Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-28
Reserve Decision
in Ballot Appeal


| Ewelrs contradictory testimony could b
| considered. II was alleged that in the peti
| ton he charged that a dozen or more Towf
| Meeting votes had not been counted, whereas
| in court he testified that they had beer
| counted.
Slight gains by Republican candidate:
| were shown in the forty divisions
| completed so far by the Election Court
| The Town Meeting supporters expressed
| confidence, however, that this gam was
! only temporary. W. Frecland kehdrlck
| candidate for Receiver OF Taxes. gained
15s votes on Thomas +. Armstrong, his
opponent the Town Meeting ticket
James b. Sheehan. candidate for Register
of Wills. gained ia votes over his old ma
jority while Fred j. Shoyer, candidate Tor
city Treasurer, gained l73 more votes OH
his opponent William r, Nicholson.
Town Meeting lie lders, decuaring that
the rganization's petitions had been care
fully selected expressed confidence that eN-
animation of the 1886 ballot boxes IN the
city would show n Town Meeting victory
More than zoo petitions for opening ballot
boxes have been filed by the Town Meeting
party.
Charges Of ballot-box stuftng were made
by Henry J. Scott. Town Meeting counsel
when he asked the court to pass on the
new petitions presented yesterday by him
In 1lO divisions. ne declared he was, pre-
pared TO show that there were 1887 more
votes counted than registered.
I'VE get this from checking up the
voters lists he said. II ask the court
to pass on the new petitions. which go TO
the real crux of the whole situation; that
is we allege that there were more votes
cast than registered. If there were more
votes than registered there was undoubtedly
wholesale fraud and that is what we are
ready to prove under the new petitions.
Judges Martin and Finletter, who said
they were under the impression that these
h..
contest Court ect Friday morning for
hearing argument on whether the Election
Court should consider petitions filed after
the announcement OF the decision TO open
ballot-boXes where necessary to obtain Just
returns.
The Election Court. before adjcurnins
for Thanksgiving late this afternoon, had
arranged for the opening Of thirty-one more
ballot boxes when court resumes FrluaN.
OF these, twenty-three were based on Or
ganization petitions and eight on Town
Meeting petitions
The Town Meeting party withdrew petit
tions for a recount in the eighteenth and
twenty-flrst divisions of the Thlrty-sixth
Ward The Organization likewise Withdraw
petitions fer recount in the twenty-third
and tenth divisions of the Twenty-tfth
Ward and the fourth division CT the Twen-
ty-second Ward. In the last named case
John r, *. Scott consented to q gain Of
twenty-five votes for each OF the Town
Meeting nominees.
AZ the outsc; of today's count Henry
J. Scott counsel for the Town Meeting
party. said it would be shown that whole
sale fraud had been committed in the re-
cent election. lie reiterated his assertion
that the returns did not tally with the
official lists returned to the FrothonOtary's
office
John l.. *. Scott and other members OF
the Organization counsel who filed petit
tions for the opening of several ballot
boxes claimed that when the count of these
is announced it will show big gains for the
Republican candidates.
CHANGES SHOWN BY RECOUNT
The revised tables in divisions reported
in court today showed the following changes
made III correction of see vote: