The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-24
QUEER REPEATER YARN.
The Governor of South
Carolina Figures Be-
fore the Gardner
Mud Machine.

The monotonouS examination of women
which the Senate Investigating Commit
tee has been carrying on during The past
few weeks became too tiresome yesterday
afternoon even for Senator Gardner and
the good DIR. Roe. So they changed the
order of things and introduced evidence
of livelier nature The rumor of this,
which spread about in the morning, drew
a larger crowd than usual to the Vice
Chanceilor's chambers. Stuhr was
among them, strutting about as though
he knew himself to be Senator already.
The first witness was William Moots.
of No 93 Madison street. Hoboken. All
he knew was that the ballot box in the
First district OF the Fourth ward of Ho-
boken, where he was an election officer,
got out OF order and would not work, so
they had to take the lid off. This, Of
course, was evidence of large fraud, and
good DR.. Roe looked horror stricken.
HE DETECTED REPEATERs.
Frederick Blume, who keeps a saloon
at No. AZ Franklin street, In the Fourth
district. told. perhaps, the most interest
ing election day that repeaters were
working In the district and that several
of them were voting from his place. He
started to have the men arrested, but
they left his house taking his new over
coat with them.
The men were brought to his place, he
alleged, by two men named Curley and
Coorts, who are both in the employ of the
Street and Water Board. Mr.. Blume
said he told Curley about the loss of the
coat and Curley took him over to dive
on the Bowery, near Houston street,
where he recovered the garment from
Off fhn txyh xnn q n
South Carolina.
The reason Mr.. Blume knew he was
the Governor was because while in his
saloon he heard the others call him by
that title, and say something about long
time between drinks.
While in the Bowery dive one of the
men, MIR. Biume said, told him that there
were seventeen of the repeaters from that
place IN Jersey City on election day and
they each voted ten times.
SAW SOME JoKERS
Teddy Carroll, who is a clerk in tn e
Street and Water Board, and was cleo
tion clerk in the Third precinct of the
Seventh district, said he saw some
'.jokers" on the shelf at the polling
place but did not know how they came
there.
He explained the fact that they did not
get through counting ballots in his pre-
cinct until nearly six O'clock on the morn
ing after election by saying that he was
ill and they had TO adjourn several times
He could not tell what had become of
the ballot box, as he left them in charg g
of the inspectors.
Martin Higgins was Judge of election
the same precinct and he said that he saw
all the ballots come out of the box. He
did not notice that some were stamped
differently from others or that some were
larger than others.
HE PRINTED JoKERS.
1harf nnf1 tactifiad that ha flrinfp1
5000 of the jokers for a stranger who said
he represented Assemblyman Byrnes.
Mr.. Datz denied that he printed any of
the various other sizes of jokers shown
him.
Theodore Schultz was the Republican
Engine House on Henderson street. This
was the place where some one struck an
alarm of lire, and during the commotion
one Of the election officers ran up stairs
with the box.
When the first small ballot came out Of
the box Schultz called attention to it be-
cause it was stamped differently from the
others. He was asked if it was stamped
and if that wasn't enough for him. He
said no more.
Adolph Bode swore he saw man
named Du Bois vote twice. The commi t.
tee then adjourned apparently satisfied
with its afternoons work.
The investigation was continued this
morning. A number OF witnesses gave
the usual testimony that names men
toned to them by Mr.. Corbin
did not live in the house the witness did.
County Clerk Dennis Mclaughlin pro-
duced the election returns as filed in his
Office Some of the returns had no m ark
designating the time when they wero
fled Mr.. Mclaughlin could not account
for this, nor could he tell who received
all the returns.
The footings OF the returns of several of
the precincts differed from those on the
tally sheets, and in some no vote was re-
corded after mauy of the offices. Mr..
Corbin retained possession of many Of
the returns for future reference.