New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-25

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is the spit Republican ballots which were No'cd
in the Fourth Election District of Fishkill IL 10
is a crime to vote split ticket or to scratch rom
n ballot the name OF an Objectionable candidate
what was the secret ballot ever conceived forT
Then there were four more ballots from the Town
OF Red Hook on which some one had maze perch
marks, either during the canvass OF the vote OF
by the voters in crossing out the names Of candi-
dates for whom they did not care TO vote The
deduction of these ffty-threc votes from Mr..
Deane's account was as hgh-handed and audacious
an act OF illegaliy ever was perpetratcd in this
State.
Besides doing this, the Board Of Supervisors went
behind the returns and deliberately stole four
teen votes from Mr.. Deane. and as deliberately
credited them to Osborne This was done on the
fimsiest possible pretext, that the inspectors OF
election had made n mistake and had counted
votes for Mr.. Deane which ought to have gone to
Mr. Osborne This story has been told before, but
it now is repeated TO add testimony to the evil
dence which appears on all sides Of the Demo-
Gratis desperation aud the determination TO
capture this seat by fair means or foul ones. liz
is in evidence that no such tnnspositiOn had been
made, and even if it had, neither the inspectors
of election nor the Board of County Canvassers
has the power to change figure CT amend result
which will in any way modify the original deter
mination Of the inspectors. This duty Is left, In
the law, to the courts. The figures in this case.
which occur on the returns from the Id Fish
Kill District, were taken from the tally sheets
kept by the inspectors, majority OF whom were
Democrats; and at the time when Mr. Deanes
vote in this district was announced, j. II. Van
Tine, one of the Democratic watchers. said that
Deane had run ahead of his ticket. In the first
election district of the town Of POughkeepsie -
burned and mutilated Democratic ballot was found
by the inspectors Of election. From this ballot
the name of the candidate for State Senator was
entirely obliterated. Nevertheless the Board OF
Supervisors counted it for Osborne, although the
inspectors had returned it blank ballot. Again
in the second district of the Third Ward Of this
city the total vote as returned by the Board Of
Inspectors was one short of the total number Of
votes polled. But without knowing for whom
the extra ballot should have been counted, or for
whom it was cast, the Democratic Supervisors
gave it to Osborne 1t should have been counted
as blank One Of the most daring and out
rageous parts of the entire plot WIS the arbitrary
taking Of one vote from Mr.. Deane's vote in the
third election district of Rhinebeck and the addi-
ton of it to Osbornes account. On top of all OF
this was the counting for Osborne OF the seven
ballots which were Burned election night by
Ambrose Bressette, one of the Democratic watch
ers, on the order of the Democratic Board of In
spectors of Dover. At least three of the burned
ballots were straight Republican ballots. but that
made not the slightest difference with the Demo-
cratic members of the Dutchess County Board OF
Supervisors. David II. Hill had ordered them to
elect Edward B. Osborne, and they followed his
instructions This is the true story OF how the
DEMOCRATS obtained plurality of fourteen votes
in this Senate District.
1t is expected that the Senator Governor will
still further take hand in the scheme by seeking
the removal of Theodore A. Hoffman, the Repub
lean County Clerk, who refused to sign the
fraudulent, manufactured tally sheet by which
Osborne was to be declared elected To carry
out the scheme Of robbery; it is absolutely essential
for Hill and the gang Of heelers which is carry
ing out his orders in this to get Mr.. Hof
man out of the way. As long as he remains
County Clerk, the people of the State can depend
upon it thai his signature will not he attached
to any illegal document. Governor Hill is now
trying to get the County Clerk Of Onondaga
County out of the way; and it is expected that
he will take o similar course in Mr.. Hoffman's case
The appointment of John J. Mylod as temporary
County Clerk by the Board of Supervisors, to
sign the returns which had been manufactured by
Mylod and f. Wright Vail, is looked upon as be-
ing as ludicrous as it was illegal: County Clerks
are elected by vote of the people OF county, or
appointed by the Governor in case OF q vacancy
they are not appointed at the within of partisan
Board of Supervisors. Young Mylod did not take
the returns to Albany to file Them with the au-
thorities their, as he started to DO late on Monday
the Penal Code, while on his way to the station,
and It may have deferred him RI from doing whae
he originally intended to do. This section Is No
%, and il reads as follows:
a person who Knowingly procures or Offers any
false forged instrument 10 Dc filed registered or re-
corded In any public ONCE OF this state which instr
meDt. if genuine, might be filed or registered or re-
corded under any law OF this state or OF the Onted
States, is guilty OF felony.
John j. Mylod +. Wright, Vail and the others
who are doing David B. Hills bidding know full
well that the document which they made up as
the returns of Duchess County, especially on the
vote for State Senator, was false instrument II
it was not "a forged one. Mylod. to be sure, was
the chairman Of the committee OF the Supervisors
appointed TO tabulate the returns. but he did not
act with the other members Of the committee IN
beard mustiche and his hair is closely cropped:
therefore the prison barber at Sing Sing may be
spared the labor Of getting this young man into
Rubert F. Wilkinson, the attorney for the Re-
publican members of the Board Of Supervisors.
had not decided this afternoon what course no
would pursue in asking for a mandamus to compel
righting of the wrong On the plea that the
committee to tabulate the returns Of the vote for
the county officers had not yet performed its
work the board this morning adjourned, after
being in session less than ten minutes. until to-
morrow morning. II was thought that the Demo
Gratis would attempt to count out Obed Wheeler,
the Republican Assemblyman-elect from the lid
Assembly District, by the same process that they
gave majority of the votes in this Senate Dis
trict TO Edward b. Osborne. In hat case Mr.
Wheeler would have gone before Judge Barnard,
through his attorney, and asked for the mandamns
As it is, the Democrats shrewdly decided that a
policy of delay would be more advantageous to
them, and adjourned without taking any further
action. In case the Democrats on the board at
tempt another adjournment tomorrow, an APP
plcation in the name of q citizen OF this place
will be made to secure the mandamus.
The feeling here runs high. over the result OF
the Democratic doings In this case. The local
Democratic paper, which IL run by the man who is
playing the part Of runner between David b. Hill
and the Democratic members Of the Board Of
Supervisors. published this morning number Of
interviews with leading and reputable Democrats