New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-15
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
AFTER A MANDAMUS.
,,r CIRCUIT WANTS A RECOUNT OF THE
VOTES.

,rsr1rs OF THE OFFICIAL COUNT INCREASE
v1-RsTERs FIGUREs-A POLICY OF WIN
OR MAKE TROUBLE"
,.-rv A. Weinberg and Almet F jerks ron
....nting the Democratic General Committee
..stsrday afternoon applied 10 Justice Bartlett
., an order to show cause why a peremptory
At OF mandamus should not issue 10 compel
~. Board Of Canvassers to recount the vote for
e NJ Grout in the First District Of the First
Ward OF Brooklyn. and make the Adermanic
scsrd correct alleged Irregularities in the can
vsss Of votes The intention is TO compel a can
vas as an entire Board and to count all votes
.ast Mr.. Grout is the petitioner A similar APP
plication 1t was decided would be made later
against the Canvassing Committee Of the Board
NJ Supervisors. The Election Committee Of the
Board Of Aldermen canvassing the municipal
vote began the canvass of the Ninth Ward yes
,erday morning. and Samuel Whtehouse, of
counsel representing the General Committee. i'm
media,ey and said:
Il demand that the Board. as Board of Can
vassers canvass ard count all the ballots which
the law declares shall be counted. We have now
reached the Ninth Ward. The returns from the
FIST eight wards showed that there has been
a neglect on the part Of the district canvassers
TO canvass and count votes which the statute
declares shall be counted"
Then followed an animated discussion Mr..
Whitehouse said that every vote must be
counted and credited to the candidate for whom
Il was counted. except such as were marked
with words or where erasures were made Some
returns he said showed that ballots asserted 10
be defective had been counted. and that other
returns showed that votes were declared de-
fec..ve. He said the committee should send
I'd Of who failed
10 attach alleged defective ballots TO returns,
for the purpose Of ascertaining what had been
done with those ballots. Until this Board he
said shall canvass and count every vote which
the statute declares shall be counted there has
beer canvass.
There was more talk. during which Mr.. White
house said he would produce, for counting,
ballots that should have been counted referring
10 the returns of election districts. and President
Clark said he thought the committee would
count them.
The canvassers then resumed their work. be-
sinning with the Ninth Ward. showing a net
rain Of twenty-nine votes for Wurster in the
first eight wards In the Ninth Ward the can
yass developed no discrepancies, and the Tenth
Uard returns were comparatively clean, al
though II had been expected by the Democrats
that there would be some startling reVela-
tons" therein. The days work. in fact. did not
ma -erisly change former results.
The policy OF the Grout managers appears TO be
this IF we can't win. We'll make trouble And
they are making all they They have so far
gained absolutely no advantage for their candi-
dates have manufactured trouble for every body
concerned and have the satisfaction Of knowing
that their attacks upon the canvassers may pre-
vent respectable men from accepting canvassers'
du,ies in the future Their assertion that they
intend 10 teach voters and canvassers lesson is
as ridiculous their objections are peevish IT
Is probable that the final net result will be ex-
n notice figures However IL be-
hooves Mr. Wurster's friends to watch closely
each gyratiOn Of the Democratic machine.