The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-08
| GENUINE SENSATION
Alphabetical Voters Over
whe1m Fraud with Con-
fusion and Dismay.

uSlUu duSk D1S Hid y.
There is absolutely no describing the
sensation made in the town yesterday by
The exclusive publication in THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS of the discoveries of fraud in
the Mayoralty election OF last April that
Perkins lawyers have uncovered in the
poll and registry lists. Such an alpha
betical procession of voters as was exhibit
ed to the public view in that report was
never heard Of before in all the history Of
elections, national, State or municipal
The very registry lists seem to have risen
in alphabetical file and adjusted them
selves, name to name ana line to line, on
the poll lists. Was there ever such an
election day parade in ali the ages of the
world9 That was what people were ask
ing of themselves aud OF each other yes
terday all around the cityl
The exposure has braced up the Repub-
lican contest as nothing else that had
been previously made public. It tabooed
mere suspicious and gossip, and brought
the community face to face with facts.
Besides the trooping of the registry lists
to the polling places for entry in the poll
lists, there was the house to house can
vass for voters whose names appeared on
the poll list, with the result that about
one in ten of them could be found The
precincts referred to were only specimens
of what has been found all over.
STILL BUSY.
The canyassers were still busily en-
gagged in their hunt yesterday afternoon
and evening. They say that they are
having hard time of it at some Of the
places where they call. The men refuse
them information, and the women meet
them with broomsticks. They keep
right at it, however They are not able
to supplement the startling exposures
made in last evenings JERSEY CITY
NEWS with many completed reports, but
they expect to have all the routes go ne
over by next Thursday or Friday.
They have completed the hunt in the
Fourth precinct of the First district,
where they have uncovered 70 false and
faxed names on the poll list; the Seventh
of the First, where they have discovered
100, AMI the Eighth Of the First, where
there are over 80. The investigation in
the Seventh precinct turned up fifteen
false votes as having been cast by the
voters in a single house
The circumstantial presentation OF de-
tail has taken the backbone out of Mayor
Cleveland's friends and supporters, just
as much as it has inspired his enemies,
the contestants, with hope. All lasteven-
ing The NEWS was sought at every cor
ner, and election officers trooped into the
office in endless procession during the
evening to get copies of the paper to learn
how much likelihood there was of the
whole crew being found out. They Won
idered how many more of the precincts
are to be raked over, and feared. above
all, the effect of the disclosures upon
their approaching trials for frauds COM
NIT ted last fall
CITIZENS GENERALLY PLEASED.
On the other hand, the citizens, who
have been all along convinced that the
election was carried by the grossest of
fraud, were pleased to learn that the
seekers had succeeded in putting their
hands ON tire proofs. of it. They fear ed
that the rascals had covered their tracks
so thoroughly that their method would
not be revealed. They were gratified to
know not that there had been frauds-for
that can please no good citizen-but that,
fraud having been committed, it had
been possible to discover it to the end of
bringing the perpetrators to justice
The Democratic lawyers tried in vain
to explain away the alphabetical pro-
cession of voters. They say the follow
ing. on the poll lists, seriarim. of names
on the registry list is due TO the fact
that the poll clerks copied the names OF
those who had not voted on lists of papers
four or five at time and sent hustlers
out to bring them in. That would be
plausible enough if there were merely
a coincidence of a group OF C's or
DIS or Els voting together, but it
does mot meet the point that the C'ssor
D'sor Els, when they reached the polls,
seem to have arranged themselves 20
vote. the precise order in which theV
had casually appeared two weeks before
at the booth TO register. Counsellor
Record has no fear that such an explana-
tion will suffice to hoodwink the astute
Judges on the bench of the Supreme
Court of the State.
Corporation Attorn ~ Hudspeth said
yesterday that he did not believe that the
contestant will be give leave to file his
information against Mayor Cleveland;
but he had not yet read the startling
story in THE NEWS OF the recent discov-
cries by the Perkins la wyers.
To Jersey Families
When in need of dry and fancy goods. or
when in need of any arti cle for your hometgo
to Brooklyn for them.