The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-07
. is IHISPOSSIBLE?
Evidence That Mr.. Cleve-
land Was Elected
by Outrageous
Frauds.
THE REGISTRY LISTS ROTTEN.
Eight Precincts Take 5000
from His Majority--In
SO Names 179
Bogus.
All the Dead Men, Vacant Lots,
People Who Have Moved and
Other Dodges Utilized.

If the Supreme Court should. after
hearing the arguments Of the counsel,
decide to permit George F. Perkins, the
Republican candidate for Mayor at the
late charter election, to file an informa-
tion in the nature of quo warranto
aga'nt Mayor Cleveland, the case will 60
upon the calendar of the September term
of the Circuit Court of this county FIR
trial Either side may appeal from the
decision rendered there to the Supreme
Court en- banc. and thence to the Court of
Errors and Appeals. Ordinarily the ar
gument on the appeal would be heard in
the Supreme Court at the winter sitting
and the case decided at the spring sitting.
The question on appeal thence to the
Court of Errors would be argued at the
summer sitting of the Court of Errors,
and final decision would be rendered at
the fall sitting.
But the lawyers on neither side expect
that this case will. hang fire as long as
that. 1t is one of such urgency and inn
portance that it will be given preference
in the arguments over almost all the
others on the calendars, and the decisions
will be hurried along. This, it is believed
by Perkins counsel is specially likely il
the Court should take the view that a
great public wrong has been done in she
the seating, for his last term, of the pre-
sent Mayor.
Mr.. Oleveland's side of the case has not
yet been heard. As he is on the defensive
he must in the nature of things wait for
his opportunity, till his assailants have
had their innings. But George L. Record,
Otto Grouse and young Gordon, who are
prosecuting the case for Perkins, are
boasting that the case they are preparing
tomake against him is one that he will find
it utterly impossible to meet. They were
especially jubilant when JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter went among them yester-
day, over the recent disclosures of frauds
their labors have laid bare.
THE RECOUNT WASN'T MUCH.
There IS no Disgusting the fact that the
recount of the ballots with the results
announced in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
from day to day, brought them less Of
comfort than they expected to find. But
they didn't expect to find much there,
they say now that they know how little
there was to find, for they assumed. they
declare, that the election officers, learn
ing something from last falls exposure.
would be careful to have their records
straight on their face. The lawyers were
not surprised, therefore-or they pre-
tended not TO have been--when they saw
on opening the boxes that the tally sheets
nearly agreed with the strung ballots, land
that the poll lists contained about as
many names as there were votes credited
to the candidates. They derived some COM
fort, however, fr ON the little discrepancies
found. For variance between two
reeords-the srringing, for instance of
one or two fewer ballots than there were
names on the poll lists, and like appar-
emily inconsequental trifles-argued to
their mind the existence of frauds that it
might pay them to hunt further for The
election officers had attempted sto cover
their frauds, but they had not been ac-
curate enough book keepers and mathe-
maticians to make each record the per
feet corroboration of each other record.
BUT THE POLL LISTS. OH, N.Y.
They were not disheartened therefore
when they gave up the recount to prose
cute other branches Of their investiga-
tion. When went among them for in
formation yesterday they were in high
state of jubilation. They had found
something evidently that made them feel
mighty good-so good, indeed, that they
could not refrain from telling me what it
WAS. Their high spirits were based on
the registry and poll lists. The moment
the boxes were opened the books with the
names of the registered and voters in
them had been eagerly seized, fastened
to little corps of typewriters
to be copied, and then the work
Of Investigation was began. Each name
on the poll list was copied, with the al
legged address Of the alleged voter, upon
separate sheet OF paper. These slips were
grouped together according to localities,
and then little army Of canvassers was
sent out through the city to find out how
much Of that voter existed at the particu-
lar house from which the list represented
him as having voted.
ALPHABETICAL BLOCKS OF VOTERS.
Besides this. some one took the registry
list in each Of the suspected precincts and
compared it with the poll list in that par
ticular precinct.
The result has been astounding" said
Counsellor Record yesterday. 1--WE hnd
that in many Of the precincts names are
copied into the poll lists In The same
order IN which they appear on the regis
sry Lists. Once in while the series Of