New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-15

minutes those papers were on their way 10 Albany
/ hey are the notorious "Mylod certificate. Wi,
This performance was conducted oy rsi',
Howatt and Myod alone. No OtLer superHisoi
wa, asked 10 participate even allowed TO- .>oic
except the Republicans attempted TO Pienrino ~ ~
They interrupted the proceedings WIN III VI
fraud and outrage, TO which attention was
paid The Democrats sat around Ike IVt Va
stupid owls wondering what II was All apou"
None of them, not even Vail himself, had Iie
slightest conception Of how the result decaeu III
the statement ne read had been figured out from
the returns The official table oil returns Woo
in lotfmans possession, and lay then peioIe ninl'
with other changes made upon IL thth tnc WV
positively ordered by the boards Resolutions VI
the previous week That table elected DeShe
by seventy votes. Walls statement elected Us
borne by fourteen. One of the Democratic Owls Owls
was asked when the meeting adjourned 10"
did you fix it," oh. | dunno, he salu WIN
laugh, but guess they must nave thTGNSu ou.
two or three deestric Ks. And even NuII' VIM
read the statement, when he was examined upon
tho proceeding 10 remove County Clerk ilohmall
testified that he didn't know what was Ia 'nc
statement he had read, he didn't know whcio lo
had got IL, ne couldn't remember VINO had given
il 70 bin, and nc had no ldca OF No" INT i''"''
In il had been reached. lin.
There was, however, pretehce ol llnnlns
changes in he VOTE OF lndlVldual prtri . &C. &c,
Somebody between the Boards adjournment on
Friday night and It's assembling on Monday morn
inc had prepared u table OF the oenatoisnlP Ie-
turns That table is in Myiods han9wri'itg
II was among the papers Drought oeiol !, VIZ yss
examined by the Republicans the changes ceuu
all be- traced back 70 discussions that had aifeaoy
occurred in the board or to propositions 'iiaV nau
in an incidental way come before II.
THE FRAUD IN THE FIsHKILL DISTRICT.
As finally traced out the additional alterations
we're six in number The first occurred IN East
Fishkin, where eighteen Republican votes had
bccn returned by the inspectors with the con-
mont: These ballots are returned as detective
by being written on and deiaccd for purpose 10
IA. unknown They contained names written on
them in place of those Of regular candidates, ana
the inference of their return would naturally
be that they were challenged as marked for ldcnt-
hcation They were not 81 challenged, but IL l.
barely pos bc that TWO OF them were 80 marked,
thoit Ia il must be well borne IN lhnd thdl H.
such admission III the IcmOtcSt degree lchoe 70
Justify the CanvasSers III excluding lhcin' ING
new Ballot law covers the case %! DdIlpte az
leacd to hc marked for identification luiIy ana
clearly 1t provides IN SECTION 81 that wheI
durn. a canvass any election officer declares nl>
belief that any ballot has been mfkcd 10 ne
identified. the inspectors snail write their nancr
ON lie back of IL and attach II 10 their 0rlelnal
certificate Of Tie returns, including III tht' c'Il
cate statement OF the, spccl1ed srounds uppn
WAich the validity OF the ballot L. questioned
Such ballots the law goes OF 10 SAY, shaI d.
counted in estimating tn result ui an erection >
but W1,hin thirty days after N" ming OI 'l'
certificate Of the canvass Il wit oi hdhutii"N
may issue ont OF the supreme Court To- require
lccoun, of the votes and al questions re.1ilns
10 the validity of such ballots. aud IL 10 whether
they wcr. properly counted, shall be- deirf4lhcu
in such proccc dnes All such ballots shall lc
preserved for at least one year and until III"
questions raised by such writ shall he finally tie
icrnincd" Nothing can he clearer than These
words. nothing palmer than their purpose II
board of canyasScrs can say. even when they nave
the cha lcugpd votes before them, that every NJ
lie mark, scratch Of the pen defect IN the paper
or what not il mark intended 10 identify the
vote and if they can be permitted, on the strength
Of their mere say 80, 10 throw ont ballots ana
destroy maioritics. there Is 10 limit TO the ccc,
toral outrages that partisan.hip viii he invited
TO pcrpctrate. The crime OF tl'esc convasscr7 was
woisa than this. They did not have the eighteen
votes he fore them They had no cyl
dcncp whatever before them, except the
mere fact That the ballots had been written upon
Any fool would know that such evidence aS
this would not he for moment received III Il
court Of law, as. indeed, il was not, when. on
Osbcrnc's relation, the whole matter Of these to
called marked ballots came up before Judge Bar
uard The crime of these canNas>ers was double
one They defrauded Nj. Deanc by ASSUMING
discretion they did not possess, and by dccrcclne
a result which. even had the question been within
their province they could not have come 10
egllly.