Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-26
Description Of the National Repubi-
can Headquarters.
SECURING NATURALIZATION PAPERS
GIimpses of Political Life in the
Great Metropolis.
THE MOLINE UX CAS- E
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, July %, 10

NEW YORK, July %, 1900.
With the opening of national republican
headquarters at No. Madison avenue the
campaign may be said to have formally be-
gun. The headquarters are the most COM
pletely equipped and centrally located that
the committee has occupied at any time In
its existence. 1t will be the first time, too,
that the state and national committees
have been housed together in such conven-
lent proximity, and the first time that the
state and national banners have been COM
bined in one standard-made necessary this
time by the limitations of space. The
23d street side of the Metropolitan building
does not give room enough for the proper
display of two great battle flags One
would hide the other; so it has been de-
cided that state and nation shall absorb
each other, as it were, and fling defiance to
the enemy with one set of halyards. The
county committees banner. now strung
across 23d street, will remain where 1t is
until the new banner is finished, which will
be within few days. The twenty-five
rooms are nearly in order that they are
to all intents and purposes open. They are
to be decorated Throughout with the Amer
lean flag in folds, festoOns rosettes and
Maltese crosses. Room No. 30S. facing on
cd street, is a large, square room, hand
somely furnished in oak. and is one of the
lightest and largest rooms in the building.
1t will be the headquarters of Chairman
Hanna. No. 3U1, which adjoins ii. is spa
ciouS and Is to be used for committee meet
ings and whatever other purposes it may be
needed for
Cornelius n. Bliss and Franklin Murphy,
national committeeman from New Jersey.
will occupy rooms Nos. 300. $40 and 81. For
the accommodation of Fred. S. Gibbs and
his force, Nos. 3Gl, 800 and 3o6 have been
reserved. The speakers bureau, with Sen
ator n. B. Scott in immediate charge. Will
he W. md 4 Perry
Heath. who came to town Saturday, will
have general direction of the oratortcal and
literary bureau and his office will adjoin.
For the accommodation of the newspaper
representa- lives. local and foreign. and the
Sergeant-at-arms and his assistants three
well-lghted, wel-furnished rooms, with
every accommodation. have been selected.
They are Nos. 9:S4 :..J and $50 The rest
of the suite will be devoted to the use of
the staff clerks. stenographers and type
writers and for the storage of campaign
documents and one will be a waiting room
A complete Geographic and telephone
continent will connect the national head
quarters with every city in the United
States. and there will be an interior teie-
phone service, by which the chairman may
be kept in touch with the cnlels OF the SEW
eral departments.
NaturalizinS Voters.
Persons entitled to become naturalized in
order TO vote at the presidential election
this year must have their applications filed
in the state courts before the end of the
present week Otherwise they can't vote in
November If they get out their first papers
in the federal courts instead Of in the state
courts they have until August Il to make
application In former years person who
was naturalized up to within thirty days
of an election enabled to vote. The
democratic district leaders used to help the
men in their districts who We're entitled to
vote by reason Of being five years in the
country to get their second papers. The re-
publicans began to fear that the democrats
were reaping an advantage from the thirty
day limit, and they set to work to put OBJ
stacles in the way of the man who wants
to get out his citizenship papers. In the
first place, the republican constitutional
convention of 1894 raised the limit to ninety
days. or three months Then the republican
legislature passed law saying the appli-
cations for second papers must be lodged
with the naturalization bureau in the SUI
preme court fourteen days before they are
passed upon. This practically compels
would-be citizen to apply for his second
papers 1O0 days before election If he hopes
to vote. No such rule as the last one ap-
plies to the federal courts. and the appli
cant may file his application and be made
a citizen upon the sam day in other words,
he may make his application up to within
ninety-one days of election and then vote
for President. All new voters are anxious
to cast their first vote in a presidential
year. but thousands in this state will be de-
barred from doing so by the constitutional
and legislative restrictions. 1t is a peculiar
coincidence that nearly all foreigners whose
sympathies are with the democratic party
are naturaliZed in the state courts and
those who inclined to be republicans
made citizens by the federal judges OF
course. 1t is also coincidence that the re-
publican legislature has made 1t little
more difficult to get naturalized in the state
courts.
An employe Of the naturalization bureau
In the state court says:
The difference in the number of people
we will naturaliZe this year and the num-
Der naturaliZed in previous years Is some
thing astonishing. Under the old system
we naturaliZed about 10000 persons in a
presidential year. The old superior court
alone used to naturaliZe about 5000. This
year we will make about 1000 new citizens
and the immigration is not diminishing
People don't like to go 70 the trouble of
coming down here SO often. Take the aver
age workingman. He is compelled to lose
half a day, at least, to come down here to
file his application. Then he must lose an
other half day to come down and be ex-
amined by the judge. Perhaps he is COM
PEELED to come two or three times more and
besides he must bring a witness who Is
also perhaps a workingman, who must lose
time. The political leaders used to help
the men out In the state courts, show them
where to go and tell them how to get easy
without losing unnecessary time. They
don't do it now because no man knows how
new voter is going to cast his ballot los
days before election"
Croker Against VIM. Aston ChanIer.
The seat now occupied in the House OF
Representatives by William Aston Chanler,
traveller. author and statesman, will have
a new tenant next session, according to the
friends of Richard Croker. The Tammany
boss is represented to be dissatisfied with
Mr.. CHAMBERS conduct in Congress and
means to turn him down. Mr.. Chanler,
who is rich and independent, doesn't mind
losing a trff1ing thing like a seat in Con-
gress and the little salary of 5000 year
that goes with 1t. But he is not willing to
accept Croker's opinion as to the qualities
a congressman should possess or expect He
is said to have told Croker SO in very plain
English at the Democratic Club few days
ago. His friends quote him saying to
Croker:
You appear to labor under the impress
sion that you personally conferred a favor
on me by asserting to my nomination for
Congress, we'll securing my election.
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