New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-12
THE COUNTY CANVASSERS.
EXAMINING DEFECTIVE BALLOTS ~ THE WITH
DISTRICT


The Board OF Aldermen. as a Board of County
Canvassers. resumed their work yesterday morn
ing The With and With Assembly districts
canvassed in the morning The With District.
where there is a contest. reached IN the
afternoon Philip Doblin present to repre-
sent the Republican candidates. besides Meyer
Kronacher for Tammany Han: Alfred r. Conk-
ling. for the Citizens Union; John Brodsky. for
Philip Wissig the Tammany candidate for Al
dcrman and a number OF other interested lawyers.
separate table was placed In the Al1ermanic
Chamber and the ballots marked for identification
were unseaed from their packages ana opened In
T. pres nee Of the lawyers by clerks Of the Board.
In the First Election District void ballot
was examined. In the second there twenty
ballots marked for Identification one was entire
~ blank. One void because Of made
with blue lead-pcnGl in the Republican circle.
Three Republican ballots had crosses outside Of the
circle Other ballots were voided by single strokes
Being made instead OF crosses and by CLOSES out
side of the boxes. One Republican ballot was torn
across the lower edge The Republicans Will try
10 show that The inspectors did this. II the torn
portion be found in the stub box it will show
conclusively that 1t was torn OFF with the stub.
One man voted the straight Tammany ticket OK
cepting on the Mayoral,y where he voted for Low
He made his ballot void probably by putting crosses
in front of Sohmers name on both the 1ammany
A Republican ballot was probably voided, though
a fight Will be made for y, by V-shaped tear at
franchise by trying 10 pui crosses before all cam
didatcs. Some Of his marks weren't crosses. One
man ran pencil mark through Tracys name
and voted for Saniel. The Socialist candidate on
one ticket. n straight Citizens Union ballot the
only thing wrong apparently was that one mark
OF the cross I'm the circle crooked
In the sixteen election districts Of the With As
sembly District there were In all 2l3 ballots sent In
tho Board TO- examination. AS the majority of tho
Tammany candidate. Minsky, was on the police re-
turns only for'y-nine there Ia chance for con
test IN the courts
In addition 10 the Indebtedness to the legality
Of the ballots. there Is more indehnitcn as 10
whether or not the ballots sealed 10y Inspectors
ana returned TO the Board Of Canvassers for Its
opinion as 10 their legality were counted LeSs
Than half Of the indefinite ballots, varying from
blanks and those which are undoubtedly void TO
some about which the inspectors were in doubt on
account Of the cross marks projecting slightly over
the edges OF the circles had been Endorsed by tho
inspectors any indication in the returns or on
tho ballots made whether the doubtful ballots were
counted or not There Is no way OF determining
this except, perhaps, by examining the inspectors
in court as the doubtful ballots which were in
dorsed were sometimes counted and sometimes not
counted.
The formal canvass Of the votes by the Board in
other districts had advanced as far as the Xth AS
sembiy District when the Board adjourned last
night.