GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB WATCHERS.

NE of the most important factors in the result of the election. November 6, 1894, was unquestionably the Good Government Club watcher. His presence at the polls, from the opening until the close, his intelligent supervision of the registration and of the count, aided materially in the result, as it stopped to a very large extent fraudulent registration, and prevented any material frauds in the count.

About three weeks prior to the election the Campaign Committee of the Committee of Seventy, realizing that it was absolutely essential to inaugurate a thorough and honest system of watching the polls on Election day, requested the Executive Committee of the convention of Good Government Clubs to undertake this most important work, and promised its aid in carrying out the details. Said Executive Committee thereupon appointed a Campaign Committee of three, consisting of W. Harris Roome, chairman of the committee; Isaac H. Klein and Preble Tucker. This committee took immediate possession of the rooms furnished it by the Committee of Seventy at its headquarters, and started in upon the task of assigning to each of the eleven hundred and forty-two polling places in the city two intelligent and reliable watchers.

The committee assigned to each Assembly District a captain, who was responsible to the committee for all the watchers in his Assembly District. Inasmuch as there was a Good Government Club in nearly every Assembly District, the chairman of the Campaign Committee of such club was appointed captain of his Assembly District, and was instructed to furnish the Committee on Watchers with a list of the men who would serve as watchers in his Assembly District. In cases where a club covered more than one Assembly District, or where an Assembly District was without an organized club, the committee selected some trustworthy man as captain, and authorized him to establish temporary headquarters in his district.

In order to get watchers of the right kind an appeal was made to the City Vigilance League, the City Club, and other reform organizations, including the Law Schools of Columbia College and New York University, to furnish volunteers. This appeal was very liberally responded to, and as fast as volunteers arrived they were assigned by the Assembly District captains to their posts in the various Election Districts. A full list of instructions was furnished to each Assembly District captain, and he was required to assemble his watchers together and instruct them upon the Election law and as to the rights and duties of watchers. A printed list of the voters registered in his Election District was given to each watcher, who was instructed to keep a strict tally of those who voted and those who were challenged, and such other data as would be useful in case of prosecution for election frauds. In addition to this a copy of the pamphlet entitled, "A Plain Statement of the Election Law as in Force in New York City," compiled by the City Club, in conjunction with the Legislative Committee of the Confederated Good Government Clubs and the City Reform