The Jersey City news., 1890-02-14
SCENES AT YHE RECOUNT
Pen Pictures Of the Men Who
are Conducting it.
KNOTTY QUESTIONS TO BE SOVLED.
Will Some Of the Precincts be
Thrown out, Entire? The
Pay Of the MarshaIls.

Legislatures which has assembled in
Trenton in several years have been COM
pietely knocked in the head by the start
ling developments brought to light by the
Senate Committees investigation.
In the centre of the Committee room
off the Senate Chamber there were two
tables around which sat the gentlemen
directly interested in the proceedings.
At the head was Senator Gardner, Chair
man of the Committee
THE CHIEF INVESTIGATOR.
Mr.. Gardner is the Oldest Senator in
length of service in the history of the
State. He was first elected in 1877, and if
he lives through his present term, his
fifth, he will bave been Senator for tif-
teen years.
He is a stout, swarthy man, With large
gray eyes set in a heavy looking face and
serions expression beneath which there
turks suspicion of humor He has
long black dropping mustache like that
worn by the late General John A. Logan,
and three locks of the same color which
lay straight across his head when in re-
pose.
But when the Senator gets worked up
one or two of the locks break away and
begin to coquette with his left eve, To
the left of Senator Gardner is the official
stenographer, Mr.. Gnichtel, a pleasant
faced young gentleman, with a blonde
mustache and gold trimmed spectacles.
DR.. Roe, the other Republican member of
the committee sits next to Mr.. Gr1chtel.
The Doctor is the Senator from
Gloucester and is now in his second term.
He has been prosperous farmer since
1868, though previous to that time he
practiced medicine in Philadelphia and
served on the medical staff of the United
States Army. The Doctor is a benevolent
looking gentleman with sandy beard
streaked with gray.
THE BEAU OF THE SENATE.
Beside Senator Gardner, at the head of
the tables. sits, when he is there, Senator
Bob Adrain, of Middlesex, the Demo
crat upon the committee. The Senator is
a lawyer and is also in his second term in
the Senate. He is the handsomest man
on the committee.
Tall and straight, we'll proportional,
with small black mustache, a round,
strong face and jet black hair which falls
over his broad forehead in sort of neg
ligee bang, Senator Adrain is in fact.
one of the attractions on the floor for the
occupants of the ladies gallery.
The remainder of the table is occupied
by the counsel, eX-Judge Garretson,
Messrs. w. H. Corbin and William
Dougherty, who are well known to the
public of Jersey City, and the correspond
ents
The most important figure next to the
Senators is that of Captain Jack" Gra-
ham, of the Fourth Regiment, who is a
special deputy sergeaiib-at-afnis SC the
committee. The captain is the great con-
servator of the committees dignity. He
sees that there is no unseemly levity
among the spectators
He is no respecter of persons. The
other day Judge Ulrich, of Plainffeld, one
of the Republican leaders of the Assem-
bly, dropped in to witness the recount.
The Judge, with his broad sombrero,
looks like everything else than the Judge
of court of law and prominent menu
Der of the New Jersey Legislature. He
was bending over Mr.. Corbin, observing
the count when Captain Graham yanked
him backward with the EXPLANATION
Come get out of the light, can't youw
The Judge gave Captain Jack look of
disgust and left the room.
On another occasion Senator Winton,
the natty little newspaper man from Ber-
gen. hustled into the room with q new
shiney tile on his head at rakish angle.
Take off your hat there, please rang
the commanding voice of Captain Gra-
ham.
The Senator ran out as though the Cap
tain had ordered his company to charge
bayonets.
City Marshall Long and sometimes
Captain Graham and one of the other SER
geant-at-arms go down into the vaults
are called for.
The Marshal takes off the lid and de-
posits the box on the table in front of
Senator Gardner. The Senator takes out
every thing in the box and examines it
carefully.
and after him the other lawyers, and
then the stenographer notes down the
observations the legal gentlemen make.
When Senator Gardner put his hand in
the box of the Fifth precinct the first
thing he brought forth was pair of red
dotted cuffs. held together by buttons of
an elaborate design.
Those must be Reidy's cuffs" said
sheriff Davis, who was standiffg by, for
he hasn't worn any since election"
Thomas Reidy was one of the inspectors
at this precinct on election day.
TALLYING THE VOTE.
Senator Gardner then proceeds to count
the ballots. Senator Roe keeps tally for
the committee and j. L. Altemus for Mr..
Mcdonald. The blanks on which the
tally is kept are so arranged that the fact
whether the ballot is milled and marked
or not, and the nature of the ticket can
be recorded.
The oath is administered to the wit
nesses by Senator Gardner, and Mr..
Corbin conducts the direct examination
The committee has not as yet held any
private conference or considered any of
the evidence submitted. 30, IL can only
be surmised in what manner they will
apportion the number of votes which
they will decide to be legal among the
two candidates.
That it will be difficult manner can
readily be seen.
KN0TTY QUESTIONS
For instance, in the First Precinct the
poll book contained but 25S names, while
The string held SOB ballots IL is evident
that PAS of these ballots were illegal, and
how to determine just which the Illegal
ones are is the problem.
The general opinion is that the commit
tee win follow the rule which has been
pretty generally observed in investigating
election frauds in the South;- When a
box is so utterly tainted with fraud as
these and the fraud is evidently that of
the Election Board, and no amount of in
vestigation can show the extent, to throw
out the entire box
THE STORY OF THE BALLOTS.
The little ballots, called the iokers,
were all. with a few exceptions, stamped
like this.
JERSEY @ CITY.
In many cases the ballots which had
evidently been deposited in the regular
way We're indistinctly marked owing to
the quantity or quality of the ink, while
on all the jokers the stamping was plain
and distinct
WAS A RUBBER STAMP USED.
A fuller explanation than that given in