Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-23
FAXED NAMES
ARE LOOMING Up
IN LARGE LOTS
Petitions from Lodging House
Districts Present a Sorry
Spectacle.
Ar hFlDAVlTS TAKEN
BY PROMINENT MEN
Joseph Hauber Becomes De-
cidedIy Wrought and Declares
His Acts Nobody's Business.

The examination of names on the
commission government petitions will
terminate tonight When the clerks
commenced work today only 1.054
names remained to be checked up.
Now the work of re-examining those
names made doubtful will begin. 1t
is expected that this task will take
a least another week.
All records were broken by yester-
days work. The clerks exa amined ] ,066
names. OF this number 1893 We're mo
good" six very doubtful and 67S
approved. The bank clerks last night
examined seventy-siX names. They
found sixty-eight o. X, six mo good
and two doubtful
With today's work the faxed and
bogus sigma lures obtained by paid
canVassers of the league were brought
to light With the examination of
these names il was found that Joseph
Hauber was the notary who took the
affidavits of the majority of them.
Mr. Hauber several weeks ago fatty
denied that he was the one who took
the affidavits on the "rooming house"
petitions.
The election bureau was somewhat
livened up today by Mr.. Hauber
when ii was ascertained that he was
the one who took the affidavits. He
almost shouted to be let alone and
said it was nobody's business what
he had done.
An Evening Star representative
went to Mr.. Hauber and asked why
he mad denied taking the affidavits
on the faxed" petitions His reply
was at the height of his voice, ane
made the election clerks sit UP ana
take notice. He stated: rs that
some more of your papers business
After this Mr. Hauber went over to
the election clerks. In low and ex-
cited tone of voice he pleaded with
them to withhold the information
from the press; that he was the one
who had taken the aff1daVits of
Schantz, Bennett. Harrigan and, Sol
omon.
"Why don't you want the people 10
know that you took the affidaVits Of
these faxed names2' said one of the
clerks to Mr.. Hauber.
Again in whispered and pleading
tone he stated that he did not want
the public to connect his name with
the work of the "faked' petitions.
He tried his utmost to guard the pc
titions so that the fact would not be
made public.
The Commission Government
League people had denied that Mr..
Hauber signed the affidavits. This
denial several weeks ago was very
emphatic by Mr.. Hauber.
1t appears. however, that Hauber
took the major portion of the affi-
davits on the petitions which were
handled by the paid canvassers. 1t
was also discovered that Theodore S.
Fettinger. secretary of the league,
was another one of the hackers who
took affldavits of the names obtained
by the hired men.
The petitions look like child TAX
ing its first lesson in writing. The
names obtained by Louis S. Schantz
are written in pencil and in a pecu-
liar blue ink. They all look alike to
the clerks. Thomas Bennett, another
one of the paid canvassers, is want
ed both by City Clerk James f. Con-
nelly and the Commission Govern
ment League His petitions are also
"phony."
The clerks also unearthed today
petitions circulated by John Harri-
gan and Abraham Solomon. These
resemble very closely the ealibre of
signatures on the Bennett and Schantz
documents.
When the Commission Government
League meets in executive session to-
right they will know the decision of
the first count. The meeting from all
accounts will be warm one. Will
iam O. Kuebler, who attacked the
methods of Mr.. Fettinger, and vice
versa. Fettinger fiinging at Kuebler,
will be aired at tonight's session, il is
said.
The matter of circulating another
petition at once will also be brought
up. Then again Louis B. Lesser and
Henry w. Underwood, who yesterday
left the Commission League quarters
in huff" may have to be reckoned
with.
Although the leaguers maintain that
there is no split yet, indications
point to the fact that the league is
by no means harmonious. 1t is pro-
posed to have another set of officers
This will bring about a decisive
change and may be the means of
breaking the league for the present at
least.
After the work of today, the doubt
full names will be gone over as we'll
as those names which have not been
found on the poll books. The first
1000 names have been completed.
These will not be reeXamined only by
the leaguers
1t was rumored that the one re-
naming Commission Government
Clerk Henry Schultz, was about to
I quit" This information given to
Mr.. Fettinger brought him to the
CITY Hall on double quick time"
After half an hour conference Mr..
Schultz returned to his work. Neither
he nor Mr.. Fettinger would divulge
tho ot1Ire of the conference