The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-28

that yesterdays primary was a farce
are President Taft and Chairman koenig
Mr.. koenig is the perpetrator OF the out
| rage on Republican voters. and President
J Taft is the beneficiary. Democrats as
well ~ Republicans throughout the entire
city were treated in the same way. IL IL
absurd to say that the litigation inter-
fered. just what steps we will take can
not now be determined. If there is any
way to have such a fraudulent ahair set
, aside. we shall do it,"
! Gov. Dix's secretary, Johc A. Mason
sent this reply TO Judge Duell:
Gov Dix directs me to acknow ledge
! receipt of your telegrsm OF to-day. He
! has submitted the matter to the Attorney
General for an opinion and expects TO
be able to dispose of the question to-
morrow"
| There ia great dissatisfaction In Brook
lyn. where Roosevelt was not Tissue at
all. but where the enrolled voters in more
than fifty Of the s4i election districts were
disfre!uchised Both the Democratic aud
Republican leaders. however. seem in.
clined TO accept the results and they will
not join in an effort for q new primary
John II McCooey. the Democratic county
leader said that the disgraceful condi-
tions were due to the fight Of the Re
publicens TO get preferential positions on
the ballots for or against Roosevelt ana
itltt ''idi was tIlt OtilN tduSt ~ ~ Noh-
ference OF the Republican leaders it was
decided TO take no steps with view TO
holding new primaries. although Marcus
y. Campbell chairman of the executive
committee. said: The outcome OF the
first official primary was outrageous and
IL there il ';ny effective remedy II should
he found
John 4 Voorhis. State Superintendent
Of Elections, said that reports from his
inspectors indicated thet in one-auarter
of the polling places in the metropolitan
district there We're missing either bauots,
tally sheets or some other part o! the
election machinery MIR Noorhis. who
declined to he put forth ~ an authority
on the subject. seemed to think that the
Supreme Court could review the election
,if the Board of Elections YVES restrained
lfrom ma,ing the canvass.
Chairman Britt of the Board Of Elec.
tions confessed that he saw no wRy out
of the difficulty. The whole trouble. he
said. was with the primary law, which
did noi provide when the ballots should
be printed
Il believe the law should be amended,
he said There should be at least ter
uays in which the ballots could be printed
II is ridiculous that a printer should be
kept waiting until the last hour for cour'
order which would permit him to &c
ahead with his work. lf here tx any leg
isation on tho matter | shall write to Gov
Dix about IL. | cannot see that the
printers are To I've blamed IN this case
They said they could not do the work y
the time allotted To them. We shal
probably begin the canvass tomorrow
Where it can be shown that the officia
ballots were pot at the polling places onc
n sample or unou1ciai oaiiot was uset
those votes VIII be recorded lhat II
provided Tor by the law; we eSnect t'
have the vote tanvasSeu ny fflday oi
SATURDAY. We have no way of deter
mining where no iii!"'s We're denVercS
unless there Is statement IRON 'he POI
clerks, ! have written 10 foiice Com
missioner Waldo askinE nm 70 give nh'
such records as ne may htne W Po,nni
places al which '"e oaho'S "er'
not delivered n ,.
Inc Marun D. brown .ohihhY Wmci
had the contract lor prlntihg me aliots
siid u TOOK lhe respohs'plI.y. out IL mac
done the best " couid uIuer 'he nrcum
? stances IL lnt up Dohu oI s2o,O'
with the BOARD OF Eiections ana may ios'
icc1uhtapie VI cVeTy instancc IN whiSi
the ballots had not been nnhvered ~ TN
: opening OF .hc po"s; hpo1t I,o".Us
ballots were printed. The printers sale
nat IL was worse 'hhn any general eiec
ton job they had ever tackled.
hcan county cointnltlee headquarter,
yesterday on the totai vote ana AZ nightfal
they had canvasscd an but torty-two o
The $50 districts. Inc vote was 3l,lil
for Tart ana lo'?82 Tor hooseveN. II wa
estimated that IN this county perhaps
? few thousand vo'erS dld not ge' chanc'
= to cast a baiio, pec'use Oh me CONFUSION
/ as the result OF the de'ay III set,ihg TN
. ballots In the whole cry IL was esti
mated that perhaps loWo No'es mad no
. teen cast Tor the same reason. ;.
? The Roosevelt managers were disap
pointed at the vote IN the FAST side dis
tricts. where they did not get third o
what they expected. Inc Roosevelt
delegates carried only one Assembly dis
trct. the ElRhth. "here iouis frieoe
is the district leader. As there was M
, opposition to his leadership from th'
Roosevelt clan II made no dinerence II
the makeup of the county COMMITTEES
and the votes for the Roosevelt delegate
, in this district were not enough to over
come the majority for Tart IN the rest o
the Congress district. the Fourteenth
Col Roosevelt ana ms managers nat
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