The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-21

III tne law winch gives him the right to
keep them"
The. Tammany folk said Yesterday that
they had heard of an entirely new Odell
scheme tor affecting the registration. Ac-
cording to the information they had, they
SAID inspectors OF the State Board of Health
canvass of the small hotels, to ascertain il
there was enough "air space" in the rooms
occupied by men registered from them.
Most OF the hotels thus far visited have
been IN Democratic districts, the idea being
TO drive legal voters out of the rooms from
which they were legally entitled TO register.
10 was announced at Tammany Hall yester-
day that the law committee would protect
any voter whether he lives in a house of his
own or at lodging house.
oDELL BUCKS AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL.
William Halpin, the Tammany Hall
republican, who Is chairman of the execu-
tive committee Of the Republican county
committee. said Yesterday after a meeting
OF the Republican Assembly district
leaders:
There will be no. change tomorrow
from the course which was followed last
themselves for registration, but who are
believed by the Superintendent of Flee
tons to be without the proper qualifca-
tons for voting. The district leaders were
name on the lists which have been sup
piled to them shall be challenged through
their inspectors Of elections.
1t doesn't matter what Mr.. Collins says
We will carry out tomorrow exactly the
same procedure that was followed last
Friday and Saturday. That was decided
on at the meeting we have just had of the
executive committee. Any inspectors who
do not carry out the instructions given to
them will be dropped, and as an example of
what may follow to those who disobey
orders was shown to-day when fourteen
inspectors in the Sixth Assembly district
were removed because they did not last week
challenge some suspects, as they had been
directed TO do"
On the other hand, the Board of Elections
has power to remove any inspector who
violates the law and believes that the Attor-
ney-General has interpreted the law cor
recuy.
THREE REPUBLICAN, LEADERS REBEL.
Yesterdays meeting of the executive
committee was by no means harmonious.
there were three at least Of the district
leaders who said that they would follow
out the law as 1t had been laid down by
Mr.. Collins and would pay no attention
to either Mr. Morgan or the instructions
which were transmitted to them from
Governor-Chairman Odell through Mr..
Halpin.
One Of these leaders told Mr.. Halpin in
the meeting that what they had been asked
to do In the registration booths was nothing
date voters and would lose the Republican
party a good many votes in his district.
Mr.. Halpin, 1t is understood, tried to put
the screws on this leader by threatening
that any of his inspectors OF elections who
failed to challenge any name sent to them
would lose their jobs. That threat caused
little commotion In the midst OF which
two other leaders stated that they also
would take no part In the effort to intimi-
date voters and that so far as they were
concerned there would be no challenges
In their districts Of men against whose right
to vote there was nothing to show.
AS there seemed some danger Of the re-
bellion spreading, the committee meeting
was broken OF short.
ASSISTANT LEADERS AS BoUNcERs.
When Governor Chairman Odell ap-
appointed his deputy leaders, he stated
that they were to be merely assistants to
the regular leaders, that they would have
no executive power and would have no
authority to remove any Of the men en-
ployed by the leaders. 1t can be stated
that none Of the sixty-two election inspect
ors who were discharged last Saturday
lost their jobs at the instance of the leaders.
but that they were removed on the recon-
is d. James he E. March tine Eapub
lican leader Of the Sixth Assembly district
not only was no party to the firing yes
terday Of the fourteen inspectors in his
district, but he had some rather hot things
W say W az ycStcltkty
meeting Of the executive committee when
he learned what Halpin had done. The
inspectors were dropped at the personal
instance Of Mr.. Halpin.
oDELL POSES,
Governor Chairman Odell had something
more to say yesterday of his high moral
purpose In trying to prevent the casting
of fraudulent votes in this city. -We want
an honest coont, and il we cannot win
with an honest count we do not want to win
at all, he said with an air of seriousness
and then he went on to describe how the
Republicans. through the Superintendent
Of Elections had unearthed all kinds of
colonization schemes. He remarked also
that "our investig atoms Of colonization
and registration frauds have brought us
pretty close to a Democrat higher up in
one of the districts below Fourteenth street"
who was the higher UP" Democrat he re-
ferred to.
BIG REGISTRATION PREDICTED.
Politicians predict that the registration
will be larger than 1t would have been had
not general resentment followed an OBJ
with fool challenges; and nobody suppo SEES
that the percentage Of actual vote to regis
tered vote will be any smaller on Nov 8
than usual-fronl to per cent. off.
POLICE NOT TO REGARD LISTS AS PROOF.
On the advice Of Corporation Counsel
Delany, Police Commissioner McAdoo has
sent out new instructions to the police
stationed at the places of registration.
The Police Commissioner says that his
first order [sent out in transmitting to the
police the Odell-Morgan omnibus chal-
fenge lists] was in error and that it was
his fault alone. 1t ran as follows:
These lists are compiled with Il view OF
preventing either the persons named therein
or others from registering or volt ing, they
having no legal right To do so. And they are
sent to you for the use and information of the
police in cooperating with the State Superin-
tendent of Elections, and those who may
represent him, in preventing illegal register
ing and voting.
Mr.. McAdoo got a protest from Charles
H. Knox of the Tammany law, committee,
who said that the police force had no right
TO usurp judicial functions and to adjudge
persons to be disqualified simply because
their names were on list He suggested
that the Police Commissioner send out an
amended order Then Mr., McAdoo asked
the Corporation Counsel what he should
do about 1t.
After Mr.. MoAdoo had read the advice
The Weather.
The western storm moved northeastward and