The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
400 ARRESTS; VERY FEW HELD
ELECTION IN THTS CITY AMONG
OUIETEST on RECORD.
Trouble Nearly An due 70 Biunders by
Registry Clerks-COp Has . Lively
Fight Serving Election warrant
-Hughes Worker MObbed ON East side.

FIkut SCT E@auueAWNh
HUGHES Worker MObbed on East side.
Police officials were unanimous yesterday
IN declaring that never was there 80 quiet
aid orderly an election IN the county Of
Vew York. Chief Inspector Moses Cort-
ish., who has bean attached 20 the de-
oart~-ent for nearly forty years. and who
vas ID duty yesterday at Headquarters ex-
oectnx the usual trouble at the downtown
polling places. said:
Never in my long experience as q police
,ficisl AVE l seen anything like 10. Why.
( has teen like Sunday around here. As
'sr as l know there hasn't been a single dis
urhance sround the polls in Manhattan.
It il simply wonderful how quiet this cleo
don day has been."'
Inspector Titus was another surprised
mar at the quietnese OF the day.
Absolutely nothing doing around here
se said at headquarters yesterday. ."Ws
haven't had any thing like the work Of IN
ordinary day
Although 500 policeman were held at Po-
ice Headquarters all day, there wasn't q
sinsle call for the reserves,
The teautiful weather brought out
rVarmr OF people In their hest Sunday
,lothes, and in the morning upper Broad
way and. the Riverside Drive suggested a
May Suncay. The sidewalks were crowded
with people and the roadwsys swarmed
with automobiles and rigs Of all kinds.
There was a total Of exactly 600 arrests
Cor illegal voting. Less han 90 per cent.
we're made bv the men under State Super
tntendent OF Elections George w. Morgan.
The majority of them were made by the
police. Supt. Morgan said last night that
the day was one OF the quietest Of recent
elections. The police. MI. Morgan said.
did excellent work. A great many of the
arrests were the result OF confusion and
nisinformation. but the errors were quickly
~straightened ont in the police courts. where
representa- ives Of Acknowledgement Mayer
we're on hand to adjust matters.
The fact that only two cases OF repeating
we're found was considered remarkable.
There was also a marked decrease in the
complaints that come in every election
day from citizens who are deprived OF
their votes. There was a great deal of
trouble in certain parts of Brooklyn early
N. the day. Ballots were,sent to the wrong
districts and many voted these wrong
ballots. . The votes for the State candi-
dates and certain county candidates were
or1ered to be counted, but many votes
or local candidates, such IA Assembly
men and Senators, went amiss. The
trouble was due. to. the rlsh that the com
oany printing tae ballots was put to owing
o recent court decisions hat upset ar
engagements and necessitated the printing
Of new ballots. In many instances ballots
cached the polling places wet from the
presses. $50
There we're fewer appeals to the Supreme
Court by ~disgruntled voters than in many
years. Usually Special Term Part III. in
1he County Court House il crowded all
lay by electors who have not been per-
nitted to vote and who want mandamuses.
Yesterday the court room was a scene OF
comparative inactivity and the big batch
Il lawyers representing all parties had
little or nothing to do.
Under a special order Of the Appellate
Division Justices bischof. Mclean and
Newburger sat in the County Court House.
while Justice Amend held court in tho
Municipal Building 10 b Bronx.
The oldest case presented was hat Of
Leo Kahn OF 222 East Ninety-ffth street,
an elector in the seventh Election district
II the Twenty-fourth Assembly district.
Kahn represented to the Court that when
lis ballet vas handed to him and before
iie went into the voting booth the inspector
srabbed the ballot out of his hand, tore
~ the stub and dropped the ballot, I'M
marked, into the ballot box Kahn said
that the inspector refused his demand for
another ballot Justice Mclean signed a
nrccr requiring the inspectors to either
give him another ballot or show cause why
hey shouldn't.
The inspectors came down TO court with
III IL Al -
nai taken his ballot into the booth, had
come ut, handed over the ballot TO be
ropped into the box and had her gone
mt Of the polling place. A few minutes
igter, the inspectors said, Kahn rushed
INTO the place. again ami demanded his
rallot back, saying he had not marked It.
Ms request was OF course refused
Kahn did not appear to rebuff the sfi-
davits of the inspectors, so his application
for a percmptory mandamus went by de-
.ault.
There were a few cases Of men who found
that their names had been voted on when
hey vent to vote, n these got man
damuses on proving their identity
Frank l.. Smith of 40 Bowery was not
allowed to vote on the ground that he had
lot lived in the State a full yeer. Smith
orphaned UnaL UuOuSu ne NOtTl [" view
Jersey last year, he had moved TO New
York the very night of election and had
remained here ever since. He claimed
hat this made a full year within the mean
ing Of the statute. An order directing the
Inspectors Of his election district to show
,ause why they should not let him vote was
riven to him, and as he did not return IL
vas presumed that he was allowed to vote
Only twelve men charged with illegal
voting were arraigned in the TOmbs police
court, the smallest number in many
elections. All but one were promptly
1;Eharxed with the consent Of Deputy
ittorney-Generals Francis Gilbert and
Frederick A. Ware, WHO were present to
prosecute. In nearly every case the arrest
vas caused by some election clerks error.
81. ty-eight men were a~rraigned before
Magistrate Wahle in the Essex Market
police court Sixty-two were :
I've held for examination to-day and one
vas held for trial. The great majority OF
l.