New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
MORE PROTEST TO KOENG
No End to Plants of Roosevelt
List Names Being Forged.
BACKED UP WITH AFFlDAVITS
Koenig Sends Copy Of Few Of
Great Number We Have" to
Duell-Nctaries Attacked.

Complaints of indignant citizens who de-
clare that their names were forged 10
Roosevelt petitions continue to reach the
Republican County Committee. District
Headers who are examining the petitions
continue 10 find more and more irregulari-
ties, such as names that have not been
sworn to and names of men who live out
side the district
The county committee was Informed last
night that out of forty-sx names of en-
rolled voters in one election district In the
Goth Congress District thirty-seven were
I forgeries
Saul f.. Rogers. of No 20 st. Nicholas
Terrace, which is in the Sd Election Dis
trict Of the Dist Assembly District and In
the 2lst Congress District, sent an at1daV't
to Samuel $. Koenig, president of the
county committee, stating that not only
had his name been forged to the Roosevelt
petition but also the names OF his father
and brother. who lives with him. Mr.. Rog-
ers went so far az to say that none OF them
had even been approached on the subject
OF signing such petition.
Mr.. Koenig had sent letter to Charles
n. Duell. chairman Of the Roosevelt CITY
! Committee. earlier in the day transmitting
to him various affidavits and other data
| showing Irregularities in the Roosevelt pc
titions.
( I'm answer to your repeated demands fof
( spe,lnC information as to the many lrregu-
larlties in the Roosevelt petitions, wrote
/ Mr. Koenig, Il would say that We re-
/ Trained from pointing them out TO you pe-
/ fore and hoped ttat your own stan would
report them to you; but as ! note that you
again ask for specifcc lions, with the evil
dent intimation that we cannot furnish
them. I give you herewith copies OF am
dayits we have on file. together with the
names and addresses of few taken from
the great number We have mere. III you
really want the names and addresses III
regard TO each and every irregularity on
your Roosevelt petitions We VIII be gian
t. show them to you at the ONCE Oh th's
county committee. II we should give yon
= complete list now it would make this
| letter so long as to preclude your cdrelu'
attention before the primary.
| However. in view cf these irreSularl-
ties forgeries and questionable methods on
the part OF the notaries whom you EN-
Moved and the carelessness of your stan
and the negligence OF not calling these
natent errors 10 your attention. | still wish
I, reass1Ire you that there will be no at
, tempt to deprive you Of the opportunity ot
going before the people on March 20 y
that the result OF your strenuous enorts
may be counted"
| Among the information sent to Judge
/ DueI was that out Of twenty-four names
OF the Roosevelt petition in the l4th Elec-
ton District of the 9Th Assembly Dlstrlc'
eight names were forged.
! 1T is evident from an examination OF
the list from that election district, wrote
Mr. Koeng. that your notary took a walk
around the block, examined the enrolment
| sheet and put the names down on his list
at random, except in one instance, where
lie induced a fourteen-year-old boy to sign
| his fathers name 10 the petition. The
bov's letter is a part OF this communica'
| ton"
| Mr. Koenig called attention to the fac
that two names in the 9Th Election DIS
! trict OF the list Assembly District were
registered by a cross mark. One OF the
names was that OF a letter carrier, tn,
other Of q man who for the last three years
has served as a poll clerk. Neither ri
these signatures is properly attested' ne
wrote. but it is obvious that men VINO
could not write could act neither as let
ter carrier nor as a poll clerk
! Mr.. Rogers. OF st. Nicholas Terrace. whc
/ states that his name was forged to
| Roosevelt petition, declares that he will
look UP the name OF the notary who han
died the petition and ask the proper au'
tEorities 10 have the mans license re
yoked.
! In spite Of the optimistic reports that
emanate from the Metropolitan Tower IT y
learned privately that the Roosevelt man
ayers who started in so conhdently "a
| elect Roosevelt delegates in this county
! are now not so sure that they will manass
! to gain a single delegate The hardesi
work by the Roosevelt managers is oeins
done in the 18th Congress District, where
Joseph Murray who has the distinction oi
nominating Mr.. Roosevelt for the Assem-
bly, years ago is in charge Of the work.