Modern battles of Trenton .. . owd ofon-lookers wa? scrutinizing the canvass of the ballots in the gang-way, the electric gongwas struck. Loosenedfrom their stalls, thef ?)H horses scampered through the throng totheir places before theengine, and the crowdscattered in every di-rection to avoid beingtrampled under theirlioofs. The electionI officers made the excite-1 ment a pretext for car-rying the box to a roomoverhead, and whenthe watchers recoveredtheir breath and triedto follow them, a dozenring policemen fought them down the staircase again with theirclubs. The box, on being opened in the
Modern battles of Trenton .. . owd ofon-lookers wa? scrutinizing the canvass of the ballots in the gang-way, the electric gongwas struck. Loosenedfrom their stalls, thef ?)H horses scampered through the throng totheir places before theengine, and the crowdscattered in every di-rection to avoid beingtrampled under theirlioofs. The electionI officers made the excite-1 ment a pretext for car-rying the box to a roomoverhead, and whenthe watchers recoveredtheir breath and triedto follow them, a dozenring policemen fought them down the staircase again with theirclubs. The box, on being opened in the Gardner investigation,was found to be reeking with the evidences of the rascality theincident had been planned to cover. It took the committee several weeks to complete the startlingdisclosures. The Senate and House took a recess to await itsfinding. Senators Gardner and Rue joined in a report declaringthat 1,764 irregular tissue ballots had been discovered in theseveral boxes; that false voting lists had been employed ; that. Edward F. McDonald. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 333 the polls had been surrounded by ruffians to intimidate honestvoters, sixteen ring policemen being engaged at one polling-place to prevent the seating of a Republican election clerk ; thatthe most startling of frauds had been committed with the mostaudacious insolence; that repeaters had overrun the city. Andthey computed that the vote of the county had been swollen bythe use of 10,000 or more fraudulent ballots. The honest vote of the county had been so clouded and viti-ated by these reckless villainies of the crowd that it was impos-sible to reach a conclusion as to what the verdict of the peoplehad been, and the conservative expectation was that the commit-tee would declare that there had been no election in the majority report figured, however, that the frauds were allagainst Stuhr, and that they were sufficient to have defeated hiselection. They declared, therefore, that Mr. McDonald was
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