The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-20
The fu-- Record Of
Last Years Bal
lot Box Grimes.
WHERE THE JOgERS FIGURED
Enormous Fraudulent
Registration Shown
in the Several
Precincts.
INFAMOUS B0B'S PLEDGE.
Assembly Candidates In
dignantly Repudiate
His Pledge of Their
Votes for Rum
Legislation.
JEFFERSONIAN CANDIDATES
Protests Against the Printing OF
Official Tickets for Them.

A statement showing the full extent of
the frauds committed by the Ring at last
falls election. as unearthed by the inves
tigAtion made by the Senate committee,
has never yet been made public. THE
NEWS, knowing that such a statement
published at this time would be OF con-
siderable interest to the people, would
expose the nefarious practices of the
bosses, and would show the honest voters
that it is necessary to keep vigilant
watch at the polls at this election TO pre-
vent the preparation of similar crimes
against the franchise, some days ago as
signed one of its reporters to go carefully
through the evidence taken by the Senate
committee and prepare clear statement
OF facts. Every line of evidence has been
read and where the testimony of wit
nesses under cross-examinatlon was
shaken it was not considered. The re-
ports made by the canvassers were all
catefuily compared, as was also the re-
suit Of the comparison OF the poll books
with the registry books. The task has
been an arduous one, but the result iuiiy
compensates for the labor expended
There were very few precincts in the
county in which fraud was not commit
ted and it shows how we'll planned was
lhe conspiracy IN which Bob Davis was
the chief mover. The election officers
against whom indictments were found
We're not all against whom complaints
were made for sJuffing the ballot boxes,
but some unknown influence saved the
other guilty rascalS, who, like those IN
llicted, were the tools of the Ring bosses.
The greatest frauds were committed in
the First, Second and Seventh districts.
These consisted of putting joker ballots
in the boxes, placing names on the Doll
books that were not on the registry and
voting upon fraudulent names. The
registry lists were stuffed with hundreds
of names before the election the same as
some of the tools of the Ring are trying
to do now with the new lists that are be-
ing prepared. In large number of pre-
cincts men were registered from vacant
lots, churches and schOolhouses, and q
large number OF the names OF dead men
were voted on. There were 115 names
tnat were voted OH two, three and even
four times in the down town districts.
The total number OF joker ballots found
in the boxes were 1871. These include
the small ballots which were known rs
the police jokers, the large tissue ballots
which were called strangers, and the
"Hoboken" ballots, designated as foreign
erS.
The comparison of the poll books with
the registry lists showed that the total
number OF names that did not appear on
the registry was 1887. In nearly all OF
the precincts iu the Ninth and Tenth dis
tricis there were no registry lists, and 1t
is not known how many bogus names
were on the poll books of the precincts in
Kearney, Harrison. Gutenberg and other
small places.
The number of names of voters who
did not live where registered and where
voted from, as appears from the testi-
lnony of the witnesses before the Senate
Committee and from comparison Of the
canvassers' reports. was 4,2l2: These
figures are startling and seem almost in
credible, but they are supported by COM
petent testimony and must be believed.
No one knows for a certainty how many
more names beside these were placed on
the registry books Of persons VINO never
existed. At the houses of every member.
OF the Ring were registered dozens OF
names. When the canvassers called at
these houses they were informed that the
names were genuine, but then closer
Investigation showed that they We're
false.
Look at this list and keep your eyes
OPEN
Precincts. In which Were Found Joker
Ballots.
FIRST DISTRICT.