New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-06
VOTES THAT DIDN'T COUNT.
EVIDENCES OF FRAUD BY POLL CLERKS


VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW BY TAMMANv PEOPLE
ON ELECTION DAY-soME TYPICAL
EXAMPLES.
The man who thinks that with the firing OF
a single shot. the deposting OF his oailot on
Election Day. he has done his full duty III the
fght against the enemies OF good government
in this city would change his views ne
could be brought personally to investigate 'he
story OF the recent campaign IN one oi 'ne
strong Tammany districts, where men WHO
championed the cause OF the Citzens Ohioh
had TO face intimidation and submit 10 Insult
and even assault-men who are never heaIu
of In the newspapers, but who nevertheless
proved in their sturdy fight for the right that
herolsm is not yet dead. on Election Day the
struggle reached It's climax and the adhereh's
of disorder prevailed. The methods OF Tammany
in the XIVth Assembly District on that oay
may be taken as fairly typical OF It's methods
elsewhere. for that is typical Tammany strong
hold and an outline Of the occurrences Oh Eiec
@,on Dav IN the XVIII may serve to explain
in part the reasons for Tammanys triumph one
OF the men most familiar with the state OF
AFFAIRS in the XIVth District on that day Is
Louis A. Hauser, candidate for Councilman
on the Citizens Union and National Democratic
tickets. Mr.. Hauser. who was seen yesterday
at his flower store Secondave. and feminist"
said In substance: THE Tammany men simply
had their own way in the XIVth Assembly Dis
trict on Tuesday Everywhere their election
district captains and watchers and workers were
in behind the rails and around the booths IN
the polling places, in open violation OF law
Beer. too. was brought in by the canful all day
and all night long TO the registry clerks ana
the poll clerks In the Twenty-third Election
District the Gas House District all the poll
clerks were drunk and no returns were sent IN
At a polling place in Third-ave. near Eleventh
st. one Of the policemen on duty was stagger-
ing drunk at o'clock in the afternoon. About
all the poll clerks were drunk too, and can't
tell you when they sent in their returns-about
3 o'clock the next morning, believe my
self saw the Tammany captain of the Seventh
Election District drunk on the sidewalk about
1890 In the morning He had just come out
of the polling place where he had been sitting
behind the railing. Many votes were lost to the
anti-Tammany candidates by the drunkenness
and carelessness OF Poll clerks, whose method
seemed to be to see and record the Tammany
column on the ballot, and disregard the crosses
In other columns. The watchers of the Repub>
lican. Henry George and Citizens Union or
CARNATIONS would protest feebly against the
outrages they saw committed. and that was
all. Some of the Republican workers labOred
openly for Tammany during the day. but others
worked hard for Tracy. Some Of own work.
were just bad as the workers Of other
organizations; they didn't do their duty to us
Here's an example Of the way votes
lost: heard Jacob Leo Citizens Union election
district captain. say yesterday, right in front cf
this store. TO Jacob Kunzenman. Independent
and National Democratic candidate for Alder
man, whose representative he also was: How
many votes were returned for YOU at headQuar-
tiers from such and such a district" Fifty
severn We'll. you should have had thrty-three
more? But what occurred in the Fourteenth
District on Tuesday only what was going
on all over the East Side. | walked oil the way
from FultOn-st and the East River up to here
that day. Up one street and down another. not
ing the conditions in all the East Side Assembly
districts, and everywhere there was the same
contemptuOus disregard of law in the interests
OF Tammany Hall. the gathering of TammaEy
men within the ratings in the polling places
CAST year the Tammany workers Obeyed the law,
and none of them ventured nearer than fifty
feet 10 polling place and the continual plying
OF the officials with beer. | ought to have made
complaint at the station houses OF the policemen
who refused to do their duty, but was so
ceedingly busy all day that it didn't occur to me
until too late to do 1t.
"One other thing | should mention: At almost
all the polling places demand made Of the
voters that they surrender to the clerks the
cards received by them when they registered
before they were allowed 10 go into the booths"
Ferdinand Durlacher who lives in the Sixth
Election District of the XIVth Assembly Dis
trict, told the reporter that he presented his
registry card on demand. but that the inspector
told him his name was not on the registry list
and would not allow him to cast his ballot de-
spite the fact that the only object which card
is given 10 elector liz that It shall be evidence
OF the fact that the name and address given by
him were entered upon the Register Of Electors
Mr.. Durlacher supposes that the name of some
other man was registered instead Of his, and
that that man voted the Van Wvck ticket. He
himself would have voted the Citizens Union
ticket
Jacob Zimmerman keeps a beershop in First
ave, between Ninth and Tenth sts and as al
ready mentioned, ran for Alderman In the Four
teenth District on the National Democratic
He said yesterday afternoon that he had lost
several hundred votes through the refusal
inability Of the poll clerks 10 note the cross
opposite his name on many ballots, and that
he should demand a recount In most of the
polling places the clerks counted the straight
Tammany ticket and let IL go at that" In the
Twenty third Election District there were 1O4
votes cast for him. according 10 the tally kept
by his watchers but only seventy-one were al
lowed him In the First Election District to
give another instance. they rushed the GROWER
all night all except one Of the poll clerks
drunk and here, too. kunzenman lost heavily
In his Immediate ncighbOrhoOd he Jared better;
but viking the Assembly District as whole
ne lost on the average of at least eight or ten
votes In every election district.
ASSAULTED BY TAMMANT RUFFIANS.
A CITIZENS UNION CAPTAIN SET UPON AND
BADLY INJURED on ELECTION DAY.