New-York tribune., 1890-05-26
BOLD BALLOT-BOX FRAUDS.
HOW oRFsTEs CLEVELAND WAS ELECTED
40 CARE TAKEN TO DISGUISE THE OUTRAGEOUS
METHODS NAMES CAST IN ALPHA
DFrlcAL BLOCKS.

Tho ,our,ors ,,bo are pushing the recount OF
,ne ~otes cast at the last MayoraItN elec''on III
Jersey CITY have every r'ason 10 pe
bv the result of the investigation aS III 90 - i'''
cone The recount before commissioner "o'"'''io
las covered only siN of the n'ue'N-O"o piV.
The recount while showing some If""us "i' "oo
disclos, enough 10 raise a hope t"' O"N'''ho
,l orl the rascals in office IN
Jersey civ began 10 breathe easier b"V oolh-
uatison of the names on the poii ""oA an" "'c
,coistrv in the First Precinct oi the ISL Nder-
- District has revealed the methods which
,b election officers practiscd tins SPRING ana as
closed frauds on the bailot-hoN aS great as those
which astonishcd the country when the recount
in tbc Stuhr- Mcdonald contest began IN Trenton
last winter That investigation resulted IN SEN
ator Mcdonald losing his seat, although his al
Iced majority was over 5000. Mayor tleNe-
lands alleged majority is only 2,060, and unless
he can be saved by some hocus-pocus in the
courts this last discovery will Yet make George
I. Perkins Mayor of Jersey C<y.
The device used by the election officers in the
April election was a simple one, but rather less
shameless than stuiling the boxes with hundreds
Of jokcrs" without taking the trouble 10 mark
of a name for every joker An inspection of
the registry and poll book in tire First Precinct
showed that scores of names had been copied
from the registry list 10 the poll book. These
names appear IN the poll book in Alphabetical
order ust as they appeared in the registry. IL
Is absurd. say the lawyers for Mr. Perkins, 10
suppose that men came up 10 the poll ana Notcd
one after the other, by tens and dozens. Just IN
the order in which they registered. The poll
book would show the names of two or three bona
fdc voters and then II would contain a Hst OF
names all beginning with the same letter. SHOW
ing that they had been copied hodlly out OF the
registry list in order that a ballot might he
stuffed into the box on each name. Thus an eN-
animation OF tie poll book showed sandWlcAcd
along through it l3 RS. II IS, 10 Is 10 6, II
Ms 10 rs etc. iuSt they appeared in the reg
istry. Votes were recorded in the poll book from
No. 10 NJ. i. precisely as they were on the
registry: from No. 80 10 No. IS from No. - to
No. so: from no. 81 10 No. Il from No. l06 10
That men should vote in such blocks. precisely
in The order they registered, Is believed to he
improbable. oven in Jersey CITY
Nor are these the only evidences that the boxes
were stuffed as fully in April as they had been
g. November. In this precinct large numbers OF
tnshoat men are credited with votes VINO were were
shown by the Senatorial investigation 10 have
been dead. TO have had no right to vote III Jersey
CITY, or never to have existed.
Added 10 the evidence OF wholesale frauds dis
closed by the comparison OF the pol-pook ana &c
registry in one precinct. the sum total OF the
frauds revealed by the recount VIII cut no IN
cons lerahle figure when the final subtraction is
made from Mayor Clcvcand's ALLEGED nml"TN. IN
-hc First Precinct Of the Isl Aldcrnanic District
Cleveland lost . votes on the recount. and thirty
eight ballots were found that had not been
stamped. mied nor punctured. In the second
Precinct on the recount Cleveland gained one
and Perkins lost one. and There was difference
of seventeen votes between the votes on the string
and the poll-books. while there were siNty-elght
ballots stamped Jersey CITY and thlrtN-elght
ballots without milling. stamping or punctunng
In the Third Precinct Perkins gained ono ana
Cleveland lost one, and there were thlrtL seven
d. ll.-s wirfouf miilirT. stamping or puncturif 2
In the Fourth Precinct Perkins gained eleven and
Cleveland lost ten. while seveniY-clglt ballo's
were not stamped. milled and puncturcd. In the
Fifth Precinct there was n difference or four
between the votes the string aud the votes on
fhc poll book with fort rtycight votes not stamped,
runctnred or nlllrd. In the SiNti Precinct Per
tins Coined thirty-two votes and Cle' and losi
thirty seven while lle Joker ballots were found
In the box lu none Of these precl lctH. eNccpt
the FIRST has The comparison OF poll-booS and
regis'rv-iist hccn made
The LAWYERS for Mr.. Perkins say that thiS
fraudulent vote certain 10 turn mp some
where for Mayor Clevelands vote was larger than
,ba, nollcd for Senator Mcdonald. AS NcDOnaNs s
vote WAS provel to be LARGELY fraudulent and there
had heen no increase Of population IN 'ne two
districts IN question II was p yscal impossibi lty
for Mr. Cleveland 20 be honestly elected.