The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-04

I lethry Ellsparmsnn offered To let them go
| 10 the office of Chief Of Police kiely and
| fi;tkt their counts. but they still refused.
Finally two-of the judges In the First
! District got together and made II count.
/ Ihey prepared their return blank, finding
! the vote to be: Regulars. 2lS; Straight.
/ la The other judges would not sign the
! blank. and Judge Wood OF the Board of
| Election Commissioners and Secretary
! Ellspermann refused to accept il unless
| 1t bore ti.e signatures of both judges The.
| judges who prepared the blank and signed
II were W. X. Mytrons and John Hough.
The Second District JUDGES could reach
no agreement. and the NcAuiffe faction
prepared a protest for the Election Com
lnissioners. in which they asked that the
ballOt box and contents be held for the
Grand Jury. claiming that they had evil
dence against members of the Hanley fac
ton and several policemen. They said that
one of their judges was dragged from the
polling place by policeman after ihe
latter had put out the lights. that the bal
lot boxes We're stuffed. even while in Chief
kiely's office. and that other Outrages
had been committed.
The opponents of the Dwyer faction
claimed that Andy Scully. a brother Of
Thomas A. Scully of the 1wenty-seventh
Ward. was using the Worlhouse wagon
for hauling voters 10 the polls. Andrew
Scully is the Superintendent of the Work
house. Late in the afternoon a man on
parole from the Workhouse was arrested
for his actions about one of the polling
places in the Twenty-siSth Ward.
Trouble developed in the Second District
Of the Eleventh Ward. when the Mct;es
o'Neill faction was voting Republicans,
After a dispute it was decided to close
the polls. At . o'clock the polls were
closed and no vote from that district was
brought in TO the Election Commissioners
office last night. The contest will come
up before the convention this morning.
The Second District OF the Second
Ward WAS closed at o'clock and the
i,-lrr r.lra he ct., Th1aNr
finally decided 10 make count and
brought their tally sheets and the ballot
boxes to the Election Commissioners Of
flee about II o'clock.
Ward word reached Secretary Ellsper-
mann at $50 that Two of the judges had
run from the polls and refused to come
back and count the ballots. He notified
the two refnlining judges to swear in two
substitutes and count the vote.
In the First District of the Twenty-tifth
Ward. two of the judges. James l.. Day
and Henry Shllte.. refused to sign the re-
judges were not placed on the back of the
ballots. as reaull ed by law.
The Miles delegation will contest the
vote in the Third Ward. as they claim the
registration books were padded The re-
turns from the First District were signed
by only two judges, George Goss and John
Phelan. the other judges claiming fraud.
This delegation will also be contested.
Chief Kiely refused to allow the police
to interfere in. settling disputes at the
polls. and would not allow the ballot box
es which were brought to the -Four Courts
10 be opened there.
In the Eleventh Ward Doctor Horace
NJ Julian of No. sslS Michigan avenue.
who was at the voting booth, was arrest
ed. charged WITH "refusing TO vacate.'' He
was taken TO. the First District Station.
but vas released. ''f' . 'ah-'-'4si ' ''.-'
Charles Lemp. with judges and clerks of
the disputed districts. went to the Four
Courts after the polls closed. taking the
ballot boxes with them.
Lemp requested that the boxes be opened
and the votes be counted. Chief Kiely re-
fused. saying that the police could not
interfere. except in cases where there was
a disturbance OF the peace. He advised
that the boxes be taken to the office OF
the Election Commissioners