The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-28
TIE RESULT IN TETS COUNTY.

The Clouds OF Doubt mo yet
proba nifty OF q Recanvass OF
whole Vote al Columbia. u.,.
Tho official canvass of the vote or Chari's'
ton County, in the election of the l0tn lns'sn',
bas been completed, and the figures artiseu -.
hv that oanysss have been fully publlshea; Jul
there. sill remains aoondltion OF u
ble uncertainty in regard to the iate VI 'om
-, the candidates, owing to the bungling man
o.,In wh,nh some of the returns were iur'
n,.hed 10 the county cauvassers, aad Inc ne-
.a..,tv rpb,sb consequently exists for q recan.
80. ~ tha. entire vote by the State ooaro VI
.su1oooers. The most serious oiunoer COIL
s~,,,sa hv sny of the managers, and the ohe
which causes most of the present uhcefA.n's'
10 IN the case of the Wright's Store preclnct,
~ Edlsto Island, where the managers MADE no
.aturns whatever of the vote, but simply return
ad The ballot box with the ballots. and the poll
LAT Init without any return or tally list, or
ANYTHING else by which the vote could Do
canvassed, without an actual recount OF tne
ballots, The county canvassers mao aireaoy
deo,ded that they were neither obliged nor
emnowered by the law under which they
acted to make such q recount, and they were
compelled therefore TO omit the precinct en-
.irely from their canvass, leaving the ulti-
mate settlement OF the question to the state
board of canvassers. At that precinct mere
were 34s votes, and 1t is generally admitted
that the Bowen ticket received about 2zz
vo,es and the Mackey ticket about IL. Ii,
therefore, the State board OF canVassers snoula
decide to count and admit these votes-and 1t
Ia difficult to see how they can decide other
wise-there will be 222 votes to be adoeo 10
the vote of each Bowen candidate, ana 10
votes to be added to the vote OF each macke5-
ite. This will make q net difference OF zo4
votes in the case of each candidate, ana this
d,fs.rence ia sufficient to turn the scale IN the
case of at least one Of the sssemoiymen. Ac-
cora,nu To the official canvass Of the vote, pub
lished in TIE NEWS Of Saturday, 1t woula
annear that all of the Bowen Legislative
ticket had been elected except one man, b.
W. Turner, who is credited with but eoSs
votea. while one of his opponents on tne
Maokey ticket, Mr.. 8. D. Russell, mas DIAL
votas. II. however. there should be added TO
Turner's vote the 222 votes which he probably
received at wright's store, and to Russelrs
vote the Is votes which were probably cast
for him at the same place, the figures would
stand Turner 6sll, Russell 6l6s, and Turner
would be declared elected by an ample ma
,ority. 1t is probable, therefore, that the
whole Bowen Legislative ticket will be de-
clared elected unless, Indeed, the hackeyites
should be able to show to the State oanVassers
tss they claim they oan) that there were r.
Irregularities on the other aide OF the qaesuon
sufac,ent TO reverse the result.
In the case of the county officers there Is less
uncertainty as 10 the result, the majority Tor
ZACH of the successful candidates being snffi-
oleptly large to be in no danger Of reversal
on account of any Of the Irregularities already
reported. The names Of the elected and the
defeated candidates, with the vote received
by EACH, as determined BY the county can
yassers are as follows. The names of the OIL
GERS elected are printed In SMALL CAPITALS,
and the initials opposite each Candidates
name, Indicating the ticket upon which he
ran. B stan ding for the Bowen ticket, II for
the Maskey ticket, b for Hobson's Choice and
I tor independent candidates: