New-York tribune., 1897-10-16

where. One Of these enthusiastic New Workers
lives In Connecticut. but maintains a residence
in one of the uptown hotels. so that he may
have voice in the government of the me-
tropolis. He is of a large number.
Grover Cleveland voted from the Victoria
Hotel after his first term in Washington.
and, although he not resident Of New
York no one ever questioned the legality ot his
vote.
Asa Bird Gardiner. the candidate for District
Attorney on the Tammany ticket, lives on Long
Island but has room in downtown hotel in
New York so that he may be voter in this
city. There are hundreds Of examples Of this
kind and they usually come to the surface in
the course OF hot campaign and show that
the right To vote is looked upon 10y many as a
privilege of so much value that they will even
resort to a wee bit Of patriotic trickery to ex
ercise 1t.
\ notable case Is that of young man who
was recently appointed to a lucrative position
in a ew-England business concern. which re-
quiIcd his going 10 Massachusetts,. Before gong.
he registered at his NewYOrk club left his
grip there and a note to the effect that the club
was his home. came back and registered. and
he says he will be on the spot on Election Day
to vote for Low.
The man who has not made the matter
study naturally believes that the failure TO reg
lister and to vote would affect all parties equally
but the registry and poll clerks say that the
loss falls much more heavily on the Republican
party than any other.
"The Democratic voter" the poll clerk said.
takes no chances. He registers If he possibly
can and he votes unless something of an eX-
traordinary nature prevents
DIFFICULTIES THAT ENIsT IN ENGLAND.
The method of registration in New-fork is
so simple under the new laws on the subject
that the tedious process Of registration as II IS
accomplished IN London makes interesting read
ing. a correspondent writes that there are
about thirty-siX thousand persons in the city
OF London who are twenty years old and
upward who have a common interes: in public
affairs at is a pity" he says that the phono-
graph and the kaleidoscope cannot combine
their powers in recording the proceedings IN the
various registration courts at work just now.
for the entertainment ot after generations. The
fun of the thing is not at present recognized.
But when We have attained to reasonable sNs-
TEN OF the registration of the voters some or
tho business now conducted with almost fune-
real gravity by gentlemen in wigs and robes
and bald pates and gray boards would II prop
erly recorded, be watched and listened to with
the most rollickng merriment.'
The business is to get the thrty-six thousand
names list, in order that the persons may
vote for their choice for public ofrce. The writer
recommends the City Registration Court as
place to spend holiday pleasantly. although 1t
is Only dull, pokey little court into which the
glimmer Of day finds a roundabout way by bor-
rowed lights The city is chopped up into I'D
parishes. and in these parishes the various lists
are prepared. These lists are thus described
First OF all comes the list OF those who
may vote at Parliamentary county and paro-
chial elections. Secondly come those who are
qualified for Parliamentary and parochial. bu.
mustn't vote for the county Thirdly. there are
those who are entitled TO vote at county and
parochial. but not at Parliamentary contests.
Fourthly there are sor,e who may vote at paro-
chia elections but not for Parliamentary or
county And. lastly there is. or there may be.
a lodger list qualified for Parliamentary and
parochial voting. but not for county. Just i'm
agine the mirth OF posterity over the sapience
Of nineteenth century cockneys who are some
how bamboozled into the belief that any useful
purpose can be served by such complications"
A picture of the Registry Court is drawn by
the same correspondent, who says
Yesterday the place was crowded with vestry
clerks and others who had come from the 40
parishes into which the city is divided TO pre-
seat their several llSts. but To-Day tne one
spectator Of the proceedings has the whole show
TO himself. Up a. the back Of the court the be-
gowned and bewigged Revising Barrstet sits
beneath the royal arms and the maroon hang
ires Down in the we'll beneath them are four
bald-headed gentlemen all in row, with lists
b fore them who sit in meek expectation while
the Revising Barrister placidly scrbbles away
az his desk These four are vestry representa-
tives At right angles with them, and or the
Rarrister's left is another row Of four gentlemen
One ia Mr. Loder. the Liberal agent; another Is
Mr. Clark his assistant; third is Mr.. lnsersoll'
the Conservative agent, ana the fourth Is Mr.
Markby his assistant. At tn back of them are
two or three vestry clerks or overseeTs. Alto
cether there are a dozen or fifteen OF these en-
gagged in the work, and most OF them VIII nave
TO be boxed up in that dismal little court FOR a
fortnight or so, debating with ali the earnest
nees of men engaged in the most serious ana
momentous affairs OF life whether John Jones
moved his rattletrdps on the 1lth or the ION or
Iulv whether No. ~ Tom Tiddler's Court is
this side or that OF the boundary lirc between
the marshes Of St Nicholas Cole Abbey and 81
Nicholas Olave and whether the partitions OF
tho cubic1e In which Peter TOmkins sleeps <"
I'm IN the ceiling or come d few inches short
Of e."
,-,,. ~ YORK vote who goes to register gives
hi- name and residence his birthplace ana age
and satisfies the clerks that he has hNed III ''e
district county and state tho requisite time the
whole opecation taking less than two minutes
v.hon he does not stop to discuss the possible
,osp,t With the men who keep the records
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