The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-12
RETURNS BADLY MUDDLED.
MANY DISCREPANCIES OUnU
RICHNoND COUNTY OIHVAS0NN"

- o.vcvai
retail Vote Cast and tho vete s.-.r., ,as-
candidates Vail to balance s.--.,rS-
.re's-tn" E'ecton "N- n. injected. |
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The preliminary work IN tho canvas
votes OF Richmond county was beguh yosN
and revealed q state of chaos in tho certhcaves
returned by the inspectors of election when
will probably take days to unraVe, J" tn
undoubtedly end in legal proceedings; .nS
owing to tho crowd of spectators present az
~ or,Or 80 - uno 70 S,n ~ when the ex-
IN oruor 10 sceommoua.e Az W bs9uu It
was found that scarcely one was fires from
errors, mistakes wsrs msao nv the onioisls
in the f~oOtinss of tho votes of candidates Ihe
total of tho votes which appeared in q sroa'
many instances dld not agree WIN s,S,r,ot
eia nsures OF tho votes cast IN the ~ ~,
In some districts no record was made Oh sns
o"uo.' - conseauen',y .noro .o =. .ho ea.
ures given Az tho total vote and the ballots
aotaeiS voted. Inc conditions wore sao .usn,aS
messengers for the election officials in order to
have them correct tho feures on the certiH-
oates that thoy might intelliSently oanvass
the vote. In one instance, that Of the Twelfth
District Oh cssteton. forty.six votes were un,
accounted for on the certificate. The Board
Of oanvAssors decided SaaS tina. they would s% a,,S ss'
w.a. ~, sA A. rato ,r
II necessary, In an endoayor to got tho vote In
shape for canyassing. To that end the cleo.
trio lirbt compnnv sent a gang of employee to
w.. $50 $50 puapen' a. s"ns ,yiro.
into It TO furnish light for the work. u
When the board organized supervisor E. r;
ton DO made to discover whether any errors or
Davenport, representinS George Cromwell The
hh oIponsb' mn e2 On s xiToro If nr rLeslds saain os the thho
mode Of procedure. He demanded that each
SStstriot, a % C e = ryG a q by Gno Itself nr,i Tha ssia v5 seo
they were not making the canvass, LAWYER
Iohn :. kenney. counsel to- tho ooa[G. a nsronl
proceed instantly to the canvass: ne SAID u
was AN extrsordina sIyy and u, unh ne Tdo pso PROCEED
canvass the returns: He demanded that when
its possession unsealed. ,,- ..
clear S1 and w fauiiS% Violation hS 9TH Of the law and Of the
order Of, Justice MADDOX" which was that the
original ceriifcates. LAWYER kenney advised s,a
The purpose, he said, was to discover II any
officers t 10 t the SCENE u and nd have IA I'll them = Corrected.
} The Cromwell lawyers still objected, and in
, simulated that the real purpose OF the move was
{ to get at the figures on the Feeny- Cromwell
vote for the office OF President of.tho Borough,
over which there Is such a hot fight.
i. AT the conclusion of tho lawyers scrap, the
board decided to open the certificates with rep
, resentatives of each side as witnesses. The
first package opened was from tho First dis
trict Of MiddlctOwn. 1t contained the report
a which should have been filed with Supervisor
Feeny and was III such q muddled state that
. the inspectors were sent for at once. In the
Sixth district OF Middletown errors were also
a discovered and the officials were summoned to
appear. In the Third district Of Castleton there
!. were errors and tho inspectors were sent for.
The Twelfth district OF Castleton was in q ter
n rible middle. 1t is considered the crucial dis
: trict of the entire forty -seven, and by It's vote
D the candidates will fall or stand. The Cromwell
supporters claim THIRTY five votes in 1t which do
. not appear on the certificate, and II they sue.
Z coed in making good their claim, will probably
y elect their candidate. An examination of the
Q certificate showed q total of 800 votes recorded
3 rs cast, while the total Of the figures for candi.
dates showed but 274, q discrepancy OF AZ
votes, and q statement that there were nc
marked or protested ballots, Tho certificate
gave Cromwell lis votes in the district and
Feeny ISL votes, while the tally sheet showed
that Cromwell had 154 votes and Feeny 151,
q discrepancy in Cromwells vote of thirty-six
ballots.
The certificate in the First district OF West
field stated that the total vote cast was 239,
Q and there were no void ballots. A total OF
n the votes given the candidates showed three
less. In the Fourth district of Westfeld