The sun., 1897-10-21
orrCANDIDArr, Bur HE CAN'T vorE.
Mr. eeode Took out His Papers AFTER HIS
Nomination for Alderman

1t appears that Jocms REYNOLDS is not the
only CIT boss who makes mistakes. boss Pine
tho ruler of the district leaders has made tho
latest one and it was only through tho hardest
kihd OF hustling that 1t was rCCtincd He nom
mated Tor Alderman in tho Twenty eighth dis
trlct John +. Goodc, an undertaken of 235 East
ScNenty'slNth street, Goode. at tho time of his
nomination, was an alien and it was only last
Monday that he became n full.ncdgcd citizen
oil the United States, with the right TO run for
$1,000 job. But hc cant vote. This rather re-
marRablc state Of affairs leaked out yesterday,
III spite OF tho efforts OF the Cits to keep 1t quiet,
ana now IL Is known throughout the length and
breadth of the Twenty eighth district that the
Citizens Union candidate for Alderman in that
district did not take out his final papers of
naturalization until after hc had received the
nomination. and consequently will bo candi.
date for office before he has right to cast q
vote.
According TO tho records in tho Supreme
Court Goodo came to this country from Liner
lex, Ireland, on July 10, 1901, when ho was ~
years old. lie declared his intention Of becom
ing citizen on June 10, 1893, which would
nave given him plenty of timo to have become
haturaliEcd so that he could have voted at tho
last national election. He did not choose to do
so nor did no choose to take out his final papers
/
came IA citizen only when lie found that he had
u ChHnce to run for office.
- Boss Pine dictated tho nominations in tho
IW"nty'eiShth district, as he has in all the
others. Edward Schott IL district leader up
there, and IL WINS he whom Pine told to nOmi-
nate Goodr. This was in the last week OF Sep
tenber. Schot rot the brethren together and
told them what the BOSS wanted. aud they
forncd of the nomination he accepted forth
With With Later he rcmcmhcrc9 that he was not u
cltlzcn. SChott told him that could be rene
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went down to the Supreme Court and made ap-
had not taken enough Interest in the election to
become natura2cd in time to register didn't
worry him u bit A nomination had been Of
fcred to him. and the lightning might strike
him. even III the Twcnty-cighth Assembly dis.
trct Two weeks must intervene between the
application for the final papers and their issu-
went down town 10 take them out.
boss Pine said yesterday thnt the fact that
Goode was not :, citizen when nominated was
news TO him. &c was quite sure that it must
be q case of mistaken identity, for Mr.. Gourc
had lived in the district for years rs had his
father tn; and h hiT family Nr; GoGdc,s f1thGE is
was quite satisfied with Mr.. Goodc as "A cnnd.
date now that hc had become citizen, even If
he could not vote,
Mr. Goodc was quito Indignant when il was
suggested that hc had not intended to become
q citizen until he got chance to run for office.
He not quite clear in his reasons why he
had not taken ou,.hg final papers before. lie
snid that his first papers had been in tho hands
OF the other Organi2ntion, the name OF which
he withheld, and he could not get them, there
fore he had to wait more than year berorc he
could get dupl liCa;c set OF papers to show that
he had declared his intention of becoming II cit
iZcn.
Moreover. he said. he had thought that IL he
took out his papers thirty days before election
he could still register and altogether he had got
all muddlcd up Bat he is going to run. even
il he can't vote. and II he is elected he will draw
his 81 800 year.