The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-12-11
FRAUD In BROOKLYN
ELECTION TALLY SHEETS ALLEGED
TO HAVE BEEN CHANGED.
Effort to Defeat the sGreater New
York" Proposition - Democratic
Frauds I'm San Francisco.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10-The board OF
supervisors of Kings county has not yet
wound up the official canvass OF the vote
in the last election. There is likely to be
some trouble over the greater New York
figures. The figures transmitted to police
headquarters on election night gave a ma
jority for consolidation of 1,615 and a few
days ago with only dozen districts miss
ings, the official count indicated a majority
of at least two thousand in favor of con-
solidation with New York. On Saturday,
with few districts still to be counted,
this majority had dwindled down to 277,
and there were some well-defined rumors
that it might be wiped out altogether.
Lawyer Sanders Shanks, secretary of the
Consolidation League, has notified the coun-
ty clerk and the clerk to the board of can
vassers that he would demand the right to
go into the county clerks office and cam
vass the vote. Mr. Shanks said: II
watched the canvass carefully down to last
Wednesday night, and the vote then
showed that consolidation had a majority of
2.9p. There were then only twelve or thir-
teen election districts to be heard from.
The tally sheets now show that during the
last three days of the canvass there had
been extensive tampering with the Twelfth.
Twenty-second and Twenty-third wards.
Figures were erased and others put in their
place. The clerks, when spoken to about
this. explained that there had been errors
which had been corrected. Ii is peculiar
feature about the whole business that
the only mistakes discovered were
in the vote of consolidation. Another
remarkable feature is that all these mis-
takes were against consolidation. 1t is sur
prising that instead OF still leaving ma
Jority of 2H for consolidation they have
1lot wiped it out altogether. 1t is a most
known fact that the returns at police head
quarters on election night seldom vary
more than a couple of hundred from the
official count. This year this rule holds
except the consolidation question. The po-
lice count on election night in favor OF
consolidation is 1.6l5.
he says that just soon the result
of the official canvass is announced Te
league will make an investigation and sfft
the matter to the bottom. 1t Is said that
during the tedious canvass of the vote the
official returns were often left for hours
in the hall of the board of supervisors in
easy reach of any person who wished sto
tamper with them II is also saidethat al
an early stage i'm the canvass of the vote
when it was generally admitted that consoii-
dation had obtained clear majority Oi
1.500 or more, that intimations were thrown
out in various quarters that this would
be upset before the count was finished
Another suspicious feature is that, accord
ing to the admission of Deputy County
Clerk Barnard, some of the county can
vassers had misunderstood their instruc
tions and destroyed the original ballots in
stead of putting them in the possession OF
the police authorities. 1t is said in ex.
PLANTATION that, in general. politicians wan
and that the politicians have had influence
with the canvaSSerS.