The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-25

gantic scheme / was to go over to New
York and bring over repeaters to vote in
every precinct and district in the county.
He thought favorably of the scheme"
''Did you tell him you had experience
in that 1ines''
II did not.
HE thought you had it, supposes''
Possibly. / was only working him. /
went ahead until the night before cleo
tion in his estimation. But did nothing.
My part was a bluff"
JUST FOR CAR FARE.
He offered me q check on the night
saw him at his house, but ] refused to
take that. He said that the smallest
amount he had was $50. and / took that
merely for car fare. l would rather it
wasslargern
Mr.. Corbin then attempted to show
that O'Mara had been indicted several
times for election irregularities, but he
denied that ne was the man.
1T seems that Mr.. Grubb, =" O'Mara
continued, "didn't send 0,O00 into Hud-
son county. as was expected. Mr.. Young
told me that. Two or three days before
election Young said that he could not
carry out his agreement"
Mr.. Corbin closely questioned the wit
ness as to the contract with Mr.. Young.
He said he showed Young all the pre-
cincts In the county in which he could
work. He could not remember the pre-
cincts exactly, as he was only fooling
Mr.. Young
On the night before election Mr. Young
told him ne could not carry out the
agreement, but would give him 81 500 to
bring over ten or fifteen repeaters and
work the Tenth district. But he didn't
bring over any. He wasn't one of that
kind and he did not get the s., 500. He
wished he had.
He spent election day riding around in
cab for Mr.. Young to see that nothing
was going wrong. He had straight
Democratic ticket with him with General
Grubb's name on it. The bundle wasn't
opened.
"That accounts for none of them being
found inthe boxes" observed MIR. Corbin.
THEY ESCAPED HIM.
II guess so. You'll find them In the
sewer; dumped them there"
''On the night before election O'Mara
went on, II was talking with Mr.. Young
and Alderman Schermerhorn in Foley g
saloon. 1t was there agreed that go
over to New York and bring over the re-
peaters. went to New York but did not
see any repeaters. / came back at half
past eleven O'Clock and when l did
Young and Schermerhorn had made
their escape and never got the $500. 1
told the driver of the cab to drive me
around New York, anywhere, as long as
he got me back to TayIor's Hotel by half
past eleven" y"
On cross-examination by Judge Gar
retson O'Mara said he met Young by ap-
pointment on ferryboat and he counted
out $50 or $95 for car fare In the first in
terview, Young said he had paid Fowler's
political assessment and that Fowler was
going to see that his precinct was taken
care of. He told me to have 20, 600 Demo-
cratic tickets printed with Grubb's name
at the head, and on the Fifth district
tickets Herbert Potts name WAS to be
IL 1no% Ill "a ~
Young's testimony about his telling
Young chat he had stuffed boxes was q
contemplate lie.
Mr.. YOUNG DENIES.
Mr.. Young was then called for cross
examination. He said that he knew
Fowler He had been appointed DEM
ocratic election officer before he gave
him the $50 He paid O'Mara $50 alto
gether. This was to keep O'Mara from
doing the dirty work of the Democratic
party, and also for information he fur
Iiisiisssa. , &c c received . letter from DatZ
telling him that o. Mara ordered some
tickets. Young immediately wrote back
that he did not authorize O'Mara to or
der the tickets and he would not pay for
them. Mr.. Young denied that he said
anything about $4,000 coming from
Grubb or that he made any contract with
him. He denied that he asked Jordan to
persuade Fowler not to testify before the
COLuLulbteO.
COL. ToFFEY's STORY.
State Treasurer Toffey said that O'Mara
came into Republican Headquarters and
asked for Young and said that he would
wait for him at Taylor's Hotel When
Young came in Col Toffey told him of
O'Mara's visit. and warned him not to
have anything TO do with him. Young
replied that he was all right he was only
getting information for him.
Alderman Scnermerhorn next testified.
He said ne could not remember that Mr..
Young offered to pay Cor repeating.
Mike O'Mara and Sergeant-at-Arms
Graham had wordy spat during the
morning, which, but for the intervention
of friends, might have been more serious.
AS Graham passed O'Mara the latter
made some observation about '.Sneaky
Grahamn Graham threatened to knock
Mixes whiskers off. That was more than
Mike could stand and the men rushed at
each other with blood in their eyes. but
friends interviewed before they could
come together aud Graham was led out
of the room.