The evening world., 1903-10-16
Eusonists Order Carriages IN
An Precincts. and Tammany
Appropriates Big Sum to Get
Out Its Voters.
JEROME APPEALS TO ALL
CITIZENS TO REGISTER.
Other Activities Are Suspended
While Leaders Turn All e..
forts Toward Enrolment Of
Those Entitled to Ballot.

An parties to the city campaign are
bending their efforts to get out a full
Registration to-day and tomorrow.
Ordinary campaign activities have
been suspended. and the party workers
have had nothing else In hand for the
past tw~enty-four hours but the work Of
.getting the voters worked UP on the
'subject Of registra ton.
TAmmany, with its perfect machinery.
has made no extra visible effort to press
tts registration, but Q meeting OF the
Executive Committee was held yester-
day at which q portion OF the ample
campaign fund at the command Of the
organization was voted for the purpose
of helping the district captains in get
ting the voters to the registration
bcothA
Like activity was observed in the
fusion camp. Extraordinary effort was
made. however. by the fusion district
leaders In Manhattan and Brooklyn.
carriages being assigned to each Of the
election precincts 70 convey aged and
inirm voters to the registration booths.
STIR In Fusion Camp.
The stir over the failing or in regis
sration has created unusual activity
among the Republican and fusion lead
ers. Although II n not admitted. It
has been recognized by them that Tam
many Jared very much better In the
registration Of last Friday and Saturday
and that the falling on OF 20 per cent.
represented the Indifference moi Of the
party voters. but OF the independents,
whose votes are the life OF the fusion
movement. Money and energy was spent
to-day by the fusionists to overcome
this Indifference and get the votes Out.
District-Attorney Jerome considers the
occasion OF enough Importance for o
manifesto. In which he saysi
"In a crisis like this no man has a
right to put It out Of his power on cleo
tion day to help the cause that may
then seem TO him right or to injure one
which he thinks should be destroyed.
II don't know and l am not guessing
how this election 10 going, but to have
Il 20 one way or the other without a
heavy vote oelng cast would be Infinitely
Disappointing.
VIII want to Vote.
"No one who is Disguised because he
THINKS that the leaders on one side have
uisplayeu IoOlSnncbs ana on the other
knavery should refrain from registering.
This 10 no night OF leaders or for lead
era. Are we to have to live hece to suf-
fer even II the leaders have been foolish
and knavish?
u care nothing personally for the
leaders on either side, and their SELFISH
ness or fo~o!ishness or knavishness ought
70 cut no figure In this matter at all, nor
afe. the candidates on either side of SUI
perlative Importance in themselves
ACNE. In u clty like this there are lots
or men WHO could All acceptably any
once That the people of thls city viii
ever be called upon TO vote for. but what
underlies this contest and what, II / am
not mistaken. will be made to appear in
this campaign. are issues SO deep and
Vital to this community that no self-re-
ppecting man ought to be able TO justify
himself to himself II he falls Tomorrow
or Saturday to put himself In q position
that will enable him on election day TO
vote for what may then seem right or
against what may then seem wrong"
Besides distributing money to en-
courage registration, Tammany's Ex-
ecutiye Committee discussed the advisa-
oility OF taking legal steps to curtail the
methods OF State Superintendent Nor
gan, who. IL il said. 10 preventing inno-
cent and w~eA-meaning Democrats from
registering.