The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-15
CnuN1INn rnE rOIEs.
Some OF the Pec,iiarIues Of the Eieoiion-The
Vote for Aiderman BLaII.

The Aldermen continued yesterday the
canvass OF the returns Of the election. The re-
turns from the Sixth. Seventh Eighth. Ninth.
Tenth. and Eleventh Assembly Districts were
cnnvRssed. In the Seventh Assembly Dis,rlc;
the Rev. r. DE Wit Talmage received one vote
for member OF Congress. and Lille DrvcreauX
Blake two votes for Alderman and two for Dis
trict Attorney. The interest in yesterdays pro-
ceedlng was a contest In tho canvass OF the vote
In the Eighth Assembly District. John +. Brod-
sky. Republican candidate for the Assembly In
that district. protested against the canvasscrs
giving minority TO Daniel Patterson. his Tam
many competitor and Jacob A. Hatze. Tam
many candidate for Alderman in the Sixth
Senate District objected to the canvass Of the
votes for Alderman IN one Of the clcctlon dis
tricts OF that Assembly district. Mr. Brudsky's
protest alleged that Illegal votes were east In tho
Assembly district; that in some election dis
tricts ballots ON which his name was uninten-
tonnlly misspcllcd were counted as scattering;
aud that i'm one election district votes cast Tor
him were counted for Mr.. Patterson. The pro-
test, which WINS referred to committee. was
made as the preliminary step toward the con
test Tor tho seat that Mr.. Brodsky Intends to
When the Eleventh Election District Of tho
Eighth Assembly District WIS reached by the
Canvnssers. Alderman Waehner presented ia
cob A. Hatzcl's protest. IL reads that OF the
nSSS SGsa t9r eorse ALI receyed iSo and
Jacob A. Hatzel 93: that the vote was so pro-
claimed by the chairman Of the inspectors inn
medintely after II was counted. and in the re-
turns sent that evening to the Eidridge street
police station. and thence TO the Police Central
Office, che vote was recorded Han I'D haiIel
returns sont To the County Clerk and in that
transmitted to the Superysors.the vote f given.
inspectors did not comply with the law. rs they
did not attach to the return one ballot 81 each
kind found TO have been given Tor the office OF
nd Il urt
full length opposite such ballot. partly on the
ballot and partly on the paper 10 which II Is at
tnched the number Of votes polled for that can
Mr.. waehner moved that the return be re-
ferred TO the Committee on Protests. and thnt
the vote for District Aldermen DO not canyasscd
until II had been corrected by the inspectors in
that election district. In urging this motion
Mr.. Waehner called the attention OF the can
vassers TO tho fact that on both the returns be-
fore them the vote Of each candidate. ms written
out and as carried out In figures. was: Hall,
that i'm their place were substituted in writing
and in figures, Hall, 200: Hatzel. 49,
At that Mr.. Hall who IL an Alderman, snid
that the inspectors made an error in the talliez.
and that when IL was discovered one OF them
went to the, police station TO get the return,
found that II had been takcn 10 the Central
Onlce. Thereupon the inspectors corrected the
returns which we're In the hands oil the super
we can prove" Mr. waehner said. that
when certain gentlemen heard that certain
"
covered and the correction was made
That doesn't refer TO me, Mr. Hall said.
FOR was not In the district when the vote was
ii mentioned no Names" Mr.. Waehner re-
torted but 4 the coat fits the gentleman he
Mr. Waehner then argued at length on tho al:
legation Of the protest that the inspectors did
not comply with the law which requires the bal
lots to BIO attached 10 the return. and the num-
ber Of votes received By each candidate 10 be
written out I'm particular way. He maintained
that no legal return OF that vote for Alderman
in that election district was before the canvas
sers and therefore that vote could not be cam
vassed. His motion was voted down, and tho
vote was canvassed. Hall. 200; Hatzel. ~. .
This action OF the canyassere elects Mr.. Hall
by ll3 votes II the vote had been canvassed IA
il was recorded in the return sent to the Police
Central Office ON the evening OF the election.
Mr.. Hatzel would have been elected by % votes.
Mr.. Hatzsl will contest Mr.. Halls right to n seat
in the next Board Of Aldermen under the pro-
vision Of the charter which makes that board
THE Judge Of the election returns and qualil-
cations Of its own members, subject however,
10 the review Of any court Of competent Juris-