The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02
NARROW SHAVE WITHBAELOTS
NEW COURT ORDER UPSETS
THE PRINTERS.
independents With Haphazard Emblenis
Dumped on Them In Large Numbers
Any More Disturbance Of the Rontine
Might Set Us 10 writing Our Ballots.

bumped on Them In Large NUMBER
Any More Disturbance Of the ROntine
Might Set Us TO writing Our Ballots.
"Can we get the ballots printed?' is the
Question uppermOst in the minds OF the
management of the Martin b. Brown CON-
pany. which has the contract for furnishing
the City of New York by Monday mid
night with about 5000 900 ballots, Of which
about half are sample ballots. AND the
only answer obtainable yesterday was a
doubtful shake of the head. At midnight
last night there remained but ninety-slx
hours to do the work Of a week.
Never in the history of ballot printing
has there been so much official confusion,
and instead Of clearing up the troubles
Of the printers seemed yesterday TO De
getting worse. All was going well until the
forenoon, and a good start had been mace
at printing the ballots, as officially COR
rected on Wednesday night, when there
came word from the Board OF Elections
that instead OF t~wenty-four there would
only be about eighteen or twenty indie
pendent" nominees with miscellaneous
emblemS. MANY a Tammany man VINO
had gone 10 the trouble OF getting up. an
Independence League petition found NM
self at the last moment with a petition;
Jul No III 4 AhOAhh nv
League. The courts ruled that such pc
titions could be used to get the c~andidates
name on the ballot in a separate column
all to himself, with an emblem OF his own,
John c. Hackett chose a hat, Mark Gold
berg a pair of nippers, W. u. Dob a NAL
tese cross, and so on. There will be pictures
of horse cars, four eaved %clovers, horse
shoes and oak trees and horses. Inc
selection of these emblems and the max
ing OF cutsmeant a lot more work, and as all
.Ln asnIaNapIAnfH nnndidlNal Qr1 rlInnlnU
for purely district offices, such as Assembly
men, Senators and congressman, the print
ing OF the ballots for their districts Is greatly
hampered.
Yesterday morning President Voorhis
Of the Board of Elections notified Mr..
Valentine, manage of the ballot printing
department at Browns, that the names
OF four independent" candidates would
have to be omitted. They We're The
McManus, for Senator in the Fifteenth;
Grady, for Senator in the Fourteenth;
Riordan, for Congressman in the Eighth,
and Eaoleton, for Assemblyman in the
Fifth. These are all Tammany men h
| concluded to stick by their Tammany
nomination and not look for outside votes
! at all.
This order, of course, upset the printers
considerably, but the climax came when,
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, word
reached Mr.. Valentine that Justice keogh
in BROOKLYN had granted n mandamus
uIfNLliik NbaN az ~ " 80
Mhitehouse and ~Scudder, on the Democra-
tic Judicial ticket in Brooklyn, Queens
and Richmond. should be reversed.
Mr.. Valentine protested that the work
of printing these ballotS had got so far
that over 80, 900 had been finished, but Mr..
Voorhis said nat the board must follow
the order Of the Court and the printers
must obey the board.
"Iknow we've got to obey YOU, Mr.. Presi-
dent" replied Valentine, but | can assure
YOU that we don want to-"
Valentine then explained that the entire
make ready" for the Brooklyn ballots
would have TO be done over again, and with
the necessary new forms n other things
10 be set up, the printing Of the corrected
ballots could not be begun for twelve or
fifteen hours, that IL, some time early this
morning. At this late hour, a delay Of
minutes is enough TO give catfits to the
printers, and Mr.. Valentine frankly con-
fessed that while he believed the work would
be done on time, any more such delays
would mean that many voters of New York
CITY would find no ballots ready for them
on Tuesday morning. As to a possible
break down in the printing machinery,
Mr.. Valentine seemed appalled, by the very
thought. Work will go on day and night.
There will be at least nine columns on
every ballot, and in som districts there
may be ten or more. The candidates OF
independent tickets with their offices, dis
tTicts and emblems follow
NhNNhR
u W. Wlllett. Jr. a lion.
10 sam LYMAN, a square.
SENATE DISTRICTS.
- {. d.. sullivan. "A horse.
1s-Edward Fox, an acorn,
- Joseph Ahearn, an axe.
=. George Donnelly, a cannon.
ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS.
John G. Hackett. a hat.
tS-Mark Goldberg, pair OF nipperS,
.5-Lcslie ]. TOmpklnS, an open hand.
26-Samuel Grpenberg. a horseshoe,
Y-IOhn Calvin, an oak tree.
T. B. Dobbs. a Maltese cross.
33-lohn Holloway, a moose head.
Sc. N. :. schultz. a four leaf clover.
81 John V. sheridan. n shamrock.
BROOKLYN.
SUPREME COURT.
Charles Frederick Adams. a sword. a triangle.
Luke u. StapletOn. a sword.
Frank \. Acer. Labor Appealing TO Justice"
JUDGE THIRD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT COURT.
Robert NJ. Johnston. a double diamond.
Philip ID. Meagher. Two stars.
CONGRESS.
Seventh District-JOhn j. Fitzgerald, Indian
hrSd.
SENATE.
Seventh District Barley j. Wright, a triangle.
ASSEMBLY.
Ninth District William X ecgan, clasped hands
and !. j. Hanrahan. crescent.
Twenty second District X. W. Kathan, pulley
block,