Daily Republican., 1886-06-18
THIRD EDITION.


Pursuant to adjournment, smother
meeting OF the Democratic County Exc
cutive Committee was held shortly after
Q o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
Court House. There was q large crowd
of the friends of the several candidates
for sheriff and coroner in and around
the building, and several amin sted dis
cussions took place between them. The
door was guarded, but Meesrs. Lamb
son and Cham bers, candidates for sher
iff, and Patrick Lambert for coroner
were present, but George T. Barnhill
was only able to be in the room q few
minutes, owing to the serious illness Of
one of his children. George H. Bates
and L. G. Vandegrift, Esq., were also
permitted In the room as attorneys for
Messrs. Lambson and Barnhill, while
Messrs. Chambers and Lambert repre-
scented themselves.
Messrs. Bates and Vandegrift said
that they were In favor of rejecting
any returns about which there was the
slightest shadow of fraud, without ro-
spect rs to who would be affected by
such action. They also claimed that
Joseph r. Myers, who held the Third
ward election at the Stockley Houee,
was the regular inspector appointed by
the committee and that consequently
the returns presented by him were the
only ones that could be counted. That
Joseph Myers, who cond acted the cleo.
tion ct the Witsil segar store, was nos
appointed by the committee, and thai
the votes cast as that poll as we'll at
those In the Tenth ward, were grossly
in excess of the true humber OF voter
in the districts. They asked that oil
returns not sent in at once on Saturday
night, but withheld until Monday, b
thrown out. They referred to the fac
that the Tenth ward poll was located s.
the house of one of the candidates, and
that the box containing the votes re-
manned there fully forty eight hour
after the election. Their remarks, they
said, applied to the northern districts o.
the First ward, as well rs to the others
although it showed q large maj GRITTY fol
Lambson.
Affldavits were presented showing
the vote of the Third and Tenth wards
from 1880 to 1886, and that Saturd ay' 4
vote was far above that OF any previou,
occasion. An affidavit Of Patrick
Neary covered the thirteen years from
1871 to 1884, and stated that the recent
vote In the Tenth ward WAS greatly
swollen compared with the period men
TONED, during which be lived in said
ward.
Afidaviis were also presented in be
half OF Lambson from Joeeph Il
Myers and John A. Mitchell, who cen
Quoted the election at the Stockley
House. The former set forth thal
Myers had seen his name published In
the newspapers as one of the judges tC
hold the election, and that he had To
ceived from one of the committee
printed instructions to judges signed by
the chairman and secretary, which, the
counsel claimed, were virtual recog-
nitions OF him as the chosen man.
John j. Tsggart, who had been ap-
pointed to act with Joseph Il Myers,
had according to Myers affidavit trans.
ferred his power to Myers, and NJ gers
had selected Mitchell to act with him.
Mitchell's affidavit corroborated some
of these statements.
Mr. Cham bers then addressed the
committee and asked for a fair deal.
He commended that there had been fraud
com mitted at every election for years
past, and said he did not think that be-
cause these things had been done he
should be selected now as the one to be
downed. He presented several commu.
nications, among them being one frcm
Councilman William b. Norton of the
Eighth ward, stating that votes for him
had been improperly Refused, and other
things done which deprived him o.
having q fair chance He had a mum
Der of witnesses present who wer,
wiling TO subs;aniiate his s5atementt
under oath, but their testimony was no
admitted.
The room was then cleared or all ex
cept the committee, when consultation
lasting an hour took place, after which
it was decided to reject the returns from
the northern district ofthe First ward
those from the Witsil polls in the Third
ward, ard all OF the Tenth ward.
The committee came out Of the room
about s 80 o'clock, and as soon as It was
afceriained that they had decided In
favor Of Giles Lambson for Sheriff and
George I. Baruhill for Coroner, which,
however, was not positively known fol-
nearly an hour afterwards, there wert
signs of the storm which will be sure tC
follow as the friends of Chambers claiu
that he was properly nominated. auG
express their intention of voting for hin
at the November election.
The action of the committee affect
tue vote as follows:
Fret ward-CLam Cers, 80; Lanbson
255. Third ward-Chambe rs, 1,C5l
Lam0soH, 80. Tenth ward-Chambe1s
l ,094; Lambson, 81; tota of Cnam hers
votes thrown cut, 2 IT'S; total of Lamb
sons votes thrown out, ol5, Takir
2,i75 votes from Chambers full vote
1913, left him 1,139, and 3l5 fror
Lambson ., 2 $40, lett him 1925. TIN
giving the latter a plurality of 1,3sI
Chambers had plurality of 473 betor
the change.
For coroner Lam bert had full vot
o: 2,4s3 and Barnhill 2,097, a pluralit
OF S96 TOR the former. OF these vote
81 were taken from Baruhill and l, j !
from Lambert, leaving plurality Ic
BaTnhill Of 400