New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-09
CHICAGO ELECTION FRAUDS
HARRISON MAYOR BY A SMALL MAJORITY
HIS ELECTION MORAL DEFEAT-BALLOT-Boy
srUFFRRS CARRY THE DAY,

srUFFERs CARRY THE DAY.
CHICAGO, April 8 (SpeciaD.-The unofficial
returns show that Carter Harrison has reelected
Mayor by majority of $50 votes figures may be
changed 100 either way when the made by tho
judges are received. 1t Is considered by every
moral defeat and it is probable that official count
Sidney Smith will be declared elected by decisive ma
jority. unless the Common Council Returning Board
refuse TO recognize barefaced frauds In that tho
matter will be prosecuted in the courts There al
ready evidences of fierce public Indignation OF
yesterdays frauds to light, and 1t is predicted that
II all the charges now openly made be verified q
public movement Will take shape similar to that which
drove Colyin out of power.
The Committee of Public Safety has collected evidences
of open fraud, and with public fund Of 100000,
1t believed that they not only be laid BARE but
number Of additional penitentiary convictions
tain to follow The voting in the First and Ninth Wards
was closely watched. and the Citizens Committee claims
to have documentary evidence upon which o
number Of professional election FOUNDERS 1t is cited that
in the First Ward =" Mart" Davis OF Galesburg Bank
robbery notorety. allowed to vote. although he
lives the North sde John Bogue. q
professional pokerpayer and resident OF the North
Side, vouched for by Parson Davis, resident Of
the precinct, and voted. Prosecutions will follow
against all of these
Early in the day agent OF the Committee OF Public
Safety who had been dispatched to take the Of
those who voted knocked down and dragged Of
the polling place by old Billy" whelan. He
verey bruised and will prosecute Whelan. In the First
Ward Denis Kavanagh, one OF the bondsmen OF Mackin
and Gallagher, a leading spirit OF the gang"
Gallagher did all he could to advance the gangs"
interests In the Fourth Precinct Fisky" Barnett,
gambler, though not Of the regularly ap-
pointed judges, acted as SUCH Henry T. Murray was
another Of the judges Both witnesses in behalf
Macku Gallagher in the late trial In this precinct
Early in the day W. g. Bailey, Republican challenger.
crowded from the polls and driven into the street
by Policeman Swanson. In the Fifth Precinct polling
place William j. Gallagher in company with the con-
victed baot-box suffer walked up to the polling win
dow with who gave his name as James Mccarthy.
| and vouched for him. The name found registered
and put In the box. 1t discovered that
the man was not James Mccarthy at ALL aud it is
said that Mr.. Urban, the Democratic judge
who put the ballot in the box, knows Mccarthy person
ally and knew that the before the window was an
impOstor. Objection to the vote made when 1t
sworn out for the arrest of Gasghers friend who per-
sonated Mccarthy aud search at once begun for him
| Ata number OF the precincts afldayts OF Republican,
voters rejected by the Democratic judges and al
the line discrimination against Republicans and in
favor of Democrats was noticeable. Inc newspapers
charge that the police worked hand-in-glove with
law-abldng persons. Honest voters were
ehIs chalIengers were bcaten and forced % leave
their posts. Dummy" Republican judges aided their
Iarrison's majority might have been made 10000 but
for the watchfulness OF the respectable voters the
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In the parading Of Joseph c. Mackn. the ballotbon
suffer, the polls the downtown wards riding I'D an
open barOuche and stopping at all the polling places to
converse with the workers The Third Precinct OF tho
Fourth Ward returned as giving Harrison l32 and
Smith 65 votes. Republican watchers VINO kept an exact
tally say the Is reversed, and that the larger figures
given to Harrison belong TO Smith. Judge Smith had
90 votes at III The returns from the Tenth Pre-
cnct of the Seventh Ward came ino the CITY hal az
In such shape TO give plain evidence OF the true
| figures having been tampered with. -
The police from the Tenth Precinct OF the
Thirteenth Ward give Smith 365 and Harrison l6l votes
The Committee OF Public Safety Is prepared TO produce
Republicans who voted Smith tickets as early as $50
a. this precinct that were numbered As high as 393,
and 397 The committee has arranged with the Re-
publican City Executive Committee to place watch
the ballot boxes in the County Clerks office. They
refused admission and firmly told that they could
not enter. A conference was held this afternoon
by the Republican City Executive Committee
consider the question Of contest IN certain precincts
OF the Ninth Ward, and. after investigating the COM
plants decided In favor of It, Public disorder is consd-
cred impossible in view OF the heat and excite
| ment already provoked by the contest.
The newly elected members OF the City Council con-
sst, nearly ascerained, OF 13 Republicans and
Democrats This would make the Council a tic between
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