Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-21
Deny Right cf Ocean County
Senatorial Claimant to Particle
pate Without Certificate.
MAY HAVE TO BE JUDGES
BETWEEN HIM AND LOW
Republican Complimentary Sem
atoriaI Vote Lies Between Sen.
Kear and Ex-Governor Stokes.
[From a staff Correspondent. ]

KEN YIN OGC. Sl.-1O oAO~bSS K
islation to be introduced at the coming
session and to agree upon a candidate
for United States senator, the Senate
Republican majority will caucus again
next Tuesday. II remains for the eau
Gus to decide whether hi senatorial
complimentary vote is to be given TO
Senator John Kean or to former Gov
ernor Edward C. Stokes, who received
the primary honor. The Republicans
are in the minority on joint ballot and
do not regard the empty honor" in
connection with the senatorship as OF
much Importance. The selection OF the
Senate officers was printed in the Eve
ming STAR yesterday.
The Ocean county senatorial dispute
was not officially acted upon. Senator
Thomas A. Mathis, who, according TO
the fraudulent recount, won out e
Senator-elect George C. Low, was at
the State House, but was not permitted
to attend the aucus
Senators May Sit as Judges.
The senators felt hat later they
might be obliged in a judicial capacity
to determine whether Mathis or Low
should be seated, and considered it I'M
wise to do anything that might SAVIOR
of p%rejudging the case. Mathis pre-
pared a statement of his side of the
case. but the caucus refused to give it
any official consideration. The Mathis
statement, in part. follows:
Immediately after the election my
friends from different parts of the
county insisted on my asking for a re-
count. I considered the question care
fully and found that a recount of the
county would involve a tremendous ex-
pense. which would nave to be borne
by me in case of my failure to change
the result of the election. In view of
the expense determined to limit my
application for a recount to the more
populous section of the county, and
therefore in my petition applied for a
recount in the two districts of Lake
wood and Dover Township, which ter
ritory comprised one-third of the vot-
ing population of Ocean County.
Justice Voorhees, issued a. order for
that recount. The three ballot boxes
were delivered to the court, and on the
Lakewood First district box when
opened the tape was so slack that 1t
could be slipped aside and the box
opened without breaking the seal. The
ballots were not properly numbered and
strung. They were strung up to 300.
the remaining ballots being thrown in
the box loose. In this district these'
were fifteen Mathis Dallots Ind eten
Low ballots rejected and n other
change made. making a net loss of six
votes for me in that district, n Re-
publican member of the County Board
of Elections apparently voting when
ever the opportunity occurred to throw
out ballots of mine.
Then Took Up Dover Box.
"TheH, ON the suggestion of Mr..
Lows counsel, we took up the ques-
ton of the Dover Township box. This
box was found unsealed, but locked
with the three usual locks. The ballots
were not properly numbered or strung,
SO we found groups of ballots on the
string out of place according to serial
numbers, showing either that they were
not strung as they were counted or
not numbered as they were strung
Some of the envelopes were pierced by
the needle twice. In this district, on
the recount, there were twenty-seven
Mathis ballots rejected and forty-seven
Low ballots rejected, but on figuring
mp it showed my gain over the return
made by the original election board to
be only seven votes, which evidences
Improper methods in that district of
county and of improper methods by the
election board.
"a significant fact is hat in any case
where such improper methods and i'm
proper returns were found in the re-
count l was a gamer. I do not charge
that this was lone deliberately, but it
Is very peculiar.
1.-THE board then took up the Second
district of Lakewood. The township
clerk delivered the box to the court
and stated il was in the same condi-
ton as II was when the election board
delivered It to him on election night,
because Mr.. Ravens, a member of the
election board. used . pocket coin TO
make an imprint on the seal, and that
imprint still remained. The Democratic
member of the county election board
in opening this box tried to open 1t by
slipping the tape over the sides, but
this he could not do. If the member
of the County Board Of Elections IN
trying to remove the tape without
breaking it could not do so, it would
seem to prove hat no one else could
have lone 1t, and it Is apparent to my
mind that the box had beer
opened. The box was found properly
locked with the three usual locks. The