Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-12
PREPARED
TO STRUGGLE FOR
SENATORIAL SEAT

-
House on mex Tuesday, and 1 ask that
you be there, too, and join me in re-
questing the grand jury to take every
possible action which its great powers
permit to bring the guilty persons to
justice. Believe me. very sincerely
yours, THOMAS A. MATHIS"
The Ocean county grand jury for the
December term will begin its delibera-
tons at Toms River tomorrow morn
ing. An investigation of the Mathis
Low recount will be ordered by SUI
preme Court Justice Willard P. Voor-
hees, who will charge the jurors.
Prosecutor Theodore J. R.. Brown
will present to the grand Jurors evil
dence of a conclusive nature to show
that three prominent Republicans were
implicated in the theft. Justice Voor-
hees, it is understood, intends to make
a severe charge on the subject.
Certificate withheld.
So far the justice has refrained from
Issuing the certificate of election to
Mathis.
The gathering OF evidence for presen-
petition not to seat Mathis is still go
ing on. ~
Affdavits Favor Low.
Already 200 voters in the Second Dis
trict here. moved by a universal spirit
of Indignation. have come forward and
taken affidavits that they voted for
George C.. Low for Senator at the re-
cent election. This is twenty-one more
than the vote given Mr.. Low as the
result of the recount, and it bears out
the statement of Mr.. Lows personal
counsel. which he made a few days
ago.
The willingness of the voters to swear
that they cast their ballots for Mr.. Low
has surprised even those who planned
the movement. Tha decision to canvass
the Second district was only arrived at
after several conferences in which the
leading members of the Democratic
party here took part. There was some
doubt for a while as to whether the
voters would be willing to tell how they
cast their ballots. but all that doubt
has now been swept away.
1t will only be necessary to get sixty
more afidavits to have the sworn state
ment of 260 men, the amount Of Lows
vote according to the original returns.
Another surprising feature of the can
vas is that 1870 of the afidavits were
taken at the Lakewood Supply Com
pany by men who simply walked in as
soon as 1t was shown that aff1davits
were being taken there without waiting
to be asked.
County Judge Maja Berry, brother
in-law of Senator Mathis, and his
counsel in the recount proceedings, Is
being severely criticised for the dis
potae{n0 IF tho CantanohAr GRAND 1urV
last Monday without consulting the
Supreme Court justice. In the first
statement that has been heard from
Judge Berry he said today there is no
doubt that the local election board is
guilty and should be punished to the
full extent of the law. This statement
has intensified the bitter feeling which
has beer expressed all over the county
against him and his brother-in-law,
and If that statement were made in
Lakewood it is freely predicted that he
would have had an assault and battery
case on his hands. in which he would
have been the complainant.
Governor Forts son, Leslie r. Fort
Of this place, said he did not believe
that Senator Mathis was in any way
responsible for the fraud, but that some
local politicians of very unsavory repu-
tations had fixed the boxes and then
persuaded the senator to apply for a
recount. This could easily ave been
possible, and a great many of the sem
ator's friends held this view. but are
now dismayed. as the senator up to
the present time has made no state
ment of any kind, and they think If
such is the case he should tell who
induced him to apply for the ecount
and clear his own skirts. This he has
not only failed to do, but seems en-
tirely willing to pose as the senator
elect from Ocean county.