Daily Republican., 1880-10-11
MeGHHnehy anG the third Ward
Frauds.

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Ex-Councilmaa McGlinchey, who ha
always given himself the reputation o
being iair-minded, honora BILE ant
h Jnest man, was clerk ofthe election il
taa West District of the Third Ware
last Tuesday. At that election Pa
Gardner the Inspector who held it re
turned l2G votes for Mr.. Frederick
Pyle the Republican candidate for In
spsOtor, and 2l2 for Edward +. Kane
the Demo yrstic candidate for Inspector,
giving the latter Sc majority. Sine,
then Mr.. Pyle has got the personal sig
natures Of 1877 Republicans who are
ready to testify any moment that they
handed Republican ticket into the
window, TO matter what kind got into
the ballot bog. Not less than Is and
probably 70 others, mostly Democrats
who voted the Republican ticket out
did not desire their action to be made
putlic declined signing the paper, bu;
are ready to testify that they so voted,
ifcalle1 upon to do so. For the sake
ofbeipg within bounds, we will accept
the lowest Ggures Is for our purpose.
This wsuId make the number of Repub-
lican votes cast 202. A gentleman in
the district who was not home when
the man with the paper called, wrote
to the REPUBLICAN on Saturday desiring
10 % counted with those who handed
il Republican ticket, but what Pa!
Gardner pat in the box nobody knows.
We understand there are others that
have been overlooked, but counting
this vote with the others referred to, we
have IO3 Republican votes cast at that
poll. Az nobody could find out any
time during the afternoon or even after
the polls closed, how many votes had
been poitsi ye take it for granted that
there Was a name on the poll lists for
every vote in the ballot boz. At least
Mr.. M5Glinohy, and OF course nobody |
doubts his honesty, says there was.
Taking the votes returned IS east for
the two candidates for Inspector we
have a total Of 1888.
As 2C3 Of these are indisputably
proven to be east by Republicans, there
are 13J left for the Democrats. Deduct
1876 from 1903 and there remains IS Re-
publican majority, just about what the
CANVASS or block books
and just about the majority
the Republicans expected to have a:
those polls. The legal votes of some
nine or ten Republicans that were re-
jected by Pat. Gardner would have
swelled the Republican majority on
fair election and fair count up to 75'
However for our purposes we will stick
to s. as the Republican majority Of the
votes cast, no matter how they were
returned. As we have already said,
the majority returned for Kane the
Democratic candidate for INSPECTOR was
96. Adding this to G6 the majority
the Republicans honestly h had makes a
difference of l54 votes in the general
result in the county and State and
this change is made alone in one dis
triet Of the Third ward. Eliminate the
West district Of the Fifth ward, the
Eighth, the Ninth and the Tenth and |
there can be no doubt that the Reput-
2icaa majority in the city was 400 OIL
the inspectors vote instead Of l18. Mr..
McGlinchey, Clerk at the Third ward |
polls where the greatest fraud seems to |
have been committed, according to an
interview with an Every Evening re
porter, hts given notice in advance
that he will prosecute the publisher Of
any newspaper who dares to charge
him dr'''ly With dish onssty.
Under such threat 1t behooyes Ms 70
be careful what we say though We have
heard the threat made before without
creating much alarm, A few tbouobt 10