The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-27
TN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT.
The Committee Will Come Here to
Take Testimony After 1t is
Through With the Boxes.
Special to the JERSEY city Nslos.

TRENTON, Feb. 26, 1890. The Senate
Committee on Elections encountered 9
mass of corruption today when they took
up the Seventh district. AS photographed
yesterday, ia evidently fraudulent bal
lots were found on the string. The mark
on these was the same as that found on
many in the boxes of. the Fourth district
and the committee will go back and
examine them before it gets much
further.
The Second precinct was apparently
regular and Stuhr lost one by the re-
count, which stood Mcdonald, 81;
Stuhr, 1856. In the Third precinct the
frauds were most glaring- The dial
registered 756 The poll book contained
$40 votes, while there were sos ballots on
the string. The box contained three
loose ballots and four Democratic tickets
marked rejected" The box contained
93 jokers and LOG of the tickets which DR..
Roe has denominated strangers" be-
cause they were prepared by some mill
ing and marking machinery other than
that on the box in which they were
found. McDonald's vote was increased
by the recount "a and Stuhr's decreased
by 10. leaving the count:-McDonald.
66S; Stuhr, 1856.
When the Fourth precinct was reached
"Terry" Mcdonald was put upon the
stand and unfolded narrowing tale.
He testified that he was chairman of the
Fusion Committee in that district. The
committee had man at the polls, which
were in the house Of Engine Company
No. 5, on Henderson street. between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, who
wrote down the name OF each voter as he
voted. He counted 303 up to three p. m.
When the polls closed Terry asked the
juuge, Michael Hughes, how many votes
had peen polled and he said he could not
tal &c ia iQl dfd lrt Whan tho
polls closed at seven O'Clock the election
officers took recess for dinner and did
not return until ten o'clock. They then
counted 100 votes, of which Stuhr had
81. Another recess was taken and the
Board did not resume work. until two
o'clock the next morning. The count
then proceeded and while it was going
on. Michael Hughes, foreman of the En-
gine Company and judge of the election,
went to the gong and struck it. This un-
loosened the horses and they rushed out
among the citizens who We're
them right and left. The election
officers then grabbed up the box and
ran up stairs with it. Sergeant Nc
Ginnis, of the Grove street station, said
he would open with his club the head of
the first man who went up stairs. Terry
declared he would go when Policeman
Jeffery Harrington barred the way with
and reached the floor above where he
caught sight of the box on table. Nc
Ginnis ordered Terry TO go down and
when he refused he ordered Policeman
Donovan to put him out and Terry was
unceren,oDiously bounced.
The examination of the box then pro-
ceeded. The dial registered 404, while
the poll book contained 500 names. and
there were 507 ballots on the string
There were 13 loose ballots in the box A
''jokers," 5 Democratic tickets and 4 Re
publican. The tally sheet gave McDon-
aid All and Stuhr 79 while the recount
gave Stuhr 103 and Mcdonald 1884, includ-
ing 90 s'jokers' found on the string. The
ballots on the string skipped from 152 to
159, This box did not reach the City
Clerks Office until nine O'Clock of the day
following the election.
When the recount was finished Judge
Garretson made the note that Mcdonald
had sworn that in the first hundred votes
counted Stuhr received "a votes, whereas
the string shows that he had just that
number in the first 100 The election offi-
GERS in this precinct were Michael Hughes,
judge; James Scanlan and Theodore
Schultz. inspectors, ana Michael Cassidy,
clerk