Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-18

laru 10 ScfQJnlLe the OdllOtS REFERRED
}, Mr.. Hubbard said he imagined
there would be no objection and no
trouble if the Board hould prefer are
quest for them to the Judge Of the Cir.
cult Court presiding over the Part in
which the grand jury will sit, and also
make similar request to the Clerk OF
the Court. The Board, In his judgment,
had q right to see the ballots cast be-
fore declaring the result, and said if the
law had not been complied with and no
ballots had been returned there would
certainly be power in the Board to get
hold of them, rather than that the cleo
ton in district or in the
county should be invalidated. After
some discussion on this line, Mr.. Nc
Gregor moved that the Board take a
recess until this morning, and that the
election officers in the precincts In
which there was discrepancy between
the names on the poll books and the
number of ballots in the boxes be sum-
moned before the Board. This was not
seconded, but it raised the question as
to the ability of the Deputy Sheriffs TO
have the men present, In view OF the
fact that their time would be g realty
taken up with preparations for the ex-
ecution of Maier. Deputy Zane was
called in, and he stated that If he was
supplied with the list of names immedi-
ately, he would guarantee that the sum-
mons were served. Mr. McGregor then
repeated his motion in slightly diff
ferent form, calling for the summoning
Of about fifty election officers for this
morning at ten o'clock, and IL was sec
onded by Mr.. Hall and adopted.
1t was then proposed that the Board
declare the result OF the election upon
the face of the returns, in those cases
where there was no demand for re-
count, but the Republicans opposed this,
and Prosecuting Attorney Howard, the
legal advisor OF the Board, was asked
for his opinion. 1t was favorable TO
postponement of the declaration until
all the ballots had been examined or
light had been thrown upon their ma
ture by the examination Of the election
officers, and the Board accordingly took
a recess until this morning. The effect
of this is to give Mr.. Smith and other
Republicans contemplating demand
for recount an opportunity to aScer-
tain how the cat is going to jump-in
other words, they cal be guided in their
demand by the developments regarding
the sealed ballots. 1t is thought there
are something like sixty or sixty-five OF
these, and no one knows which party
would be the beneficiary should all or a
portion OF them be counted in accord
ance with the evident intent of the vo-
ter. Some of these ballots, evil
IDENTIFY, were never in the ballot
boxes, having heen laid aside by
the election officers on challenges, pro-
tests, ETC., while others must certainly
have been In the boxes, and were adj
Judged illegal or defective when tire
officers opened the boxes and counted
the vote. Its will certainly take two
days to examine the election officers
summoned, and the recount proper can
hardly be commenced before Monday
morning. This recount will necessarily
involve all the candidates for the House
of Delegates on both tickets, through
the demand made by Mr.. OKane, as
any change in the result as TO him would
almost inevitably affect all the other