The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-20
COMPLETING THE THIRD.


One Rox That Looks as If 1t Had Been
Prepared for the Occasion.
ispeciat to the Jersey C5ty Ne,cs
TRENTON, Feb 10, 1890. The committee
opened the box of the Eighth precinct,
which presented no more glaring irregu-
Iarity than an error of two in the count.
The dial, poll book and string of ballots
all agreed on $50, and the count gave Nc
Donald seventy-six and Stuhr 159. The
committee found two more votes for
Stuhr, but did not change McDonald's
vote.
This monotony of official virtue was
somewhat broken when the Ninth pre-
cinct was examined. The dial registered
306, and upon trial was found to work
correctly. The poll contained the same
number and the tally sheet gave McDon-
aid ninety-three and Stuhr 1872. A second
string contained seven tickets marked
.sReiected. double.n Six of them were
Republican and but one Democratic. The
recount did not change the vote as set
forth on the tally sheet. The Tenth was
apparently innocent of all fraud or at
tempt at fraud. The recount took one
vote from Mcdonald and gave it to Stuhr.
ANOTHER HYBRID BALLOT.
Things picked up considerably when
the Eleventh precinct was reached and
the official virtue became very shaky.
The dial registered 22S and that number
of names checked wes on the registry list
ashaving voted. There were 295 ballots in
the box and the poll book contained the
same number of names
There were twenty-siX loose ballots in
the box, fourteen.for Stuhr and twelve for
Mcdonald. The twelve Democratic bal
lots were of very thin paper and. though
larger, resembled the others. On the
string were forty more of these thin
ballots for Mcdonald and three for Stuhr.
They were not milled and in the opinion
of the committee did not enter the box in
the regular way. The tally sheet gave
Mcdonald 1874. Stuhr 100, which the re-
count slightly changed by giving Nc Don
aid 1856 and Stuhr l02 The election offf-
GERS in this precinct were p. Napin,
Judge; j. j Ryan aud r. w W ateThGryy, in
spectors, and H. Boyle, clerk.
Nothing of interest was found in the
Twelfth precinct box, and the recount
gave each candidate more votes, making
the returns:-McDonald so, and Stuhr III.
1t was a quarter to seven O'Clock and
the committee took q recess to half past
seven. Promptly at the hour work was
resumed with the box of the Thirteenth
precinct on the table before Senator
Gardner. The lid would not come off,
and Marshal "Tim" Long had to break it
open Nothing was found in it to pay
him for his trouble. fhe dial registered
269 and although there were some errors
in the numbering, the poll book was
else was comparatively regular, and the
recount did not change the officers count
of 131 for Mcdonald and 1874 for Stuhr
The dial of the box of the Fourteenth
precinct registered to 259 and the poll
hook contained 1856 names. On the bot
tom of the box were thre e loose tickets.
two of which were open and had evidently
gone through the mill together. Another
was milled and punctured in the regular
manner. All three were Democratic
tickets. The strihg contained 254 tickets.
No 20 had a stamp which it evidently
did not receive in going through the box.
Y ~aS' County Collectors once. .........1ss
Received Payt.
The tally sheet gave Mcdonald 1872 and
Stuhr &c. and the recount did not change
those figures.
Mr.. Corbin requested the stenographer
to note that some of the ballots were
marked in a manner which indicated that
they had entered the box enclosed in
another.
THE JoKERs FIRST APPEARANCE.
When the committee had finished the
Fifteenth precinct Senator Gardner said
that if the box was taken into any court
of law the Judge would not hesitate to
throw out the entire box But Senator
Gardner is not lawyer. The tickets
looked as though they had been scattered
over the floor and appeared to have been
strung on the string two or three times.
A number of the large thin ballots which
Senator Gardner has dubbed 'the inno-
cents,n because they are innocent of all
stamps or mill mark, were, together with
forty five jokers, the first appearance of
the Joker IN this district. Other ballots
were found that were neither milled nor
punctured
SUsPIClOUsLY NEW.
Another popularity of the box WAS the
tally sheet. 1t was clean, and appeared
as il it had just been taken from the sta
toner's. The poll book was brand new,
the pages clean and the names written
with regularity. Counsellor Corbin re-
marked that it had every appearance of
having. been prepared at @ one g sitting;
had no certificate, but contained the same
number of names. The tally sheet gave
Mcdonald 26S and Stuhr 95. The recount
took eight from Mcdonald and one from
Stuhr. The election officers in the Fiji
teenth precinct were:-Richard Whalen,
Judge; F. T.. Herrick, clerk; James Con-
nell and Thomas Burt, inspectors. The
polling place was at No. 1S9 Eighth
street. The box and returns were not
sent in until twenty-five minutes past
two O'clock the morning after election
The Sixteenth aud last precinct of this
district, though by no means immaculate,
was an Improvement on the preceding.
The dial registered 210, the poll book con-
tained 25S, and there were that number of
ballots on the string Two hundred and
fifty-nine names were checked on the
registry. Inside the box lurked ''joKer,''
which showed evidences of having passed
through the mill Of the box. Three loose
ballots, innocent of stamp puncture or
milling, lay open on the bottom. The
dial. when tested, worked correctly The
tally sheet gave Mcdonald 1888 and Stuhr
7o, The recount changed these figures
considerably, and gave Stuhr 98 and Nc
Donald 157, Including the Is jokers found
on the string Patrick Reilly was judge.
a. Youmans. clerk, and F. Mahon and
B John Kearney inspectors.
WATCHER FOR CRUDE
Samuel Huffty, ex-City Collector of
Camden, was present at the recount to-