Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
THE OHIO ELECTION.

CINCINNATI, Oct 19.-The official
count of the vote for this Hamilton)
county began to-day amid considerable
excitement. Daniel Dalton, county
clerk, Democrat; ''Square" Sombloom
Democrat, and Square j. Sanderson
were the lawful officials to do the
counting. Lewis G.. Bernard was the
only outsider representing the Demo-
cratic candidates, while the Republi-
cans candidates were represented by
ex-Gov. Noyes, Warner NJ Bateman,
DR.. Austin Wulsin, Thomas McDoug-
all and George r. Topp. These men
were selected by joint committee
from the the Lincoln and Blaine clubs
and the County Republican Campaign
committee. A few candidates we're
there representing themselves.
After great deal If hot talk between
the opposing politicians the count be-
gan, but it was very slow work owing
to the botched condition of the returns
from majority of the precincts. The
following are some of the discrepancies
shown by the returns as compared
with the figures collected by the news
paper combination:
In the first ward, which is strongly
Republican, Pugn loses six votes in
Precinct B; Harlan six votes in Pre-
cinct G; Houston twenty votes in
Precinct d; Hagerty 100 votes in
Precinct D; Boettger eight votes in
Precinct G; McGill gains two votes,
johnson one and Bruner ten votes in
in Precinct G..
In this precinct Huston, Democrat,
for common pleas judge, is credited
with Isl votes, when there are only
146 names on the tally-sheets. In
the second ward Hardacre gains six
votes in Precinct A. Precincts B and
G tally with the press returns. All
the above losses are by Democrats
except that of Harlan, and all the
gains are for Republicans except in
the case of Huston
In the Third ward, Precinct A, the
tallies on the tally sheet were twelve
to fifteen more than the totals shown
by figures for the Republican candi-
dates for the general assembly. and the
totals for the Democratic candidates
were about ten fewer than the tallies
of votes. In Precinct G, same ward,
there was gain of ten for the whole
Republican ticket on count of the
tallies as compared with the press
figures. but the tally showed 1856 votes
cast in the precinct, while there were
438 votes certified to in the tallies.
One of the judges signed the returns
under protest In Precinct E. of the
same ward, the totals were less than
the number of tallies and the changes
were Republican gains.
THE WORST OF ALL.
But the premium precinct was Pre-
cinct A, Ward four, whose registration
was 1852. Its total vote polled was
996, divided as follows, on the leading
candidates: Hoadly, 926; Foraker. 48;
Leonard, %. A broad smile sufused
the faces of all assembled. Wulsin
objected because part Of the rett : IS
were not certified to properly, aud
was told by Clerk Dalton to make a
memorandum of it and take advantage
of it if he could Dalton could not
go behind the returns if they were not
right and it was not his fault. In
Precinct d, Fourth ward, nineteen
more votes were cast than were regis
tered. Wards one and two are Repub-
lican wards; three and four are strong
ly Democratic. Only four wards have
been counted and twenty-one wards
remain to be counted.