The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-28
STORY OF THE BOXES.
Marty McDermott's Bushes
When One from Hobo
ken is Opened.
THE "FoREIGNER' BALLOT
What the Senate Elections Commit
tee Found at Their Sitting
Yesterday Afternoon.
THE "FOREIGNER' BALLOT

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TRENTON. Feb. 27, 1890 Senators Gard
ner and Roe continued their patient
search after corruption in the Hudson
county ballot boxes yesterday. They be-
gan at nine o'clock and kept at it until
well into the evening, with the usual ad-
journments for The necessary recupera-
tion of the physical man. The morning Is
WORK revealed little to pay them for their
trouble, but in the afternoon. when they
entered the Fourth ward of Hoboken, the
frauds became SO glaring that good DR..
Roe, who has the same antipathy for
electoral frauds as his Satanic majesty is
popularity supposed to have for holy
water, almost wept.
TIM LONG ON HIS DIGNITY.
The First ward, of Harrison, was the
first box opened after dinner. Marshal
Long refused to touch it, as his business
was with the Jersey City boxes only; SO
Captain Jack Graham tackled the com:
binatiOu
He had some trouble at first to make
it work. but it takes more than ballot
box combination to down. the Captain,
and the contents of the box were soon
only irregularity it disclosed was slight
error in the tally sheet count as compared
with the committees, which took three
votes from Mcdonald and two from
Suuhr- The vote then stood Mcdonald
260 and Stuhr 43.
SENATOR M'DoNALD'S WARD.
Senator Mcdonald lives in the Second
ward, the box of which next taxed Cap
tain GrahamS IS patience. This was found
to be regular in every respect, put a
slight error in the count gave Mcdonald
1875 and Stuhr 20, which the committee
changed by reducing McDonald's vote by
two.
BY the time the Third ward had been
reached the captain had the combination
business down fine, and opened the box
as quickly as he would have bisected the
she'll of an oyster Here the committee
changed matters somewhat by increasing
McDonald's vote, leaving it 222 to 116 for
Stuhr.
The Fourth ward, which finished up
Harrison, contained no more glaring ir-
regularity than an increase of one in
McDonald's vote, which the committee
left at 374. Stnhr's vote or S3 was not
changed.
a RICH FIND.
City Clerk McDermott, of Hoboken.
there took charge of the boxes, and at The
invitation of the committee produced the
one of the First polling district of the
Fourth ward of his city, which is in the
Seventh Assembly district. Mr.. McDer-
QlObJ plaCeu Gne DOA upon bilt thOlt, Will
the remark that everything would be
found as straight as a string in Hoboken.
Mr.. McDernOtt made a slight error.
The poll book string and other parapher-
MALTA of the vote seemed in good order,
and the box produced genuine surprise
for Senator Gardner.
Whenever the Senator Hsned out d tally
sheet he would say.--s'Here is black
sheet of paper containing the names of
the candidates on the left hand side, op-
posite which are sundry marks no doubt
denotIng ballots
When he took out this tally sheet he
said:--''Well, l declare. here is the first
regular tally sheet we have yet found"
What the Senator called regular sheet
was one furnished by the city of Hobo
ken, with some printed device upon it..
The tally sheet had 116 of these marks for
Mcdonald and 35 for Stuhr, and the COM
mittee's recount took two votes from each
candidate.
Eighteen tickets were found in the box
which from the stamping and milling, or
rather want OF stamping and milling, the
committee decided had not entered the
box as they should have done.
The Second district of this ward did not
reveal anything startling, and all the fig
uring of the committee did no further
AID and give it to Stuhr, making the
count Mcdonald 1877 and Stuhr 40.
THE NAUGHTY DIAL.
The Third district was even better as
far as the count was concerned, which
was 236 for Mcdonald and 81 for Stuhr.
OF course the committee had to show
something for its labors, and SO took one
from Stuhr's vote.
There was discrepancy between the
dial and the number OF names on the poll
book. The former stood at 220 and the
latter contained 295 names. This led Mr..
Corbin to examine the book carefully,
with the result that in his opinion the
names were written in the same chirogra-
ply and evidently at the same bime.
POOR MARTY BLUsHES.
The Fourth district made Mr.. McDer-
mott blush. The dial was all wrong, and
stood at 042, and the committee could not
make it work. Two hundred and ninety
names were neatly written on the poll
book, and on the string were 800 ballots.
Mcdonald had 246 votes and Stuhr 46 on
the tally sheet, which was also apparently
the pink of propriety
The recount had been in progress but a
short time when Mr.. Corbln made dis
covery. On the back of ballot was one
of the most clumsy attempts at forging
the stamp thai the investigation has yet
produced.
This was the stamp
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