The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-30
GROSS REGISTRY FRAUDS.
MCULLAGH'S BONRSHELL FOR EAST
SIDE POIIIICiL CAMPS.

Standardization by Dummy Under the
Minor Immigrant Act-Other Districts
as Bad as the Eighth Brooklyn About
the Worst of All-Complcte Cases to Be
Turned Over to the Federal Prosecutors.
John McCuagh. state Superintendent OF
Elections. discharged a bOmhshell yester-
day into the camp OF the East Side politicians
who have boon counting on a heavy vote this
year rs the result Of IL systematic fraudulent
naturalization game. lie doesn't care who is
hit. he says. and he has absolute proof in hun
dreds Of cases. both in Manhattan and in
Brooklyn, Of tho fraud committed. and will
submit It at once to the United States District
Attorneys In both districts. 1t will in
terest the Eighth District. especially. in view
OF the fact that it is tho only district in the
city where the registration exceeds last years,
and Is one o. the districts. Republican last
year. which. Tammany has declared. must he
carried FOR Tammany Assemblyman. to learn
that McCullaEhs deputies are among the mom-
hers OF the Martin Tnge Association. and that
one OF them was Financial Secretary OF the Citi-
2sns PeddlCrs' Association OF Allen street all
oi whose members have had to be naturaliHcd
in order to get licenses to pedde. There are
other deputies who have been actual peddlers.
and the work OF detection has been going on
for months Certain election district captains
in the Eighth district particularly are, it Is
charged. directly concerned in the frauds
This is Supt McCullagh's statement:
McCullaghs Statement.
"My attention having been called t. articles
which have arpeared in tho public press in the
mast feg DAYS i'm refersncs to- alleged colonial
ton Of Socialists in the Twelfth and Sixteenth
Assembly districts who. it 10 alleged. have OBJ
tanned their naturalization papers fraudu-
l.utly IN, intimntlon being given that am
IGNORANT of +ha facts rrrarIinu theso allega-
lions. and II being charged intcrentially that
tne work q, this department ia being devoted
ia nar.ison rurroses I'm rer.ai in doubtful Assem-
~, ristrirts in which alleged colonization
msthoIs hoye been practised by the Demo.
craft. rortv desire to Law the facts in nv nos
.os.irr ~, mart or tho r,rts laroro thn uuh-
H., ,,L thu. ronlnr unnecessary the work of
iry,stjga,jrc rho 90 ollaced frauds Inv the corn.
,nirtae Of LAWYERS which it is reported has been
,nu,,nt.d to nerform this work
So faras IN. allegation goes that this derart-
man, ia ignoront ~ tho fraud practised in
.,ourinr decentralization raners Idesire TO state
,h,. in INV r.p,r, 10 tho Governor regarding
tha elention nf 1S,,S. | called attention to tho
fr,u,Iulnnt rrnctices which had discovered in
.h, r,.tropolit,n district m obtaining natural
i,,,inr naners Subsnounpt 10 that r.rorf. il
a.
,,rso,. irt.restel in tho Eighth Assembly
district II was dccldcd that no matter nj what
coat what s,orion.s were necessary. the dis.
trf.t ,,ust lie rorriaI for he Demrcro.ic mann
tar Of Assembly at tha election OF l&nN
vhethor II WAS don. lngnllv or illegally 4
.rrprstiop vas made that colonization should
take rIore IN rpe or four months prior TO cleo
ton in that district in order to legally
colohfze voters. the organization interested
rIeJging itself to bear tho expense The
meeting adjourned with he understanding
thrt n new and more ircNpcnsiyo plan be de-
yIsed The suggestion wan made subseuuent
to such meeting by certain district captains Of
the Eighth Assembly district that the most
feasible WAY Of creating a Democratic majority
in that district was to secure naturalization
r,rers Tor n. many O, the immense numLnr of
foreigners settled in that district as could hc
prevailed uion to ray for these parers This
rronosition WINS most rny1ro INV receiyel NOT
viths,anIinp the fact TINT il was well known
TINT = large majority OF the men to be ma.
turolizcd did not possess the 0uoljncattons re-
qure1 TO become citizens under the laws of
thnI-ni,od States md the state OF New York
Tho urounsition was uecultarlv acceutsble
or,he reason that in addition TO creating new
cit2rns to be utilized for political purposes. it
also op.ncd M a souIce Of revruu. which had
o,hi. time been bat slightly drawn UNION.
In pursuapce OF the. settled poriry certain
DISTRICT Contains in the Eighth Assembly dis
trirt shortly after the beginning of this wear
h.vau tho systematic work of creating thnsa
citizens, the nodus operandi being as follows:
They would locate the foreigners who desire
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10 nec"me QUEENS an" ""u'" approach 'heh
with the offer to procure their paptrI for
,han for n cer,ain amount which VARIED
80 ,! ~
from - !" F''' "'"'u't'E !" '''g"'"-
stances. The men who desired to te-
come, cfti1ara rooljyinp that thay co,,II NOT
successfully lass the examination before the
courts. were. in most cases. willing and did
nav these agents t., procure other persona to
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impersoha'e them De'oret the court the agents
nj tho same timo securing professional W.T.
ness who yould swear to tina length Of res
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uehSe OF ''e aPp''c"h' require" ny NV an"
upon the issue Of the paper by the Court the
agent would deliver the naturalization pHpcr
u $3.50, ,,.n,,1 ,horai WV, ,'...a
I" INC pois"" n""''" t'''o'"' " u" a" iH"''e'
OF fact never appeared in court. The money
WA maid to the agent by the person rccpiyirr,
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tls hh'ulhII"h''"H 'eIt'HS"t"' an" NV "E'HI