New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Election Officials
Swamped by Final
Days Registration
Figures Will Exceed Last
Days Total of 1913, Ac-
cording to Indications;
Heavy Increase Forecast

Yesterdays registration was SC
heavy that it literally swamped cleo
tions officials, who were still working
at an early hour this morning in a
maze of figures endeavoring to learn
what the weeks registration totalled.
All boroughs, election officers de-
clared, exceeded the figures of the last
day Of registration of 1918, when
367,313 men and women qualified as
voters. 1t was the general belief of
election officials that yesterdays regis
tration would bing the city's total be-
yond that of 1918, when gubernatorial
contest lent stimulus to political activi-
ties The registration last year was
1,015,899.
Brooklyn led Manhattan by more
than 10000, according to one unofficial
estimate. Jacob A. Livingston, chair
man Of the Kings County Republican
Committee, declared that the registra-
tion, especially in his borough, indicat-
ed Republican sweep, not only in
Brooklyn, but throughout the city, state
and nation.
"Thc people came out to register this
year chiefly to voice their protest
against the waste of public money, dur
ing the wa, and since the signing of
Iue Wv al III i'o|iCe, ny the DenOcratS, Salu
Chairman Livingston. "The present
unrest in this country is largely due to
President Wilson's failure to attend
to affairs at home, instead of playing
international politics."
The number of women registrants
however, was not so large as was ex-
pected. Last year 408,671 women reg
istered to 606,477 men. 1t was the gen
eral opinion of politicians that the fe-
male registration this year was not
comparatively so large.
But the women, who had been lag
glng behind during the week, made a
better showing on the last day.
In some election districts lines of
the polls opened at o'clock in the
morning and had not ended at the hour
for the closing 1880 last night. In
more than a thousand election dis
tsricts election officials reported that
from 3 o'clock on they were literally
swamped by the rush Of voters.
This was especially true in some of
the Brooklyn districts, in Washington
Heights, the upper West Side, and
other wholly residential sections of
Manhattan.
The registration in some of the
Manhattan districts, with compari-
ooi VI lIlc HuInDcr OF men ana women
during the week, follows:
In the 14th Election District of the
1st Assembly District, 316 men and
1925 women; in the 22d Election Dis
trict Of the 1st Assemly District. 1926
men and 115 women; in the 10th Elcc-
ton District of the I'd Assembly Dis
trict, 500 men and 15O women (esti.
mated) registered.
These districts, strongly Democrat
ic, and usually showing low registra-
ton, were typical of the city, and
were a mystery to the Democrats
Congressman Christopher d. Sullivan
and City Magistrate Max f. Levine
two of the East Side Democratic lead
ers, made a tour of the district when
the reports of the heavy registration
were brought to their attention. They
asked many questions, but what they
learned they kept secret.
Ac;.vy registration also occurred in
the Republican strongholds. In the
10Th Election District of the 10th As
sembly District 400 men and 1876 wo-
men registered.
Republicans were julilant last night
declaring the heavy registration, was
due to the desire Of citizens, regard
less OF party, to show their resentment
at the polls of the turning down of
Supreme Court Justice Newburger for
denomination, and other equally auto
cratic acts of Tammany.