New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-17
"FRAUD!" CRIES MR.. QUIGG.
HE CHARGES THAT THE LOW PETITION
IS A SHAM
SAYS THAT MANY sIGNERs CAN'T BE IpENTI-
FLED. AND THAT SOME PEOPLE PUT THEIR
NAMES DOWN THINKING THEY WERE
PETITIONING FOR STREET PAVE
MENTs. NEW PARKS. ETC.


MENTs. NEW PARKS. ETC
President Quigg OF the Republican City Commit
last evening gave out statement attacking
the petitions for the nomination OF Seth Low ana
other candidates on the Citizens Union ticket. de-
clarinG that Of the signatures 10 the petitions
fraudulent.
Leaders Of the Citizens Union who saw Nj Quggs
statement declared that 1t was A tissue OF false
hoods Mr.. Que9's declaration that ninety thousand
enrolled Republicans participated In the nomination
Of General Tracy said to he as ridiculous as MS
attempt TO show that the Citizens Union petitions
fraudulent committee OF prominent hc-
publicans of which Cornelius ~ Bliss was con-
spicuous member investigated the Republican enroll
ment in the city. and showed that the Republican
rolls had been padded with names Of dead men ana
Tammany heelers such an extent that the rolls
utterly fraudulent.
The statement of Mr.. Quigg Is based mainly upon
alleged reports from private detective agency
and is follows:
The Republican City Committee specifically
charges and is prepared to prove that the petition
nominating Low is a fraud Q: the Two thoIsa ana
hundred taken at random and Of the FIVE hundred
investigated nearly three hundred are the names %i
if they exist at all they are not TO he found at ,H
address stated IN n, the Wbo can he dene
considerable number signed the petition nnaer a
the canvasser who got them to sign Many ssners
did know that it was petition ior the no, i,,i
for some other purpose such the rePaying Of
street. the nomination Of an assembly dis't ,bs
o Sur inynstication was made by Hedelbcrg's De-
tectivc Agency. and the returns OF the operatives
are made under oath John NJ. Hanley swcars that
he RoxS He @ Wss na%sf
Smith. No 439 West Forty hrst-st; Thomas RELY.
West Thrty-ninth-s,.: James Lang. No; 500: West
For'y,nrst MuTp g1 No tS9 EGyGnth
William G. Murphy No IA West Forty-ffth:st.:
John Burrett no $2s rs West Fortie'h-s''; C. e. HISS
This operative swears that no such person as
Brown no such person as Smith no such person ar
son Murphy such person Gardner. no such
person as William Mnrphy no such person s as
found at the address given and that as FOR James
there is no such number and no such person In
the neghborhood
names and addresses h. Israel No 81 Norfolk
St; I. Balth. No. q suffolk:si J. stern NO. e., g.
Barnett No 6 Hester-st.; G. Cohen No. ia elm
ton-st.; J; Cohen. No. us Hester-st; J, solomon
Ike sarnoff. No. 800 Delancey-st Louis Martin
No. $o4 Delancey-st.; Max sarnon No 3ci De-
Jacobs swears that Israel. Bath Stern. Brown
non Martin and Max sarnoT names that can
not be identified at any Of the addresses given
These afidavits examples OF about twenty
which have been received from the detectives
Low petition is gigantic fraud. and II Seth Lows
name is allowed to upon the blanket ballot it
x sS asss by the hrse Pc s
srs ThS sustained this o PETITION III me by their were aeCn
ned by Mayor Strong as R"p9hlican s,that the
| simply a protest its form. That
chaseG rGi a e S Of @ NOT
piled with. and also that the names attached to
The law requires that every sisnatory shall ap-
before notary and make Sn cath as to hs
this was not done and that the notaries employed
by Low were in most cases careless and in many
ought and probably will go to the Grand Jury;
large number Of names. no one Of which was the
name OF a person who did actually appear before
scrbing his declaration shall recite the names OF
the persons whose foregoing oaths he has taken.
1t Went right at the heart Of this mater Of dena
TaS sens 10 n of and
ulent petition and tho putting OF candidacy on
1000 bona dde petitions. This feature OF the law
was entirely negected in The Citizens Union G pc.
and hundreds Of names are there In the same
handwriting. and even as to tho Low petition one
Of our operative hands in this extraordinary afii-
davit; He identifies number OF persons living In
then says: "a man by the name Of James Connors.
/ Of No = st. is the manager for the fore
FOR Mr.. Low. Connors offers to vote them
way you please. He says ne can get them to vote
from 81 to s. each, and that the only thing which
cuts any figure with them IS the price"
to the cause OF non-partisan reform which ought
TO rejoice the souls OF all truly good reformers.
Inc signers among the five hundred names investi-
gated who Say that they ora not know the petition
! Lows name was not mentioned to them in connec-
ticn with the matter, and that they would not
The Republican city Committee gives the results
OF this investigation to the public an illustration
the sham and ON wh hf cs esm bS of
M mr. was ae" nomnai"d by the people, and he con,
uasts the alleged popular form OF his nomination
| General Tracy was nominated by boss He
talks about his PETITION OF l25.oOo signers. Nobody
rn1f Requests to SOC it were constantly
| fused by Lows managers. 1t postal card
| petition a petition procured by hircd canvassers
| nrocIIred In tnat plainly sloveny way. when his
| Official nominating petition is thus proved to be
Ninety thousand enrolled Republicans partici-
| pated in the nomination of General Tracy. Forty
ne nresent city Of Ncw-York although out OF
92 election districts there were not hfly contests.
and not twenty Of the nifty related TO the question
| 81 Lows candidacy Low nominated by
twenty persons, nineteen OF whom were chosen ana
elected by the twentieth, and even then they were
| 80 afraid OF another that they had to lock
| "; The Republican City Committee will contest the
| nomination Of Low in the courts. The time un-
| fortunately. IL by law limited within which final
| decision can hc got. Bat the extent to which the
| Low candidacy s built on fraud and deceit VIII be
| exposed to the voters
| Members OF the Executive Committee OF the
Citizens Union said last night that II an attempt
| was made in court TO sustain the statement OF Mr..
| ouiyg the falsity Of the statement would be APP
| narcnt They declared that the statement was
utterly false and as caTG nad nCen YAK b
s'gnotures were taken by notarics. In compliance
with the law Mr. 9uigs ,b 1ney , s1a mT nion ~It
wss not 10 be expected. they said. that the public
Won i'G be deceived by such rubbish.
| srCRETARY BLISS IN TOWN.
| 1900. o,,., no ppcrsTER so THAT HE CAN