Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18
GANG FRAUDS EXPOSED.
From the Registration Lists in
Thfrty-eiEht Precincts.

ouu8cD anu SlerkS Str1ke &OO Names
From the Registration Lists in
Thirty-eight Precincts.
The judges and clerks Of election finished
their work or revising the registration
lists at 10 O'clock last night. When the Of
flee of the election commissioners closed at
midnight, thirty-eight of the eighty-eight
precincts in the city had reported. Their
returns showed that about $50 names had
been stricken from the lists on account Of
fraudulent or irregular registration. Using
this as a basis upon which to estimate,
the total number of names cancelled
throughout the city, the approximate re-
suit of $50 Is reached, enough, probably, to
carry the election for the gangsters, had
the frauds not been detected through the
machinery of the new election law. 1t is
estimated that about 5000 voters in the
city disqualified themselves by failing to
register.
The handiwork Of the old election robbers
is clearly visible in a number of places
throughout the city. and is the more con-
spicuous because of the faithful compliance
with the law in sections where they did
not operate. In the Sixteenth precinct of
the Ninth ward, formerly a notorious
Shannon locality, fourteen names were re-
jected, while in adjoining precincts very
few if any registrations were cancelled. In
both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth pre-
cinctS of the Ninth ward. the registrar ton
was verified to the ultimate man. In the
Seventeenth precinct, three voters were re-
jected because Of having moved since their
registration.
This Sixteenth precinct, which is so con-
spicuous because of Its great number of
fraudulent registrations when compared
with its adjacent precincts, is part of
the old Fffty-second, where election crimes
have thrived in the past.
The other gang sections of the city main
tained their unsavory regulations. In the
First precinct of the First ward, better
known as the Pendergast precinct, sixteen
names were found to have no proper place
upon the rolls. Duplicity cropped out in
the Second and Third precincts of the al.
ways suspicious Sixth ward, and every 9TH
er section of the city wherein the Shannon
ONeill-May gang has held its sway.
proved true to its traditions by producing
an unusual number of false registrations
Reports from nearly one-half of the total
number of precincts were received last
night. The number of names stricken from
the books in each precinct was as follows:
First ward-First precinct, 16; Fourth pre-
cinct 1.
Second ward-First precinct, rs; Second
precinct, "a; Third precinct. 13.
Third ward-First precinct, 2: Second pre-
cinct, 1; Fourth precinct, /; Seventh pre-
cinct, 8; Eighth precinct, 5; Ninth pre-
cinct, Z.
Fourth ward-First precinct, IL; Fourth
precinct, s; Sixth precinct, 6; Eighth pre-
cinct, 6.
Fifth ward4Third precinct, 1; Fourth
precinct, 3.
Sixth ward-First precinct, 5; Second pre-
cinct, %: Third precinct. Is; Fourth pre-
cinct, 8: Fifth precinct, 3; Sixth precinct, 4;
Seventh ward-Second precinct, 4; Fourth
precinct, 8; Fifth precinct, 3.
Eighth ward-Eighth precinct, 8; Ninth
precinct. 2; Thirteenth precinct. /.
Ninth ward-Third precinct, /; Fifth pre-
cinct, 2; Seventh precinct, 3; Ninth pre-
cinct, 2; Eleventh precinct, 6; Thirteenth
precinct, 4; Sixteenth precinct. a.
Tenth ward-Third precinct. 2; Fifth pre-
cinct, 2.
That the outcry raised by Arthur Chap
man. Joe Shannon, Joe Rosenthal and 9TH
er Democratic gangsters over imaginary
efforts on the part of Republicans to colon
ize the Second ward with colored men was
false and absurd is proven by the vertical
ton lists returned by the judges and clerks
last night. A great hullabaloo was raised
about the number of men registered in the
Second precinct of the Second ward. The
official canvass of that precinct shows that
113 men, large proportion of whom are
colored, did not register, although they
might have done so. This demonstrates
that the Democratic howl was ruse to
cover up the lies told by John May and
others to frighten the Republican colored
voters.