St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-10
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Mr.. ReardOn-Say another word and
either you or will go out.
The clerks. Ralph O'Harra and M.
Thulein, had counted up the names they
had registered and said that while they
had not taken down nearly all the names
they had about $40 registered. 1t was
afterwards found that 395 ballots were
in the box.
Mr.. Reardon then announced that tine
judges had agreed beforehand to throw
out any counterfeit tickets found i'll the
box.
Mr.. Howard-What do you call coun-
terfeit tickets?
Mr.. ReardOn-Any ticket that is Of
two c0lors or not having the same dele
CATION throughout for one alderman.
While discussing the matter John
Howard. son OF Thomas Howard, and
ayoung attorney in the city. touched
0neo the tickets in an explanatory way.
Mr.. ReardOn flew at young Howard in
passion and hit his hand. Thomas
Howard drew back his cane in the con-
fusion that followed. and was apparently
about to strike MI. Reardon. There
was great commotion in the room, aud
Mr.. ReardOn went to the door and
brought in Policeman Beattie, and
ordered him to remove young Howard.
Others in the room protested that young
Howard had done no intentional wrong,
and wanted him to be allowed to remain
and see the count. Mr.. Reardon's blood
was up. and be insisted on the young
man being removed from the room. This
was done. Afterwards the HoWards
took the name and number of the police
man, who seemed like decent fellow.
Thomas Howard told him that charges
would be preferred against him this
morning for doing what was claimed to
be illegal.
AS the counting of the ballots pro-
ceeded, the blue Howard tickets were
put in pile separate from his white
ones and the others. After the other
tickets were counted it was found that
Day had majority of all the ballots
counted. Mr.. Howard then asked what
was to be done with his blue tickets.
Mr.. Reardon said he would not answer.
Mr.. Hall, a friend of one of the other
candidates, suggested that the blue
tickets be counted. Mr.. Reardon told
him that the judges would handle the
matter without any lip from the outside.
which remark made Mr.. Hall feel very
fiat and Indignant, but he said nothing.
t Mr.. HinkinS then made motion that
the judges reconsider their action and
count the blue Howard ballots. MIR.
Reardon inspected the vote for Day and
said: 1--WE may count them and make Il
note of them as counterfeit tickets"
and this was done.
Mr.. Howard gave notice that he would
90 into the convention with his fight.
He declared that he had been treated in
a dlsgraceful manner. He charged that
over 800 of his tickets had been thrown
away and accused Mr.. Reardon Of put
ting many in his pocket beside those he
threw away. He also said that Mr..
Reardon had gone into back room and
thrown away great number of the
tickets that he had put into his pocket.
There were probably 700 or more men
voting and Offering to vote. but several
hundred were not permitted to have
their ballots placed in the box.
The result of the ballots counted
showed that there were credited to Sher-
man E.. Day for alderman, 20S; Thomas
Howard for alderman, 53 white and 10
blue tickets; Ii. q. Gray, s..
The delegation on the Day alder
manic ticket were declared elected.
They are John ID. Ludden, Theodore
Sander, Walter Nelson. Patrick Doh
erty. George Griggs, Henry Norman,
George w. Elwell, Peter S. lie Rock,
William j. Dutch. William A. Barnwell,
Edwin Snodgrass, George L. Daily. John
Ii. MOritZ.
The above delegation is uninstructed.
1t is understood to be anti-McGill. 1t is
claimed that there are some Doran men
among them, but that most of them are
for a new man. There was no delega-
tion in the field for any one man. 1t is
said that the Howard delegation was
also against McGill. Gray was the
Populist-Labor candidate. and it is
probable that his delegation was for
Col. Davidson.