New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-01
TO GUST MAYOR HAYNES.
ELECTED ONLY BY SHAMEFUL FRAUDS.


NEWARK REPUBLICANS UNEARTH THE DISGRACE
Full FACTS.
The Republicans OF Newark began their contest Of
present charter election yesterday by fling two
petitions In the Circuit Court for investigation
and recount One petition, for an investigation, is
under the provisions OF the wetz ballotlaw. and the
other. for n recount, is under the election law OK
1876 and the amendments thereto up to 1890. The
petitions alleged fraud bribery, Illegal registry and
in accepting votes and in the count and they
were fortified by strong athdavits The first petition
will be argued Monday, and the second on the
following Saturday.
The petition for an investigation is signed by we'll
known citizens. II is volumnous paper OF about
100 pages and sets forth that fraud, bribery and
illegal practices were resored to in the charter cleo
ton, and prevailed sufficiently to affect the result
OF the election. 1t asserts that in many election
districts the requirements OF the law were not oo-
served by the election officers, that ballots WIN
distinguishing marks were used and counted thh1
official envelopes procured from the outside were
used in voting that non-resideDts were allowed TO
vote, and that OF them voted more thap once
that many votes cast were Illegally rejected, 'hae
the number Of these rejected ballots was much greater
than the plurality credited to Mayor Haynes In
conclusion, the petition asks that the election DC
declared invalid and wholly set aside In so far at
least as II effects the Office Of Mayor 1t Is also asked
e. that a recount be had.
In the second petition for a recount the allegations
are as follows First, malconduct, fraud and cor
ruptlon on the part OF the members OF inc seVeral
boards OF election In the election precincts sufficient
10 change the result Second, that illegal votes were
received and legal rejected at the polls sufficient
to change the result. Third, errors In and OF the
several boards OF election, sitting boards of can
vasse in counting the votes such errors changing the
result. Fourth, that votes were illegally ana er
roeously received and counted for Mayor Haynes and
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not counted for Herman Lehlbach; that votes were
cast on the Of dead persons and others and tha
these votes were sufficient to change the result
In twenty seven Of the sixy-three districts OF the
city 1853 appear TO have been voted on as 10
which no information be found at the places OF
residence gwen In several districts, it Is charged
there were more ballots reported as being cast than
there were names on the poll book. In many OF the
districts the poll list not filed with the county
"a, clerk as required by law, this omission Dclng III
districts in which the largest maorites appear against
the Republican candidate. In some OF the olstrlcts
the election officers set back tbe clock in order 10
get in Democratic votes and thus prolonged the BALLOT
ing from ten TO twenty minutes beyond the hour 1or
lawfully closing the polls.
Numerous afIdavits accompany the petitions and
they make starting charges and give III detail the
names Of several hundred nOn-residcns who voted In
the election Chairman William r. Williams I" Ne
Republican City Committee, makes cath that the CLOCK
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to extend the time for voting; that IN two pecncts
outsiders, not appointed sworn, acted as elecuon
officers and handled the onoia ballots and envelopes
that in ten voting districts cigar boxes were uScu
instead OF regular ballot boxes; that In fory-ulr1
districts ballots we're used that contained distinguishing
marks that in ten districts envelopes Of the year 1870
were used and counted legal, and that 343 votes
were illegally rejected. Nj. Williams afhTins MS
ruling that the illegal votes that were counted num-
bered more than 900 greater than the plurality OF
1875 credited Haynes for Mayor. inc remaining
a1davits chiefly forth the names OF men VINO voted
In The various election districts and who Were non
residents of the districts Zach Affidavit NAMES from
twenty TO forty illegal voters IL single dlstrcl
The lawyers in the case who were present IN eDSrt
Yesterday were IL. Wayne Parker Carl Lentz and john
a Miller ir Associated with them are Cortlandt
Parker John r. Emory and Gilbert Collins the latter
OF Jersey City. No lawyers were In court YESTERDAY
20 represent tie Democrats. Judge Depue merely
ordered that the papers be filed and the summons
served in each case. Mayor Haynes was out OF town
on target company excursion and could not be iound
when the papers ready 20 ne served upon MN
in the two cases. The production of the petitions
and afdatits caused sensation In Newark yesterday.