The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-12
him. He did not see any OF the small
tickets folded inside of larger ones.
JINNY'S CHOICE vOIs1x

him. He did not see any OF the small
tickets folded inside of larger ones.
JIMsfY's CHOICE WORKERS
Joseph Friend, of No 50 Essex street, a
saioonkeeper; Peter McIlroy, an Essex
street junkman, and a man named
was an Essex streeS junk dealer, were
three of his workers.
Mr.. Norton said that he was present at
the court in his precinct, and he saw
some of the small ballots come ont of the
box. He did not notice any of the tickets
at the spring election.
Mr.. COrbin then went back and ques-
toned Mr.. Norton about his Printing
Committee and its work. Mr. Norton
said that the Finance, Naturalization and
Organization Committees had work to
do, but the Printing Committee did not
do anything. At the time he received the
small tickets he did not hear any one re-
fuse to take them, or say that they did
not want to have anything to do with
them.
s'How do you account for the fact that
1856 of these small ballots bearing stamp
different from that on the box was
taken from the box in that precinct?1
asked Mr.. Corbin.
81 don't know replied Mr. Norton.
81 examined those took carefully and |
am positive there was no mark on them"
Upon being cross examined by Judge
Garretson, Mar. Norton said that he
did not see any stamp on the backs
as they were taken from the box. There
were no other Democratic workers at the
polls in his precinct, excepting those he
placed there.
BY this time Assemblyman Byrne had
returned from this visit to the State
Prison and was sworn in the most sol9
emn manner by Senator Gardner. He
began his testimony by saying that he
wa 9 f1a 1fQ Qrr1ta ho Goonf1H
SAW THE COMMITTEE 1900 BETTER.
MIR. Byrne, you are reported III the
public newspapers recently as having
said that you had 5000 of the small tick
cts printed on the day before
election and distributed them to
the precinct captains on the same night,
but that they were not milled and
stamped, and were the same as the regu-
lar ticket except as to size; that you ex-
pected the committee would find a num-
ber of them in the box and that you be-
lieved they were honestly voted. Is that
correctW was the manner in which Mr.
Corbin opened upon the little Assembly
man.
mo, sir, replied Mr.. Byrne, with en-
phasis. ut was 5000 / had printed;
otherwise the statement is correct"
This frank admission somewhat stag
gered Mr.. Corbin, and the Republican
members of the committee looked severe,
piled Mr.. Byrne with questions. In re-
ply Mr.. Byrne said he did no know TO
whom he gave the order for the small
tickets, but he paid SAP DATE for them.
He distributed them at the polls in his
district the next day.
Mr.. Byrne was shown several of the
small ballots and said that they looked
like the ones which he had printed. He
was shown ballot with a stamp differ
ent from that on the box but declared
that he could not account for the strange
stamp. He himself voted one of the little
tickets.
BYRNE's BAD MEMORY.
Mr.. Corbin consumed considerable time
trying to get Mr.. Byrne to remember
through whom he ordered the small
tickets. But to no purpose He said he
had had large number of different
tickets printed to suit different voters.
One man would say he needed one kind
tell them to go ahead and have them
printed. The way he knew who printed
the small tickets was he met Mr.. patz q
day or two after election and Mr.. Datz
said he had bill against him for the
tickets
printed2'' asked Mr. Corbin.
30 win" was Mr.. Byrnes's laconic an
swer
Mr.. Corhin next attempted to get from
Mr. Byrnes the names of those who man
aged the polls for him on election day.
''Who were your principal assistants on
election day?n he asked.
''The voters of the district y innocently
replied Mr. Byrne. This upset the gray
ity of the committee. and put Mr.. Byrne
in such good humor that he remembered
that Thomas Eagan, Mike Kelly and
Martin Sweeney were three of his trusty
lieutenantS.
.iDid you notice that your name is
spelled Brynes on these small tickets?"
asked Mr.. Corbin.
mo, / didn't; are they?" asked Mr.
Byrne, with the air of man who has
heard something startling for the first
time.
committee rooms on the night before the
election and received the money and
tickets for his precinct.
{. Both large and small?o asked Corbin.
''Yes; small money and large ballots"
interposed Senotor Adrain, and once
more the gravity of the committee was
upset.
HE VOTED SMALL BALLOT.
Mr. Byrne said that he received both
small and large ballots. He could not
say whether the small ballot he voted was
one he received at the committees room
or whether 1t was printed by Datz-
Then Mr.. Byrne waxed eloquent. He
SAID nothing troubled him on election
day. He knew no one could beat him.
His was glorious path to victory; so in
the middle of the day he went home and
had sleep.
You say you had glorious pa tn that
day." began Senator Gardner, taking
hand in The examination. s'If you had
known that over 400 illegal ballots were
going into the box, would that have
troubled you?p
ut would not have troubled me if 600
had gone in against me-" was Mr..
Byrne's ingenious answer, with the ac-
cent on the 600.
He concluded his testimony by saying
that he did not see any Of the small bal
lots come out of the boxes.
1t was decided last evening to send
Jersey City's ballot boxes back a week
Irom tomorrow, in order that they may
be overhauled and made ready for the
Spring election. Such of their contents
as the committee may want to use in it's
investigation will be kept here under
seal, aud should Judge Knapp want any
of them in the Rocbe-Bruggeman contest
they will be sent to him.
0DloUs COMPARISONS.
The committee was almost an hour late
ia getting to work this morning The
first witness was Chief of Police Murphy
He testified to the composition of the
Jersey City police force and the manner
in which election returns are brought to
Police Headquarters and read to the as
sembled populace
On election night he received at head
quarters returns by hundreds from the
First precinct of the First district He