Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-31
MAIL Theft NOW
ALLEGED BY new
IDEA POLITICIANS
P0stofflce Inspector Asked TO ID
vestigate Hudson County
Matters. ~
MANDAMUS APPLICATION
BEFORE JUSTICE SWAYzr
VIII Make Fight to Restore
Election Officers Displaced
by Board.

Especial 10 the Newark stax.1
HoBOKEN, Aug. s1.-Federai indict-
ments are to besought by the Progress
sive Republicans OF Hudson county n
the fight over the throwing our nv tba
county board Of elections Of the names
Of more than 100 Progressfves wba
were appointed and the naming Of man
from the Rotterdam faction Of the
party to take their places. TIE c.sssx
Board Of Elections has attsmnfad -
justify It's act by saying that the men
whose appointments were nuliifsed a,d
not answer by mail the ouestiors ma
70 them by the board, in accordance
with the law The commissioners say
that they did not get the answers.
Last night the Progressives sac,res
from each of their men named Al an
election officer an affidavit that he
mailed the certificate to the board of
elections and the time ana place of
mailing These affidavits. with tha
affidavit Of Commissioner craf Who
festifies that the returns mailed did not
reach the board, Will be laid befora
PostoH1ce Inspector Intemaun this
afternoon and he viii be asked to in
stitute rigid Investigation ann f1,,d
out who robbed the mails ana daatrov-
ed the letters addressed to the elec-
ton board
The machinery of the ro-arar,.sz..
will be used to ferret out the crime arr;
When the evidence is in hand warrants
OF arrest win be sworn out befora I
United States commissioner and indict-
ments will be sought from the Fed
eral grand jury.
Men Higher Up Involved.
It is said that more than one person
is involved in the theft Of fhs r,sls
matter and that befors the inveatiys-
ton of the postoff7ce inspector q cor
eiuded prominent politicians may be $,
volved. -
In the meantime the county boara ~
/ elections Is keeping its records oloseiv
guarded. and win permit no one fo ~
anime them. The commissioners. Holm
zeiler, Thomas Francis Xavier Griffen
who Is In addition to being q. member
OF the board a candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Assembly on
the organization ticket, have instructed
the clerks to deny information To All
Inquiries. August j. Graf. Dickinson
Republican. who is the third member
OF the board, does not approve of this
course. but his wishes are not regarded
by the clerks. who are. naany ,,e1 them.
Rotterdam neutenants Not oufv aid
the board and its clerks refuse yester
day to tell newspaper reporters the
names of the Progressive Republicans
who We're rejected and kicked out to
make room for Rotherham's men, but
when George L. Record and Merritt
Lane, representing the Hudson County.
Republican Committee and the OBJ
server. who have Joined In instituting
suit for mandamus. demanded sight
of the records Clerk Strubling. who
was in charge OF the office, told them
that he had positive orders to refuse
them all information. Not being able
to get the information from the rec
ords. Record got into touch with Com
missioner Graf, who, in an affidavit Of
1000 words. tells all that he knows
Of what occurred at the meeting OF the
elections board.
Reason for Reflections.
The law provides that the county
chairman shall send the names OF cleo
tion officers chosen by him to the
County Board of Elections, which shall
put to them questions to satisfy them
that they are qualified to serve If any
men fail to quality the Board of Elec-
tions is required by the law to call
upon the county chairman for other
nominees. Graf In his affidavit alleges
that after rejecting the Progressives
on the pretext that they had not an
swered the questions Of the board, and
in some instances upon the excuse that
instead of replying that they were Re-
| publicans they said they were New
Idea" or Progressive Republicans"
the board did not call upon Henry
Frank. chairman of the Republican
County Committee, for other names.
Papers prepared by Mr.. Record ana
the Observer are all ready for presen-
tation to Justice Swayze when he re-
turns this evening from Lake Mohonk.
where he has been spending a vacation.
The court viii be asked for an order
permitting the Progressives and the
representatives of the newspapers to
examine the records of the Board OF
Elections. in order to find out just what
| is doing. and will also be asked for
writ OF mandamus compelling the.
county board to throw out the election
officers, which, it Is alleged, it illegally
named, and restore the men thrown out
because of the. allegation that they
| did not reply to questions. In the
meantime, the postoffice inspector viii
make an examination of the entire situ-
alton. with view to landing the mail
thieves