The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-07
TURN THE RASCALS OUT
Here's What Some City En-
ployes Did at the Polls
Last Fall.
SOME OF THE MAYORS FRIENDS.
How Can Any One Read This Story
and Say That Mr.. Cleveland Is
Not Protecting and Re-
warding the Ballot
Box Suffers?

More than casual and passing signifi-
canoe lies in the fact noted yesterday,
that very many of the election officers
who distinguished themselves at the polls
last fall, as per the recount made at Tren-
ton. have since been taken under the
wing Of Mayor Cleyeland's paternal
government. When Mayor Cleveland
was urging the placing in his hands of
the vast powers, which the disclosures
made in these columns, show that he
has Systematically abused, his argu-
ment was that he could be held
responsible to the people for the proper
exercise of his prerogation. Under the
many headed form of government that
prevailed before the new charter, it was
not possible to FIX the responsibility
Divided as it was between five men in
each Board and as many Boards, respon-
sible TO no one in particular. it was an
easy thing for each to load the offense off
upon the shoulders of his fellow member
or upon the shoulders of another
Board, and absolute power to make
and unmake the several Boards
was vested in the Mayor, so that
II things went wrong, il could be safe
ly said tnat the responsibility lay at his
door. The Mayor invited the response
bility. 1t was in pursuance Of his pres
sing eagerness to assume 1t that it was
placed upon him; and the over happy
scion Of his household gave away the
whole philosophy of the new paternal
government when he shouted to the
crowd, with his hat over his head, at the
opening Of the New Charter era:--
"Hurrahl Hurrahl Me fader's king"
The application0f this principle makes
the action of his own personal
agents in the various City Boards, his
action as a matter of law, and it may in
deed be doubted, II. as matter of fact,
they would have dared to take men
covered with public suspicion under their
wing il they had not known that ne was
perfectly willing that they should be
permitted to nestle there.
SOME WHO GET NOTHING.
The most remarkable revelation en-
countered during the inquiry into the
number of the suspected and accused
election officers who have been thus pro-
vided for, concerns those who are not
counted into this distribution of offices
1t is notable fact that the election
officers in the districts not tainted with
fraud, are left. so far as has been learned
up to this writing, entirely out in the
cold. and that on the other hand the men
who served at the most corrupt of the
polling places are literally provided for.
The logical inference from this compar-
ison is that the former class OF election
officers had done nothing to earn re-
ward, and consequently received none;
and that the last mentioned class OF cleo
tion officers are privileged to feed at the
public crib, because of services already
rendered, or to purchase their silence, or
to reconcile them to doing the same kind
of work this spring in behalf of the
Mayor, In the very remQte contingency of
his winning third term nominaJion.
The reason for the exclusion from pub
lie position OF the apparently honest cleo
tion officials is TO be made the topic of
enquiry and discussion later on in the
{re AN
day only of the election services rendered
by those referred TO yesterday as having
been embraced by the Mayors paternal
government.
TOM FALLoN's REWARD.
Those who have read the reports in the
JERSEY CITY News of the revelations of
the recount at Trenton, need not be told
that the first startling proofs of fraud
were struck when the box in use in the
First precinct of the First district was
opened One hundred and fifty-six
jokers were found. No one pretends that
they were regular ballots; and as they
were marked with other marks than that
made by the machinery of the box, they
must have been sureptitiously smuggled
into it.
TO be regular on its face it was. neces-
sary to make the poll book, where the
name of each voter as he presents him
self is written, show as many names as
ination of that book makes it impossible
--and the indications are that 1t was done
purposelY--to trace tho alleged voters
from the book. In some initances there
is scrawl that no one can read for q
name.
In other instances only surname is
written. In many the address of a voter
with a very common aud ordinary name
is not entered.
The poll clerk whose duty it is to keep
this list has thus baked inquiry as to
who voted at that polling place, and con-
sequently as to whether each ballot rep,
resents q legitimate voter OF the precinct.
The poll clerk at the First precinct First
district polling placce. WAS Thomas Fal-
Ion. Now, what has Mayor Cleveland's
government done for hun? When the
Mayors new Street and Water Board went
into Office, they found their building on
Jersey avenue in the care of very cap
able janiror--and democrat, too--named
Conway. The Mayors Street and Water
bounced him, Democracy and compe-
tency to the contrary notwithstanding,
and appointed-who do you thinkf
Why, Thomas Fallon.
WHOLE BOARD TAKEN CARE OF.
The Mayors paternal government did
better than this by the election officers
who were nit by the opening of the box
in the Second precinct of the First dis
trict Here the dial of the box showed
OHly Hts NOtCo ucPosAbou, Dut buc btIlitS
had 291 ballots on it. The poll box went,
even that. six better, with 297 names; and
sixty-one jokels, besides number Of
ballots not jokers but yet not marked by
the regular machinery of the box, were
discovered as having been regularly
counted and strung.
The poll clerk who somehow wrote six
more names than there were voters was
Louis Heller. He now holds an i'm
portant position under the Mayors
Street and Water Board
Two OF the election officers through
whose lands, or under whose eyes, the
sixty-0ne jokers were entered on the
tally sheet as honest votes were Thomas
Mnilly and John S. DAILY Mailly is said
TO be with the Prudential Insurance Com
paiiy. At the City Hall tits said he has
a 50 billet in the city pipe yards under
Mayor Cieyeland's Street and Water
Board.
sJohn S. Daily is drawing pay from the
city by the grace OF the same Board.
Thus. three of the four election officers
III this precinct are taken under the wing
OF the Mayors paternal government.
PLACE FOR TOM TRoTTER.
From the Third precinct of the First
district byx 176 jokers were taken. They
had been counted and tailed by the cleo
tion officers, and the poll book had been
filled up with enough names TO cover
them.
.sTom'' Trotter was the clerk in that
precinct. Everybody knows Tom. Per-