The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-13
AYTILA CARRIES THE FOURTH.
FIE FOR SHAME AHEAD FOR SEC
RETARY OF STATE.
district Experiments With a Voting Ma.
chine. and. Seeking for S0n-PaTtlsan
Candidates. Uses Up the Picture Scheme
Of the District Leaders Throne Room.

oasiIv carried the Fourth Assembly dis
,riu Yesterday against Benjamin B. Odell,
Jr. by a vote of 1928 to 10. Attila had been
nominated by Solomon Mandelbaum OF
PIT street after the results OF the first test
or A new voting machine had greatly en-
harrassed the executive committee Of the
lanes G.. Blaine Club in East Broadway.
The machine, which resembles almost
everything from a portable bath to an
electric switchboard, was sent to the club
by the agents (who want to have 1t adopted
by the Statel, to give the East Side an OPP
portunity to learn how to use it. A placard
was put on the clubhouse door three days
ago, announcing the new attraction, and
the full Republican voting strength Of Joe
Ieyenson's district came out to push the
buttons and yank the levers. Outsiders
bltted IN, too, and the bund vote was heavy.
There was a delegation from the Social
Democracy across the street, the Demo-
cratic Socialists in the next block, as well
os various kinds of unolassifed Socialists
from all over the neighborhood. and the
committee OF the Berdichever Bund quit
making plans for next weeks Wechernika
long enough to come in and try the ma
,hine The crowd was so big that it over
flowed from the front rooms into that little
private apartment On the parlor floor, rear,
which the club calls its Turkish Room.
This was a special privilege, for except on
special occasions nobody but the most
successful election district captain is sup
rosed to venture into that room to see the
leader and his committee, and on no oc-
caslon is anybody but Joe Levenson him
self expected to sit on the sofa pillows in
the cosey corner. 1t is quite evident that
Anthony Comstock was never in that room.
But Yesterday all house rules went by
the board. the darkroom pictures we're
seen by many blinking pairs Of eyes, and
Ike ~Schidlousky, who isn't even a district
captain and who is suspected of voting for
Tammany every other year. bounced up
and down on the sofa pillows just to try
them,
Jacob Frank, a lawyer, was there to
explain the machine, but he had much
trouble in assuring some that it wasn't a
new device for killing by electricity. The
first man pulled a lever just as Frank had
told him to do, and was instantly shut in
hv green curtains. At the same time q
he'll that sounded like an alarm clock at
Q o'clock in the morning began to buzz
inside the booth, and the man jumped
through the curtains with a yell, not stop
ping to vote.
Another man e in gladly. He said
that the thing looked like the screened
of manicure department in the corner OF
a barber shop. He came out disappointed,
and went back to the Turkish room.
Finally Frank wen in himself and voted
q split ticket just to show how easy 1T was
and to convince the timid that the booth
was no man trap. Voting went on briskly
after that, but the results did not suit the
committee. Almost everybody had scratched
B. B. Odell, Jr,, by not pulling the lever
under his ma me in the Governors section
Of the switchboard. He ran far behind
his ticket.
1T won't do for this to get out, said one
Of the committee. Let's try it all over
again"
There was a row over the names Of can
didates that should be written on the new
rlps to be put in the machine for the sec
opd test. Somebody suggested that they
take the names Of the pictures on the walls
for candidates, as they would be just as
good for a test and the result wouldn't hurt
anybody's feelings.
an election district captain began by NOM
mating Joe Levenson for Governor. Leven-
sons portrait hangs in a shadow box over
the clubs piano. But the nomination was
turned down, because, as one OF the commit
tee explained, everybody would vote for
Joe. sol wouldn't be like a real election, and
therefore no complete test Of the machine
Well take the pictures of the buffers
that nobody ever heard of" he continued.
Here, what's the matter with this fellow
over the billiard table for Governor, Alaric
in Athens"
Are there any further ~nominations7"
asked leader Joe Ievenson.
Sure" shouted Meyer Pederofsky, who
had spotted another picture on the wall and
then Jumped for the instalment plan copy
Of Famous Heroes Of All Ages" in the
clubs bookcase.
Mr.. Chairman" resumed Pederofsky.
As delegate from the Fourth Assembly
district, | wish to present to the convention
the name of a man YOU all know, q man
who has never browbeaten the pushcart
merchant. a man who is known to be liberal
on the Sunday avs, a friend OF the working
man and the masses. refer, gentlemen, to
Attla, the well known scourge Of God, who
needs no introduction to this conventions;
10 Attila the son Of Mundzuk, the only man
who could carry the Hun vote in 1876, the
only district leader who was ever sure of
the Gepide. Again, fellow citizens, / place
before you the name OF that peerless
leader, Attila. Gentlemen, | thank you"
,Attla was chosen by acclamation, and
AIaric got the second place on the ticket,
Daniel Webster on his Deathbed was placed
IN nomination for State Treasurer. Pepin,
who, according to the learned Pederofsky,
beat Aistulf at the primaries, was made
candidate for Secretary of State, and Charlie
magne easily carried of the Republican
domination for Assemblyman from the
Fourth district. The rest OF the pictures
IN the parlor were exhausted before all
the party tickets were filled, so John L..
sullivan, with his diamond belt on, was
seen in his cobwebbed corner in the billiard
room downstairs and asked to head the
Ticket for The Prohibition party. His ac-
c,eptance was reported by the committee
mat had been sent down stairs to look for
more pictures. The committee also brought
up Seth Low, James F.. March, Robert
flt2slmmons and even Ike Weir, the Belfast
oplder, who hadn't been in public life for
years, They were used to fill minor vacan-
cles on the several tickets, but still there
was a dearth of candidates.
move You, Mr.. Chairman said a dele
gate from the Turkish Room, that it is
Athe sense of this Fourth Assembly district
convention that the suffrage be extended
70 me ladies'. | offer you as the candidate
iior Secretary of State On the Democratic
ucKet one whom we would all like to know.
~ WI no but necessary to put the picture
o. ms candidate on the billboards to carry
she Fourth district by an overwhelming
uoh the name of Miss Fie for Shame The
committee resolved itself into a committee
Of notification of the whole TO tell Miss Fie
Tor Shame of her selection. But only a
oozen OF 50 could squeeze into the Turkish
room, and they stayed so long that some
o. the more conservative delegates feared
tlat File had raflaaH IN RIM Ruf THAR