Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-08-13
THE NEW JERSEY CASE.

THE NEW JERSEY CASE.
G. The following are few of the instan-
ces of unfairness and injustice practised by
the majority of the committee of elections, in
the New Jersey case, as exposed by the mi
norty of the committee, in their report to the
House of Representatives. We have taken
no pains to select them; they are given in
the regular order of the report. No wonder
the majority in the House did not wish to see
the evidence. If they could forget their rela-
ton to the parties, as sworn triers, the work
was easier done in tho dark, than it would
have been in the light.
John McConaghy, being sworn, saith
That he voted on the last day of the election
in the township of Amwell, at the Congress
sional election held at the house of Nathan
Resbee, in the village of Lambertsville, in
said township, in the year 1888 thinks 1t
was in the month of October does not rec
ollect the day of the month. voted the
democratic ticket; it was called the Van Blu
rem ticket; received Wing ticket of Ed
ward Hunt; did not like it; l received a
mother of Mr.. Samuel Carhart; said ticket
was the v. B. democratic ticket; said ticket
was for members of Congress l put said
ticket in the ballot-box was born in the
north of Ireland, in the kingdom of Great
Britain; / arrived in this country on the 10th
day OF July, A. ID. 1901 was about l6
years old / never had any naturalization pa
pers in the State ofN. Jersey; have voted l
years in New Jersey; was never called up
on for any naturalization papers in New Jer-
sey : never had any at any time when vo-
ted in New Jersey; had not any at the
time that refer to in this deposition, (mean-
ing the year 1889 when voted for mem-
bers OF Congress; am 81 years old; can
read the ticket which ] voted at the time re-
ferred to in this deposition had on it the names
of the Van Buren, candidates for Congress.
his
JOHN X McCONAGHY.
mark.
In the face of such testimony as this, the
committee refused to deduct the vote Of MIR.
McConaghy from the poll of Messrs. Vroom
and others. He did not pretend that he had
been naturalization the contrary, swore sub
stantially that ne had not been: no other con-
struction can be given to his evidence. We
ask the House to contrast this case with that
of Charles r.. Pool, which is as follows:
Charles II. Pool, being sworn, saith : l
voted at the Congressional election in the
township of Mansfield, Warren county. n.
Jersey,in the year 1888 am not "a native born
citizen of the United States of America; |
was not naturalized myself at that time, ex-
cept that | considered myself naturallZed by
coming here when an infant, and my father
being naturaized, believe /; | believe my
father was naturalized, because | recollect,
when1 was young, OF hearing him talk about
his being naturalized whether he had been,
or was to be, do not recollect In the next
place, / know of his voting number ofyears
and never heard any objection to it; | never
saw him vote, to my knowledge he died
when was about IL years of age; | never
saw his naturalization papers; l am not posi-
tive whether he said he had been naturaIized
or was to be; voted a Wing Congressional
ticket in the fall of 1888, in this township.
And being cross-examined, saith know
Of my fathers voting by hearing him speak
of it; | have heard him say ne voted the dem
ocratic ticket; | know of his going to the
polls for the purpose of voting; this was
when the parties ran high something like the
years 1906, Il, 81; think there was an EN-
barge at the time recollect hearing my IA
ther read about it in the papers; do not
Iecollect my fathers serving on juries; he
never was freeholder in the county, / be-
jieve; he died in the year 1913, to the best
Of my recollection; his name was Cyrus
John Pool.
And being called again, in chief, saith
was FIVE years Of age when | came to this
country. CHAS. I. POOL.
In this case the committee decided the
vote OF Pool to be an unlawful vote, and de-
Quoted it from the poll of Messrs. AycFigg
and others. 1t thus appears that McConaghy
was declared a citizen against his own oath
tina, he was and remained an alien. And
Pool was determined TO be an alien upon the
mere fact that he was born such, with very
good grounds for believing that he had ac-
CURED the rights OF citizenship through the
Of his father.
The undersigned are at a loss to conceive
Of any language that will adequately express
their sense Of the fragrant injustice and in
consistency Of these decisions.
The next cases to which the undersigned
would invite the attention Of the House are