The Portland daily press., 1870-04-01
Tho itS tissA 4aiist.

rhe Argus of Wednesday morning had con-
siderable to say about the alleged unfairness o.
the fipal vote for City Clerk at the Tuesday
evening session OF the City Council.
That paper said, mayor Kingsbury ruled
that ~ men could throw % votes,' that "anoth-
and honest ballot would have been BETTER
that lin the case of twenty-seven city fathers
throwing twenty-eight votes for City Clerk
the Mayor decided it to be al right because the
successful candidate had fifteen and the one
fraudulent ballot would rot change the result
II Ony twenty-Seven had voted"
In the argus of Thursday morning is anotb.
er ridiculous splurge about "a fraud lent vote
"stuffing the ballot box" Mayor chiefly resnon
sl0le, party friends showing guilt" etc clos
M IN tears overtime imaginary chaos of things
generally" speaking it says Tin sorrow and
The facts are as follows: Two ballots for
Oity clerk had been made. On the first 81
VoleS were cast, necessary to a choice IA. Ho-
sea l. Robinson had 8. H. ]. Robinson 6, and
others IL. Owing to the two classes OF votes
ior Mr.. Robinson, another ballot was had: On
the second ballot % votes were counted"
Necessary Is. Hosea l Robinson had 10, 9TH
ers 10. Some one inadvertently threw bal
lot with the name of Hosea !. Robinson on
one side and w. D. MINI, or some such name
on the other. The Committee reported the
fact to the Convention, and another ballot was
decided upon. On the third ballot % votes
were cast q for City Clerk and for School
Committee, votes for the latter following the
City Clerk baloting. The Com ittee report
ed whole number %; necessary Is. Hosea I.
Robinson Is; John SWEET u; Il. G. Houston
!: 1t was an improper report. A Democratic
Councilman, whose name we can give, if nee
essary, inadvertently, not "fraudulently," Mr..
argus, after voting for City Clerk, while bust
ly engaged talking, put in ''School Commit
tee" vote tor John Swett." Gas Alderman
Mccarthy of the Committee admitsl It was
headed "For School Committee and was
counted as vote for John SWEET for "City
Clerk" The fact of the above heading should
have caused the Committee to throw out that
School Committee vote, and the report to the
Convention should have been-Whole num-
Der q; necessary IA. Hosea I. Robinson Is:
John SWEET II, Fl. G. Houston l.
The ground however, upon which Mayor
Kingsbury decided, who was then not aware
of the school committee heading, was that
Hosea l. Robinson was elected was this:-The
committee reported % votes when but q per-
out the extra vote even. had it not been for
Mr.. Robinson, would not ia7e changed the re-
suit as he would then have been elected and
Mayor Kingsbury was right, according to the
opinion of II of the City Council (including
Aldermen Tolford and Councilman Swett) al
so Cushing's Manual, and several parliament
tarians of this city, Republican and Democrat
ic, who are thoroughly posted on such matters
1t is by the way rather hard for the Argus
to accuse the Democratic Councilman who
threw accidentally "the school committee
vote" as committing fraud. He is no such
man-but an honorable upright and worthy
individual.
Mr.. Argus-next time "less haste, more
speed"