Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11
BIEBER-WILDER COMBINE
WILL CONTEST ELECTION
Irregularities in the Returns charged
by Defeated Candidates.
ONE BALLOT BOX DISAPPEARS
Another Is Stolen and Held by Po-
lice as Evidence Against "Kid.
naper"-Small Riot at
Headquarters.

the administration ticket, We're yesterday
elected delegates to the next republican
national convention at Chicago, June Is
Immediately on hearing the vote at l2:45
O'Clock this morning. George F Collins
an alternate on the Bieber- Wilder ticket,
asked for detailed statement OF tho vote
and announced what was taken to be q
decision to contest the election
Aaron Bradshaw did not have mu.h to
say about the election, and igno, ed the
promise vi d contest entirely.
Ihis vote is simply an expression of
he sad.
Ihe totals, as announced by Leonard
T. bradshaw, are as follows: Aaron
Bradshaw. 1855; W.. Calvin Chase, q
Svs; STs;;s sidney Bieber. 1.S4s; James r.
nate on the winning ticket, 2,963:
CHARLES Marshall, alternate on the win.
ning ticket. 1858; Andrew Gleeson.
l'S4s; George Collins. 1,S4s.
Some Ballots Go Astray.
The vote would have shown larger re-
turns had not one ballot box been lost
or stolen. and had not another on. been
locked up In the eleventh precinct station
CnafRe
larceny. According to the police an ar
oeht Anacostia electioneer made q grand
attempt to steal a ballot box and was
heading for the river when cauRh,.
What became OF the tin bread box that
ala outy as depository of the peoples
votes at Fort Reno Is a deep and dark
mystery 1t never showed up At eO2 +
board took about six hours tn conr,
about 5000 ballots
Ihe chief complaint OF the Biebsr
Wlider following lay in the fact that
teenth district, the outIyinr northess,
Sectlon, took four hours and twenfv
minutes. to arrive at 6O2 F. street The
count iron from that district gave Bradshaw
una Chase s2S. against Bieber and
Maiders !86 AT the announcement
George Collins said:
Mr. Bradshaw, I wish to enter . nro-
test against this election, so tina. II we
nroner 10 Ja make contest: it w1ll be
returns from the fourteenth distrat. f,um
wncn the ballot box did not arrive uo.il
Iour nours and twenty minutes afte, The
polls had closed" '"'
Many Strange Tales Heard.
Sidney Bieber was pressed to say some
.i.ns ABOUT the election figures and the
ev,oen. intention to contest the election,
ou. al ne did was to smile. The smile
naoh lost anything. either. after the
| nsures. he said that in view OF the fact
that MS running mate. James r. Wilder
was not present, he did not care to talk
Dut would get his coterie of .andidatas ro
gether soon and make a statement
~ was slim crowd that waited until
CLOCK TINS morning to hear the figures.
ana the tales that We're heard in the halls
of COZ F street would make many on
honest ballot blush. One of the members
OF the election board said that in his non.
est opinion at one of the ballotine pia,..s
Ina, - at Ieast hundred men had given 6O7
street as their residence That address
Is the Stewart building and no one nves
there.
Excitement in Anacostia.
Some real excitement occurred I'm the
neighborhood of Douglass Hail. Anacos-
TIA, where the ballot box for the first
precinct of the first district was deposited.
The trouble might have been averted
had the ballot box been chained or
anchored to the spot. for two rather
comic attempts to 'kidnap' the votes,
box, lock and all. resulted in turmoil
and henchman named Henry Martin
was arrested. Just what side this hench-
man was nenchIns for couiu not be i-ar,i-
ed last night at Coz + street where
many survivors of the days battle gath
u
until after midnight.
Harry Clark who claimed with other
things. last night, that he knew the real.
true secret of why Gen. Andrew Burt
had refrained from the race, boAsted
among the bystanders at COZ F street
that he had made the first discovery of
something wrong with the Anacostia bal
lots. He said that at IL 80 o'clock yes
with a thousand ballots, intimatin, Inat
it was stuffed to the detriment or h,s
friends. Messrs. Bieber and Wilder
Enormity Of Crime Shrinks.
He objected, and took the box from
where it was and started with it to show
to the captain Of the eleventh police pre-
cinct. Judges of the election interrerod
with this procedure. When Clark was
telling about it he gradually reduced his
figures from a thousand stuffed 1loLs
to just some ballots. and the other sioe
claimed that they We're just early oai
lots. properly registered, but probAbl-
voted little cary, owing to the odd spe-
cies Of some of the timepieces In vogue in
Anacostia.
However, things hummed lively around
Anacostia all day, and this now famous
henchman named Martin is alleged to
have taken it on himself to wipe the al
legged stain from American politics by
grabbing the ballot box, votes, lock and
all. and running down the street.
Ballot Boxes as Evidence.
Lawyer John Moss. Judge of election.
and others started in swift pursuit. call
ing on the policemen and all bystanders
to rescue the fast disappearing ballots.
Henchman Martin was caught by the
back of the neck by policeman and
hauled ingloriously to the station u 3Use
Here a difficulty arose. An exciteu mob
wanted to take the box back to the oallot-
ing place for the collection of a few more
ballots, but Capt. Anderson was firm. He
wanted that box as evidence In the charge
of petty larceny which was placed op-
posdte the name OF Henry Martin. And.
therefore. through the long hours Of the
night the ballots in despute rested in the