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Hearst newspapers regularly? These questions have not in recent 

 years been put so clearly — not in 1910 when the campaign for the 

 governorship was complicated by the intervention of Eoosevelt in favor 

 of Stimson, not in 1911 when only minor officials were elected, not in 

 1912 when the personal element again was paramount. 



In view of the prevalent solicitude concerning the effect of racial 

 conglomeration upon American national life, it is of great practical 

 importance to ascertain as definitely as possible what the behavior of 

 different races constituting the American population is in response to 

 specific appeals. Does nationality play any part in determining the 

 point of view of our foreign communities in political matters? Will 

 American problems be dealt with in the same way by one of the foreign 

 districts as by a community of native Americans born of native parents ? 



From the Thirteenth Census, which gives the number of specified 

 nationalities in each assembly district, and also the number of natural- 

 ized voters, one can deduce approximately the percentage of voters 

 belonging to each nationality in every district. 



We shall first consider the answers of the chief constituent national- 

 ities of New York to the question: "Are you in favor of government 

 by political organizations of the Tammany kind ? " 



We present to begin with a table giving the ten districts in which 

 the voters of native parentage were found in the greatest numbers. The 

 first column gives the borough and district, the second, the per cent, of 

 all the voters constituted by the Americans of native parentage, the 

 third, the per cent, of the whole vote in each district given to the 

 Tammany candidate for mayor. In the fourth, the vote for Dix, Tam- 

 many candidate in 1910, is added: 



These districts of mainly American voters answered "nay" 



to 



Tammany, throwing in every case over sixty per cent, of their votes 

 against it. In 1910 Dix received a little over 50 per cent, in half of 

 these districts, but as has been said, Tammany was not then the sole 

 issue. 



There is no difficulty in finding a dozen districts in which the Eus- 

 sians alone far exceed every other nationality in number. As is well 



