New-York tribune., 1902-08-24
Disr~icr

When the question put to Superintendent
NcCullash yesterday as 10 whether he would
prosecute Devery and Carroll II he found that
they were iraplicate in the fraud he replied
with broad smile:
Certainly: that's what I an here for
Commissioner yoorhis Of the Bureau Of Elec-
.ions also commented on the figures prepared
By his board He admitted that there was
trouble il the Democratic districts mentioned
He also alleged that the same situation existed
in the Republican XVIII and in the XXXIId-
As the Republican transfers in the former were
only l4s against 80 for the Democrats. and 29I,
against So. in the latter. II is hard 10 see any
statistical basis fer this assertion. OF the hg-
ures published yesterday the Commissioner said:
There have been 500 transfers into the Ist
Assembly District where Battery Dan Finn is
fighting ex-Conmissioner Murphy. There was
something said during the Foley-DlTVer hgnt
lest fail about Nurphy's friendlness toward
DIVER The fact that 2 great part OF the
transfers are from the I'D Assembly District
may INDICATE that there was something in this
story.
The IId Assembly District, as a matter OF
tsct. has sent an enormous number Of transfers
70 other districts One hundred and twenty
seven OUT o. one election district and 10 out Of
another and smaller numbers out Of others
have distributed themselves into the Ist, IXth,
XxvIth and XXXIId Assembly districts
The Republicans and the Democrats are
both at II The Republicans started il last
year and although there were number OF
arrests nothing came Of il. and I suppose that
this has encouraged q wholesale attempt TO do
the same thing this year In Manhattan il is
the Democrats; in Brooklyn il is the Republi-
cans
This shows what the public has lost by the
veto Of the weekes bill last year. Both Of the
parties were represented al Albany in the inter-
est Of the bill which makes il very hard 10 do
This kind Of thing, but the representative OF q
faction Of one Of the parties protested that the
bill would shut orr his followers. and It was
vetoed
The transfers are rot the only queer thing
about this situation The come Of age certih-
Gates are just as bad. I venture to say that
three-fourths Of these fraudulent
We have nc means Of Investigating these
things II on the face OF certificate II is
fraudulent we can throw II out. and if we sus-
rect IL we can make q limited investigation.
But we could not attempt to handle the big en-
rolnlent Of this year. We did make q small in
vesttgetion. Out OF twenty-one come OF age
certificates fled from the XKIst District we
found that twenty were fraudulent.
The law should be amended. and amended
at once. SO that every person who files come Of
age certificate should be obliged 10 appear here
in person. Then 2 man who is forty years old
couis not get through z boy Of eighteen
either for there lave been some cases Of that.
: Perhaps i would be compelling men TO COM
mil perjury 10 have these certificates sworn to-
but they are not sworn 70. that man does
not co.nrnit perjury in signing q false statement
upon one. We had = case here Of man who filed
certificates Of transfer from one place 20 three
others. He wanted 10 do q big business. We
put him down for the first and threw out the
Others
this kind Of thing. 4 can enroll for the
primaries IN blank naming his party at the
supplementary enrolment. when he has learned
in what party there is z fight on And he can
transfer 70 any district without violating the
letts- oc The law. Il should be fixed so that
man must live three months in district before
he can enroll for primary.
Reference 70 the figures for the first voters
also reveals some remarkable facts. The Demo
cratic total is 2 III, against $50 for the Repub-
sixty new Democratic voters for district
But While the Ist, IN which there is q contest,
shows ninety new voters on the Democratic
side, the I'D. in which u ere is no fight, shows
on the Democratic size is 1872 against three for
the Republicans, z significant concomitant or
Devery's campaign In the XXFIth there are 100
On The Democratic SIDE and TWO the Repub-
lican side. In the XXIXrh the figures are more
nearly even. being tairty-six and fourteen. re-
speedway.
II Brooklyn the total transfers are: Republi-
can, l5I5; Democratic, 1923, and new voters,
$40 and es7. respectively.
FINN MEN ABUSE MURPHY
AND THEY DON'T BELIEVE cARvALEo's