The Charter Election Attended With Unusual Scenes.
The annual election for the village of Jamaica was held Tuesday afternoon at the Town Hall. There were six tickets in the field. Charles E. Twombly, for president; Alfred H, Beers, for treasurer, and Elmer E. Bergen, for collector, had no opposition. When the polls opened at noon the workers were on hand in force, conspicuous among them being William Goeller, Jr., and Thomas Holcraft, the indicted bribe takers, who not only stood upon the Town Hall steps and gave out pasters in the interest of their ticket, but ran voters right up to the ballot box, in openly violation of law, Holcraft taking one man, known as "Bismark," who cannot speak or write English, and it is questionable if he is a citizen, right up to the booth with the paster in his hand that he had given him. There were other violations of the election law during the afternoon, and many of those who went to vote were disgusted at the spectacle presented in and about the hall. Wagons in the interest of the several candidates were run all over the village, and every man who could be reached was driven to the polls. It was more like a town meeting than a village election. There were cast 812 votes. The resolution to appropriate $4,200 to build an engine house and purchase a truck for the bucket company was carried. The following is the official vote:
The persons elected are: President, Charles E. Twombly; trustees, Thomas Higgins, Thomas Foley, Michael J. Carter; treasurer, Alfred H. Beers; collector, Elmer E. Bergen; clerk, George L. Powell; police justice, F. E. Detheridge; police constable, John Fogarty; superintendent of streets, William Wright.After the vote had been announced the trustees, at the invitation of Treasurer Beers, partook of a supper at Daily's.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 1.
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