New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-11
ANATIONAL GUARDQ QUARREL
10 FIGHT THEIR BATTLE DER AGAIN.
ANOTHER ELECTION LIKELY FOR LIEUTENANT

ANOTHER ELECTION LIKELY FOR LIEU TENANT
COLONEL OF THE ODD REGIMENT.
The ngl, which has been wagcd long and biz
terly over the election OF Lieutenant Colonel In tho
o2d Regiment is to fought all over again. ara TINS
time Captain Hart who has Deen dcicatNd 81 ele''
point heretofore, has gained slight advantage. Whe
The election was held Captain john L. Leo roe'No'
70 votes Captain Hart IL. and Major william "
King l. just as the polls closed, another Vo'er
arrived who would nave cast his ballot Tor N"p'ai"
Hart but he was allowed 10 vote because IL was
letlarcd that the polls had been kept open one
hour. as provided by law. and that lie Iad aiNeo 'oo
late TO vote Several staff officers, some OIL "io'h
would have voted for Captain Hart, were not ""c'
10 vote at all it being declared by Coiohel 'ulhp
that they not entitled 10 vote althous" "i"os'
The universal rule before that had been TO allow them
to vote.
Captaln Hart contested the election on these TWO
yrm,nas Judce-Advocate General Clifford H.
Bartlett TO whom the question was Referred otc"o"
that stat officers not entitled to Voe. accoid
ing TO the military code, although conccdnS tha' '
R,ate Constitution gave them that privilege GAP
tain Hart then pressed the other Polhi ana ~"
,u,an. General Porter instructed judge Advocate''h
elal Bartlett to investigate the charge that the polls
wc,. not kept open the full hour povidcd iy Law"
General Bartlett took testimony on that point at the
armory night recently.
There were six officers who declared upon 'hc'
OATH, that the poll, were open The ,uIl ho"' alu
there were three officers who declared upon their "ah'
that the polls were rot open that long "chefH
Porter evidently thinks that the best way to sctuc
the DISPUTE Is to order new election ana IL Is
said ON the best of authority. that he VIII Issue an
order within a few days declaring the election hiV1i"
.ud or,.r;,,s , nrw one This election will bring
aho, still greater complication. At the last eicC
zion there ~Ce tlnrty-nhc votes cast ana o'v o.'.
InwfIl vote wou.G been cast Rad III" polis lcel
oren three inlnut ser than ttIy were II lne
votes are din dcd in Tie same way mat th'S "Vi0
before there Will deaulo, Il. for an Olh.ef 10 NC
elected mast receive majority "l all inc WIS
east and CAPTAIN Lea received but twenty out "a
forty allowing for the which VAS ruco O"t Oh
account of the polls being closed me con '4Ge'.S>
are mat II The which was cast for NaJ0i hln- /,
Ills lime cast Tor Captain Leo. and the "ets Noc
Tie same 10 they did before. Captain Leo WIZ pc
elected: whereas Captain lidrt must not Oh! Fam ~
one vote cast King. tut one other ai,r in''
n .ht has been the OF great de;i OF Oltttr
in. i'm the regiment. ana Whichever side WIS INC
coltcst will do the organization an immense amount
of daE,acc Colonel Camp has been on the sac 81
Caotsiu l-o ever since the tight began ana ha7' on
one or two occasions. sighted Captain Hart ana ms
followers. ON Monday ni-hi wh,a the -mci, ID" I
inc farewell drlii. in the oil arnorN, 'ap''lH li
companv and three other cCmpdnlcs coIihi"lU'u nN
his friends were not invites 10 participate n inc