The New York herald., 1922-11-08
| WOMEN BEAT CRITIC
| OF FAIR POLITICIANS
Drag Him to Court and Call
Him 'Hylan Cheese but
He's Republican.
/ ARRESTS SCATTERED
Errors and Confusion Lead
to Several Charges OF
y Election Fraud.
INVESTIGATORS ACTIVE
Magistrate Complains of Too
Many Assistant Attorneys
General.
INVESTIGATORS ACTIVE

General.
women in politics make me sick! F"
That was the frank but indiscreet
comment by Eugene Komanski, dry
goods man of 392 Manhattan avenue
as he was passing the polling place at
112th street and Broadway. Unfortu-
nately for Komanski a good many
women vote at that polling place. The
response to his remark was dynamic.
Konanski thought at first that forty
or fifty bolts of dry goods must have
| fallen upon his neck from the top
shelf. Then he wondered if he had
Lblundered inadvertently into a nest OF
i young and frisky wildcats.
When it was all over his glasses
were broken, his collar hung by wisp
of linen and his once neat four in hand
Not content with having given him a
severe drubbjng, the indignant women,
spurred on by Mrs. Martha Wallen-
STEIN caused his arrest on charge OF
disorderiy conduct.
Not a Tammnny Man.
Followed by a queue OF chatterins
women Komanslli was hailed before
Magistrate Earl A. Smith in the West
Side Court. The Magistrate looked him
over, decided he had suffered punishment
enough and discharged him after hear
ing. Some of his grievances Komansii
was willing to forgive and forget. but
the worst of II was" said he, they
called me big Tammany\ cheese and a
thug, when the fact is I'm straight
Republican 20
The trouble began when Policeman
George w. Mahoney undertook to re-
H move portable sign exploiting the can
didacy Of Samuel Marx, Democrat. fof
election to Congress, because It's posi-
ton was in violation of the law. Nc
sooner had Mahoney removed the poster
N than several women, evidently OF Repub-
lican proclivities. ripped 1t to pieces and
executed medicine dance across its
fragments.
At this unfortunate moment Komanski
appeared and made his indlscreet COM
mcnt
You wouldn't say that. you big Tam
many thug. you Hylan cheese, II you
were a Republican 70 cried one of the
women. A male bystander. keen ia
champion the women's cause. called him
"a bum" Komansk sailed into the
man, and then the women pounced upon
Komanski, with little regard for his new
fall suit. Some of them were much dis
appointed when the Magistrate dis
charged him.
BIunders Cause Arrests.
a good many arrests were made at
polling places. but~a material percentage
of them were due less to criminal intent
than to the fact that, as happened In the
disaster at Balaklava, some one had
blundered"
at seems 10 me there are as many
Special Deputy Attot1eys-General II
New York to-day as there are colonela
H. kentucky.I remarked Magistrate
Charles J. Oberwanger In the Tombs
court as he dismissed charge of Illegal
registration lodged against Leroy Raw
n:ond. 50. an assistant steward in the
Hotel Astor. 1T Is all wrong to deny a
man like this the right of suffrage"
contlnutd the Magistrate.
On the complaint of "A Deputy Attor-
ney-General Raymond had been arrested
when he attempted 10 vote in the
Eighteenth election district OF the
Second Assembly district in the public
school at Baxter and Hester strectr.
| 1o had given his homs address at the
uncas House, 72 Bowery where, an in
vcstlgation proved. he had lived several
years.
Joseph @. Fenster Special Deputy A..
torney-General. who was i'm court, ad.
mitted a blundcr had been made in this
case.
Ia the Essex Market court Magistrata
Stanley II. Ren1ud encountered and cor
| rected several similar mistakes. Pat
rick Corrigan, IS, who said he was a
german, was discharged on the recon-
nlendation OF Special Deputy Attorney
general Samuel Marx when lie explaine 1
tllat he had been making his home a;
81 Bowery for a year and had been
absent only during voyages.
Luke II. Carter. a. customs guard
nying at 39s East Eighth street, whr
hid been arrested on complaint by
| David Pollock. a Democratic watcher al
i06 Avenue A, was discharged when he
y ved 10 the court that he had live |
tiIc address named long enough 20
OF, Ito him TO vote thercfrom.
Residence Not in Cellar.
Deputy Samuel Marx had better luck
win his complaint against Samuel Hor-
oNitz, f7, peddler whose arrest he
c.,, sed on a warrant issued by Chief
Magistrate William McAdoo. ASrordng
to Mr.. Marx, Horowitz. on registering,
give his address at 224 Madison street.
,crcas an investigation made by Po-
Il eman John Dolan showed that he docs
not live I'm the cellar Of that domicile.
a no had averred. Horowitz. pleading
MT guilty. explained that his brother
j rs at the address given. He was not
., rmittcd to vote and was held In 500
b il for examination November II.
4 janitress was the one who blundered
81 the case OF Ernest Berlet. 40. who
was arraigned In the Yorkvillo Court
before Magistrate Max Levine on n
charge OF Illegal registration. lie was
discharged after Mary Bozoky had OK
planned that she had been the janitress
OF the building 2ii East Twenty nth
street only two months. and was mis-
eascn when she informed an investigator
That Borict did not live there. Berlct
had been voting from that address ever
pince he attained his majority and cast
| his FIRST ballot nineteen years ago.
Magistrate Renaud Strengthened out
another comedy OF errors in the Essex
| Market court. II was merely the inad-
Y vertent reversing of his name by an
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