The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-06
MIR. CLETHLAND'S HAND
Is He Responsible for the
Election Frauds in
This City?
SOME THINGS INDICATING IT.
Last Falls Election officers Who
Have Found Snug Places
Through His APP
pointees.

p0intees.
1t is impossible to read the table, pub
lished in one of today's Trenton des-
patches, showing the results in the dis
tricts of the recount OF the Hudson
county ballots, without observing that
the districts in which the most glaring
and palpable of the frauds
that have so startled the community
are all in Jersey City. The phenomenal
majority by which Mayor Cleveland
achieved his second election is said to
have been a fictitious one rolled up by
peculiar election methods. That, at
any rate, is the rumor. tits not germane
to the question whether the rumor repre-
sents the truth or not. Enough to know
that its prevalence has served, in connec-
tion with the revelations of the tables OF
Trenton figures to point an enquiry.
The enquiry suggested is whether the
application of these peculiar election
methods might not be one Of the many
beautiful reforms Mayor Cleveland has
introduced into municiDal affairs II would
be useless, it was easily conjectured, to
ask him to satisfy public curiosity on
the point; his native modesty would not
permit him to boast of that, any more
than of any of his other achievements. It
is well known all over the town that the
Mayor goes quietly about. making re-
forms here and reforms there-as, for
instance, the reform contemplated in the
City Hall bill-without getting out on
the house tops to proclaim it.
When pubic official thus gees around
doing good with unostentatiOus silence,
what would be the use Of asking him to
let the public know Of his part in this re-
forms
But it was assumed that If he had had
any part in accomplishing this especially
notable and conspicuous reform in cleo
tion methods the superabundaut benevo-
lence of his nature would not permit him to
suits had been achieved; and that, II any
of the election officers whose boxes
showed specially gratifying majorities al
Trenton, were in his confidence, he would
recognize the value Of their services by
providing them with places under his
paternal government.
1t was therefore primarily to learn
whether the credit for this startlingly in-
teresting reform belongs to him, by ind
ing out whether he had rewarded any of
those who helped it along, that I was
tempted this morning to Gull OUT
from the reports, the names OF the cleo
tion officers who served at the polls in
pnt, as / did. with the names
from eighteen precincts, to learn how
many Of them had been put in place by
Mr.. Cleveland's government. The result
was most gratifying, SO far, that is, as
showing the Mayors tender solicitude
for the welfare of his co-workers is con-
cerned. Here is the list of election Of1f-
GERS whose names appear on the election
records in some Of the precincts, and 3
statement OF the places siis; "a. y cir good
friend has had his city officials provide
for them.
Michael Kelly, Judge of election at the
Ninth precinct of the First district. fore-
man on streets for Mr.. Cleveland's Street
and Water Board.
William e. Reen, election officer Fifth
precinct of the First district, has .
brother on the police force under Mr..
Cleveland's Polio Board
Nathan Fowler, election officer, sama
precinct, extra clerk under Mr.. Cleve-
lands Street and Water Commissioners
Thomas ii. Jordan. a member Of the
same election board = his brother-in-law,
ssJimmy' Connolly, is clerk to Mr.. Cleve-
lands Tax Commission
Thomas Fallon, election officer in the
First precinct Of the First district, janitor
of the Street and Water Board building;
Mr. Cleveiand's Street and Water Board
generously displaced another Democrat
TO provide recognition for Mr.. Fallon's
distinguished services.
John S. DAILY, election officer in the
Second precinct of the First district, has
billet under Mayor Cleveland's Street
and Water Board.
Thomas Mailly, an election officer in
the same precinct. is employed at the
city pipe yards by Mayor Cleveland s
Street and Water Board.
Louis Heller, who served on the same
election board, is employed by Mr.. Cleve-
lands Street and Water Boards.
o. l.. Fribourg, election officer in the
Third precinct of the First district. has
for his employer Detective Mike Kilcau-
lay, to whose stature Mr. Cleveland's
Police Board added two inches to make
him of regulation height for service in
the department..
Tom Trotter, who served in the same
election precinct, is a general superin-
tendenJ under Mi. Cleveland's street and
Water Board.
Francis Whalen, election officer in the
First precinct of the second district. Is an
extra clerk in Mr.. Cleveland's Street and
Water Board.
Patrick Mannix, election officer in the
Seventh precinct Of the First district, is
employed by Mr.. Cleveland's Street and
Water Board in the city pipe yards.
Suringham, election officer in the Fifth
precinct of the Second, is employed by
Mr.. Cleveland's Street and Water Board.
Charles Conway, whom the Repub-
licans employed to watch the count in
that precinct and who didn't watch it,
has job under Mr.. Cleveland's Street
and Water Board.
Michael Hughes, election officer in the
Fourth precinct of the Second district, IS
foreman OF No. Engine by the grace OF
| Mr.. Cleveland's Fire Board
James Scanlon. election officer in the
same precinct, was this morning made an
extra assistant clerk to Mayor Cleye-
lands Tax Commissioners, at salary OF
| $500 year.
G. Dolan, election officer IN the Seventh
precinct of the Second district. is a driver
| for Mr.. Feeney, one OF Mr.. Cleyeland's 8
| Police Commissioners.
| The list is not complete by any means.
! Other names are yet to be investigated.
But the enquiry as far as 1t has pro-
| gressed discloses grounds for believing
| that Mayor Cleveland gave conspicuous
4 aid helping to the election reform
1 methods that have brought Hudson
| county into such delightful notoriety Of
| late, and goes far to establish the Iact
| that he does not forget his friends.
Well. We All Knew It.
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