The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-05
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INFAMOUS
PARTISANSHIP.
Outrageous Violation Of
the Mails in the In
terests of the Re
publican Party.
How the Evening Jour-
nails" Alleged Fraudu-
lent Registration
List was Fabri-
Gated.
DICKINSON SHOULD GO.
Circumstances which Fasten the
Blame on the Political
Postmaster.
DICKINSON SHOULD GO.

"a list of seven hundred and thirty
names, published by authority of the Re
publican County Committee in last even
ing's Journal, as having been fraudu-
lently entered upon the registry lists in
the First Assembly district, bids fair to
get somebody into sea of trouble. The
story when fully told takes the boot off
the Democratic leg and fits it snugly to
Republican leg somewhere. And this
is how it isl
Exhibitor Michael Mullone. is the Demo
cratic candidate for Assembly in the first
district. and in the pursuit of his canvas
he had the registry lists copied, and with
aid Of corps of mailing clerks. had a
circular favoring his candidacy addressed
on them The envelopes were super
scribed,
If not delivered, return Immediately to P. H.
O'Neill No. 40 Newark avenue.
and in due course they were sent to the
post office.
s-Is--r THE PosToFFICE LIST.
Presently some of the letter carriers put
in the box of the O'Neill Association big
bundle of undelivered letters. They were
marked Moved or mot found" or
otherwise scratched. There were about
JWO uuuuI6u OI bAtllls itlQ bflcy PIOF6u w
be part of the mail Mr.. Mulione had sent
out
Not long after they had been left at the
O'Neill's the carriers called again. They
said that the postoffice people had ne
elected to make a list of the addresses of
the returned letters, and of the reasons
for the failure to deliver and they asked
permission to take the letters back that
the list might be made in compliance
with the postoffice regulations
This very proper request was granted.
The bundle of letters were sent back to
the Post Office. Five hundred other re-
turned letters were first listed at the Post
Saturday evening to the rooms of the
O'Neill Association.
When the Journal made its appearance
on the street, the long list of ''fraudu-
1ently registered names' which appeared
under flaming heads, in its advertising
column attracted the widest attention.
SOMEBODY GETS HIT.
1t didn't take the keen witted Mullone
long to see that it corresponded with the
list of his returned letters. His clerks
had accidentally misdirected many of the
envelopes. In their haste they had taken
the name from one line, for instance, and
addressed it to the residence of the man
whose name was on the line below. They
had, as another instance, carelessly
dropped figures in writing the numbers
Thus, No. 1913 Montgomery street ap-
peared on the envelope as No. 12 or No.
% Montgomery street. One letter that
should have gone to No. 5 of certain
street was sent by the hurried envelope
addressers to No. so of that street. Thus
the failure to deliver at least one hundred
and fifty of the papers was accounted for.
And then, too, there was any number of
addresses duplicated by the mailing
clerks
When the list of addresses published in
the Journal was compared with the adj
dresses on Mr.. Mullone'S returned letters
it was found that the inaccuracies of ad-
dress on the returned enveiopes were re-
produced in the Journals columns, and
that the duplicate addresses in Mr.. Null
lone's bundle OF returned letters appeared
with faithful accuracy iii the published
list also.
1t was thus established beyond all
cayil that the list had been furnished to
the Journal from the Post Office
A VIOLATION OF LAW.
That this is a fragrant violation of postal
law it needs no argument to prove. The
Post Office authorities had no more right
to give out that list than they had to
open your letter or mine. Ex-Postmaster
Kelly says that it is plain violation of
law. Ex-Postmaster Gopsell, who, like
Postmaster Dickinson, is Republican,
says that while he is not prepared to say
Postmaster Dickinson violated any law,
he furnished the list he would not him
self have assumed such a risk.
Postmaster Dickinson, when seen by a
reporter last evening, tacitly admitted
that the list had been procured from the
post office, but disowned all Responsibility
for the transaction. TO q JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter who waited upon him this
morning, however, he said he had not
word to say.
NO ATTEMPT AT FRAUD.
The publication of the names was, of
course, but Republican roor back
to excite the public mind. There is no
fraudulent registry in the First district,
or in any other, unless the Republicans
have paved the way for their repeaters by
sneazing unliscensed names upon the
books
AS they are permitted by law to do, the
2 Registry clerks on the first day of regis
try copied the registry lists of last year.
They presumed that that those who
voted last year still live in the district to
vote this year; and to save them from dis
franchisement entered their names on the
new registry books. These were copied
without regard to their politics. Demo
erals and Republicans alike; and as mat
ter Of fact very many of those returned
letters bore the names Of conspicuous Re-
publicans. Ex-Chief Ben Champneys
was one of them. To the list thus made
mn in com niianep with law on the first