The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-11
HEARST CONTEST STARTS
With ORDER FROM COURT

New York, Nov. 9.-With the grant
ing Of an order by Supreme Court JUS
tice William Gaynor, in Brooklyn, last
night, compelling Police Commissioner
McAdoo to remove every bsllnt box
from all the precincts in Greater New
York to the bureau of elections, Will
liam r. Heart, the defeated Municipal
Ownership League candidate, took his
first legal step in fight to secure re-.
count Of the votes cast on Tuesday.
The order was granted after Justice
Gaynor had reviewed affidavits sub
mitted by Mr.. HEARTS attorneys, and
half an hour later. Col. W. A. 8. Bacon
and F. W. Brown, representing Mr..
Hearst, served the order on Commits
sioner MoAdoo, who sent out general
order to every precinct in Greater New
York instructing the captains and 9TH
or officers in charge to send the ballot
boxes straightway to the bureau Of
elections in Manhattan.
Denies Police Rights.
In signing this order, Justice Gay
nor said:
''The police have nothing whatever
to do with the ballot boxes, and it il
most astonishing that they should have
been in possession Of them. They have
no right even TO touch them. The or
der 10 granted"
The granting Of the order Dame un-
expectedly and caused much surprise,
and with the opinion Of Justice Gaynor
that the police have no right to the
ballot boxes and should not even touch
them q new aspect 10 placed on the
case.
This IL tho first time such an order
was ever issued, az heretofore the po-
lice have always had charge Of the
ballet boxes after the count had been
taken at the polling places. They are
removed to the station houses immedi-
ately after the inspectors and clerks
have counted up the ballots.
Mr.. Wins, the defeated Republican
mayoralty candidate, was asked by Mr..
Hearst to act as his counsel in the fight
he will wage to be declared mayor.
Mr.. Wins refused, but said he would
gladly cooperate with the attorneys
who will conduct the fight, az an asso-
ciate counsel.
The complete returns give Mot lellan
q plurality Of S,485 votes. the smallest
ever recorded for q successful mayor
atty candidate, and q result which
might readily be reversed BY . recount
Of the ballots.
Mr.. Hearst yesterday announced his
intention to take an Immediate appeal
to the supreme court, his managers
having declared that they had secured
evidence Of illegal acts against 1000
inspectors Of election and that 80, 900
Hearst men who went to the polls 60
vote for Mr.. Hearst had found that
their names had already been voted.
Most Of the fraudulent voting the
Hearst workers allege was done IN the
East Side assembly districts, especially
in the Eighteenth, Charles +. Murphy's
homo distriot, and IN tho sixth, o.
which Timothy D. Sullivan i : leader.
Jerome Approves Contest.
Mr.. HEARTS proposed action met
with warm approval 81 many quarters,
even among thoee who opposed his
election, and Ae resolved many ass1r-
anoes Of support.
District Attorney Jerome expfeseed
himsslf in terms Of strong approval Of
Mr.. Hearts, program. and declared he
would Immediately start an investiRa-
ticn 6 alleged Dsmocratic frauds. He
also ordered the returns from the Eth
teenth and Sixth districts 70 b care-
fully guarded.
lra 9. DarTin. the newly elected dis
triot attorney for Queens county "a
tho Republican ticket, made similar
statement.
William u. WINS also counmendod
Mr. Hearts, aotion, ana sxprssssd -
ballet that > recount would show that
NJ. Heazst had been elected.