The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-15
Federal Officials to Be
Mustered to DiSfran-
Chise Democrats.
THE WHOLE PLOT LAID BARE
Tom MeEwan Initiating John
|. Davenport Ballot Re-
form Law Ignored.
Work of the state Committee
John T. Dunn for Congress-
& General Campaign News.

Postmaster Samuel Dickinson and
Martin Finck, his man Friday. are al
s-salr old tricks again. The schemes con.
cected by these gentlemen are carried out
by William Esoas, Superintendent of the
letter carriers. s8roas was probably Sc
lected to do the dirty work of the Repub-
lcan County Committee because of the
similarity of his tactics to those of the no.
torious Dave" Martin. Broas' first act
TO gain favor in the eyes of the Republi-
can tricksters was to indulge in Sunday
liquor saloon, which eliminated in his
shooting man. For this offense he was
taken into court and tried.
Again he curried favor with q number
OF the Republican County Committee
men by insulting Committeeman
Jimmy Young His language on this
occasion. IL is said, even horrifed the
stoical Sam Dickinson himself. Broas
was suspended by Dickinson Temporarily
but, his services to the party being indis-
pensibie, he was reinstated. Broas is a
heeler OF the meRnest caliore imaginable.
HARRlsoN'S INTERFERENCE.
The positlou he occupies aG present was
given him by the direction of President
HARRISON, wAo i'll order TO place hiu, dis
peused with the services of an ola soldier
Now Broas is furthering q scheme of
Dickinson's and FIuck's to cheat Demo-
c. ats out of their votes aud also advanc-
ing scheme to have full hedged letter
carriers appointed supervisors of election
and election officers. The trickery was
unearthed when Louis Ball, a 1ull
fiedged letter carrier, and resident of
the Fourth Assembly district was COM
PEELED 10 get out of the Fourth district
aud live temporarily in the First precinct
OF the SIKH district. Not only is it Illegal
1orBall 10 oe an elecUionotficer in precinct
OF which he is not n resident. but it is also
in violation of the civil service law TO act
as an election officer.
When the board of which Ball is a
member organized the Democrats sug-
gested thai the house to house canvass be
made at once. Ball and his associate
Were willing, and the canvass was about
to be begun when the notorious BrOas
put III aa appearance loaded to
Inc muZzle with orders des ined
to stranRle Democratic voters. The First
precinct of the Sixth district is largely
Democratic, Broas, knowing this, di-
rected Ball and his associate not to make
the canvass and in truly tough manner
said:-
This is Democratic precinct. Don't
make house to house canvass, let the
vote let them register themselves
TO DISFRANCHISE DEMOCRATS
A similar occurrence is reported from
one of the precincts in the Fifth Assem-
bly, istrict in Eleventh street. Here the
Republican members of the Board, acting
under instructions from Morris Welsh,
who is as notorious as Broas. refused to
organize and also to make the house to
house canvass.
Both OF these precincts are largely
Democratic and it is thoaght by the
Republican leaders that if sucn
Iuethods can be Tut in operation through
Broas that hundreds of Democratic vot-
ers can be deprived of their votes. The
case of Louis Ball, who is Illegally
serving as an election officer is only one
out of many, and 1t is highly probable
that on Election Day their removal frem
the polling precincts will be caused.
The attempts OF Dickinson & Co. to
deprive the Democratic voters of this
county Of the right of suffrage. will be-
frustrated by the Democratic County
Committee, and it is also probable that
some arrests will be made If the work of
intimidating voters continues,