Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-11-14
The Result on Sheriff

suit of the election on Sheriff. 1t
had como to be believed throughout
the county that Uncover was elect
cd and it was believed beyond doubt
In Lancaster until the official count
was made. The figures we had,
however, gave him only % majority.
The official returns were all in the
County Clerks hands. under seal
on Thursday, except those of Mt.Ida.
To settle the question and relieve
she public mind of the suspense these
were sent for and the count was
made Thursday evening. A mum
Der OF citizens collected in the Clerks
office to hear the count. The can.
vassers soon struck Beetown. The
figures before received showed 153
votes there for Streeter. The can.
vassers read 159 from the Official pa
pers. This cut Mr.. Covers major.
ity to Is. Soon another town cut
this majority one moro and then an
other to|c another reduction of one
and when Potoei was counted five
votes came off, reducing Covers ma.
jority to ten. These changes had
all gone one way and though the
suspense became more intense no
one appeared to think of the posi-
biIity of turning the majority the
other way. Twenty.eight towns had
been counted, and Judge McGoni.
gal opened the papers from Wing
vile. Our returns before received
from Wingville showed 81 for Cover
and 102 for Streeter. On these e.
cures was based Covers majority of
10. But the official returns showed
81 for Cover and 112 for Streeter,
making a difference Of 20 on the
former count and giving Streeter
majority of 10. This broke the sus.
pense but added to the excitement.
Everybody in town showed disap-
pointment. Next morning on ex-
animation of the Beetown count it
was found that there was a discrep.
aucy between the total vote cast for
Streeter and the sum of the votes for
the candidates. An officer was sent
down to have the returns corrected.
and it was discovered that our ad.
vance returns had been correct. The
vote for Streeter there was 1913,
leaving him majority of but 4. On
this modicum of surplus the cortifi-
cate of election was given Mr.Street,
or last Tuesday. He enjoys the
distinction CT having been the
first regularly nominated Democrat.
ic candidate for Grant county office
who has received q certificate of
election since the organization Of the
Republican party in 1854 PA
years ago.
There is much complaint over Mr.
Covers defeat, and much talk as to
how it was effected. A gentleman
writing from Platteville, the quarter
bearing the heaviest blame, says
that "as many reasons were gwen
there for supporting Streeter as he
had votes" "Some voted for him to
get him out of town. Some
x = Some because he had Just
paid an old debt. Some because be
didn't 60 into saloons and treat and
some because he did. Some because
he was Platteville man and some
beca use be was not Lancaster man
Some because he had signed the
| p ledge and belonged to the Club and
some because they had pledged them
selves to vote for him." etc., etc.,
one of the reasons being "because
Covers bill would be less than
McCoy's, &C." When the votes were
counted in Plattevi!ie it was found
that the ballots exceeded the poll
list by four, and in drawing out the
excess four straight Republican
votes were lost. Of the many res.
sops assigned for Mr.. Covers defeat
that of the opposition of the SO
called temperance people is regarded
as the most effective. We do not
hesitate to say that il was the sill
lest reason and the most shameful
to those infusnced by it. There
can be no question that Mr.. Cover
is as we'll set to temperance as Mr.
Streeter, and he has no band oil
brotherhood to help him to be stead.
fast. These spasmodic temperance
people voted fer the remainder Of
our ticket. some of whom have over
900 majority, and we understand Mr.
Cover is the only man on both tick.
cts (unless Mr.. Streeter be excepted
who will not take q drink when hi
has inclination.