Evening star., 1901-10-28
JER0ME'S BIG FIGHT
Candidate for District Attorney Gen.
trail Figure in New York.
DIRECTS His ATTACKS TO SHEPARD
Croker Crowd Unable to Get Help
From Bryan Democrats.
CASE OF GOVERNOR HOGG
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October "a 1901.
The central point of interest in this cam
| paign is Justice William Travers Jerome,
the fusion candidate for district attorney.
His speeches have become the feature and
from now on all the fusion campaigners
have been ordered to work upon the same
line. Croker, Devery and Tammany are
the issues, and they are to be kept before
the voters.
Low, when he resumes public speaking,
will devote less attention to the so-called
artful dodger Shepard and more to the
men who nominated him. The fusion mana
gers have learned from Tammany sources
that the unselfish Croker has said that he
was willing to efface himself from the
situation as much as possible IL such
course was deemed necessary to the sue
cess of mis- ticket. The fusion campaign
managers, however, will not permit Croker
to stay hidden away. The entire Tammany
plan of campaign has been changed since
Justice Jerome began to call names. All
the batteries of the wigwam are now train
ed on Jerome. Croker and his men want to
keep Devery and the entire Sullivan-Dev-
cry combination under cover as much as
possible but they will not be permitted
to do SO.
Shepard, acting on a hint from Croker, is
now trying to make it appear that Gov.
Odell is responsible for permitting Murphy
and Devery to remain in office. because
he has power under the law to remove the
police commissioner at any time. This Is
a typical Tammany trick and it would
please Croker and his men very much in
one way If the governor should step in
and remove Murphy.
Odell VIII Not Remove Murphy.
Gov. Odell, however knows all the tricks
of the game. He is well posted on the
situation and has known for some time that
1t would please Tammany very much If
he should take a hand in the police situa-
tion. The governor Is not going to make
campaign material for Tammany, and Shep-
ary, playing the Tammany game cannot
goad him into removing Murphy unless the
latter should do something that seriously
threatened the fairness of the election
Mayor Van Wyck can remove Murphy at
any moment without charges or trial, and
in answer to Shepard the campaign mana
gers VIII make it very clear to the people
that Tammany cannot by any hook or
crook escape full responsibility for the po-
lice department as it is now conducted.
IF false registration and illegal voting
could be entirely suppressed. New York
would be republican city, year in and
year out"
In these words, Superintendent McCul-
lagh of the state department of elections
expresses his estimate of the extent of
illegal registration. He further said that
not less than thirty thousand illegal voters
had been placed upon the rolls Evidence
that there have been gigantic registration
frauds is in the possession of McCullagh,
who is convinced that a large percentage
OF the names on the books in the second
and seventh assembly districts are illegal,
ana he predicts that numerous arrests will
be made in these districts on election day
Ii attempts are made to vote upon the
names of these falsely registered men. In
f6A ,y-,-i
registered by fraud came from New Jersey
and returned to their homes in that state
as soon as they had done so.
Gang Directing Election Frauds.
All of these frauds were perpetrated
under the direction of a gang of men who
are adopts at the work, McCullagh says,
and who are in the employ Of a district
leader of Tammany Hall. In the uptown
districts, especially those in the so-called
kid glove section" McCullagh's deputies
have discovered many illegal registrations
One OF these cases under investigation is
In Harlem district, where, it is charged,
the leader Of the Tammany organization
Imported foater from the Bowery and
caused him to be registered from the lead
ers brown-stone-front house.
In this connection it is freely asserted
that the real Tammany campaign is being
run from the Rossmore Hotel at Broadway
and 42d street. Anybody It is said can go
there and see for himself. On every side
are gentlemen of the Sullivan and Engel
stripe. They overrun the place, spending
small fortunes each day In cigars ard |
drinks. They are never seen around the
Hoffman House headquarters. The orders
are to keep them away from Shepard. Up
stairs In a suite of connecting rooms are |
the headquarters Of John T. Oakley the
Tammany candidate for sheriff: Henry W. |
Unger, the candidate for district attorney;
Ike Fromme, the candidate for borough
president; George Fahrbach. the candidate
the candidate for register. Each man has |
a room all to himself, a telephone, clerk |
a negro guard and a dumb waiter.
Dumb Waiter Worked Hard.
All of the accessories are worked hard |
especially the last, Tor the other ED Of the |
dumb waiter shaft opens in the Rossmors
bar room. Inside. it is business behind |
closed doors. There are no press agents.
Reporters are not wanted. The rransac-
tions at the Rossmore are of the kind it |
is charged, that do not require publicity
The fusionists have been making some
figures. The republican county committee |
has made a double canvass of 122 election |
districts since the close of registration The |
canvasses were made first by special men |
employed for the purpose by the republican /
district captains. In every case the re-
suits agreed within two or three votes OF |
the districts canvassed, seventy were in the
borough of Manhattan, and fifty-two In the
other boroughS Some strong democratic
districts and some strong republican ones
were selected in each borough, and the
others were districts In which the vote Is
always close. On a basis of the results OBJ
tanned in these 10 election districts, it is
claimed, Lows majority in the greater city
will be 81 600
The men who had charge of the canvass
say that extraordinary care was exercised
IN order to get 1t accurate. In many of
the districts, 1t is said, more than 95 per
cent of the registered voters were seen by
the canvassers. In one election district Of
New York county, where eighty-seven votes
for Bryan were polled last year, one cam
vasser found only forty-two Shepard votes
and the republican captain of the district
found forty-three Shepard votes but the
extra man OF his canvass said he would |