The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-09
How THE DAY WENT.
1t Was a Peaceful Election,
but a Success
full One.

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The leaders of both sides made esti-
mates, unmade them and made them over
again. Candidates treated on their pros
poets of victory, gave up all hope, treated
again, and finally abandoned all effort to
guess at the result and decided to wait
until the votes should be counted before
thinking anything about it.
John Hart sat in Cooper Hall watch
ing the returns come in, and was very
uncertain about the result until one pre-
cinct came in giving him majority of
1913 In 221 votes Then he felt better
All day long Captain. or, as he is more
commonly called, sJack" Graham, who
kept his testimony on tap for the Senate
Investigating Committee, kept up broil
with ''Tom" Trotter, Inspector of Elec-
tion in the Eighth precinct Of the First
district, better known as the Popcorn"
district. It started with the arrest by
Graham of negro who tried to vote
from No. 81 Gregory street, next door to
the place where Graham lives. The
negro was challenged by Graham, who
said that he knew personally that the
would be voter did not live there, and,
when he persisted in his attempts,
Granam marched him of.
Trotter pushed Graham away from the
window of the polling place, and Graham
had him arrested for assanltsand battery.
Collector O'Neill bailed him out in $780,
Trotter had Graham arrested for assault
and battery, and General John Ramsey
bailed him out in $780, The browning
act of all was when Trotter had Graham
arrested as disorderly person at the
polls and committed to the County Jail
for thirty days by the Election Board of
the precinct. BY some mistake the COM
mitment was believed at the jail to be in
valid, and Graham went free, though the
law distinctly says that the Election
Boards have power to commit disorderly
persons to the County Jall for thirty
days.
Constable William Reen took Graham
to the jail, but he neglected to take a
copy of the election law with him, SO that
Jailer Birdsall had no authority that he
dared recognize for receiving him. He
will possibly be sent back to the jail to-
day. He indulged in ceaseless success
sion of vile language and threats from
the time he challenged the man from No.
6l Gregory street until the close Of the
polls.
Graham also challenged James Dean,
of No. 4S2 Henderson street, at the same
polling place. and arrested him. He
tried to vote on the name of Perkins.
Later in the day two colored men were
challenged and arrested in the Sixth pre-
cinct of the Fourth district for illegal
voting. On the way to the station house
one of them escaped. The other, who
gave his name as William Dowd, por-
ter on Pullman parlor car, was released
on bail furnished by Collector O'Neill
In the polling place in No. Engine
House there was quite muddle. William
Schultz, the Republican Clerk Of Elec-
tion, was called away by news that there
were robbers in his house. When he got
back to the polls the dial on the ballot
box registered 9S, while the poll book
showed 14s.
Schultz made great outcry, and then
telephoned to the Office Of Collins s. Cor
bin for instructions. They told him he
had no right to go away, and to go
straight back. The other election officers
told him to go to work again, but he
would not. and they filed his place. It
was claimed that the box was out of
order, and that the dial did not work.
j. G. Chester. one of the officers at No.
200 Grand street, the polling place of the
Third precinct of the First district, said
that he saw the Judge of Election put
twelve ballots in the box. This was after
the closing of the polls, and he did not
say why he found no fault at the time of
the occurrence.
All day long there was a cry of Light
vote" but the total vote OF the city,
%, ,S47 is, in round numbers, 5000 more
than it was in either Of the last two char
ter elections The vote was particularly
heavy in the First. Second and Fifth dis
tricts.
The Mayor sat in his office all day and
managed to get through q good deal of
work, notwithstanding stream OF call
ers asking for information or giving it
There was constant succession Of rings
at the telephone, when there would come
conversations like this:-
"Hullol Well. The Fourth will give
400, will itS Who are your All! Hullo,
Tom (or Frank, or whoever 1t might be),
what do you hear from the Fifths Not
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