The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-05
MR.. LOVE THSTIFIHS.
He Tells What He Saw to
the Bal1ot-Box Nosing
Committee.
Special to the Jersey city News.

TRENTON, March 5, 1890. The work OF
recounting the Hudson county vote has
at last begun to be felt by the committee,
and last evening the members declared
themselves too tired to go on and ad-
journed at six O'Clock for the day.
When the box OF the Fifth ward of Bay
onne was tried it was found that that also
was without stamp. Clerk Hamilton
testified that he could not tell whether
the defective dials had ever been set. His
city owned six boxes which have been in
use ever since the law went into effect.
He could not tell how the stamp ribbon
got off the box unless it had rotted off.
BALLOTING IN A sEGAR BOX.
On the morning OF Election Day the
election officers could not open the box of
the Fifth ward until the witness reached
the polling place, and before that time
the ballots were deposited in a SegRr box.
The janitor of the City Hall received the
boxes The boxes did not work the sec
ond election after the city received them
and they have not yet been repaired.
The box in other respects was all right
and the recount deviated somewhat from
the usual course aud took four votes from
Stuhr, leaving the count 256 for Nc
Donald and 90 for Stuhr. Before another
box was counted ex-City Collector James
II. Love was sworn and testified
LOVES SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY.
II was at The polling place in the Fifth
precinct of the Second district, at Bryan
Smiths stables, on Barrow street, on
election day from 1890 to l:45 and from
to 1918 p. m. John Murray was acting
as Judge of election. The Republican in
spector's name was Stringham. /
watched the course of the voting during
the forenoon.
The Democratic Committee had man
named McEntee there as watcher He
had a book and noted the politics of the
voters. The Judge of Election assisted
him and when he was in doubt he would
ask the Judge.
Very often the box was out of order
and the ballots could not be made to 60
in. The Judge would unfold them to see
the mead OF the ballot. / conversed with
the Judge about this.
GOV. BEDLES VOTE.
II asked how Governor Bedle voted
and the judge informed me that he had
and it was a Democratic one. The DEM
ocratic committeeman went away and
left his book with Murray.
II saw a man vote from No. 1866 Mercer
street and protested because the NUM-
ber was not in the precinct and besides it
is the Scotch Presbyterian Church.
1.-THE Judge replied that it was too late
the ballot had gone in"
Mr.. Love also said that on registration
day he sent man named Sanderson to
put the names of some republicans, we
voted upon the list but the Board refused
to do so and the judge would give no
reason for doing so.
CITY EMPLOxEES NOW.
Stringham is now an employee Of the
Board of Works. Charles Conway was
with Mr.. Love TO watch the polls. He
was not satisfactory in the evening and is
now also in the employ Of the Board of
Works.
Murray read off the ballots at the count
and held them so no one could see them.
Conway was put there to look at bal
not see the ballots, although he said that
he could The tickets were passed to
Stringhanl. who folded them and placed
them on the string Stringham did not
look at the face OF the ballots.
Mr.. Love watched the clerk and saw
him make ten mistakes in the tally. The