The sun., 1898-02-14
Tho Great Enrolment.

After two weeks of anxious thought and
labor, the high enrollers, collectively called
the Fifty-three, announce that moro than
5000 voters, or, at least, men apparently
of full age and pining to get their names on
the books, have taken advantage of the
unusual facilities offered.
The Fifty-three, their hands strenuously
held up by the Seven and the Eleven, have
Rtriven to make enrolling good deal easier
than breathing. You can be enrolled al
most anywhere and at almost any time.
On n cable car; while you wait; by your
own fireside. Mugchump mathematicians,
with nicely ruled blank books. sharp pen
ellis, and sharper eyes, roam through the
streets at all hours of the day and evening,
seeking whom they may enroll. The Fifty
three are bound to reach the people.
That the people are bound to reach the
Fifty-three is shown by the magnificent
figures which the enrolment has attained.
With time and judicious bombasting of
the rolls, what may not be hoped3
Indeed, what may not be hoped already !!
The Hon. J. BAYARD BACKUs of the Amer.
lean Geographical Society and the Enroll.
ment Committee, man of science and
familiar with exploration, declares that
the enrolment denotes "a voting strength
of 100000" This ratio between votes and
enrolment is . to |, but less timid judges see
no reason why the nobler ratio of 10 to /
doesn't apply to votes and enrolment as
we'll as it applies to silver and gold. Using
this ratio, Mr.. BACKUs will be able to esti-
mate n voting strength of more than 1885,
600. Considering that February has been
F,a, a fnl of
ers that it has been very wet underfoot I;
and that the Mugchumps suffer nearly as
much from cold feet as from hOtheads, these
figures should seem to the Fifty-three al
most as impressive as themselves.
1t will pain men and Mugwumps alike to
hear that even more sinister obstacle
than the weather is said to have been put
in the way of the high enrollers. To
sympathizing reporter of our esteemed con.
temporary, the NsW York Times, the Hon.
WILLIAM HoUsToN KENYON, Chairman
of the Flfty.thrce, complained bitterly of
the tactics adopted by the machine Repub.
licans during the enrolment" Here are
the lamentations of KENYON:
"olr heaviest vote In the Twenty.nrst As.
senbly district, where, strangely enough. the most
strenuous efforts were made y the machine men to
tnJure us. They went so far as TO wait around the
polling places and when citizens came enroll those
scouts would tell them that the place OF enrolment
bad been moved TO another place. They would lead
unsGspecting men TO fake enrolment places, where
they would enroll them In books that were supposed
to be ours, and In this way lost many names Our
enrollm mt, however. Is a Iona fde one. and the
5000 names represent . far greater number. sum
cient, wo think, to dominate the situation"
Mr.. KENYON and his brethren are born
dominators. They can't help dominating,
and the situation will have to yield to
them. About one tenth of the total enroll
ment was obtained in the Twenty. first dis
trict, that capital of Mugchumpery. Doubt
less the whole enrolment might have been
obtained there had not so many unsuspect-
ing men been steered to the wrong shop by
the false-hearted machinists. OF the iniqui-
tous proceedings of the latter the Nursery
OF Saturday gave these saddening details:
"itw was learned this morning that the dysd.n the
w9oi machine Republicans. aStir tho two preced.
lHs nights for snrollnent were particularly active