The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-01
LIPFINCOYY'S WRATH.
He Sits Down Heavily on
Lawyer DAILY of the
Suffers Counsel.
ALL THE ACCUSED TESTIFY.
Tom Trotter Bluffs, Spears Protests
and "solder" Friburg Loses
His Nerve.


Yesterday afternoons session of the
ballot box trials was uneventful except
for severe rebuke to Counsellor DAILY by
Judge Lpplncott. The only other feature
OF ofinterest, with the possible exception of
some hits In the opening speech for the
defense, was the spectacle Of Tom
Trotter's imperturbabilify on the witness
stand.
Judge DAILY opened for the defense
shortly after two O'Clock.
"At this time" said he, syou are
aware what these defendants are charged
with The indictment charges them with
an attempt to defeat and obsreact the
election laws At the time wntn these
crimes were charged public sentiment
was awakened against the accused which
has not yet died out. l have sometimes
thought that this sentiment has pref u
diced all citizens so that these defendants
cannot get fair trial. 1t sometim es
seems to me that you are uncoasclously
affected BY these seutiments-that you
could not step into that jury box and give
tuese defendants fair trial. hope you
will lose that prejudice. Ii Is Just as
great crime Tor Jurynan TO allow
prejudice TO Interfere with the honest
discharge Of his duty as to stuff q ballot
box"
Counsel then defined conspiracy; and
presented the outline OF the defense as y
general denial.
A sHoT AT CAPTAIN GRAHAM
I'VE are no respecters Of persons, :, he
continued. I'VE have nothing to hide
II anything we have TO say reflects upon
any one it Is his fault. We will prove to
you that hundreds of affidavits were
sworn to in the Republican County Com
mittee room. Some OF the affldavits you
have seen were sworn TO By this man you
see sitting by. the Prosecutor. Captain
Jack Grahaml- Some of these afiidavits
were sworn to by my friend Brennan.
Some were sworn to by Johu Ramsay;
and these Very af1ldavits sworn 70 were
stolen from the polling place by Captain
Graham.
'When Trotter protested against the
registering on these Illegal afiidavits
sworn to by Brennan, Ramsay & Co. he
repaired to the Office OF the Corporation
Counsel for advice, ana when ne could
not mud him he went to Corporation At
torney Hudspeth for advice. When he
returned the thing was done.
We have here 200 sfidavits sworn to
by John Ramsay. Those sworn to by
Graham and Brennan are not here. There
were 500 or more anidsvits made. Per-
haps you will say THAI all these men who
voted on the affidavits did not cast Re-
publican votes. Perhaps so. but. II so, 1t
WAS because they could not deliver the
goods Brown lived on vacant lot,
Nathan did not live in the precinct, and
Barry did not live at No. l011 Newark av-
enus, but General Ramsay swore to all Of
them.n
Counsellor Daily quotei the statute per-
mitting registry by affidavit and said that
the election officers knowing Ramsay,
Brenuan and Graham, thought they had a
right TO register men under afdiavits.
Republicans were endeavoring to register,
"a aaf vxh na n qrar
board register those men by the hundred
unless they thought they were doing
right
Captain Jack Graham nodded his head
like a wooden image Of 4 Chinese man
DARN and smiled while DAILY was refer
ing to him.
TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENSE.
Rotert Hudson, before whom the
afiidayits were made was the first
witness put on for the defense. The
value of his testimony wns given in yes
terday's JERSEY CITY NEWS.
Jonn Brennan was the second witness
placed on the stand BY the defense. He
admitted making some of the affidavits
on which registrations were made at this
precinct
General Ramsey was the next witness
called. He acknowledged making fifteen
aftidavits shown TO him by Counsellor
DAILY. He said that after the affidavits
had been made some one took them 70
: the precincts to have names registered
by them. He sent 10 the popcorn pre-
cjnct for his affidavits ON the morning OF
election. When he was asked why he
sent for them, he said ;-"To see If they
were right"
"But the names were registered per-.
sisted Counsellor DAILY.
gE"Oh. no; they could not have been,"
answered Ramsay.
Ramsay admitted that he did not know
all the ha He
did know Nathan. he said, and was sure
he lived in Gregory street. Counsellor
DAILY directed the jury's attention to the
fact that Nathan previously swore ne had
not lived there for two years.
BLAST FROM THE BENCH.
Judge Lippincott here lnterfered and
said he failed TO see the purpose Of the
examination.
IF the defense was disputing evidence
of men who had sworn they were falsely
registered" he said, cit would be all
right, but when the examination proceeds
to impeach the tlefense's own witness the
Court will stop H."
This rather troubled the lawyers for
the defense. for they seemed to lay great
stress on the suspicious affidavits, and it
sellor DAILY said:-'.We do not want to
take up unusual time In the trial or this
cause, but we do want to try il fairly"
Judge Lippincott was all action imme-
diately. He grasped the handle OF his
gayel tightly, leaued far forward and
With his eyes flashing fire, said,-"What
do you mean? WhaI do you nie1nf Do
you mean TO imply. sir, that the Court
manifests disposition to try it un-
fairlyi"
Daily saw his mistake instantly and an
swered,-"No, sir; oh, no. SIR"
IF you do" said judge LipDincott,
"the Court,wlil not hear you any further
Ramsay's further examination esicited
nothing important
TRoTTER OK THE STAND.
After some time spent with unimpor-
tant matters, Thomas Trotter next took
the stand, and testified in self-possessed
manner. He occupied The stand for an
hour. He said he was clerk Of the cleo
tion board and did not have anything to
40 with receiving votes. On registry day
200 afiidavits were presented at his
precinct TO have registry OF men
made He went TO get legal
advice on the subject. and when he re-
turned. the registering had been done.
He met Justice Davis on the way and
told him about the affidavits. and word
was sent to all tho precincts to keep
watch. He did not register any person
whom he knew not to be legal voter.
He did not know of any of the boards re-
ceiving an Illegal vote
He saw some joker ballots lying on the
boards with the rest Of the tickets on the