Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-03-27
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Special By United Press wirs.
New York, March 26:-t'There
never was more scandalous specta
Gle than the way the New York coun.
ty machine is running the fight for
the Taft ticket in these primaries. .
This was Theodore Roosevelt s
comment last evening on yesterday &
elections in this county. The remark
was made just before the colonel left
on his western campaign trip. He
had just heard that the Roosevelt
watchers had been driven from the
polls.
Earlier In the day Colonel Roose-
yelt had denounced the primary as
a wicked farce. Both remarks were
corroborated by events at the polls.
The machine virtually disfranchised
Roosevelt supporters.
Ballots Not Delivered.
In many election districts in this
city the Keenig machine saw to it
that no ballots were delivered. The
voters were disfranchised, as no cleo
tions were held. In one place In
Tottenyille the ballots were not re-
ceived until 8 O'Clock at night,
whereas the polls were supposed to
be opened from 8 o'clock in the af-
ternoon and closed at O'Clock The
late delivery of the ballots gave the
people only one hour for voting. 1t
was in the borough of Queens where,
in some cases, no ballots were re-
ceived at all. The greatest confu-
sion was evident everywhere. Hard
ly any polling place had any tally
sheets at all. In other places the
the official ballots.
Where balloting took place inspec-
tors friendly to the machine were
In charge. Roosevelt watchers were
driven away. The gorilla, or New
York election thug, was in evidence.
Boss Koenig has been quoted as say
Ing he would win by fair means or
foul.
Returns today indicate that the
machine had counted fewer votes for
Roosevelt than he had names on his
petitions to have his name placed
on the ballot The machine counted
probably less than 10 per cent of the
whole vote for the colonel. Koenig
claimed that the machine had won
in every congressional district in the
city by a ratio of 8 to l.
Very Incomplete figures from four
teen congressional districts, the
Eleventh to the Twenty fourth, inclu-
sive, gave totals oe Taft, 16,l61, and
Roosevelt, 6,429.
In substantial number Of election
districts of this city there was no pri-
mary election because no ballots were
delivered to the polling places. When
they did not come at all the polling
places closed up at the regular hour
without any election When the deliv-
cry was delayed such people as were
In the polling places at closing time
had chance to vote, and others were
turned away. In one district Let of
unofficial ballots were prepared and
voted, and it is believed these will be
held to be legal.
In the Thirty-third assembly district
in the Bronx the Independence league
men got up typewriter ballots and
used them.
In New York county, where the
Roosevelt fight was ivelier than else
where throughout the city, there was
less trouble than in other parts of the
city. Many Of the polling places had
no ballots at the opening hour. but in
the course Of the next few hours the
ballots were delivered to the police by
auto and taxicab and were hustled
around to the polling places.
The Roosevelt committee insisted
that the Republican machine caused all
the trouble in an effort to keep the
plain people from voting for Roosevelt,
but President Britt Of the board of
elections and members OF the Martin
B. Brown company. printers of the bal
lots, said that the Amixup.' as Presi-
dent Britt characterized 1t. was solely
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