Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
FOREIGN BORN !|I H VOTE
Trend Toward Roosevelt in
New York City.
CONDITIONS STATED
FOUNDATION LAID WHEN PREsI-
DENT WAS POLICE COMMISSIONERS
Particularly So Far as the Hebrew
Element is Concerned-Irish Vote
Breaking From Tammany.
CON EDITIONS STATED

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October 8, 1904
The national campaign this year Is ad-
mttedly unique. Old stagers tell of the
peculiarities of 1t as compared with pre-
vious elections. The most striking fea-
ture, as 1 have noted 1t, Is the disappear
ance of the hyphen.
The foreign-born vote or native vote Of
foreign parentage is very large, and the
naturalizations for six months past have
indicated that 1t is going to be cast quite
fully. Nevertheless. less talk is heard and
less evidence is seen Of what might be
called the professional element than any
one can remember. This is true of both
the headquarters. OF course, both COM
mittees send out political literature in vari-
GUS languages and endeavor to keep track
Of the trend. But I never have seen so
few signs of the professional foreigner as a
campaign factor.
Aside from any partisan bearing, every
body who has to do with the campaign ia
glad that the hyphenated voters are ceas-
ing to be segregated from the rest Of the
electors. The appeal now is to American
citizens without the qualifying adjective
before their names. Some old organiza-
lions survive, but 1 have noticed that even
those who are identified with them use
this designation more as a matter of habit
lIdn 1TOIu dly uSSlTe 10 DoTpeluaIe IL.
Tendencies Toward Roosevelt.
While the hyphen disappears and little Is
heard now Of alian-Americans, Irish
Americans, German-Americans and British
Americans, the interest In the tendencies
of the foreign element Is not lessened. Two
months ago, In making some studies of
local conditions in New York. / remarked
that there was an unnaissakable disposition
on the part of some of these aggregations
Of voters to support President Roosevelt
and the republican party though hereto
fore the movement hads been toward the
democrats-that is, 1t was recognized that
the mass of the foreignsborn voters or for
eign parentage voters was drawn into the
Tammany organizations or into other demo-
cratic societies. Somet!of the local demo-
cratic leaders had told me they were going
to have harder time than usual this year
in getting what they looked upon as their
own. ,sc
From recent observations I don't think
they are going to get it. at least not In the
degree they anticipated. 1T Is one of the
open secrets at the democratic headquar-
ters that the intrigues which were begun
months ago to arrest the movement of the
great mass of Hebrew voters to Roosevelt
has failed The st. Louis platform declara-
ton about passports and similar maneuver-
ing were for this purpose One OF the men
brought into touch with the national COM
mittee because Of his knowledge Of local
conditions says that there are $4,000 Jew
ish votes on the east side who are for
Roosevelt and he doesn't expect that hun
dred of them will be got away from their
choice and induced to vote for Parker. He
attributes this preference to the influence Of
some of the great banking houses.
It Is true that some Of the most prOmi-
neut Of this Jewish bankers had declared for
Roosevelt when other eminent fnanciers
we're frothing and denouncing him. But
the popular movement on the east side
could not have been directed by any set OF
financiers. Its basis was broader. The
Presidents action in getting the protest
against the outrages in Russia before the
car had something to do with this feeling,