The Jersey City news., 1902-11-12
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The OFFICE
County Board Declares the
Bayonne Election on the
Face of the Returns.
RECOUNT rs EXPECTED
Results May Be Changed
When Election Officers
Have Explained APP
\parent Errors.
RECOUNT Is EXPECTED

Although the County Board Of Elec-
tions in session at the Court House as
Board of Convassers. yesterday after
noon. formally declared Charles MCGEE,
the Democratic candidate for Council
man-at-L Large in Bayonne, elected over
Oscar Ginning, his Republican opponent,
a recount of many of the boxes OF that
city will be necessary to determine the
result.
A somewhat similar condition exists
in the Second Ward of Bayonne, where
Garrett L. Post, the Republican nomi-
nee for Councilman, has an apparent
plurality of eleven votes, but the Coun-
~ Board, on the face of the returns
made by the different election boards OF
the ward, was obliged to declare his
Democratic opponent, john j. Nealon,
elected.
- Lawyer Alex. Maxwell, who represent
ed Dining and Post at the hearing in
to the matter before the County Elec-
ton Beard yesterday, said he did not
believe that any fraud was intended or
committed by the members of the local
boards affected, but that clerical errors
were made which resulted in the appar-
ent defeat of both his clients, when in
reality each had a majority of the votes
cast for the respective offices for which
they were candidates.
DISCREPANCIES.
The tally sheet of the Second District,
First Ward, credits MCGEE with $50
votes, which number, with the 205 cred
ited to Dining, would give more votes
than were cast in the district. Lawyer
Maxwell said the actual vote for MCGEE
in that district was 312, and the two Re
publican election officers, William I'll.
Osbahr and William w. Deane, yester-
day signed a statement to that effect
The Democratic officers in the same
district, John Hefferman and J. Derlin,
refused to sign an amended return,
claiming that they did not remember the
total vote of any of the candidates, al
though admitting they thought mis-
take had been made.
If the contention of Ohning's counsel
as to AfcGee's vote in that district is
shown to be correct by the recount, the
Republican candidate for Councilman-at-
Large would have a plurality of four
votes unless discrepancies in his oppo-
nent's favor are found in some of the
other boxes that will be opened.
SECOND WARD MIXUP.
In the case of Garrett L. Post, the
Republican candidate for Councilman in
the Second ward, in the Second district of
the ward 215 votes were credited in the
tally sheet to Garret Post, while in the
Sixth district 300 were returned for
George C. Post. AS there was no mis-
take in the name on the official ballots,
the error is clearly that of the election
officers in writing the name on the tally
sheet, and if the recount, which will be
held, does not disclose discrepancies
which will add to Nealons total, the
probability is that Posts plurality of
eleven votes will stand
Ex-Judge Thomas F. Noonan, who rep
resented both McGee and Nealon at yes
terday's hearing, objected to the count
ing of any votes credited to Garret or
George c. Post for Garrett l.. Post He
won his point, and Lawyer Maxwell will
now have to apply to the courts for re-
count. In McGee's case Mr.. Noonan OBJ
jected to any amended return being filed
of the vote in the Second precinct, First
ward, as n scrutiny of the ballots alone
will determine the question at issue. His
contention was upheld by the County
Election Board