The New York herald., 1922-08-21
Rival Candidate Alleges
Long Beachers Stuffed
Ballot Boxes.
WATTS UNTIL LAST HOUR
Protest Stuns Election Win.
ner as He Prepares for His
Days Triumph.


that Yussel Madinsky played on the
Duke on Saturday night. To make IL
worse Yussel chose midnight to play
mis- trick and he knew as well as any,
body that the Duke bad gone to bed in
his Long Beach mansion at o'clock
In order to be fresh and vigorous for
his induction into office yesterday as
Mayor of Second avenue.
The Duke turned in at Q, as set forth
above. leaving orders that there was to
be no carryings on around his mansion
because he wanted Second avenue to
see him at his best when he arrived
for his Inauguration in one of his
seven Rolls-Royce automobiles. So the
entire personnel OF the Dukes house
hold turned in quarter OF an hour or
SO after the Duke did.
1t was just midnight when the Duke
awoke. Some one was tapping on the
back door. The Duke sat up in bed
and listened, thinking that maybe the
heat had caused him to be hearing
things that. didn't exist just as these
chronic candidates do every time an
election for Governor is coming on.
The Duke listened for a minute and
then heard 1t again. Somebody was
tapping on the back door!
The Duke ran to the window and
shouted.
Who's there?" he asked. 'If it's
anybody important I'll send down my
butler to find out what 1t is you want
at this time at night II 1t isn't. get
away from that back door for I've got
to be fine and rested for my taking the
office of Mayor OF Second avenue to-
morrow morning"
Suspecting No Guile.
There was no answer. but as the Duke
recalled it later there was a low burbling
noise, suggestive Of sardonic chuckle
or something or other like that. The
Duke says that it never occurred to him
to send the butler down to the back
door anyway and investigate You see,
the tapping had ceased and the Duke
being man who never played a dirty
trick in his life didn't suspect that one
was being played on him. So he went
back to bed
"As nne day for crowning me Mayor
OF Second avenue as a reasonable man
would want to be crowned King Of Eng
land" enthused the Duke yesterday
morning upon arising at 7.
The Duke was in one of his two dozen
bathing suits.
,,i,,rcau ;oto tta 1~~o, a-i.tx
rundown by my valet. an etra fine break
fast from my French chef and then a
quick spin to Second avenue in one of
my Rolls-Royce automobiles" exulted
the Duke.
The Duke had his democratic plunge
into the very ocean that everybody at
Long Beach uses. The Duke hasn't even
a section of beach to himself Not that
he couldn't have, but he doesn't want II.
That's the sort of Duke he Is. His
step was sprightly and triumph shone in
his clear eyes as he hustled back In his
dripping bathing suit and his quilted silk
fast. And then the cruel blow OF Yussel
Madinsky. the Dukes defeated opponent
for Mayor OF Second avenue.
Tackled to the back door Of the Dukes
Long Beach mansion was a large notice
Of protest from Yussel Madinsky. Yusse
Madinsky had been beaten two weeks ago
by a vote OF 81 to 81. He had made a
verbal protest. but let It be understood
that he was going to abide by the deci-
sion OF the voting, being that II had been
one OF the most solemn referendums Sec
ond avenue had ever held. Yussel Ma
dinsky had let the Duke go right up to a
few hours before the inauguration cere-
monies before fling his official protest.
which, Of course, automatically post
pones the crowning until next Sunday.
granting the protest Is not upheld. The
Dukes valet had to work on him for
an hour before the Duke was At for
breakfast.
The Fourteen Points.
Yussel's protest insisted that the cleo
ton of the Duke be adjudged Illegal
and cited the fact that the Second Ave-
nue. Election Board. headed by Jake
Moretsky. had called off the festivities
that were to see the Duke crowned
Mayor. Yussels protest embodied four
teen points. upon which he objected to
the Duke taking office. They read:
1. Under the election law no voter
should be interfercd with. or given any
inducement on the way to the polls.
Instead Of obeying the law the Dukes
friends gave away cigars that made the
voters so dizzy that one of the In
spcctors told me he did not know
whether or not an election was on.
2. charge that while Bottles Finkel-
stein OF the board was called to the
phone the ballot box was stuffed with
votes from Long Beach. where my op-
ponent. the Duke. resides.
8. They being non-residents of Second
avenue. the election Is illegal.
4. A window in the yard OF the Dukes
law office was uncovered. thereby en-
ebling one to see the vote cast by any
voter.
s. The eleven votes cast for me. but
found In the pages Of the Dukes law
books In his back yard clearly show
that there was something wrong.
6. These votes would have given mo
a majority to become Mayor of Second
avenue.
I. Tho rules call that all inspectors
must he present when votes are being
cast.
9. The polls should have been opened
nt 10 A. ~, but instead they were
opened at a. NJ.
o. The ballot boxes did not have
glass sides. This under the law IS
illegal.
10. The election should never have
taken place in the law office of the
Duke.
II. The Dukes campaign mansssrs