The morning call., 1890-11-11
STROTHER KICKING.
The Auditor Evidently Smarting
Under Defeat.
Little Roadway Made in the Official Canvass.
Lively Wrangling Over the
Election Returns.

There was a lively time in the Supervisors
chamber at the new City Hail yesterday
morning over the Official canvass of the
votes cast at the election on Tuesday last,
and Mr.. Strother took occasion to show his
Immature, as is his custom on all similar oc-
casions. Mayor Pond was compelled to in
terfere to quiet his unruly compa;rlot, and
for time the air was decidedly sulphurous.
Nearly two whole hours were consumed in
Trangling over enc precinct, and as there
are SO to be canvassed, some idea may be
had OF the trouble ahead.
When the Board Of Election Commission
ers met at 10 o'clock, the were large num-
Der OF candidates present, including +. l.
OiBren, l.. j. WEIGH and DR.. G. c. O'Don-
EEL. There were also present Commission
ers Pond Flournoy, STROLLER and O'Brlen.
Attorney NJ. \. Dorm represented the Repub-
licand County Committee, while c. j. Ack-
erman was on hand to watch the interests of
eX-BoSs Buckley.
WRANGLING AT THE OUTSET.
At the very outset controversy arose as
To whether recount is possible before tile
official canvass begins, and Mayor Pond IA
yored proceeding with the recount at once.
carefully examined into the law in the case,
and held that there could be nO recount until
after the official result had been announced.
There could be no general recount, as that
would involve parties plaintiff and defend
ant and proceeding with reference to every
office. a recount at present lie thought i'm
possible.
II was then decided to proceed in the GUS
tomary way, and four clerks-two 10 repre-
sent each party-were named to keep tally.
Max Warschaur and w. j. kennedy were
chosen by the Republicans and Phillip Fay
ard N. t. O'ConnOr by the Democrats. DR..
ODoDne!l asked If be would lie allowed t.
supervise the canvass, and when told that
he might al point tally clerk refused TO 10
so Oh the ground that the entire proceeding
was i'll the nature of a conspiracy organized
Tor the sole purpose OF counting him cut.
THE WORK BEGINS.
Everything being declared in readiness
for the oTk 10 begin, Mayor Pond called
for the returns from the First Precinct OF
the Twenty-nInth Distrlct,iand When they
We're Upeu ed ami examined 1t was diScOY-
cred that the total vote footed up $50 instead
OF l51. N. 4. born and A. Ruetf immedi-
ately explained how the matter occurred,
and long wrangle enSued as to the UeSt
methCd ol procedure Each individual pres
ent had plan OF lis own, and as the discus
Sicn proceeded the more intricate the matter
seemed.
MIR. Dom " as of the opinion that ii was
the duty OF he commission TO correct the
errors IN The tally sheets, and in this he was
upheld by Mr.. Alderman, While Mr.. o Brien
saw 10 way out OF the difficulty but 10 ac-
Cept the ta!s as returned 10y the precinct
board, and from them hgure out the result.
Auditor Strutner seemed to be suffering
from tie effects OF an acute attack Of strabis-
nus and, as usual, could see nothing as the
others saw 1t. He displayed his loyalty to
Buckley's lost cause by insisting that the
returns from the precinct in question should
be thrown out, aud after urging the matter
III very emphatic manner made a motion
TO that effect.
a COLLISION AvERTED.
Mr.. OF Iien grew very excited over Mr..
StTUtherS mOuOn, and demanded TO know
on what grounds It was made. He was yio-
lently opposed, he said, to any such pro-
ceedlng, out before STROLLER could reply TO
HIM, Mr.. Flournoy got In with second to
the motion 10 throw it out. he favored the
throwing out of the returns because of the
inaccuracies, and us a lawyer he could see
no other course to pursue, as the commits
sion, under the statutes, clearly had no ight
To change tie tally sheets.
At this junctuIe Mr. o Brlen worked i'm.
sell up 10 a high pitch of indignation ana
denounced MIR. Suother'S motion as reYolu-
tiUnary, and asserted that no reason had
been given why the precinct should be
thrown out Mr.. Strother here sprang to
ms feet and claimed attention, but MI.
O'Brlen refused 10 yield the floor. The TWO
men glared at each other for some moments,
and pounded their respective desks in 4
most vicious manner. a personal encounter
seemed Imminent, and when Mr.. O'BIien
waved his strong right arm in the direction
of MI. Strotner that gentleman retOrted:
" Don't shake your fist at me! wont be
mumidated1
Wei, don't think you can bulldoze me-"
was the reply.
"You can't frighten mew shouted Mr.
Stroller.
Nor you me-" reioiced Mr.. O'Brien.
MAYOR POND INTERPRETERS.
Seeing that serious trouble was imminent
Mayor Pond stepped in between the two
angry men, and by his efforts succeeded i'll
restoring peace between them.
When quiet reigned once more Attorney
Dom arose and protested against the mo-
ton. He held that the commission had no
Tigut to disfranchise the voters OF precinct
because of an unmportant clerical error in
footing up the returns.
So too thought MIR. Alderman, as did also
Attorney-Generalele w. IL. II. Hart who
y as present, and who gave it as his opinion
that the commission could only report SUCH
errors as we're found and leave it Tor the
courts 10 give the proper redress to those
who were the sufferers ON that account.
To further complicate matters Mayor Pend
discovered that the returns had not been
certified to by the precinct officers, but Mr.
O'Brien held that even this was not suffi-
Gent 10 warrant the rejection. In this he
was supported by W. IL. L. Barnes.
The motion TO reject was then put and
lost, Mayor Pond voting with Mr.. O'Brien
in the negative, while Strother and FlouTnoy
voted in the affirmative.
Still dissatisfied Mr.. Strother then moved
that as there had been inaccuracies discoy-
cred, the canvassing of the precinct be de-
ierred until future time, and in spite of
RennbIIpaO nrpfpcsg this aprpp1
to, MIR. O'Brien alone voting against it,
ANOTHER PRECINCT TAKEN UP.
The returns were then sealed up and
those of the Second Precinct of the Twenty
ninth District brought out for examination.
1t was found that the officers Of election
had failed to sign the poll-list, but there was
no error discovered In the figures which
were called of. II was found that Mark
ham had received 80 votes and Pond Sc
but before the Mayor could call the names
of the candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
the irrepressibe Mr.. STROLLER was on his
feet again to announce that he would re-
fuse to sign any returns unless the add-
tons and subtractionS were verified. No
attention was paid TO his frothy vaporings
and the count was proceeded with as rapidly
as possible. 1t was found to be slow work,
and not until u 80 o'clock was the precinct
disposed Of. 1t was discovered that the
tally-sheet gave Taber, candidate for SUI
pervisor from the Eleventh Ward, ITO votes,
while the corrected returns showed only
100.
Mr. Strother then moved to adjourn until
10 o'clock this morning, and pending the
Vote the ACCESSIBILITY of securing clerks 10
verify the totals was discussed. Mr..
Strother and Mr.. FlourLoy both stated with
great emphasis that they would never-no,
never-canvass any tally-sheet which was
incorrect while Mayor Pond maintained
dignihed silence.
The commission then adjourned until 10
n'ciock thie n,nrnino