Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-11-14

When report came today that the
ocean County Board of Elections
had. after several hours of deadlock
during the night. decided to let the
count stand as finally made by cleo
ton officers, leaving Robert Carson
a winner in the third congressional
| district, Congressman Thomas ].
sculiy and his friends definitely de-
cided upon recount. They said the
result was too close for comfort and
announced that they would apply on
or before this Friday to Supreme
Court Justices Bergen and Kalisch
for recounts.
Application will be made to Justice
| Bergen for a recount in Middlesex
| county, and to Justice Kalisch for re-
counts in Monmouth and Ocean coun-
| ties. Thomas H. Hagerty will repre-
sent Mr.. Scully during the recount
here, Aston H. Beekman, of Red
Bank. will represent him in Mon
mouth county, and Albert H. Jayne, of
Lakewood, will represent him in
Ocean.
At a late hour today there still
remained a question as to whether
Congressman Thomas J. Scully, of
South Amboy, or Robert Carson, of
New Brunswick, had been elected to
congress from this third district. Al
legged failure to write in words the
total amount Of votes In two districts,
use of white paper for ballots and
variances with registry lists were re-
ported as the latest discrepancies in
the Ocean county count. This caused
the ocean canvassers to be deadlock
ed throughout the greater part of the
night. As they began their deadlock
Republican leaders of South Amboy
began action to prove an alleged ir-
regularity in the second ward of that
city, by which they hoped to prove
that William 8. Dey was elected as
mayor over Alfred T. Kerr and that
E. 8. Mason was chosen as council
man-at-large. They likewise hoped
to prove conclusively that Carson
was elected over Scully as congress-
man.
Although there were Indications that
SO far as official canvasses were con-
cerned, Mr.. Carson stood a winner with
eleven votes to spare, Mr.. Scully con-
cluded there was still a doubt He said
he would prefer to hear from the state
canvassers before deciding Just how
the election officers, particularly those
In Ocean county, had handled the
count
The Ocean county Board of EIec-
rious discrepancies was the failure of
election officers to write in words the
total amount of votes in Beach Haven
and Toms River. The Democratic
members of the board held that the
ninety-ffve votes in Beach Haven and
the 500 votes in Toms River there
fore should not be capvassed and
consequently not countedN Upholding
of this decision would make Con-
gresham Scully an easy winner. Re-
publican members, however. object
ed strenuously. Lawyers A. ]. B.
Stokes and T. V. Arrowsmith repre-
sented Mr.. Scully and w. Howard
Jeffry represented Mr.. Carson during
the canvass.
At the county clerks Office at Toms
River it was stated this morning that
the Dem mocratic canvassers had thrown
up their hands and gave in at 1890
o'clock this morning and that the can
vassers filed their report at 4:30. Mr.
Scully, however, stated at 11:30 O'Clock
today that he had information to the
contrary and that the election board
members were still hopelessly dead
locked.
When informed of what Mr.. Scully
had said, Deputy County Clerk Thomas
NJ Thompson, of Ocean, reiterated the
backing down of Democratic canvass
ers. He claimed positively that they
gave in at 1890 o'clock and that the
returns of the canvass were in at $50
o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Thompson declared that senti-
ment ran too strong against the
Democrats to hold out any longer, as
1t was proven that it would be unfair
to hold up legitimate returns upon
mere Insignificant technicaltties.
These consisted of objections because
returns had been made on white
paper, because figures of totals had
not been written on return sheets In
two districts and because of claims
that in some districts there had been
cast more votes than had been regis
tered, Mr.. Thompson absolutely de-
MED the truth of the latter statement,
saying in each case as was customary
there had been cast less votes than
were registered. Concluding, Mr..
Thompson said the canvassers found
that Mr.. Carson's majority Of 721 in
the county stood as given out Just
before the canvass.
In a statement rendered here 1t was
declared thel in Toms River there had
been registered 43S, 36S of whom
yo.a5 apd 216 of whom voted for a