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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30
A VOTING MACHINE PLEA.
Sam Dickinson Issues Contractors Lit
erature as an 0ficial Report.

TRENTON. Dec. 30.-Secretary Of State
Samuel d. Dickinson has submitted TO
Governor Stokes a long -winded defense of
the voting machine. the text of which
would occupy FIVE columns OF the STAR.
The matter has evidently been supplied
by the Rochester Voting Machine Com
pany, the contractors for the voting ma
chimes in use in this State as 1t Is Of the
same character as literature distributed
throughout the State by the company. 1t
has been charged that Dickinson helped to
put through the Legislature the voting
machine bill that has cost the State over
$4,000. and he will use all his efforts to
prevent the abolition of the machines
IN the last election Dickinson, who
has charge OF the machines, as Secretary
of State, placed the machines In districts
where is was necessary to prevent indie
pendent voting. IL was arranged to place
machines in districts OF Ocean County in
the interest of Senator Shinn, against
whom there was a serious revolt Dickin-
son was about to do it when he was per-
emptorily halted and threat made that If
the machines were placed in the county a
public exposure would be made. Then
Dickinson retreated. In the light of these
facts, the following excerpt from Dickin-
sons report is diyerting:
"It is no uncommon thing TO learn Of
political ward workers appealing TO their
superiors either to have the machines re-
moved, so that they can resort to their
old-time methods OF delivering the vote, or
to have machine located in their district
so that the opposing side cannot indulge in
vote-buying,"
The report concludes with four recon-
mendations
''First-Two systems OF voting not TO
exist in the same municipality, and a ma-
chine once located should not be removed
'Second-l1very voter provided before
election with a paper fac simile of the face
of the machine, showing how the names
Of the respective candidates will appear
thereon on election day.
Third Each election district supplied
with at least one person from each politi
cal party with sufficient mechanical knowl-
edge 10 examine and pass upon the suf-
ficiency of the voting machine.
"Fourth-Aboltion Of all party levers"
Meet me al MILLIONS. l5s Market st--Adv,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30
Cyclone Sinks VESSEL Crew
Rescued After Terrible
Experience.
ENGINEER LIVES HERE
Hub Steamer Brings Story Of
III.fated Schooner That Met
It's Doom Off Cape
Hatteras, on Friday,
the 18th.

6 BOSTON. Dec. S0--Captain John b.
Stahl and seven members of the crew
of the four-masted schooner Nimbus,
Including Engineer Patrick Monehan,
of Newark, N j., which was wrecked
in a cyclone storm $50 miles south of
Cape Hatteras on December Is, were
brought into port today aboard the
fruit steamer Admiral Sampson. The
men came from Port Antonio, where
they were left by the steamer Beatrice,
which picked them up on her trip
south.
A thrilling tale of their rescue at
midnight, while tremendous seas were
piling over the sinking ship, was told
by Captain Stahl. He left Philadelphia
December s with a cargo of 1000 tons
of iron pipe, bound for New Orleans.
and struck into the storm off Cape
Hatteras on December IS. The cargo
became loosened and the heavy iron
pipes pounding back and forth soon
opened seams through which the seas
poured. At midnight of the 18th the
vessel was all but completely sub
merged when in response to fare sig
nails the Beatrice came to the rescue.
Notwithstanding the fearful seas the
steamer sent q aNifeboat to take off the
men of the Njmbus, but the boat was
unable to get close to the tossing YES
sell As a last resort the exhausted
men of the Nimbus got into their badly
Ssmashed longboat, which had been cast
(up over the stern, and succeeded in
floating clear of the schooner. The
longboat leaked badly, and 1t was fast
filing when the crew from the Beatrice
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