The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-07

Some legitimate voter may have stepped
up to the polls and interrupted the copy
ing to deposit a legitimate vote. But
these instances are not many. The series
Of names on the registry list is unbroken
on the poll list, in other instances. They
have selected blocks of FIVE to ten, begin
ming with different initials The registry
lists are made up alphabetically, you
know. All the registered names
beginning with A are together; those
beginning with B are together. and so
on down the entire alphabet. Now, we'll
find five names registered on the A pages,
In the same order on the poll book; some
on the B pages in the same sequence on
the poll book, and so with variety of
other names. Let me give you sample
or two.
TWO SAMPLE PRECINCTS.
''In the First precinct poll book we dis
cover IL names beginning with w entered
in precisely the same order in which they
appear on the registry list; names be-
ginning with o are on the two lists seria-
tim; beginning with r; beginning
with S; 5 beginning with B; Z be-
ginning with G; in one place 8,
and in another place 8, begin
ming with M. Now it is violation of all
the law of chances for these lines of vot-
ers to have appeared at the polls in pre-
cisely the same order in which they had
presented themselves to be registered two
weeks before. The ra seals in charge Of
the election just sat down and copied the
egistered names off into the poll book.
Here's another sample--the Sixth pre-
cinct of the First district TO begin
with, there are 10 names on the poll list
that are not on the registry list; some are
even voted twice. Then copied into the
poll book from the registry list, seriatim,
are names beginning with G; begin
ming with P; in one place 6, and in an
other place 6, beginning with I; begin
ming with L; 6 beginning with J; be-
ginning with X; 5 beginning with w; 20
just think OF it, twenty beginning with
F; 10 beginning with ID; beginning with
S; 2 beginning wi tn G, and then begin
ming with G. The six -" names are the
last six OF the "Js; the six ..K' names ar
the first six of the ks" The election
officers had just turned over the leaf in
copying the is and gone on with the Ks
ssWe have found,n Mr.. Record con-
tinued, "that the COPIED names on the
First precinct poll list represent the tug
and steamer voters that were so effectu-
ally shown up by the Senate Elections
Committees. Once or twice an attempt
was made to break the sequence by copy
ing the names up instead of down the
page-by reversing on the poll book
their order on the registry books.
A STARTLING ANALYSIS.
1.-THE suspicious aroused by these re-
N arsable sequences have been more than
corroborated by the canvassers, who have
been busy hunting out the voters whose
names appear on the poll list. We have
not heard from all the canvassers yet,
and have not had time to examine these
slips, and SO acquaint myself with what
they have discovered. but have seen
enough to convince me, and convince any
last election. In the first of the
frst-where some of the sequences
have been given to you've have found
that ITO votes on this poll book represent
myths or people who had no right to vote.
l have just learned that the half-com-
pleted canvass of the First precinct of the
Second district already shows 20 fraudu-
lent names on the poll lists. ! have had
time. so far, to tabulate the canvasser's
report in but one precinct. That is the
Third, of the Second district,
where the total number of
fraudulent names reaches 179. There
we find 10 votes cast on the names OF
dead people, 5 on names Of people who
are down as residing at street numbers
that do not exist, 26 from vacant lots, 66
on the names of people who moved away
six months or more before the election, ],
So on names Of people who never lived at
the houses put down as their residences,
IL from factories and railroad yards, S
names voted on twice and one three-year-
old child is down as having voted.
WIPING OUT THE MAJORITY.
1--WE are in a position to attack four
precincts in the First district and four in
the Second district These eight precincts
gave majority of 5000 for Cleveland.
That wipes out his majority in the city
and leaves us 1000. The frauds are so
great and extensive in them that no one
can say who had how many votes; there
was practically no election in them. and
we shall ask the court to throw them out.
'This is as far as we have got, yet we
expect to find more. We shall probably
nose out emo ugh fraudulent votes TO des-
troy Cleyeland's majority of themselves. :"
well, how do v ou know that all these
fraudulent votes were for Cleveland2"
asked.
1T was he who had the majority. Per
kins was not allowed as many votes on
the tally sheets as there are fraudulent
votes hown. We shall argue. too, from
the sur roundings-th refusal TO allow
Republicans to serve at the polls; the
fact that the boxes were guarded in the
tainted precincts by election officers
under Cleveland's city governments the
stealing of the record books from the Per-
kins watchers; the driving of Perkins
workers from the polls. The general sur
roundings of the case are such as to show
that preparations for fraud in Cleveland's
interest were followed by the perpetra-
mi.