full papers. VIII | have to so TO
PENNSYLVANIA to get them or can get them in
| swering me through the columns OF your very
valuable paper you will confer great favor on
a reader and hoping to be CITIZEN.
| Write to the clerk of the court for a
duplicate of your first papers Then APP
pear in court with a witness who can
certify to your having been resident
of the United States for five years next
preceding your application.
To the Editor;
Would you be kind enough to inform me through ,g
1.-The EvenaE MorS Is Hf man ss esGe bS sG 'he
foreign country under an American nag? By
so doing you will Obge READER;
| F. S.-Parents being Americans, must the child
| not be born on American soil!
| The child takes the country of his
parents unless the parents have re-
nounced allegiance prior to his birth.
| To the Editor
| To settle a dispute. the "of ar I'M
naturalized foreigner" being twenty lone years OF
age and born in tbs country yS,: at an see
Certainly He is a native American
and Is entitled to all the privileges at
tending such fortunate nativity.
TO the Editor;
| Y, on the Harlem Railroad, and my business
| keeping ne in the city late at night | sleep at
my ONCE much as do at home Do lose
my vote? II not, whore shall | vote, in the
lose nav vote. as , am in favor Of the Greater
New York. Very respectfully. -
Your residence and voting place is
Williamshridge.
To the Editor:
There are in this harbor Of New York several
hundred men employed in the llghterage bust
ncss-men from all parts ot the State. These
men have been here In this business from tNc
To ten years; never lived on land in either city
OF brooklyn Perth Amboy, New York or Jersey
city What We want to know Is can they law
fully register and vote in any either oil
their cities? Never having lived In any HOUSE
on shore, hut always ON their boats, We some
times stay from two to six months in one place
and in instance the boat q. W. Martin has
been two years In the same basin. captain and
family on board Please let this appear In YOU
column, with answer, so II we have the right
we will have time to register, LlGllTERMAN.
Present your case TO the Board OF
Elections.
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