Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-10
the Office and as every II or IA boxes
were guarded by five policemen. most

impressive array of officers were soon
in evidence. AS the morning advanced.
the balance Of the 5000 boxes continued
to arrive and Hearst watchers as nu-
merous as the police, helped to swell
the crowd which was further added to
as the report spread that some start
Hing political move had been made ne
cessitating a great body of officers at
the office of the board of elections.
When they failed to secure the pres
ence OF President Voorhis, the Hearst
men called upon A. c. Allen, chief
clerk Of the board, at his house on S0th
street. Mr.. Allen could do nothing for
them and expressed the opinion that
the court order had resulted from a
misunderstanding. He said that a lit
eral compliance with the order would
be Impossible. as the 5000 ballot boxes
used In Greater New York could not
by any means be gotten into the room
occupied by the board. His under
standing Of the law, he said, was that
the boxes should remain in the posses
sion Of the police for six months fol-
lowing an election. He could give no
advice as to the immediate disposition
Of the fast accommodating boxes and
td await the opening of the boards
Office and let President Voorhis decide
what to do with the 5000 ballot boxes.
1t was said. this morning, that the
sudden move made by Mr.. Hearst. last
night, followed a report, received by
him tEat a printing company had been
at work. Tuesday night. printing bal
d. lots. The report was further to the
effect that the ballot boxes were to be
opened while in the hands of the police
and stuffed. Mr.. Hearst decided to act
at once. The. order secured from JUS
tice Gaynor directed the police COM
missioner and all his subordinates IN
the Ave 4boroughs to turn over to the
board Of elections forthwith all ballot
boxes containing ballots and stubs of
ballots, and also to file with the county
clerk before noon, today. all envelopes
containing tally sheets, inspectors re-
turns, defective ballots and ballots
marked for Identification. The order
was issued on the affidavit of Mr.
Hearst himself. The affidavit states
Mr.. Hearst's belief that he received a
plurality of the votes but that accord
Ing to the returns, 1000 more votes than
no himself received were counted for
Mr.. Mcclellan.
Captain Cruise, in charge of police
headquarters, read the order to Com
missioner McAdoo over the telephone
The commissioners reply was an order
tn the captain directing him to read
the Gaynor order over the telephone
to the captains.
Mr.. Hearst and Max IhmSen left the
Hoffman House for their homes as soon
as the last of the men had left for the
police stations. The headquarters were
then closed.
Mr.. VoorhiS is Democrat and presi-
dent of the board of elections. After
he had declined to leave his home and
60 to the boards office to accept GUS
tody of the ballot boxes, an appeal was
made to Charles w. Page, a Republi-
can member. but he, too. was unwilling
to take custody Of the boxes. Mr..
.voorhis told the representatives of Mr..
Hearst who called at his home that he
construed the order of Justice Gaynor
to mean that in directing the delivery
Of the boxes at noon. today. oppor-
tunity was left to the Tammany forces
up to that hour to seek to obtain an
order to show cause why the boxes
should not be delivered.
When the drivers and policemen
guarding the wagons found the unwill-
ingness of President Voorhis to open
the Office meant a long wait out in the
cold, for them, they were angry, but
they made the best of 1t. Col. Alexan-
der 8. Bacon, one of Mr.. Hearst's law
yers, who played a prominent part in
tie doings of the night, made arrange
ments for the police to get breakfast
in a nearby restaurant. Police Captain
Becker of Brooklyn, who came over
with the load of ballot boxes from his
station, to make sure that they were
cared for. and who was the senior po-
lice officer present. assumed charge of
the situation and did what he could to
bring order out of the confusion caused
by the unusual situation.
A representative of Mr.. Hearst re-
ported to President Voorhis that two
boxes protruded from the back of a
wagon with their covers unsealed. He
said that these boxes had come from
Charles F. Murphy's district and ask
ed that the boxes be sealed but Mr.
Voorhis said he had no power to dc
this.
At noon Police Inspector Max
Schmittberger took charge of the bal
lot box wagons in Manhattan.
Mayor Geo. B. Mcclellan announced
today. that to protect his interests ir
the proceeding brought by William r
Hearst contesting the mayoralty cleo
ton he had retained the law firm OF
Parker, Sheehan & Hatch of which
Judge Alton B. Parker is the head and
the firm of Dykman & Carr. The first
named firm Is of Manhattan and the
second of Brooklyn. The mayor sale
that he did not expect to be directly
involved in any litigation.
TO PUNISH VIOLATIONS