New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-15
NCULLAGH SLAPS POLICE.
THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING TO PRE-
VENT COLONIZATION.
AGAINST THE MEN WHO ARE
TRYING TO PREVENT AN
HONEST ELECTION
HONEST ELECTION.

John McCullagh. State Superintendent Of
Elections for the Metropolitan District gave the
police another sharp dig yesterday. 1t was con-
tained in letter addressed to the Commission
ers In this letter Mr.. McCullagh refers to his
former letter warning the police against more
than two hundred illegal resorts which are being
used to hatch a colonization plot He reminds
| them that the developments of the first two
days of registration verify the existence Of such
plot and he finally gives formal notice that
because of their neglect to suppress these re-
sorts he will proceed himself to exhaust
every means at his disposal to do what the
police are sworn TO do The letter reads as fol-
! lows:
municaton % from your honorable Board containing
to my communication Of October s. in which You
tions be ana , le 9efe iHupernIende9t OF Eiec.
to the Police Board such information as he states
specified in his said communication, before men men.
toned to the end that the Police Board may
| qulre and adopt such means may be necessary
| to proceed against such places"
CENT ~ Oe6 10 SIale mat previous 70 the re-
had already notified the District Attorney of the
county Of New-York of the possession of the evi-
dence referred to in your communication and re-
9t 9uesets Lhat ne should take immediate steps TO
pfeSent p me same to the Grand Jury of the County
Attorney has ADVISED me that he is ready to CO
| operate with me in the presentation of such evi-
dence to the proper court, and has requested to
| meet him for consultation on Monday October 10,
therefore, feel compelled to respectfully decline
| to furnish your honorable Board with the evidence
IN my possession, but shall reserve IL for the con-
siderat9n g9 Of the proper tribunal emile, ,...
fb Cbief Of Pocey y Of me obe tn @ comm of WHICH
certain persons and places specified in said com
the integrity of the franchise and desire to state
that irrespective OF any action failure to act.
of Police in reference to such persons and places
| propose to exhaust every means at my disposal to
| suppress them.
WRITES TO DISTRICT ATTORNEY
| Mr. McCullagh also wrote to District Attor-
ney Gardiner in reply to Mr.. Gardeners offer to
| cooperate with him to the fullest extent in
prosecuting all persons accused of election
| frauds He said: TT will not be convenient
for me to meet you at II o'clock Monday.
October 15 but will be able to do so at D. m
on that date, when will be pleased to confer
with you" If Mr.. Gardeners offer 20 lay these
| cases before the proper tribunals at once turns
out to be a genuine effort to aid and not hid
den effort to hinder. his cooperation will be
| cepted. If not, McCullagh will prosecute the
cases through a Special Deputy Attorney-Gen-
earl, and ignore Mr.. Gardiner entirely. When
Mr. McCullagh was complimented yesterday on
the good work done by his deputies last week he
said: we may do even better on the last two
days of registration. and the best of all on Elec-
ton Day" Then he added:
Our efforts are directed to keeping the hoaters
away from the registration booths and the reports
of my deputies show that attained considerab BILE
success The knowledge that their plans were
known to has held most of them back as is
shown by the decreased registration in certain dis
trtctS notorious in past years for coloniZng. I
think We have given these professional coonizers
all they want for while. Long before my office
created these fellows had worked up per
manent and well managed organization Since
was appointed Superintendent I have devoted a
great deal of energy to finding who the direc-
tors of this organization are. I think I know them
all now. The same men do the work year after
year. They seem to be we'll supplied with money
but this they too badly scared to use it to
buy repsaters to any great extent. I hope the
poor dupes who were tempted by these sharpers to
register unawfully week will help us to get at
the men who bribed them.