Daily Republican., 1890-02-14

Jerseys Great Election Fraud.
The astounding election frauds that
are now btiug brought 10 light In Hud.
con county, New jersey, show con-
clusively that Leon Albeit holds the
office OF Governor Of New Jersey dis
hoDestly-they show that though be
was returned elected by over IA. 900
majority, that fully that number OF
s'little Joker" tickets were voted In
Jersey City, Hoboken and other large
cities. In the palmiest days OF ballot
box stufflng In South Carolina, Ala
bama and Mississippi, there never were
such revelations Of wiltful fraud con-
cocted by leading Democrats. and 1t 10
. question whether without the kuowl.
edge of Governor Albeit himself. Al
the Presidential election In 1883, Hud-
son county, gave majority of 8, 1859
for Cleveland, last fall II gave Q ma.
jority Of 1853 for Albeit, when II
was generally supposed the vote for
sGovefnor was lighter than tor Presi.
dent. The majority returned Tor Alb.
bett in Hudson county alone Is within
138 of bis whole majority In the State.
II the little joker"t ticket was voted to
the same extent in other strong Demo.
cratic cities In upper New Jersey, then
Albeit has no majority At all.
Tho stufilng OF the ballot boxes in
jersey City was deeply planned and
deliberate. The suffers went about 1t
In deliberate manner. They prepar-
cd for It by placing 7072 more names
on the registry than were upon 1t In
the Presidential election.
They then prepared the little thin
tissue ballots, stamped them and per-
forated them before voting them, the
same a. the patent ballot boxes would
stamp and perforate them Is they were
voted. They were then slipped inside
the regular ballot and In that way
voted. Twenty two years before
"Boss" Tweed had the ballot boxes Of
New York city stuffed with $4,000
fraudulent ballots and elected q Demo.
cratic Governor. Then looking the
people In the face lie arrogantly asked:
What are you going to do about iti'
The people. however. found way
even in that strong Democratic city to
send Tweed to Jail, from which he
came to die dishonored, Somebody
In Hudson County needs 10 be jailed
as Tweed was, aud it would be sad
reflection upon the honest people Of
Jersey City If they do not find a way
10 do 1t.
In the investigation that Is going on
by tho State Senate Committee they
have found some queer things in tho
ballot boxes, oil which the following
are samples.
The box in the Fourth District was ex-
amined this morning. The dial of the
box registered 344 votes, while the poll
book had on 1t only 1874. Senator Garden
er made close inspection OF the book
and found that there were only 2G6 names
In the book, and that the clerk had
system oil counting peculiar to himself
He made some slips that were peculiarly
advantageous to the Democrats. He
jumped from rs to 49, from So to Sc,
from l3l to l42 from 1903 to ia aud 1872
to 1872. This jumping was done on the
turn OF the page. For instance, the last
number on a page would be 50 aud the
fret number on the next page 03.
The tally-sheet showed 324 votes had
been returned TO the County Board Of
Canyassers, 800 were for Mcdonald and
thirteen for Strube. There were fifty
eight more ballots returned than there
were Damcs on the poll.book.
The DO. X of the fl It'll precinct differed
In no PARTICULARS from the four preced.
ing oncs. The dial showed that 1875
votes had been registered and this tally
showed 2S2.
There were 1856 votes cast for Nc
Donald aud Ice Tor Stube. There was
on tie pc l-hoJk $50 names and IL WAS In
itself a curiosity. There were five pages
OF names that were unnumbered. There
were n number OF the "jokers" that gave
indications of having been stamped with
the rubber stamps. A pair Of cuffs and
sleeve buttons vera found In this box.
They proved to belong to an election
Officer who stood ready to claim theiu.
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