The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-09
CHARTER VOTES GO IN.
Favorable Ballots are Drop
ping Quietly All Over
the City.
LITTLE OPPOSITION DEVELOPS.
The Free Library Act---COntests In
the Districts.

the Districts.
The election is progressing very quietly
today. There is little excitement any
where; SO little indeed, that the little
cluster of workers around each of the
polling places arouses the enquiry, by
thoughtless persons, as to what it means
One man pushed his way into one of these
throngs this morning with the expectation
of seeing an improvised dog fight.
"Oh, blazesr' he exclaimed, as he turned
away in disgust SIS that all it is-only
an election?n
Two special votes are being taken One
is upon the acceptance of the Free Library
act. The other is as to the charter. A
third might have been as to the Police
Increase of Pay bill, but Mr.. Carroll and
Charley Cox could not get the act through
in time to be presented to the voters to-
day. In fact, it is doubtful if they will
ever get it through.
| Senator Edwards takes the view that
the expense contemplated by the act
should not be added to the present ex-
penses of the city. Perhaps he may think
| that if the city can afford to spend money
on increase of pay, it might rather spend
| it on an increase of the force.
The Free Library act will be accepted
| without any question, as it should be.
SPECULATION ABOUT THE CHARTER.
The Charter act is meeting with
active opposition in some quarters; but
there is no reason to believe, on the
| strength of anything that was learned to-
4 hat will hQ rai0nfQ6 Hoard 0f
| Works Commissioner Kern is making a
| lively hustle in the Fourth district
| to beat it, and he openly says that
| it will not receive 500 votes in that district
| The Republicans, however are generally
/ for it, probably because he is against 1T.
! A rumor prevails that Mr. Kern's workers
at the polls are taking the For the Char
teri ballots away from the voters, and
not permitting them to vote them at all.
| Sheriff Davis's suspicion that Kern in
| tends to count the charter out in the
district has been aroused, and he has
| manned the polling places in the district
with deputies to see that there Is free
4 vote and fair count up there.
On the other hand, kern's friends are
afraid that Sheriff Davis will count the
charter in in other districts, and he says
he will have all the places the Sheriff s
/ friends can control, watched Dy trusted
ENJOYS.
/ A gentleman, who probably did not
know much about it, said this morning
that the majority in the Third, Fourth,
/ Fifth and Sixth districts will be against
the charter and that the ma
! from the First and Second districts
| He assumes this partly because the
machine in the Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth districts is said to be a little against
the charter visit to the polls in the
districts showed, on the other hand, that
almost every vote going into the boxes is
| in favor of the charter.
A POLICE POLL WORKER.
Register George B. Fielder telegraphed
James Davis; President OF the Police
Board, this morning, that a republican
policeman in citizens, clothing was work
| In favor of the Rey blican party in the
Seventh precinct Of the Fifth district. He
asked President Davis to call him off, and
was assured it would be done.
| A FIGHT AGAINST BUNNELL.
There is trouble at the Pop Corn in
| the First district. 1t may cause the pre-
cinct to be thrown out. The election
officers are George Bunnell, William
Eaton, Harry Speer and Thomas Trotter.
Bunnell was candidate for Alderman,
but at the primary he was defeated by
Frank S. Peter 1t is this fact that has
lead to the trouble.
On Saturday last Doom & Pilson printed
1900 republican tickets with the name
of George Bunnell on them for Alderman
at-Large and few of them were dis
tributed. General Ramsay, member of
the Republican General Committee,
learned of this and ordered the tickets de-
stroyed, which was done, and tickets
without the name of any candidate for
Alderman-at Large were printed.
Today the Democratic election officers
in this precinct tried to prevent Bunnell
from serving, but finally agreed to allow
him to serve until recess at one p. NJ
under protest, they claiming that an
election officer could not act when a
candidate for office Bunnell declared
he was not a candidate, never had been
nominated and had not caused the tickets
to be printed He and Eaton went to the
City Hall and consulted Clerk Scott.
Ex-Judge Seymour, Chairman of the
Republican Committee, said later that he
knew Bunnell had not done this, that no
candidate for the office had been nomi-
mated, and that Bunnell's name had been
placed there by messenger sent to the
printer, because he saw that no nomination
for the office had been made.
Crier WeIsh's Election Cat.