Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-11
SLOW PROGRESS.
TEDIOUS WORK OF cANvAssING THE
ELECTION RETURES.
Only Five Precincts Counted the FRS
Day-Some Changes Made and
Protests Recorded.

The Board of Supervisors yesterday be
gan the work of making an official canvass
of the returns of the late election. Before
proceeding to do so. the Board elected
Walter w. Greer and Lincoln White to
serve as special clerks. Several of thu
candidates on the different tickets were
present looking after their respective inter.
ests, or were represented By attorneys.
The return of the first precinct of the
First Supervisor District revealed several
clerical errors, the existence of which had
however, been known by candidates. The
clerks of the Canvassing Board found that
w. B. Hamilton had gained 81 votes, and
his Republican opponent, W. w. Rhoads
had lost 16, making difference of 43 in
the formers favor.
TIE same alleged error made like diff.
ference in the vote for Sheriff and Assessor,
MoMullen and Sims being the losers.
Baker, for City Justice of the Peace, lost
10 votes, and Devine gained s.
When the Board decided to return the
figures made by the caavassing clerks, Mr..
Rhoads entered a written protest thereto,
which was placed on file.
lands, the Prohibition candidate for the
Assembly, had been given by the election
clerks the votes cast for Fisher, the Demo-
cratic candidate, and an equal number
were given to Mr. Bruner, who did no, run
in that district at all.
When the noon hour arrived the Board
had not quite concluded the canvass of the
returns from The First Precinct.
After rest of an hour and half the
crowd reassembled in the Board-room, and
the clerks resumed their labors on the tally
sheets.
Before doing so, however, Supervisor
Ross raised his voice and said the Demo.
Gratis had been lecturiDg him during the
recess about the Board having two Repub-
lican clerks to do the work of cenvassing,
and no one to represent the Democratic
candidates.
Supervisor Bates intimated that the patri-
archal Cbairman of the Board was not
posted. why" said he, Lincoln White
isn't Republican,"
Isn't he?'' asked Mr.. Ross. Then what
is he?'
why" replied Bates. "he's a-a-an In
dependent, l reckon-sort of haif-Repub-
lican and half Democrat"
Everybody laughed, and the count went
on. When the clerks came TO count the
tally-nst OF the second precinct tney lOunO
no TALES at all, but after much trouble dis
covered how the totals were arrived at, and
they appeared to be generally correct.
Frank Johnson, for Recorder, was found
to have 17S votes, instead of ia, as the
total gave him.
G. G. McMEllen asked the Board to have
its minutes show that he protested against
the count of that district, as the sheets did
not have the proper system of tallies to
correspond with the totals that appeared.
A similar protest was made by Hiram
W. Johnson on behalf of William B.
Hamilton.
The tally isheet of the third precinct
showed in one place that 270 ballots had
been cast, while the sworn certificate of the
officers of election placed it at 240. 1t was
found that the precinct register, on which
adj the names of those voting were sup
posed to have been checked off, shoEed
that 254 persons had voted out Of the 290
registered. This sheet was badly mixed.
The clerks, however. we're Satisfied that
the totals were all right, and the announce
ment of the result was made by the Chair
man of the Board.