New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-23
MORE TRICKERY EXPOSED
MACHINE METHODS IN THE With AS
SEMBLY DISTRICT .

REPUTABLE REPUBLICANS NOT ALLOWED TO
HAVE ANY VOICE IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE
PARTy-A SWEET STATE OF THINGS.
The dirtiest work yet unearthed by the COM
mittee Of Investigation in the matter of frauds
In the recent Republican enrolment and pri-
maries is that in the With Assembly District.
This is the district presided over by T. C. Platts
pet henchman. Charles II. Murray. 1t was Muir
ray whom Platt first made Supervisor of the
Census for this city. and upon whom he subse-
ouently concentrated the evidences of his favor
by making him Police Commissioner. Murray
is the so-called Republican leader in the district
where Silver-Dollar Smith, the Engels. Barney
O'Rourke Max Hochstim. Phil Wissig and
such outposts Of Tammany Hall have long been
used as Republican" adjuncts on occasions
when it was supposed they would do the most
good.
What the PARLIAMENTARY gang did in the
recent enrolment and primaries in the With
Assembly District mas been the subject of an
alysis by the Committee of Investigation since
last Thursday. The total result shows that the
per cent of fraud in the enrolment only q.
This is small compared with the A per cent
in the XVIII Assembly District, in which
Amasa Thornton is one of the paramount in
fiuerces. or with the 80 per cent in the James L.
Stewart stronghold. In this instance, the per
cent, strange to relate, counts for little. The
plan Of fraud laid out in the With Assembly
District according to the Committee of Investiga-
tion was to drive as many reputable Republicans
s possible from the enrolment by fair means or
foul. and thereby leave the control of the pri-
maries in the hands of the PARLIAMENTARY
Murray gang.
The scheme, manipulated as it was by false
pretences. was a success. And how was 1t
accomplished? In general no Republican who
was set down as an antiMurray man was al
lowed TO enroll This may seem an exaggerated
statement. stack of afidavits a foot high
from just such men. who were kept from ex-
ercsing the rights Of citizenship, under the
fiat of the Platt-Lauterbach-Murr gang. has
been secured. and stands as irrefutable evidence
Of the contemplate business.
In the Twenty-third Election District of the
With Assembly District, the form Of enrol
ment was gone through with. but the names
We're not signed When the Ant-Machine Re
publicans. who supposed themselves to have
been enrolled in that district. came to vote at
the primaries they Informed that their
names were not the roll. A large number
of Republicans, well known as such in their
districts. were thereby cut off from exercising
the rights guaranteed 70 them as citizens by
the laws Of the State Of NewYork.
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spectors of that election district under bail
awaiting the action OF the Grand Jury.
In the Fourteenth Election District Of the
With Assembly District the chairman, Lewis
OIL has been arrested on charges of stufing
the baot-box on the night of the primaries
The three inspectors of that district are also
under arrest awaiting the decision of Magistrate
Mott
As to the status of frauds in the whole
With Assembly District, the Committee Of
Investigation say that it is at present mpos-
sbe to show it. owing TO the fact that copies
OF the enrolment Of II g district were not placed
in the hands OF the County Committee until
last Thursday, the day on which the so-cale1
County Committee held its travesty of
sion The Committee Of Investigation charge
that this delay was made for the express
purpose Of preventing exposure by the COM
mittee. previous to the session Of the Platt-
Lauterbach gang. Of the indecent character Of
the work which had been done in the district
presided over by Platt's man Murray
The work Of the Committee Of InvsstS:
ton in the With Assembly District also
shows that In the Eleventh Election District
Alderman Christian Goetz and his friends OF
the ant-Murray forces were defrauded of their
labors through padding Of the rolls in the in
terest of w. II. Van Norden, a Murray man
One OF the committee said yesterday: Muir
rays henchmen simply wiped out reputable
Republicans by fraud"
One of the cast-iron rules infOrced by the
Murray gang was that no member of the The
odore F. Ruhle Club at No. 81 Forsyth-st
should be allowed to enroll. The Committee
Of Investigation will in due time make its re-
port upon this phase of the trickery.
The Committee of Investigation repor. that
the anti-machine Republicans won in the
Twelfth Election district of the With Assem-
bly, District, despite the proved facts that
nineteen Tammany heelers from No. 300
Broome-st were put on the rolls as Republi-
cans. II Is interesting to note that the roll
book Of that election district has not yet been
turned over to the secretary-elect of the dis
trict. but is said to remain still in the posses
sion of Murray. mandamus has been issued
to compel Stephenson Manning. Murray in
spector to come into court and deliver up the
roll-book. but this record has not been OBJ
fained to the pre2ent time.