St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-09
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mittee on contested elections. decided,
| Wednesday evening, to not allow EnOch
Hidden, the Second ward contestant, a
recount of the ballots. In the first
place, they took Mr. Hidden's case out
| of his hands entirely and resolved that
he must submit to having his allega-
tons concerning mistakes in but three
| precincts heard, whereas he was pre-
nared to prove that there had been
| irregularities and errors in all seven
precincts of the Second ward. When
| they had thus scaled the case down to
the three precincts, they refused to eX-
ercise in MI Hidden's behalf that power
| with which they were vested by the city
council, the power to send tor persons
and papers. They refused 10 summon
| the witnesses upon whom he relied for
proof of his case. But they were NOT
content with that. In the face of posi-
| tive proof that there had been irregu-
larilies and mistakes and Illegal count
ing of ballots in the three selected pre-
cincts, they went further and declined
to consider his case at all.
That was one side of one election case
upon which these three Daniels ruled.
! Now for the other.
After formally disposing of the He'd
den-Barrows case yesterday morning,
| in accordance with the decision reached
| the night before, the committee took up
the Bryer VS.. BraZie contest from the
| Fifth ward. While waiting for the city
attorney to appear the case was in
formally discussed by the attorneys, the
committee and the contestants. A. ID.
Smith, Breyer's attorney, said that
when his client went into the case he
did SO relying upon certain statute
n Nhn Hi1Oi nd
opening of ballot boxes and the
counting of the votes therein, in every
contested election. But since learning
that that statute had been repealed,
there was nothing left but to rely upon
the sense of justice and fairness OF the
committee. it was only fair that the
votes in all the precincts should be
counted. One of the most specific
charges made by Breyer was that in the
Fifteenth precinct the forty-six votes
| credited to BraZie and the nineteen
credited to him should have been re-
verSed. BraZie said he was willing to
have that one precinct counted, and
would consent. if that irregularity were
found to exist, to recount OF the Whole
ward. Mr.. Breyer would not consent to
any such imposition. The,wh0le queS-
ton should not be allowed to hinge upon
that one precinct. For instance. ac-
cording to such an agreement, even If
the recount showed error on the part OF
the Judges of election, yet if they did
not show that the Brewer votes had been
credited to Brazie, then Mr.. Brazie
would refuse 10 90 any further and
allow the other precincts to be counted.
Brazie refused to consider justice, and
would go no further. The whole case
must stand or fall by that one precinct.
Mr.. Breyer thereupon announced that
he would withdraw, since the commit
Tee seemed unwilling to give him a fair
show.
Now Brazie's blood was UP. His al
dermanic dignity had been tempered
with. He painted for vindication. His
very soul yearned for recount OF that
Fifteenth precinct as a starved tomcat
yearns for piece OF sausage. Aid:
Bradish voiced the longings OF the good
Doctors heart. and it was decided to re-
count the ballots of the Fifteenth pre-
cinct. They were counted by the COM
mittee, and while the recount did not
show that the totals on alderman had
been reversed, it did show that Brewer
had received twenty-five votes, three
more than had been accredited to him.
Then AID. Smith spoke up:
Now" said he, 81 move that the
committee proceed to count all of the
votes cast in the other fourteen pre-
cincts. A discrepancy of -four votes has
been found, and if that proportion is
found in every precinct Mr.. Breyer is
elected"
Mr.. Jamison opposed this. He con-
tended that because an error had been
| found in the Fifteenth precinct it raised
no presumption of error in the others.
Mr.. Smith said that if Aid. Brazie was
disposed to do the fair thing he could
not object to all the other votes being
counted. Aid. Lackey, of the committee,
then moved that the committee proceed
| to recount the votes in the remaining
| precincts, beginning with the first. Aid.
Ingenhutt, the only other Democrat on
tie committee, seconded the motion.
Aid. Bradisn and Aid. Durham did not
indol s; it. They were in favor of adj
journiug until 2 p. M, so that they could
secure City Attorney RuSsefs attend
ance. Aid. Lackey held that inasmuch
as the committee had opened one box
and counted the ballots in one precinct,
! they were virtually compelled to go
through the entire ward, as there was
| lust as much ground for investigating
one precinct as another.
But the committee adjourned until
Up. III.
When they met in the afternoon, the
influence Of good dinner was discerni-
BILE. The Republicans seemed to have
realized that they were pushing the
czar business little too far. The late
election proved that cZariSm IS not
profitable in this land where aces are
! held in higher esteem than kings, so
| when Aid. Lackey again moved that
! the ballots cast in the remaining four
| teen precincts be counted, it was
adopted unanimously. The recount
| then began.
Until midnight the monotonous
"Breyer l, Brazie l. tally Breyer," con-
tinued City Clerk Haney read the bal
| lots and each committeeman kept a
tally sheet. In the Tenth precinct
| Brewer gained ten votes and seven were
added to his total i'll another, but all
were lost by ones, twos and threes.
| When the count was completed and
| every precinct vote 0. KID as correct,
the tallying showed that Brazie had
| received 1861 votes and Breyer 1880;
Brazie's plurality, 81. This is gain for
| Brazie of votes. While the official re-
turns gave his plurality as 6S he
never had but SO, as was discovered
| by the city clerks footings. While the
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established better feeling than would
have existed without it. The Smith
Hayne case from the Second ward alone
remains to be settled. That will go the
way of the Burrows-Hidden mat
| ter. Smith never once thought of
contesting the election until Hidden be-
| gan proceedings against Barrows. The
committee threw out the Hidden case
| and must do the same with Smiths.
Attorney Jamison told the committee
last night that he was willing to have
the Smith contest dismissed if it could
be done without prejudice. lie will
| seek relief in the courts because of some
of the rulings of some of the commits
| tee. Should he secure authority to
| have his case reopened Hidden will de-
mand that he be allowed the same
privilege.
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