The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-07
Board of Police Commissioners
of Gangs of Thugs and Crooks.
OUTLOOK IN OTHER STATES
ESTIMATES OF OHIO, PENNsYLvA-
MA AND DAY STATE POLITICIANS.
Republicans Almost Sure to Control
the United Stntes Senate After
the 4th of March Next.

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The Republican
county committee gave out the following
statement tonight: After careful consult
tation with each of the Assembly district
leaders of the Republican party of the
county of New York and with their author
ization the estimated vote to be cast in New
York county for Roosevelt is 13S, 600. In view
of the decreased registration we believe that
the Democrats will not be able to poll a
vote for Van Wyck in excess of 10000. We
believe that the greater city of New York
will give Roosevelt a majority. We shall
carry the Fifth, Eighth, Tenth, Nineteenth,
Twenty-first, Twenty-third, Twenty-tfths
Twenty-seventh. Twenty-ninth, Thirty-irst.
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Assembly dis
tricts. We believe that we viii elect four
members of Congress and four state sena- :
tors in the county of New York. We be-
lieve that the entire judiciary ticket of the
Republican party will be elected. Reports
from election district captains show that
the vote for the judiciary ticket will exceel
the vote for the state ticket by from 10000
to 1900. The estimates here made are based
upon the closest canvasses that are 70 be
made in the election districts If these esti-
mates are correct as we believe them to be,
Roosevelt will carry the State of New York
by not less than 100000"
CONGRESSMAN LemueI Il. Quigg, chairman
of the Republican county COMMITTEES, said
tonight in an interview, that he believed
Roosevelt would have 100000 plurality in tie
State and that he would get it above the
Harlem bridge. Il am inclined 10 think,
continued Mr.. Quigg. that Greater New
York will break about even. We are going
to get big vote down the East side"
State Superintendent of Election John T.
McCulagh sent letter to the Board OF
Police Commissioners to-day, in which he
saws: "I am reliably informed that it is
proposed to import into the Sixth Assembly
district thugs, crooks and panhandlers from
New Jersey, Connecticut and the city OK
Troy, prominent among them of that city
being some of the men Identified with Whal
has become generally known as the Bat
Shea gang 1t is desired to notlIy YOU
that il has been reported to me that noat-
ers have been registered from the so-called
Raines law hotels and cafes in the Second,
Fifth. Sixth and Eighth Assembly dis
tricts who have surrendered their registra-
ton certificates for a consideration to GER
tain persons in such districts, and that
other foaters and imported crooks and ex-
conyicts will be given these certificates OF
registration upon which to vote during the
that have every evidence of consider
able colonization of colored crooks who
have been driven out of Chicago by the re-
organization of the police force of that city,
and from Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other
nearby cities, who have settled within the
boundaries of what has become known as
the Tenderloin district, and an investigation
of the colored clubs located in the Twenty
seventh, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth'
Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-seconq'
streets by the detectives under your conf
mand will, l am convinced, lead to the stp-
prehension and conviction of many of these
violatcrs of the law. / shall deliver into
your custody for service before the day or
election additional warrants granted by the
magistrates of the city of New York
AGAINST persons accused of violations OF
the election law. My deputies have been
instructed to make no arrests upon election
day for any alleged offense committed
against the elective franchise until the per-
son so accused shall have cast his ballot II
he shall demand the right to do so, and
have no desire to interfere with the rights
of any citizen entitled to exercise such
right, but rather to protect every citizen
in the exercise of his right"