The sun., 1908-10-06
KINKS OF REGISTRATION LAW
NATURALLY SOME DELAY IN
WORKING IT THE FIRST TINE.

sloBan-Chairman Parsons Finds That
q Jimmy March's Election Inspectors
Are Enrolled DemOcrats-They Go.
While the light registration yesterday
was attributed partly to the new law re-
auiring each voter 10 write his name or
answer nine extra questions, and to ex-
ira questions that have been inserted In
the general list, one Of the chief causes
was Yom Kippur, which had great effect
on the East Side and In the other sections
Of the greater city where there ia large
Jewish population.
An amusing incident of the day was
the removal by Herbert Parsons, chair
man OF the county committee. II the
eighteen election officials appointed by
James E. March. Republican leader Of
the Third Assembly district. Mr.. Par
cons found that these men were all en-
rolled Democrats. Enrolled Republicans
we're substituted. Little Tim Sullivan
rules the Third.
Il have been fighting for three years
to destroy the influence Of the Sullivans
in the Republican organization" said
Mr.. Parsons. There is less OF this in
fuence now than at any time. Nowhere
among so-caiied Parsons leaders is this
Sullivan influence exerted."
The removed election officials marched
to the county headquarters to protest
against Chairman Parsonss action. de-
claring that their enr olment as Demo-
Gratis was due to an error Of the election
clerks. The protest didn't go.
The registration officials were sur
prised TO find how many men there were
who. although declaring that they had
Of their parents. In the lodging house
districts voters who could write their
names were unable to give the full name
Of the householder. tenant sub-tenant or
apartment lessee with whom the electors
resides These men were told to get
the required information and come back
1t was observed that in many of the
downtown districts party watchers were
on the job taking down the personal
information given by various persons
There was no conflict between the Re-
publican and the Democratic watchers
The election officials were pretty gen.
orally Of the opinion that the new law will
retard things on election day SO that
when the delivery Of ballots to voters
ceases at 5 P. NJ. there will be many ex-
cluded electors and vote early" is likely
TO be rubbed into the organization mel.
John Fox, president of the National
Democratic Club, was challenged in the
registration place at a34 Sixth avenue.
He went to Tammany Hall and told
forty years at 10 East Fiftieth street.
the address he gave when, he regis
tered. He said that he had been told
by many OF his neighbors that they too
were challenged. Mr.. Murphy said he
believed that great deal Of unnecessary
challenging was being done and, said
that he did not think that the wholesale
challenging done by Supt. Learys men in
Percy Nagle's district. the Thirtieth, was
called for.
The Tammany law committee was at
headquarters all day ready to act in such
cases, and the dozen or more lawyers
the time. The calls on them had little
to do with the new law, however. In Mr..
Murphy's election district in the Twelfth
Assembly district registration moved
faster than ever before nearly 100 men
being registered before noon.
Chairman Parsons appointed a COM
mittee Of lawyers headed by Edward X.
Finch to straighten out any tangle that
might arise from the rev law. There
wasn't call all day for that purpose.
The Board Of Elections was notified
that in one election district on Wash
first before their preliminary statements
had been taken to sign their names in
column 20 under the printed statement
The foregoing st atements are true
the election officers saying that they
would Gil in the foregoing statements
later. President Dooling OF the Board
of Elections sent orders to stop that.
Some voters we're impatient with the
manner IN which some OF the election
inspectors appeared TO handle the in,
formation given them, and declared that
the officials were grossly incompetent
and would have trouble writing their
own names. let alone putting down ac-
curately the information given them
At the Board Of Elections this was ex-
planned by statement that many OF the
regular clerks were off yesterday on
account Of Yom Kippur and that substl-
tutes had to he sworn in for the day.
One provision Of the new law that was
openly violated in many districts, through
ignorance or otherwise, was that re-
quiring the name. OF the elector who en-
rolled to be put inside the primary enrol
ment envelope instead OF on the outside.
In many districts the names were written
on the, o,Itsde az usual,