New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
VOTE CAST EARLY
MANI ARRESTS IN CITY.
Learn illustrates Scheme to Delay
the Work at the Polls.

-. <..-.5 ,bst delax Nigh, be caused by the COM
harrison of signatures demanded by the ne" Jaw
snd all parties worked hard TO get out an carry anu
heavy vote So well Gid they labor that oy hoo-
mora than half Of the vote Of the city had oesh
polled. and by o'clock il was found tha' One VIC
would be little below the registration ngureS
The new law worked we'll and there was niue
trouble anywhere. Several hundred arrests "e'e
ros5e but nearly all the prisoners were discharged
and went back to the polling places 20 caSI me.
votes There real fights. ana SO lai q
that kind Of trouble goes il was almost the HU
est election the history Of the city. -,
ATTEMPTS were made in the middle west Sloe
district and especially in those districts known "
be Republican stronghods TO delay the Folhie'
srs- bv requiring challenged voters TO make aIlu8
1;rs which should have been made At the uIne u
registration and by putting ringers in me me
When Superintendent Leary heard that inc De'i'o
s+;r cantatns were holding up the voting by forc-
ing men 10 make affdav1ts, he rushed throusH u,o
-a-5o,,s districts in an automobile threatening 10
tndict whole election boards if the Pracuce was o'
stopped At once. -.
MANY foolish arrests were made through the STU
rjdity Of the police A list Of voters TO De c"ai
I.nred was issued on blue slips while the names o.
The men 10 be arrested the moment they atteihp.eu
20 vote we're printed white slips The dlsuh0lioi
was EXPLAINED carefully the police but they Went
sheed through the greater part OF the morn
and arrested all those who simply were to be c4ai-
ienEed -
There we're more than one hundred arrests Tor
illegal voting and than five thousand cHdi-
rested 7-ere DISCHARGED for lack Of evidence some
OF those discharged by order Of the ponce InaEIs
t-sfes were rearrssted on warrants slefleu iasI g
,1rdav by Judge Dixie. Of the County Court iHeie
was heavy vote cast all over Brooklyn yes'eiu1S'
ard the rush came early in the day
In the gst Assembly District William Lehman
The Republican candidate for Congress was ch6i
,enged He has been in this country ever Silloe
re was six years old. He wanted to vote on MS
Fathers naturalization papers The lawyers al
per,hltcan HEADQUARTERS told him 10 go ahead ana
vote and that he would be protected if arrested
he molested-
MANY EARLY ARRESTS
When Superintendent Leary reached his oHioe
early IN the morning. the first thing that
rs no-to. vas the unusually large number OF ar
rests When he learned OF the laundering Worh Ga
,he nolice he caused Deputy Commissioner Bueher
70 send cut special order. which decreased ti4e a.
rests A. once 70 great degree Complains sun
came in and a second order had 10 De SEM - ~
tcl5ce IL all five boroughs-
As soon as this trouble had been Strengthened OUT
somewhat Congressman J. Van Eechten olcoit' VINO
was running for reelection in the 18th DslTlct pr
rested against the taking of a1davits by the cleo
So, INSPECTORS Of persons Of foreign birth parent
age Each affidavit took good part OF an hour 70
make out and the lines Of waiting voters were Iu
tl2 for that time Orders were sent out 10 stop lS
.n,ediatelv but when complaints of these attempts
20 delay the voting kept coming in from the l9lh,
9Th ard 22th Assembly districts MI leary visited
ne polling places those districts and found that
me Tarmany men were employing these hold-up
methods all along the line. In the 18th District
Jimmy Hagan's bauick, Nh Leary found as
rsuv as forty men in line the polling places Al
the polling place at No. 500 Columbus avenue where
thirty men were in line. the inspectors professsd
not to know Mr.. Leary.
The leader is putting ringers in the line. one
Of the men told him. and the cop Is helping MN
out
At four places No % West sd street, No. 50l
Columbus avenue No 547 Columbus avenue and
ffeap
The inspectors denied that they had been taking
afldavits but Nj Leary was told they had been
informed Of his approach the telephone AT
No I'll Amsterdam avenue fifty men we're found
held ID. AT nearly every other polling place IN
those districts lines being held up
Ballot No. / in the LIST Election District Of the
lst Assembly District again cast yesterday by
Michael J. Finnerty, the proprietor OF the Baly-
largforG Hotel al No l2lz Washington street Nj
F'innerty has been the first in his polling
place the last forty-four years. having voted az
-hIrty-tvro consecutive elections He cast his hrst
vote fo- George r. Mcclellan forty-four years ago
He vorcc the straigh; Democratic ticket yesterday
Governor Hughes was an early voter. casting his
ballot al $50 o'clock No 716 Eighth avenue. The
five or six then in line gave way 20 him. and
tn six seconds after entering the booth he gave his
b. lot TO the clerk. He was accompanied from the
Hotel As-or By Eugene g Robinson. The Governor
eaid he was confident of the success Of the Re
publican national and state tickets and after being
photographed hurried back 10 the hotel
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from the Pocantico Hills in the morning, attired
sn a chnchila ulster. big red mittens and paper
yraisfcoat He had wait forty minutes at No
es4 Sixth avenue, with ex-Judge Parker three hies
behind him As he left the place, about 10 o'clock,
some one asked If he had voted for Mr- Taft He
answered. Now. what do you think of that?
His son. John D.. jr voted two hours earlier J.
Fierpont Morgan. Herbert Parsons, Cornelius y
Bliss and George r Sheldon al voted at NO e5S
Sixth avenue where Dr.. Parkhurst also voted MI
Morgan drove Up soon after 10 o'clock, hut, when
he saw the long line drove away, and did not vote
until two hours later. Chauncey NJ. Depew. Viii
lam Rockefeller. Harold Content and Daniel Gug-
Kenhein1 all voted No ss4 Sixth avenue at an
early hour The members of the Morse jury lett
the Astor House $50 o'clock. each in charge
Of deputy United States marshal. to be taken to
their respective election districts to vote
JUSTICES HEAR CASES
justices Risohon Seabury. MacI.ean and Platzek
sat the Supreme Court TO hear applications from
those whose right 70 vote had been held up and
70 pass on vrits Of habeas corpus for those ar
rested William Kapp held in 5000 by Magistrate
Crane on a charge Of Illegal voting, one Of the
first come up Decision was reserved in his case
John J. Buckley Of No l25 East 18th street. said
that by mistake the Of Judge william f
shipnan. who signed his naturalization papers
nearly forty years ego, got the registration
hooks.
The only real matter OF importance which arose
was whether electors who had omitted 10 sign the
register should be permitted 10 sign II when vot-
ing About three hundred such cases came up
yesterday due 20 the ignorance or stupidity OF
the members of the Board Of Elections
Twenty men were discharged by Magistrate Har-
us in the Market court soon as their cases
came up Magistrate Corrigan in the Jefferson
Market court called Of the hfty-siN pris
oners before him rot and discharged them. Sam
mel aronson proprietor Of the store At No. SR
FeecBer street where three pages Of the registra-