New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-24
MR.. DEANE'S SEAT STOLEN.
DEMOCRATS CARRY OUT THEIR NSTRU0
IIoNS IN DUCHESS.
TALLY SHEET MANUFACTURED GIVING oS
BORNE FOURTEEN PLURA1TY-THE REPUB.
LrCAN COUNTY CLERK REPLACED By
DEMocRAT-srEPs TO PREVENT THE
CARRYING OUT OF GREAT
POLITICAL CRIME.


CARRYING OUT OF GREAT
POLITICAL CRIME.
PoughkeepsIe y. ", Nov % (specisD.-By the mos>
high handed audacIous and Illegal use OF brute force
and the power OF majority which, perhaps, ever mas
been witnessed in this State the Democratic members
OF the Board OF Supervisors OF Dutchess County To-Day
adopted tabuated statement OF the votes OF TINS
county which gives Edward b. Osborne plurality OF
1874 votes in the county and, II the figures were
honest elects him by plurality Of fourteen votes over
Gilbert A. Deane, the Republican Senator Mr. Dcancs
funeral at his home at Copake, was In progress al the
moment when he being robbed Of sixty seven votes.
Governor IIi returned 10 this state on sunday rom
his trip to Washington, and it Is remarked as being
exceedingly peculiar coincidence that the carrying
out Of this desperate scheme should so soon foilow
The scheme was nothing short Of bold theft from the
votes cast for Mr. Deanc Of enough TO make the vote
for the two candidates IN the entire district tie, ana an
addition Osbornes account OF The fourteen votes WHICH
make his alleged plurality. II there had been any ex'
cise for doing this tie outrage. for which David BE
Hill IS responsible, would not be appalling but BY
twisting and turning the returns In all directions
is not possible to discover the source. legally from
which these votes that create this manufactured plu
rality came.
There was no prcmonition CT any sort when the
Supervisors met here this afternoon that the proceed
ipgs of the next hour would be witnessed. 1t was
which Judge Barnard administered to the Democratic
supervisors and their attorney Friday last would
raye its effect. lie told them In so many words thas
they had no power to go behind the face OF the re-
turns and II not supposed that even this board o
supe, viSors which outilil XIII In committing
acts OF political uncrupulousness, would take tie TO
sponsbIlity of defylng Judge OF the supreme Oour'
It therefore with much surprise mat the Vsoiu'
lion OF f.. Wright Vail, the Democratic boss. propoS
ing the adoption Of the returns on sia'e
officers a; he should read them was F-
cevcd. This such an unusuai pNcee'ns
that the Republican members OF the Boaru ior 'he
moment were completely dazed. Ii Is customary anu
tho law requires that committee from the boau 'ia
make I'D the tabulacd statement Of the votes LOT eac"
candidate This statement, by this committee. Is
handed in to the BoarI in the form CT report Dy o
cbarn,on of the committee. Such conmttco wa
appointed on Friday last. consisting OF oupcr'i'''
MyIod Wggers and BOorman. The TWO hrst ii"",e~
Supervisors are Democrats. so far as kho"h W ."e
Republcan merabers this committee never met ior
NJ, Boorman never received the slightest ntinlauon
t,at there would be meeting before this sr'erhoo,
When Vail proposed his resolution, supervisor WIS
Jams one OF the Republican members OF the boafu'
obiectad to its adoption it would commit ,ho Doau %
formally TO something that II knew notfnng oi' @ @
Democrats did not expect that an ooIecooh ou ''
ground would be made, and they therefore were nos
oujts nrep,red for it, VAIL however, knew that no
direction that he might ask them to co. He thereiosa
ashed out OF his desk statement Of the vote IN 'ns
county that had been cooked up by Jim Ihi'hio'' .
John j. Mylod and himself. on all of ue o0icr
officers except the candidate for the Senate the mau
factnrcd statement gave the returns about rs hey
n.,aralv annearcd in the County Clerks office, but
when Vail read the ~as6 6THSs~ IN inc county
v.s y,eetcd with a wlfsele OF surprise. Edward b
osborne wes credited with fourteen more votes rnan
the original returns gave to him, and from tne '"0
cast for Gilbert A. Deane sixty vo'es han oecn
taken. Under what WARRANT Of law, right or Iusucs
this was done none can tell
Mr.. Williams was on his feet In an instant asking
for the formal report OF the commt'ee aPpon'o" !"
tabulatc the returns
There is no report from tlat committee Vail
said with significant wink at the chairman
Does this take the place of that report ~ inquired
Mr.. Williams.
No ronlv was youchsafed and Mylod hastened tle
steal along by moving the previous question Oh vars
resolution to adopt the vote he read it. Chairman
Howell decided that this we'll as the main question,
WAS carried in spite of the Republican demands for
rolcall The chairman still further helped the steal
along by refusing to put the question to rOilca.
II WAS evident that he too cowardy to put him.
self and his Democratic associates on record In Young
as they did The motion then made by Vail TO
compel the County Clerk to afx his signature to the
manufactured returns as being the correct returns.
This Theodore A. Hoffman, the clerk refused to do.
He declared that he would not perform this act which
clearly would bc illegal.
Does the Clerk refuse to do tls?" asked VAIL Inc
chairman declared that he had.
"I move that a temporary County Cle-k be appointed
by this Board sign the returns so that they can be
filed with the proper officials In Albany inerposed
Mylod.
Carried I, exclaimed the chairman. sand appoint
John j. MylOd temporary clerk he added. This was
done without the least attempt at taking vote, al.
though the Republicans demanded One
The papers 10 be filed with the state officers evf'
IDENTIFY had been prepared beforehand. for they were
produced Immediately, and John j. Mylod, the tem-
porary County Clerk. proceeded to sign them. While
he was doing this of his heeers brought him his
hat and oyercoa and the moment that his papers had
been signed and the ink dried he bolted out of the door
to catch the train for Albany His plan was to get
there and file the paper with the officials before man
damus could interrupt him.
Up to this point the Democratic plot to steal this
Senate seat has been carried out In defiance of law
Justice and comnonsense. The returns which wcrs
fled by the inspectors of election OF the various election
districts in the county gave Mr. Desne 6345 votes and
Mr. Osborne s449 votes, making Osbome's plurality In
the county nincty-three. The statement adopted TO-
day gives this the correct OF the county: Os-
borne, 1862: Deane, s275, making OsbOrne's manu-
faotured plurality in the county 154 How Vail ana
his associates in the steal reached this conclusion Is
unknown. Immediately after the temporary County
Clerk signed the manufactured returns, he put the
papers in his pocket and refused TO allow any one to
sec them But all the claims which the Democrats
have made heretofore would not produce anything like
this result Taking the original plurality Of ninety.
three and adding to all the votes which the Demo-
Gratis said ought to be taien from Mr. Deaae or go TO
Osborne would bring his plurality in Dutehess County
to 10 votes plurality In the entire district OF nine
votes. Eesides the original and legal plurality Of
nnety-three. this vote is probably made up fol.
lows Thiriyonc ballots cast in the town oi
Red Hook having them the marks 0f
pnte.s leads ballots Illegally voted In
the town OF Dover, and burned by the order Of tho
Democratic Board OF Inspectors; eighteen split Re-
publican ballots cast In East F1shkl and which the
Democrats held marked ballots; fourteen votes
In Fishkl which the returns given to Mr..
Deane but which now have been arbitrarily counted