The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-28
900 ODELL CASES SIFT TO 8.
rOIRTS MOCKED AT WITH WORTH
LESS MORGAN AFFIDAVITS.

dreds OF Established Residents Are
"JnknOwn," and the Court Casts Our
Gov ernor's Evidence Out rs Bogus
Governor Chairman Odell did not issue
his usual daily colonization" story yes-
terday. Possibly he got a tip from
the neighborhood of the Supreme Court
hat it was about time to drop 1t.
About t. 100 orders to show cause why
the names of registered voters should not
he stricken off the rolls had been issued.
About $50 of them were up yesterday after
noon and disposed OF in some way. About
800 were absolutely dismissed. Some were
adjourned. In nine cases out OF 900 heard
NO far have the names been ordered stricken
from the rolls.
The Two parts OF the Supreme Court in
which the applications were made return
able sat until after II o'clock last night.
TIE proportion OF names stricken of was
pretty CONSTANT per cent.
No such doings have ever been seen in
the Supreme Court in election cases. All
day long the court rooms of Justices Bischoff
and Clarke were thronged by summoned
voters. Many were well-to-do business
men who had lived for years at the ad-
dresses they had given. They were not
exactly graz eGul to the Governor Chairman
for dragging them away from their bust
ness on cheap afidavits to prove they
weren't colonizers.
One was Samuel H. Ordway a well known
lawyer, living at 70 Central Park South.
He had been challenged because he had
changed his residence last summer.
As fast as the cases were called and the
affidaNts, made by either Morgan's men or
OdelI's canvassers were presented, the
victim either took the witness stand and
swore he had lived where he said he had
lived or an affidavit to the same effect was
presented, This went on all day long, and
there was nothing for the Republican law
yers, including former Judge Olcott and
consent in each case to the dismissal of
their application and to try to feel proud
Of their client.
The cheap and easy false report -un-
known, in some hundreds OF cases, was the
sole basis Of the application that was dis
missed
In all Of the cases, Tammany lawyers,
led by Charles H. Knox, appeared for the
respondents, and IL no one resp onded when
a name was called the Tammany lawyers
secured sec: an adjournment in order to get
he really understood that his right to vote
was in danger. According to the Tam
many lawyers, scores OF men apparently
had received the notices to appear, and
either hadn't understood what they meant
cases not been adjourned the men would
have lost their votes. Many Of them live
In the uptown residential districts.
MIR. Knox informed Justice Bischoff.
when court opened yesterday. morning.
gan deputies had been absolutely reck-
less, and asked him to take judicial notice
of the fact
told the Court, are Of suoh character
they have sworn have been held by the
court to be legal voters. 1t is time that
these swearing deputies should be utterly
ignored by the court, and that citizens
should no longer be required to make Affi-
nothing short of travesty OF Justice
1t was noticed yesterday In the hundreds
of cases heard that hardly any came from
the protounced Republican districts. such
as the Twenty-fret and the Twenty-ninth.
The largest number Of men summoned
from any one district was from the EiRh-
tenth; which Is Mr.. Murphy's district.
Other districts represented BY scores In
the crowded courtrooms were the Second.
Third and Sixth. the latter being Tim Subj
vans. The result In the case Of each dis
trict was the salne--an the names stayed
on and no colonization" was unearthed.
One Of the Republican lawyers admitted
privately tnat ne was QRguetod-
After dinner there was before Justice
Bischo6 q calendar Of 95 cases. OF these
70 were Withdrawn, "a were adjourned and
the other 8 applications were denied after
hearing. Not name was ordered stricken
OF the register.
In several cases the Judges issued per-
emptory writs ordering names added to
the lists. One was that Of Thomas Gala
han, a veteran whom the inspectors refused
to put on the lists because he didn't pro-
duoe his naturalization papers. They re-
fused to take his discharge papers as evil
denoe.
Between 700 and 100 persons were sum-
moned to Mr.. Morgan's Office yesterday
In regard to their naturalization papers
and the halls Of the Lords Court Buildin
were blocked. A lot refused to give up
their naturalization papers and were in
formed that subp9nas would be issued
for them.
Abraham Weinstein, through Charles
Drish lind, will ask United States Judge
Thomas to-day to vacate An order can
ceiling Weinstein's naturalization papers.
The lawyer says that Weinstein, who speaks
little English, was induced at Morgans
Office by threats OF arrest to sign false |
statement that he was two months over
IS when he arrived in this country in 1891
whereas his savings bank book and the |
Health Board records show that he got |
here in 1870. He has been indicted on the