The Monmouth inquirer., 1905-11-16
County Election Board Meets.

The Monmouth County Board of
Canvassers organized at Freehold at
II O'Clock Monday. The board con-
sisted Of John p Walker, ofFreehold;
John G. Patterson, of Ocean Grove.
and Charles Couover, of Wickatunk.
Mayor O. Asa Francis. of Long
Branch, and Deputy Sheriff. Chas.
X. Close, of Matawan, were both rep
resented by counsel.
james ID. Carton, of Asbury Park,
and John s. Apologize, of Red Bank.
represented Mr. Francis and William
Pintard. of Red Bank; E. w. Arrow
smith. and Hon. A. E. Johnston, of
Freehold, represented Mr.. Close.
The board after waiting half hour
to receive the returns from the county
clerks Office was compelled to adjourn
until two o'clock when babulated
statement was promised to be pre-
sented to them.
The returns presented by County
Clerk McDermott show Francis cleo
ton by So majority. These returns
are the figures presented by the var
ious election boards throughout the
cou nty.
When the board of canvassers be-
gan canvassing the vote the lawyers
began making objections.
Atlantic township showed 139 votes
for Charles Ace Francis for sheriff.
Mr.. Arrowsmith, for Mr.. Close, OBJ
jected to the counting of the vote for
Charles Asa Francis.
Mr.. Apologize, OH behalf of Mr..
Francis, made motion that the face
OF the returns be accepted and credit
ed as received. This resulted in tie
hai De-
the motion lost.
Counsel for Mr.. Francis then took
up the question of adjournment by
the county board until the Atlantic
township election board was given
time to correct their error in the
name of the Republican candidate for
sheriff. The votes as cast in Atlantic
township were for Charles sa Fran
els, but the election board made the
error in writing Mr.. Francis name
The boards of elections organized
Tuesday morning. Twenty-one vot-
ing districts were considered.
The strife Tuesday had nothing
whatever to do with the figures. 1t
was merely contention as 10 the
faulty spelling and abbreviation
of the names of the candidates. Ed
ward Taylor came before the board
and identified the returns from Allan
tic. At first he failed TO notice any
discrepancy. but before retiring he
was made acquainted with the error.
The returns from Eatontown had TO
be passed for future consideration.
All kinds of errors were discovered
The totals were different. names alb
breviated and carelessness plainly
shown. The third district was pro-
tested for several reasons. one being
that an erasure was not explained.
Only two districts in Freehold were
tabulated. The others had one or
more names miss-pelled. Holmdel
was passed, and the first returns
made out correctly was from the
western district of Howell The east
ern district was passed.
Farmingdale Borough was tabulat-
ed. Manalapan township was passed;
Englishtown was tabulated; Marlboro
tabulated, but the same objection as
originally made was recorded.
Matawan township was passed.
Matawan was passed. Only the first
district in Middletown was tabulated
the other three being passed.
Borough of Highlands was passed,
as was Milestone township. The use
of "Chas'' for Charles caused the OBJ
lection.
The first and second wards in AS
bury Park, were held up. The third
districts, Neptune, was o. K, while
Bradley Beach, Neptune City and
Avon were laid aside. Two districts
in Ocean, Oakhurst and Monmouth
Beach were faulty. The returns had
to be passed.
The first and second wards in Long
Branch were no exception to stupidity.
The manner were frightfuliy twisted.
and the returns went into the pass"
column.
The third, fourth and fifth wards
returns were recorded 0. K.
Having exaInind SO of the 80 dis
tricts the board decided to adjourn
until eleven O'Clock Tuesday morning.
Out of the returns read only eleven
were in proper form and eligible for
tabulation.
Other election figures as compiled
were:
For Assembly:
Edgar I. Vanderveer. Rep. 10, TAT
Walter s. Reed, Rep. 1O1
George c.. Henry, Rep. 10, 260
Harry Garrison, Dem ............. 1898
William K. Devereux. DEM. S,6S3
William Curchin, ST., Dem. ...... 1881
For Coroners:
John r. Gravatt, Rep. 10 2S5
William E. Mcdonald, Rep. 10, 407
John T. Tetley, Rep. 10, 0S4
Edward S. Rue, Dem........ 1899
Lawrence Mccormick, Den........ 8,420
Robert T. Smith, Dem..........-. $500
After his Inauguration Sheriff Fran
els dined with a party of friends at
Hotel Belmont.
David D. Denise, OF Freehold mem
Der of the board. offered the following
resolution;
Resolved, That the returns from
the districts passed be now counted
and tabulated for the Republican
candidate for sheriff, Charles Asa
Francis, however, the name of said
candidate may be spelled or abbreviat-
ed on the face of the returns
The motion was not seconded as it
was confined to one candidate.
After the motion was amended so as
to make it include all of the candi-
dates, it was unanimously passed.