The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-09
The Registration and the Election.

Inc NeS1stratlOn ana inc fiecttOn.
To-day ia the first day Of registration
for the municipal election on tho Sd Of
November. Every citizen who is not
unavoidably prevented should make it a
prime duty of the day to get his name on
the registration list and thus qualify him.
ssh to vote.
Tammany distinctively Isl in minority
in New York. Only when it is able to
draw votes from the decency and re-
spectability Of the town-whep there
is q square political issue between the
Democratic and Republican parties-is it
ever able to carry the town. If the people
of New York want to keep IT'S hands of
the municipal government, AZ, predatory
organization for private 60 in and not a
political party, they can do. it easily next
month
At the last election for Mayor, in 1901,
the votes in the Manhsh an borough were
distributed thus:
Pspud- Amt
Ifon. Tam. Tam.
East Side districts ....I yes7l2 sO,29a COSTS
West Side Districts. AsSSo 4s2s7 ass7
Finh Avenue dlstrictI
18TH 2s,h. ?7th. 2st D..
!. sisp,..'.........'..' -. 24l.4R l7O,4 4,e7s
1t will be see that Tammany's only
majority in tn ese groups of Assembly
districts was n the East Side, where it
was 1915. n the West Side districts
Tammany We Is in minority of $780, and
IN the Fifth Avenue or central districts of
1865, max ing its minority in the whole
Borough .oas. Add the anti-Tammany
majority IN the Bronx and the total was
5,887.
IL vii he seen, as we remarked yester-
day, T. 3at the great necessity is to keep
down tine Tammany majority in its East
Side stronghold. In 1901, we may add,
m he districts most occupied by the
Je'@ the Tammany vote was proportion
at aiy smallest.
1t is significant that proportionately to
he population Of these three groups Of
districts the votes were only 1929 per
cent in the East Side districts to 1884
per cont in the West Side districts and
:20.5S per cent. in the Fifth Avenue dis
u trtcts. The indication from this is that
A the East Side the percentage of citi-
zens among the population is smallest.
The highest percentage, in the Fifth Ave-
nue. districts, both indicates that the alien
population there is the smallest pro-
portionately and disproves the assertion
Wa hear so loudly made at every election
that the "brownstone vote" does not
CONE out as does that from the crowded
dist cts, when actually the case is the
other way more especially in an election
lin which the public concern is peculiarly
g great.
In the Fifth Avenue districts in 1901
there were 75S4O native males to 32,15s
foreign born. On the West Side there
were N9663 native males to 50, 1902 for
eign. On the East Side there we're only
26s,734 native males to 272,764 foreign
born. That is, OF the 294 ,O22 foreign
born males in Manhattan more than
two-thirds were in the districts of the
East Side. On the East Side the foreign
born were more than half the population,
on the West Side only about third and
in the Fifth Avenue districts only about
30 per cent
In Brooklyn at the Mayoralty election
in 1901 Tammany was beaten by 25,8l7
votes and in that borough there were, in
1901, OF native males, 39e,2l5, and of for
eI,n born, 177,5ls.
II the citizens Of New York prefer de-
cency in their municipal government
'Tammany will be beaten badly on the
Sd Of November; but in order to vote for
it they will have to register. Tammany
cannot hope to win except through the
indifference of the decent and intelligent
electorate.