Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-30
.SCULLy GAINS 81
MONMOUTH BALLOTS
Justice Kalisch Finishes Work
in Freehold-Next Goes to
Ocean County, Where Last
Recount Will be Taken.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

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Freehold, Dec. 3o-The completion
of the recount in Monmouth late yes
terday in the Scully- Carson congress
sional contest, resulted in giving Rep
resentative Thomas j. Scully a net
gain of sf.cty-one over the original re-
turns. The final returns in Mon
mouth county credits Robert Carson,
the Republican candidate, with 1884
votes and Representative Thomas J.
Scully with 10,070. Mr.. Scully's plu-
rality on the original returns was 315.
On the recount his plurality is 376 in
the county.
Mr.. Carson's original plurality In
the entire third district was eleven.
Taking the completed returns from
Middlesex, where Mr.. Scully, on re-
count, made gain Of ninety-six and
the sixty-one gained in Monmouth,
and accepting the original returns in
Ocean county (where the recount is
uncompleted) as correct, Mr.. Car
on's plurality of eleven is changed to
plurality of LAG for Representative
Scully.
The recount in the entire third con-
gressional district will be completed
next Tuesday. when Justice Kalisch,
after sitting here to charge the new
January term of grand jury, will hur-
ry to Toms River to pass upon the ball
lots still under dispute in Ocean coun-
ty. To reduce the number of ballots
to be passed upon by Justice Kalisch
in Ocean. the county election board
will, either today or Monday, recan-
vass the referred ballots and, acting
ON the Justices ruling in certain class
es of ballots, count or reject them
as the case may be. An order to pur-
sue this method was signed by JUS
tice Kalisch here yesterday. This
was done here and 1t required but
three hours of Justice Kalisch's time
to pass upon the disputed ballots here
yesterday.
The actual recount was completed
here yesterday shortly after / o'clock.
The county election board then recess
ed for luncheon and it was not until
IA O'Clock that the final returns were
announced. The work of tabulating
the vote was completed much sooner
than this but before signing the re-
turn sheets the elections board check
ed UP the vote In each district, detect
ing minor errors In one or two In
stances. These returns will be car
rfed to Justice Kalisch's chambers al
Newark today by Leonard J. Arrow
smith, secretary of the Monmouth
County Board of Elections. Justice
KalisoiR will there certify the return:
| ty clerk. He reiterated yesterday 6
statement he made at New Brunswick
"Wednesday that he would not issue Q
certificate to the successful candidate
until the court of errors and appeals
has passed upon the point raised by
tcounsel for Mr.. Carson as to the vali-
dity of the recount.
The recount returns for Mr.. Car
son in Monmouth reduces his vote BY
2S5, his original returns being 9,92s
and the recount returns crediting him
with but 1884. Despite substantial
gains made by Mr.. Scully on the ac-
tual count of ballots he also suffered
a loss of 174 votes in Monmouth or
the recount. The original returns
credited him with 1924 and the re.
count returns with 10.070. OF tho
631 Carson ballots referred on re.
count 377 were allowed by the courf
or on recanvass by the board under
his orders. OF the 619 referred Scully
ballots $50 were allowed.
Appearing here yesterday in the
interest Of Representative ScullI
were Thomas P. Fay and Thomas "
Arrowsmith. of Long Branch; Thorn
as J. Griffin, of Jersey City; George
L. Burton, of New Brunswick, and
A. ]. c. Stokes, of Freehold. Johr
S. Applegate, of Red Bank. and Ben.
| iamin B. Smith, of Asbury Park
looked after Mr.. Carson's interests.