Evening journal., 1910-12-16
POLITICAL.
BALLOT STORY
AT NEWARK
POLITICAL.

J. ~ AhN k'hAW'A0in ANiN .'NA ftAtA AH' d
circumstances surrounding the poll
ing of that vote. have CAUSED much 7
comment in this section rho fact |
that within two years the Democratic /
majority I'm that election district iu-
creased from "A to 1Ci woulG have (
been sufficient in itself TO have caused
everyone here TO ask now the Demo |
Gratis had succeeded 10 doing a. IN !
terest I'm that Democratic majority has
been increased. however, by discovery
that while the voting was in progress
a Democratic voters assistant carried
official ballots from the VOTING place
to the diningrOom In the Washington
House, not once, but several times, so
the Republican clerk. Who wac dining
there, might place his initials on them.
Afterward the Democratic voters as
sistant walked out of The diningrOom
. with those patches OF official ballots.
The Democrats say those ballots were
used properly at the polling place
after they had been initiated by the
Republican clerk and that there was
nothing wrong in the several trans
actions Republicans who know the
election law of this state. say that even
If the patches OF official ballots were
r used properly. 1t was u violation OF
. the law, denominated a misdcmeanor,
. for the Democratic voters assistant
to remove those ballots from the vot-
ing place and 20 carry chem TO the din
I ingroom Of the hotel Those Repub-
licans also do not hesitate To- say. that
the Republican clerk erred H. placing
his initials ON the ballots under such
circumstances. They admit. however
. that that error by the Republican
!. clerk was due to the fact that he was
p. not thoroughly familiar with the pro-
visions of the election law. Only for
Z the fact that the Democratic majority
!. in that election district jumped from
y "a in 1908 to 107 in 1910 the entire
, incident might have been passed over
, without much comment Those cleo
y ton figures have aroused the suspi-
: cions of the Republicans, however,
= and they now are making q searching
q investigation TO discover how and by
= whom these ballots were used after
;. The Republican clerk had initiated
u them. Republicans who know the
e electorate OF the district we'll, say the
il Democrats voted the noater vote and
o that much whiskey was distributed
N by them.
The second election district of the
Ninth Representative district takes IN
- the eastern part of the town OF New
ark and extends out into the rural
section of White Clay Creek hundred
~ =, Il Is normally Democratic, This yeat
y the polling place was In the Wash
ington House. Two years ago Robert
y J. Morrison, Republican, carried that
~ entire Representative district against
" Charles H. Cannon, Democrat by
I ....I g.
y by recount In the second cleo
IN ton district In that year Cannon,
a. vote was 1s9 while Morrisons vot,
a WAS l45, or a majority in that election
Is district of "a for the Democrats. Thi'
I'D year A. l.. Fisher, the Democratic
a. candidate for representative. receive,
OF 223 votes IN the second election dis
re trict as against i16 votes for q. Pal
ey mer Dickey, the Republican candidate
MS who is a man Of prominence. IN othe
I'D words. in one year the Democrat
lat majority In that district increase
ey from A for Cannon To l07 for Fishc
Republicans say this Is merely IN
he other instance I'm which the Demo
up Gratis made great gains which wer
lst entirely unlocked for and whic
Ter seemed wholly unnatmal whe
be the political situation on
IN the personnel Of the cand
III dates were taken into consideration
)m II is asserted the large sains for IN
in Democrats cannot be explained ava
~ even I'm the face of the admission thi
rs this year the Democrats were ruf
ith kning "a town candidate as against
he rural Republican candidate or by III
IRE fact that in the recent election fisht
re- had working for him at and near Oh
ion polls men who heretofore have bee
ply known as Republican workers.
The Republican poll clerk VIII
placed his initials on the oihcial ba
lots In the diningroom of the Waal
ngton House is George l.. Brook
whose political honesty no enc hel
questions Brooks is employed IN II
. Office of the Recorder of Deeds
J, Wilmington and is known here f;
81 an energetic Republican worker L
Z related in circumstantial way Il
day the incidents leading up 10 Il
~ placing of his initials on the oflici
p, ballots outside the polling place.
"The Democratic poll Clerk wei
=. home TO dinner first Rlooks sal
when he returned I decided 10 e
my dinner i'm the hotel diningrooI
o Before left the polling place place
u 4 my initials on several ballots thin
)r ing they would last until 7 returne
d entered the diningroom about r.
,n o'clock, and had been at the table n
IN /, longer than perhaps ten minutes
y, when Frank NJ. Luton, the Democra
ic voters assistant CAME IN with
~ few ballots He told me they we
h' out of ballots. and asked me IL I wou
place my initials on those he hi
brought They previously had be-
ms signed by the Democratic clerk. Fral
me G. Widows. Thinking everything W
an all right, 1 put my initials on tho
'tIo ballots. / did not know ] was violi
ing the law by doing Il outside {
- polling place Neither did / think {
lrta Democrats were trying to play al
- tricks on me. While I was at dinnl
) Luton came in several times wi
patches Of ballots in his nand a
. made similar request that / init
> them. With each of those requests
= complied. When I returned to {
polling place discovered that VIII
had been dining, from 20 TO
, voters had voted. I think there 81
was one OF the initiated ballots ths
unused. Just then a man came
and got that last ballot Before
a began entering up in my book
names of those who had voted VIII
was at d-hner, | placed my initi
\ on more ballots"
"Mr Brooks, do you know what v
done with those ballots after you
placed your initials on them in