The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-30
MR. WINFELD'S ADDRESS.

If They Did 1t for Party 1t is Time for
the Party to Retire.
When ex-Judge Garretson had con-
cluded his speech for the defendants, the
Court ordered recess until one o'clock
After that Mr.. Winfield had his innings
He said:-
"The counsel for the defence let fall an
observation that if the defendants had
done that which they were charged with,
they had done # for party; II this be .!
to retire and give way to a
new organization. Both parties are
honest when considered in the light Of
majorities. They are willing to stop at
nothing. What else could you expect
from the defendants when the great naen.
in politics have given them an infamous
example? Such men are the sneak thieves
Of political life, and such men as Hart,
Delaney, Fallon and MoschelI are the
foot-pads. Let me say If / had the choice
between the two. | would discard the
sneak thief and take the foot-pad.
Justice may overtake these defend
ants sooner than it will those. We deal
with these now because they have been
caught but let us hope that in due time
Justice will lay its hand on those others.
Instead of men being honestly registered
that they might vote according to law
five hundred black affidavits were signe d
at This election for use in this distric t.
The vote of one law abiding man count S
but little against the robbery of the bal
lot box stuffer.
.sIf they are guilty of the crime here
charged your verdict will be to that effect
and if they be innocent, ,acquit them. We
are not here to prove that these men met
and resolved to violate the law, but
that they have shown by their
acJions that they did violate the law.
1t appears from the testimony OF Mr..
O'DoAnell that a registry list was sent to
the election officers to be copied. 1t may
be that there was laid the foundation of
fraud, and there has been nothing
shown here to justify the placing of
those names on the register. The law
says no person shall be allowed to vote
unless his name shall pe found on the
registry.
FALLoN's PENMANsHIP.
II have already called your attention
to the handwriting of Failon, which in
the registry book is plain and distinct,
while in the poll book it is SO badly writ
ten that it has strong appearance of
having been done SO to prevent
any one from reading the names.
Not only must the clerk enter the names,
did not these men when they adjourned
for dinner sign the certificate showing
the number of votes polled up
to that time, as the law re-
quiresp Because by not doing SO
it left them more room for fraud.
The law also says, gentlemen. that
when the polls close certificate Of the
whole number shall be placed directly
beneath the last name, but these men
placed this certificate on the first page of
the book, leaving all the rest of the book
for them to fill IN at leisure.
when the election officers counted the
ballots did they stop counting when the
last name on the poll book was counted,
as the law requires? Oh, no, they kept
right on until all the ballots in the
box were counted. / submit to the
Court that the number OF votes recorded
on the poll book is the guide the law set
for these men to follow, and not the NUM-.
Der registered on the dial. The record Of
the proceedings Is the poll book
FRAUDULENT VOTES.
1--WE have charged that these men have
suffered men to vote whose names are
not on the registry, and let us look at the
first name on the list. George HON an.
Homan swore that he did not vote, that
he was sick. Now il he did not commit
perjury some one must have voted on his
name"
One by one Counsellor Winfield went
through the list of names on the indict-
ment, commenting on each separately as
he reached it, and placing an entirely
different construction on the mistakes"
discovered and referred to by ex-Judge
Garretson.