Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-22
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and. in addition. the republican party will
get about four or. five new assemblymen."
Mr. Quigg, when asked about the report
substantiated what Mr.. Smith had said
and added: There is no truth IN any such
report. The republican party is stronger
in the state now than 1t ever has been"
Charge Of COLONIZATION.
The air is full of charges Of colonization.
The officers of the Citizens Union believe
that they have unearthed plot of gigantic
proportions for the colonization of voters.
The Citizens Union accuses both the demo-
cratic and republican organizations of con-
niving at election frauds. The unions Of
ficers in the various assembly districts have
gone to several police captains and sought
AID In canvassing every lodging house,
boarding house, Raines law hotel and fur
n.shed room house in the city. AS result
of this crusade corps of policemen was
placed at work today, checking off the reg
istry lists and the hotel and lodging house
registers. Tie Raines law hotels are said
to be the new seats of vote corruption.
Dozens of warrants were issued today.
Here Is a typical case:
William Kennedy was arrested, charged
with vagrancy. When searched registra-
ton ticket was found in his pocket. Before
magistrate he stated that he had come
from Albany less than q month ago. and
that he had been in the state only seven
months. He declared he had personal
knowledge that numbers of men had regis
tered from the east side lodging houses
without being entitled to do SO, intimatng
that a gigantic plot had been Matched to
COLOMBO voters The police Immediately put
the necessary machinery in motion, seek
ing the apprehension of the "f1oaters.
What convinces those well up in politics
that q plot to coloniZe has been Matched is
the abnormally large number of dodgers
pd in he av.Iy
lodging houses. There are 115 licensed
lodging houses In this city. showing by their
register today an army of over 1900 lodg-
ers. This does not include the cheaper
Raines law hotels, or the cheap furnished
room houses. These latter would swell the
figure well toward 10000 and would only
include the fotsam-jetsam transients.
A statement was given out at the repub-
lican headquarters tonight, in which it was
claimed that rammany has caused gigantic
fraudulent colonization in Queens county.
The statement was given out after visit
OF ii. Z. Johnson, chairman of the republic
can committee Of Kings county, to Chair
man Quigg of the republican county COM
mittee of New York. 1t is claimed that
ty detectives to look up the frauds. He
claims that the firm of contractors of Shee-
han & O'Brien have s3,600.0O0 worth of con-
tracts in Queens, and that they have ship
ped men wholesale in to Queens county to
get through with the work. Not only that.
but they have registered, it is claimed every
one of those men in Queens county.
Plntt Captures COlored Vote.
Platt has captured the colored vote. The
colored republican county organization
has passed a resolution indorsing the
straight republican ticket The mee ting
was an adjourned one, to hear the report
of committee of five. to whom. last Fri
day night resolutions had been referred
denouncing the state leader of the repub-
& a fOnn i'm, ~
LemCel L. QuiSg as chairman Of the coun-
ty committee and rebuking District At
torfiey Olcott because he failed to give
recognition to their applicant for an as
sistant attorneyship. The resolution in.
doTsing the straight ticket, after heated
argument i'll which Citizens Union and
straight republican representatives came
rear falling upon each other, was subs IT,
tuted and passed. III its report the com.
mfttee stated hat Senator P,att c.. w.
Hackett and L. T.. Quigg had, through F.
s. Gibbs, admitted that errors mad been
committed, which Were now retracted, and
county organization the right of repre- sent
ing colored voters OF the city and the
county of New York. They also PROM
ised,' said the COMMITTEE ',that the col
ored voters should, through this coIored
organization, have appointments above
civil service places in the county clerk s
Office, in the sheriff's Office and in the
registers Office, and they should receive
the appointment OF deputy assistant dis
1rict attorney, which appointment would
bG made by MI. Olcott. 1t was also 1,rcm-
ised that there should be a 1coloreL mem
Der of the organization in the executive
committee OF the regular organization"
Low Gives Figures.
The Low people, in the person Of Cam
paign Manager McCook, took a shy at es-
Inmates today. We don't Pretend" said
he, Ito estimate the vote in figures at this
time. but we believe thai the published
statements of our candidates. Strength
have been far below the mark. w lille the
campaign in this county is entirely salts
factory to us, the indications are that Mr..
Low will receive a larger vote in brooklyn
tEan has ever been cast for any candid te
in that city" :
l: is believed by Gen. McCook that Low
will receive 1900 in the borough OF
brooklyn AMI U.cp0 i'll the boroughs of
Manhattan and Bronx. TO these the cam
paign committee add the 81 900 names on
the enrolment lists Of the Citizens Union.
These figures MAKE MIR. Lows strens III
$4,000. without counting his votes in the
boroughS of Queens and Richmond or the
votes of member, OF the Independent or
CARNATIONS which have declared for him.
These organizations are the l,ernian-Amer-
lean Reform Union. the COMMANDMENT
Citizens Union, tic bo'ne-rule democracy,
the national (gold) democracy and the
Manhattan democracy. This vote does not
figure in the peIitisns or the enrolment 81
che CitiZerL,' Union. They are expected to
add at leas. 20,UO to Mr.. Lows strength.
His campaign managers, therefore, are
figuring on Il vote % 20i,OG for Mr.. Low,
and they say tn1s he Is holding his OWL.
PARkHURST FOR LOW