The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-22
FIND BIG HEARST
FRAUDS IN NEW
YORK
HUNDREDS OF BOGUS NAMES ON
PETITIONS OF HIS
LEAGUE.
PAY MONEY FOR NAMES
Is the Charge Brought-uotters Sent
to Alleged Sieners Returned
Marked "No Such Person.
Jerome Scores in Suit.


New York, October 21,-Charses o
the most remarkable frauds have
been made by half dozen distrc
leaders of Tammany Hall agains
Hearst agents and have been filed il
the way Of affidavits before the boarl
Of elections. II Is alleged, and here
are volumes Of proof TO ustain the
charges that petition. for the Inie
pendence league candidates for the
assembly and the senate are practic
ally worthless.
Thomas j. McManus, Tamamny
leader Of the eleventh assembly dis
trict will on Monday present thirty
five affldayts bearing ont the conten
tion; John F. Curry Tammany leader
Of the thirteenth district, will present
1873 affdavits; William Dalton and
Peter l.. D0oling, coIeaders Of the
ninth district, will have another
bunch; w, J. Boyhan, leader Of the
fourteenth. will have more, and ii Is
Std that Maurice Featherson, leader
of the twenty-second district will offer
others.
How many more leaders have al
ready filed aff.davits or will file them
is not known at this time, but at least
fifteen of the Tammany district lead
ers are busy preparing affidavts.
The proof that has been or will be
offered by these leaders is in the
names purport to be signed to peti.
tions to the board Of elections asking
that the names of the IndaRendence
league candidates be put on the ticket
under the emblem Of the scales Hear
ing are now going on at the board
and others are set down for next
week.
Money Paid For Names.
The Hearst managers, it is said
paid as a general price for these
names 121a cents apiece and expenses
They did not look closely into the
characters of The men they sent out
to solicit them.
The result is in the opinion of many
lawyers who have made an investiga.
tion of the petitions now on file with
the board of elections, that many Of
the candidates will be thrown off the
ticket.
For instance, Michael ]. Mccarthy
is the Hearst candidate for senator in
the fifteenth senate district against
McManus, Thomas Gloster, who is
said to be a bartender on the ccorner
of Fiftieth street and Ninth avenue,
is the candidate for the assembly.
Just as soon as their petitions were
filed McManus and the present as
semblyman, Owen D. Boyhan, made
an investigation. After copying the
names they sent ont letters to each
address asking the ostensible signer
if he had put his name to the petit
tion. Today twenty-five of the letters
were returned by the postoffice de-
partment with the stereotyped stamp
that the man to whom it was sent did
not live at the address given.
New Blow to Hearst.
Justice OGorman in the supreme
court has oyerruled a demurrer inter
posed by the Star company to the
complaint of District Attorney VIII
liam Travers Jerome in action
brought by him against the Star com.
rany publisher Of the New York
American to recover $4,000 damages
for the publication Of an alleged libel
rron him in the issue of March Sth
last
Justice O'Gorman also overruled a
demurrer interpOsed by the New York
Evening Journal Publishing company
in a similar suit by District Attorney
Jerome against that newspaper The
demutrers raised the point that the
complaints i'm beth suits did not state
facts sufficient to constitute causes OF
action.
Justice OGorman holds that the
complaints do state facts sufficient 20
constitute causes Of action and gives
the defendants time TO answer.
Charges Against Jerome.
The article in the New York Ameri- I
can was headed BY Their Faults We
Shall Know Them" and said hat Mr..
Jerome failed 10 take up the charges I
made by one Tillinghast when TIL I
inghast goes to Mr.. jerome and makes 1
a confession that he did business as
a jury briber for the Metropolitan 4
Street Railway company
The article in the Evening journal
planned Of by Mr. Jerome was headei .
"Mr. Wins VIII Answer Your Que=- /
tons and avs Mr.. jerome got MS .
money chiefly from the criminal ele
ment in nigh fnance-an element that /
likes ard needs the Jerome kind Of 4