The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-13
FRAUD BEGINS.
An Outrageous Registra-
tion Crime in the Bath
House" Precinct.
NOW LET THE COURTS STEP IN
Nine Hundred Names Placed on
the Roll in Direct VIOLA
tion Of Law.
The Davis Gang Control Some Of.
the Polls at Least, and the Old
Nefarious Work Is in
Contemplation.
now LET THE COURTS STEP IN

The hand of the Ring has already shown
itself in the manipul alton of the new
election machinery. In the bathhouse
sprecinct-the Seventh-of the Second
District, the Democratic members of the
Precinct Election Board were
Dunn and Omealia, the Re publican
members were Aleck Robertson and
Arthur Sanderson. These men should
have started out on Tuesday to make a
house to house hunt for voters in the pre-
cinct ank kept up the visitation till Sat-
urday. But the law directs that they
shall go in couples-a Democrat with a
Republican.
One Of the Democratic members would
3 n IT go out on the hunt in the daytime;
another would not go out on the hunt in
I the nighttime. The two Republican in
spectors saw that funny business was to
begin at once, and they refused to serve.
They did not signify this refusal, how
ever, by presenting their designations to
the County Board. They merely kept
away from the business.
1t was Saturday before this condition
of things was discovered, and so the va
cancies were not filled. The failure to
fill the vacancies made canvass impos-
sible, but Candidate Ewald, who is run
ming on the Republican ticket for the AS
sembly in the district, says that there are
900 names on the list that is to serve as
the registry list.
Who supplied them?
How were they got?
PROGRESS OF THE REGISTRY
The registry officers who went out last
Friday to make house-to-house hunt for
voters and to ascertain their names. are
presumed to have completed their can
vass, as the new Election law commands
by last Saturday evening. But no one can
say whether they have done it or not.
Every ybody whom The NEWS reporter
questioned said, however, that his house
had been visited, and the canvass may
have been pretty thorough and earnest
one after all. Two of the precincts in the
city came within an ace of being over
looked. Not one of the eight men ap-
pointed to serve In them put III an appear
ance last Friday, and their stationery was
not called for. Their places were filled
the next day by the County Board, and
every precinct in the city has been more
or less thoroughly canvassed.
THE HOUSE-TO.HOUsE HUNT.
Some of the officials, on starting out,
decided TO copy the poll lists of last year,
but the County Board put an end to that,
and gave notice that ii the members Of
the precinct boards failed to do their
work they would be proceeded against
The canvassing officials are not obliged
to make any report to any one of the re-
suits Of their enquiries; they are not even
required. as it is generally supposed they
are, to file their lists after each day Of
registry. They have to hang the copies
up somewhere, but the lists need not
make their appearance in the County
Clerk s office till the day following the
second registry day. The boards will
meet tomorrow to add such names as may
have been overlooked in the house to
house canvass. The members of the Coun-
ty Board will distribute themselves be-
tween here and Hoboken tomorrow to
advise and inform them.
Some startling stories of the Ring
authorities in connection with the pre-
paratiOns of the lists are circulated on
the streets this morning, but investiga-
tion showed that there was little bottom
to them. The worst Of them was that
the Democratic couDle in the Board of
the Sixth precinct of the second district,
look the names OIL uIteeu persons WlOm
they knew to be non-residents or not
citizens; and entered them on their books
in spite of protests of the Republican
couple They entered the names on the
books. If they attempt to copy them
Into the registry lists. Judge Lippincott
will be appealed to.
SUPERVISORS.
Preparations are being made for the
swearing in of the United States Super
visors who are to officiate at the polls.
Michael j. O'Donnell, the chairman of
the Democratic County Committee, spent
a large part Of this morning at Chief
Supervisor Mpirheid' headquarters in the
Post Office building in connection with
this business. The lists as completed on
both sides were submitted to Judge
Green at Trenton this morning. Ex-
Judge Rankin, on behalf of the Jeffer-
sonians, claimed the right to have that
party represented at the polls, and argued
the question with much force A special
despatch from Trenton TO THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS announces that Judge Green
could not see it quite in that light, and
he decided to approve the lists of Repub-
lican and Democratic names that were
laid before him. The supervisors will be
sworn in at the Chief Supervisors office
in the Post Office building on Washing
ton street at eight O'Clock this evening.
PFINGSTEN Is OTIT