New-York tribune., 1905-11-17
ERRORS In COUNT FOUND.
HEARST GAINING GROUND.
FIRST Days Ballot CanUass by Alder.
men Shoes Vide Discrepancies.

The aldermen of Manhattan and The Bronx got
to work yesterday morning board of county
canvassers to count the votes cast In New-York
County I'm the municipal election obeying the orders
of the courts to compare the tally sheets with the
of the boards of election in each election
district. Chairman Doul appointed various COM
mittees facilitate the work of comparison.
There goodly attendance of counsel repre-
senting both Mayor Mcclellan and William R.
Hearst and the chief interest In the vote for
Mayor. AS as the count In the 1st Assembly
District begun the Hearst lawyers began to
make protests, designed to take the in dis
puted districts before the courts. 1t is the plan to
have the courts examine the void" and protested
votes and rule in every the admission of the
ballots
Reason for protest in the of the Sth Eec-
tion District OF the 1st Assembly District
found when the tally sheets showed
50 votes for Hearst, while the returns gave
only II votes for him. In the 1th Election District
the tally sheets showed total OF S55 votes for
Mayor, while the returns gave S4S Similar discrep-
ancies appeared in other election districts, 1t
looked If Mr. Hearst might gain nearly 100 votes
In the Ist Assembly District
Many discrepancies were discovered in the I'd
Assembly District the work of comparison went
on. In the 9th Election District the sworn state
ment of the ballot clerk that only 275 ballots
were cast, while the returns showed 339 votes for
District Attorney In the 14th Election District the
returns gave 332 votes for Mayor. while the tally
sheets showed only 319 votes. No tally sheets had
been kept in the 18th Election District
In the 18th Election District the tally sheets
showed g more votes for Mr. Hearst than had been
counted in the returns. The Hearst lawyers who
watched the proceedings said the returns of the I'd
Assembly District failed to give Is votes for Mr.
Hearst shown on the tally sheets. while other er-
rors would add many more votes for Mr.. Hearst in
the district.
In the Sd Assembly District the usual crop Of
blunders and discrepancies found. AT the end
OF the examination for that district late in the af
ternoon. the lawyers for Mr. Hearst said he would
gain IS by alone in the district As to
the votes believed to have been stolen by frauds
from Mr.. Hearst, the lawyers said they could be
ascertained only by examination OF the oauot
boxes for the-d disputed districts f~.-- 's7'2
The counsel for Mr.. Hearst asked that in the Of
fetal canvass of the votes the total number of
blank ballots for Mayor be read. along with the
total vote in each election district. to enable the
accountants hired by Mr. Hearst to ascertain how
many blank ballots were reported by the electon
officers
Chaorman Doull at first refused to grant the re-
quest on the ground that the law did not provide
for such procedure, but he consented later 10
grant the request as matter of courtesy when the
lawyers promised TO have copies of the figures
taken for Mayor McClellans counsel.
Counsel for District Attorney Jerome obtained
from Justice Amend in the Supreme Court an order
directing that any void or protested oallots
examined by the courts and counted for Mayor be
counted also for District Attorney This move of
Hearst lawyers but they consented to IL.
TO APPOINT SPECIAL JUSTICE.
Counsel representing both Mayor Mcclellan and
Mr. Hearst Yesterday asked the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court TO designate justice VINO
could give his whole time to the examination OF
void and protested" ballots in the disputed dis
tricts There was an understanding that Justice
Giegerfch would acceptable to both Sides ana ne
may be designated for the task
One of the counsel for Mr.. Hearst said last even
ing that the and discrepancies discovered IN
the three Assembly districts yesterday indicated
that it would be necessary to have protests for
about two-thirs of all the election districts Ihere
was no telling, he said. how many votes stolen from
MI Hearst would be found
Justice Dickey In the Supreme Court, Brooklyn,
Yesterday afternoon decided that the enure ooalo
OF canvassers of Kings County must go over each
Assembly district, election district by election
district and not apporton the work oy senate ois-
tricts to committees. as has oeen the custom
In the past This means that the work Will tahe
four times as long e. formerly. and it will probably
be the middle of December before the count Is
completed.
After Justice Dickey's order the board OF can
vassers got down to business and before they ao
journed had completed the I'd Assembly, Dlstric.
The canvass showed the following result: McClei-
lam s4s7; Hearst 2s and @ Iyns 1UsS siSog showed 9
Clellan plurality Of 7Gs the canvass renorted
sc,o of Gns neb IT tRe One Of lawyers
claimed that there were but his Claim was
not considered seriously by the board.
neoessay to recount the vote in 1st Assembly
District which was canvassed wednesday py
escaped attack Of heart failure when Ace man
work from o'clock in the morning until ~ ciooh
at night. The hours will be decided log to-aagr ~ .,o1vlv
yesferaR Ihs andef OF the Of Justice E
tn a sze 5 ae 4
of the LIST Assembly District which were examined 90
tabuation that was discovered created excitement
as it seemed to show at first that Mayor mcclellan
had @ bs ss e Election @ pse tn the s
votes Mcclellan on tally sheet had been car.
the loss of 200 votes for Mcclellan only imagt-
nary the mistake having occurred only In
column.
HEARST GAINS IN QUEENS
Ths Hearst lawyers said the comparisons showed
that Mr. Hearst would get many votes in
Oueens than the returns counted on Election night
gave him.
In Richmond the work Of the canvass was at
standstin the greater part OF the the =. oay wh1e
en- out errors IN their returns: Late IN the az
ternoon Justice Dickey, sitting in Brookyn grant,
Richmond to show cause why they should not
take the void" and protested ballots or tnat
tion as 10 whether they shall be counted or not
The order. which was obtained by one or the
Hearst lawyers, is returnspe at ~ ciocA uiiS
morning.
ALLEGED ELECTION SLUGGER HELD.
a,4onio Grinaldi of No I7s East 111th-st-. said
70 ha the man who assaulted and nearly killed
Haorv 3 Granger at the polling place No: 2a
Chrvstie-st on Election Day, was held In siboo
hail eft the Harlem court yesterday Tor examlna-
fIon fo-morrow MT Granger was attacked when
he was acting Jerome watcher in the poLin,s$
he