The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-26
lfOBOKEN GERMANS EXCITED.

Negligencs of Election officers Almost
Creates Il Split in Their RANKS.
The members or the German-American
Citizens Independent Club Of HoDoKen
have been In a terrible state Of excite
ment the past few days, and an act of
carelessness has caused the members OF
the club to feel that each aud every one
of the Second district, Second Ward,
members was a traitor to his party at the
late election. The German Citizens
Club. at the late election, endorsed nearly
every Democratic nominee, but FOR q lew
offices mace nominations for themselves.
among them being a nominee for Water
Commissioner. Ihe nominee was John
Koelllsch. This being a .ity office, the
Germans, under the Little OF Independent
Citizens Party expected to poll sufiicient
votes 10 be recognized hereafter as d
party, n thus do away with the neces-
sily of their preparing petitions at every
election. The election came and went,
and all vas well till the official count
was published, when the members saw
that IN the Second district of the Second
ward Koellisch had not been credited
with receiving any votes.
+. w. Bender, me president of the
Central Body of the Association, lived in
this district, and were the members to
understand that he did not vote for the
party. nominee? Other strong koellisch
men lived in the district, and yet the
official count would go to showsthat they
were all traitors. An Investigation was
set on foot, with the result that seventy
five citizens of the district stood ready to
swear that they had cast their votes for
koellisch.
Yesterday Mr.. Bender received the fol-
lowing communications
HoBoKEN, April "a, 1898.
f.. w. Bender, Esq, President German Anatri-
can Citizens Independent Clu6:
DEAR SRI notice In the papers that at the
official canvass of the last election our candi-
date for Water Commissioner, Mr.. Koellisch,
received no votes III the Second district OF the
Second ward. Respectfully call your attention
10 the matter. Something must be wrong.
There are about seventy-ive votes not accounted
for. This Is a very serious affair and should, in
my opinion, be thoroughly sifted and / suggest
that the necessary steps be taken to this end.
MAURICE HENDBURe,
Treasurer Central Body Independent Citizens
Party.
Gu investigation by a JERSEY CITY
NEWS reporter 1t was learned that the
election officers were very negligent in
their duties. There were a number of in
stances where they failed to record the
vote cast for the candidates of the Inde-
pendent Citizens Party. In the First dis
tricJ of the Third ward the vote cast for
Henry Steiner for Commissioner of APP
peals was not counted. and the same
thing happened in the Fifth district of
the Third ward in John Schmalz's candi-
dature for Tax Commissioner.
The result SHOWS that The votes were
not counted for either of MIR. Koel1isch's
two opponents. for their combined vote in
the district, AIS. falls eighty-six below the
vote cast for Mayor in the district. sos.
thus giving Koellisch that number OF
votes, which is about the number
claimed by his friends. The votes cast
for the Mayoraity candidates num-
bered 6,123; that cast for Aronheim,
Bissonnette and Koellisch figured
up 1886. or a difference of 1877. This
could not affect the result in any manner.
neither would 1t give the Independent
Citizens Party 5 per cent. of tue total
vote cast. If added to that already cred
tied 10 koellisch. 1t is believed that the
whole thing was an act of carelessness
and not or COLLISION or fraud.