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1346 JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
264 over Latrobe, and Mr. Harris only 223 over Warfield,
thereby reducing the Reform majority from 98 at the Muni-
cipal election to 57 at the State election. The remarkable
Mr. Wellslager, Democratic Judge, was substituted on this
occasion for Mr. Carroll, who acted at the Municipal election,
and bis eccentricities, as proved by the witnesses above men-
tioned, were ample to account for any amount of confusion In
the ballots or returns. Mr, Wellslager allowed his zeal
for his party to carry him so far that even the Police
Board repudiated him, and swore they knew him not,
and never had commissioned him, but that the other
judges at the precinct had, (testimony of Marriott Bos-
well and John Milroy.) The judges, however, deny this
soft impeachment, and swear not only that they had no part
nor lot in Mr. Wellslager, or his appointment, but that he
appeared at the polls with, and acted under a regular com-
mission from the Board of Police. (See Democratic Return
judge Stembler's testimony.)
In the 4th precinct of the 14th ward, we find in the returns
of the State election, 132 more votes than at the Municipal
election, that Carroll gains 149, and Harris loses 17, and
that the Reform majority of 113 at the Municipal election is
turned into a Democratic majority of 53 at the State election.
The cause of these changes is readily seen in the fact that
there was a change in the offices between the two elections,
and the new appointee, though selected as a Reformer, openly
worked for the Democratic party; saying, (among other
things,) to the Democrat workers, "if you boys will only do
your duty outside, we will do it inside." That the duty in-
side was done, appears from the presence of 144 unfolded
Democratic tickets, and 44 Pudding tickets.
Now, as the Pudding ticket is a very small ticket, on thin
paper, and is voted by being concealed inside the ordinary
ticket, it therefor generally, if not always, represents a ballot
without it name on the poll book to account tor it; while the
unfolded ticket is the ordinary ticket, fresh, smooth and
clean, just as it comes from the printer, and showing by its
condition aad marked contrast to the general mass of tickets
that it could not have passed through the hands of a votor,
or through the slit in the ballot box, but has gotten into the
returns by being put into the box with the lid open, or de-
liberately added to the filed ballots after the close ef the
polls.
But the number of the Pudding tickets in the 4th precinct
of the 14th ward, 44 plus 144, the number of unfolded
ticket, makes a total 6f 188; while there is an excess of bal-
lots over names of only 86, we have 42 of the excess to go to
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