The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-10
Punish These Election Frauds.

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How about the wicked Hudson
now? How about false registration
and bogus ballots and fraudulent
counting2 What about that Stuhr-
Mcdonald racket
And what about "ballot reform" in
the hands of an infamous, unscrupu-
lous Republican Ring?
Nothing that has ever been revealed
regarding crooked election work in
Hudson can equal in effrontery the
action of the Camden Republicans as
disclosed in the Adams Engard inves-
tigation by the House Committee on
Elections.
First Of all, we find the '.jokern bal
lot in a slightly modified form, thus
jim c. Kennedy, Judge of Election IN the
Seco q precinct OF the Seventh ward, Camden,
testi eli that there were 451 votes cast, There
were III Ballots or more found in the official
enve pes with the name Eugard on them instead
Of 4 gard These ballots were not folded as
the r rular ballots were. He could tell them by
feelia them before opening the envelope, they
were .olded so closely, making a lamp
/ this were in Hudson. how the
Stute Gazette and the Newark Adcer-
tisey, and the FFedoniaa and Senator
Gardner and the other m~outhpieces
of Republican virtue would howl for
the indictment of somebody.
But this is only the beginning.
Here Is another specimen
He (Kennedy) noticed that voters would come
from the booths often with the tickets and ofnc-
iaI envelope in their hands. as they had been
given them by the officers. Some OF
these voters Insisted on returning TO the booths
to get their tickets. They were drunk, and they
said they had to take theirticket outside TO "see
q man"
Let us have some election scoun-
drels put on trial in Camden by all
means. But here is more of it,
once was next called by Mr.. Noonan,
the First precinct Of the Fifth ward the
regular ballot box was not used untn ten
O'Clock, that a soap box was used for a time,
and no box AT all for an hour. In spite OF this
and against the protest of the Democratic cleo
ton officers the official envelopes were dlstrio-
uted.
The voting room was filed with colored men
all day and the United States marshal stood
quietly by except In one case OF a Prohibition
challenger, who was thrown out OF the room by
the marshal A crowd of negro voters was
brought into the polling place and voted after
staying In the booths only a moment.
They had their tickets prepared before going
TO vote. The witness called the attention OF the
judge to the fact that this was the result OF
giving out the envelopes. They had not time 70
put tickets in the envelopes while in the booths.
Some of them bad the tickets, given them by
the officers, In their hands when they came out
He saw some tickets dropped on the floor.
There were between $50 and 200 colored vote rs
In the precinct. and two-thirds OF them were
purchasable. Nearly all of these went into
Chris. Miners cigar store. near the polling
nlQoaL Qffar voting
William Warner, Of No. $40 Spruce street,
Camden, testified that when he arrived at the
polling place It was filled with colored men. The
Judge told all to go out. He and Mr.. Gallagher
went out, but no one else did. It was impos-
sibIc TO clear the room. Mr.. Gallagher pro-
tested against such irregularities The witness
saw elsctioneering done within twenty feet of
the polls
When Democratic watchers pro-
tested they were laughed at, or We're
told they were chronic kickers. Some
of the official envelopes were missing
in the evening, and the Republican
judge admitted they had gone out
side.
Now, when such crimes were discoy-
sfed in Hudson a Democratic Prose-
/cutor determined that they must be
punished. He had the culprits in
dicted by a Grand Jury mainly com
posed of Democrats. The accused
were tried before Democratic judges
and sentenced with exemplary sever
ity.
Let us see what Republican Cam
den will do.
Every well informed person 10 New Jersey