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1344 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
field 149. By the poll books at the State election, it appears
that 284 persons voted, and Harris is given in the returns
154, so that Carroll's legitimate vote was 130. But the
judges have given him 153, and exactly 23 pudding tickets
are found among the ballots.
In the 19th ward, 4th precinct we find the Reform majority
of 468 at the Municipal election, reduced to 22 at the State
election, with 28 less votes at the last election. Looking for
the cause of this wonderful change, we find that all the
judges and clerks were removed between the two elections,
and 148 unfolded tickets were counted in the returns.
In this precinct the Judges are. charged by several wit-
nesses with dropping Reform tickets outside instead of inside
the ballot box, accordingly we find that the number of un-
folded tickets, which must necessarily be fraudulent, is in
excess of the discrepancy between the number of ballots and
names on the poll books; thus showing that the Reform tick-
ets dropped, were substituted by the unfolded Democratic
tickets already in the box or placed therein, or among the
ballots alter the close of the polls.
That such was the mode is plainly proved by the fact,
that the new judges make Carroll gain 114 over Latrobe,
and Harris fall 232 behind Warfield.
In the 4th precinct, 20th ward, there is an excess of 128
ballots over names of voters on the poll books, which are in
part accounted for by 7 pudding tickets, and 38 unfolded
Democratic tickets. The other 86 ballots may have been put
in by partisans bold enough to vote a fatter ticket than
would have been required if the pudding had been used; in
other words several ordinary tickets were voted in a bunch.
But, however, their presence is explained, the fact that there
are no names to account Cor them, necessarily makes them
fraudulent.
In the third district, composed of the 13th, 14th, 15th,
16th, 17th and 18th wards, we find one precinct, and only
one in the whole district, (the first of the 13th ward,) in
which nothing wrong appears, either in documentary or oral
evidence and here Harris, the Reform candidate for Gover-
nor, gains 8 votes over Warfield the Reform candidate for
Mayor, and Carroll Democratic candidate for Governor,
falls 9 votes behind Latrobe, Democratic candidate for May-
or/and one less vote cast at the State than at the Municipal
election. The figures here prove, what the facts and circum-
stances of the canvass made certain, that the entire legal
vote of Baltimore city was brought out at the Municipal
election.
In the second precinct of the same ward, there are 640
voters recorded, but only 590 counttd an elimination of 50
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