The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-11-14
STILL MORE FRAUDS
ABANDONED BALLOT BOXES
FOUND IN DIFFERENT
SECTIONS OF CITY.
Sworn Charges of Fraud are made
Citizens Called Upon to Con-
vict the Guilty-Hearst
Promises TO See that the
Guilty Are Punished.

Guilty Are Punished.
Eight more ballot boxes, aband-
oned in polling places by various
election boards in defiance of the
law, were found today in the search
that is laying bare in constantly io-
creasing volume the amazing frauds
of Tammany. Two of the boxes
were found in a barber shop at 3o2
East Third street.
Sworn charges that 81 protested
ballots in a single election precinct
in the lower east side were count
ed illegitimately for Mayor
Mcclellan on Tuesday were made
today by Walter Alexander, Wa
triss & Polk of 80 Nassau street,
who was one of the Jerome watch
ers. Mr.. Alexander declares that
if this is a fair sample Of what was
done in other election Districts, Mr..
Hearst was elected by an over
whelming plurality.
In letter to Mr.. jerome, Mr..
Alexander asks that steps be taken to
see that all cases where the facts
warrant prosecution are brought
before judges who will not bs dis
posed to let the offenders 60. This
much he claims is due to the men
who watched at the polls. Mr.. AL
exander's report was carefully pre-
pared and sworn to.
Four ballot boxes, one of which
was marked Defective ballots"
which supposedly contained such
ballote, while the others contained
ballots or stubs, just which, does
not appear, were discovered this af-
ternoon in some Of the polling pla-
ces in the Thirty-fourth assembly
district in the Bronx by Christie
pher Wigow, a driver for MacCau.
ley's express on Elton avenue.
Wigow was employed to collect
the voting paraphernalia in the va
rious election districts. He found
many ballot boxes all of which he
thought were unused, but when he
unloaded them at the police station
it was found that four of them were
filled with papers of some kind.
They were uns aled, but the po-
lice did not feel authorized to open
and examine them and turned them
over to the Bronx Office of the cleo.
tions board at 13sth eighth street
and Park avenue, in the condition
in which they were found. One of
the boxes was plainly marked de-
fective ballots and is believed to
have contained what the label indi.
Gated. The election law requires
that defective ballots be placed in
an envelope after the count and
turned over to the elections board.
This evidently was not done in this
case.
The police of the Alexander av'
enue station refused today to say
from what election district came The
apparently forgotten boxes.
Washington. Nov. 1.-The post.
office department has confirmed the
action of the postal authorities ir
Selling the postal cards sent out by
Ts mmany Hall in it's fight against
William R. Hearst in his contes
for the mayoralty Of New York, de
claring them to be unmailable.
The postal cards represented Mr.
Hearst running from lighted boml
at the feet of q shadowy picture o
the late Pres. William Mckinley
The entire consignment, ESQ, 600
filing II large mailsacks, reache,
Washington today and were sent t
the postomce department, wher
they occupied considerable froom
First Assistant Postmaster Genera
Hitchcock asked the assistant at
torney-general Of the postofice de
partment for an opinion on the stat
us Of the case as matter of record
He said he wanted decision a
once and it was given. It declare,
that the postal cards were unmaila
, BILE. Mr.. Hitchcock immediatel
issued orders that the entire cor
signment be destroyed, and the
have already begun to feed the poet
ofice furnace under guard to se
; that none are "pinched out' as sou
venirs or for other Interior purposes