The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-08
LONESOME DEMOCRATS
Five in the Senate and Four
the House to Keep the Leg
islature From Being
Unanimous.
USHER soUEEZEs THROUGH
Rumors Defeat Fielder and Elect
O'Donnell-Defeated Candidates
Will Apply for
Recount.

Recount.
The Republican victory in this State
and county is most sweeping. For the
first time in its history New Jersey sends
a solid Republican delegation to the
House of Representatives at Washlng-
ton. In the Legislature the Democrats
will be so overshadowed by the Repub-
lieans that it will be hard work to hnd
them. OF the twenty-one members OF
the Senate the Democrats will have
only five, and in the House they Will
have four out of sixty. This will give
the Republicans majority of sixty-three
on joint ballot.
The Senators are Winton of Bergen,
States of Warren, DAILY of Hudson, and
Drake of Morris, holdovers, and Rich
ard S. Kuhl of Hunterdon, the only
Democrat who was saved out of the
Senatorial wreck. The Assemblymen
are Smart, Parslow and Usher of Hud-
son, and Farmer Alpaugh, who succeed
ed in getting reelected in Hunterdon
county.
James Usher is elected to the Assem-
bly, in the place of Pierce Fleming, but
that does not in any way change the
complexion in the House.
Corrected returns do not change the
result, although they increase and di-
nlinish some majorities Clerical errors
crept into the footings of "The News "
columns, but they did not in any way
effect the general result. These correc-
tions are given today in order to make
the RETURNS accurate.
TO BE A RECOUNT.
Leading Democrats in the county are
not satisfied with the accuracy of the
published results of the election. They
suspect fraud in some of the districts
and they mean to have a recount. The
ballot boxes will be examined and every
vote scrutinized and carefully recounted.
This action has been determined upon
by glaring inconsistencies in the Second
district alone. In that district the regis
tered votes amounts to 5,0iS, the total vote
polled were 3,S14. But comparing the
vote given to the Republican Freeholder,
Then again in the total vote of the
Sixth district where the registered vote
is SglO the Democratic leaders claim
that hte figures there show big DIS
crepancy, either the result of fraud or a
mistake in the count. A third instance
of mistake occurs in the Second pre-
cinct of the Fifth district, where Stey-
ems is credited with 86 votes, O'Donnell,
go; Fielder, S8; and the Republicans,
McEwan, 1893; Fischer, 1876; and Franz
bach 1885, while the Republican Free
holders have S86 polled, showing a dehci-
These are but Illustrations that the
published result IS unsatisfactory, and as
soon as the official Board Of Canvassers
make their report, proceedings VIII be
fnr a n
WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY
The Republicans laugh at these allie
cations of fraud and say that the elec.
ton was one of the fairest and most
honest elections as far as they were con-
cerned, which was ever held IN the coun-
ty They explain the great discrepancy
between the figures given out at mid
Democrats had carried the county by
$500 and Mr.. McEwan, Mr.. Fischer and
the Assembly candidates went nome sat
isfied they were defeated in this man.
ner. They say that whenever the Demo
Gratis found out during a count that they
needed a thousand or two votes TO WIN
they would telephone that fact to Ho-
boken and North Hudson and their needs
would be promptly supplied. So the Re
publicans conceived a plan for circum-
venting this scheme Tuesday night
Whenever return was sent TO Ponce
Headquarters which showed that the
Republicans wer running ahead 1t was
promptly held back by Chief Murphy
and the Republican leaders into whose
hands the returns came before they
were made public while those from the
large Democratic precincts were given
cut.
WANT A RECOUNT.
Thus it happened that at about mid
night it appeared from the returns ther
in that the Democrats would win by
$500 and that fact was industriously
circulated all over the county by the
ReDublicans ~That threw the Democrat:
off their guard, and seeing that there
was no necessity for any more majority
began TO rush in the returns from Hobo
ken and the northern section of the coun
ty When toward morning enough vote:
had been counted in these outlying dis
tricts to preclude any attempts at fraut
the Republicans began to let out thu
heavy Republican returns they had, anC
the Republican majority went up lik'
the mercury of a thermometer when thu
bulb is held over a lamp.
There were all sorts of wild rumor!
about the city today. One was to th'
effect that an error had been discovered
in Bayonne which defeated Fielder BY
seventeen votes. So persistent was thi.
that it found many believers, but nt
definite information was available to sub
stantiate. Another was that an error il
North Hudson County had been discover
de which upon being corrected elected
foundation could be found for this either
Iosenh Mullin of Kearny, one of tn.
defeated candidates for Assembly. saiC
that he would not be satisfied until h
had a recount.