In 1876 there were nearly five thousand deputy marshals and over four thousand supervisors appointed in one place. I have some figures here taken from a speech ofMr. CA_1hLISLE delivered in this House on April 17. 1879. showing that in May. 1878. the chief supervisor of elections in New York City had one of his assistants to swear to a single complaint against ninetythree hundred persons of foreign birth whose naturalization papers had been ssued to them in 168. and on which they had voted ever since thut time. On this complaint the same supervisor. as clerk of the court. ssued five thousand and four warrants returnable before himself a.. commissioner of the court. Every one of these warrants was illegal. because the complaint contained more than one name. When t... warrants were set aside the supervisor had twentyeight hundretl more complaints made out. and issued warrants upon them. Thirtyfour hundred naturalized citizens surrendered their papersto esc. Pe this partisan persecution. A few days before the election in Noveaber. thirtytwo hundred more complaints were sworn out.
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