New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
LOOKS LIKE LOW FOR MAYOR
COMMITTEE OF EIGHTEEN PRIMES ITS LIST AGAIN.
PRIMARIES TODAY NCJLLAGH CHARGES
COLONIZATION
MCULLAGH WARNS MAYOR
HE DEMANDS AID OF VAN WICK AND
MURPHY IN PREVENTING FRAUD.

large number of warrants said to be more
than two hundred. for the arrest of men who are
alleged to be Illegally enrolled as Democrats in the
I'D Assembly District, were issued late yesterday
by Magistrate Olmsted. in the Centre-st. police
court. Scores of arrests are likely to be made at
The polls without the formality Of warrants to-
Gay.
Superintendent McCallagh last night sent letters
70 Mayor Van Wyck and Police Commissioner
Murphy demanding their aid and assistance, and
through them the aid and assistance of the police
iorce, to-day in enforcing the provisions of the
Penal Code relating TO crimes against the elective
franchise
The letter TO the Mayor was in part as follows
which has been forwarded by me to the Hon.
Michael G Murphy. Commissioner and Chief of
should consider the said communication part of
this e Letter & to you AS the chief executive of the
Of seeing that the laws relating to the city of New
York whether general. local or special, are proper
/ demand of you your aid and assistance.
@ squ and che ana of Poce an the
members OF the uniformed police force of the city
Penal Code relating to crimes against the elective
nroper and peacefi conduct of the primaries to he
held in the city tomorrow.
The letter TO Commissioner Murphy said in
part:
The Primary :sw fixes to-morrow as the day on
apaints haPe BEEN msde TO this deparment Of
wholesale violations of the Primary law in the
Id and With Assembly districts.
IN the of the With, complaint was made
IN time TO secure legal evidence which resulted in
the purging OF the enrolment books of nearly
seven hundred names that had been fraudulently
noters of the fraud, several OF whom have been
held in heavy bail to await the action Of the grand
Jury.
In the OF the lid Assembly District specific
complaints were not made until within few days
past. Since the complaints were made j have Sc
cured ample evidence of wholesale fraud in the en-
Of voters and in the colonization of alleged
ofe-gf in he Str he
the official primary in that district.
The evidence secured by me proves conclusively
that the names of hundreds of voters have been
transferred from other Assembly districts into the
I'D Assembly District, and~in many cases 1t Is
charged that the voters have never been con-
suited to the of their names in such trans
fers.
The evidence proves that corrupt bargains have
been made In haanv with keepers OF certain
lodging houses which to be used as voting
residences by persons using the names of voters
whose names have been transferred to SUCH lodg-
ing houses from other election and Assembly dis
tricts-
i have secured information of q reliable character
which indicates that bands of repeaters Will be
purpose of voting upon the names of voters which
have been used without their knowledge or consent
Realizing the fact that the contest in the lid
District has engendered a state OF feeling which
will undoubtedly result In serious clash of the
opposing factions at the polls which viii interfere
with the peaceable and proper conduct of the pri-
maries. i demand of you and through you the aid
peace and in the prevention of fraud at the pri-