The Globe-republican., 1892-12-23
THE STATE CANVASS.

by law and proceeded with the work of
canvassing. The first snag struck was
mistake in the returns of the county
clerk of Doniphan county, and notwith-
standing the fact that it was clearly an
error, the attorney general ruled that
the board had no right either to correct
errors or call upon the county clerk for
corrected or amended returns. Under
this ruling one of the Harrison electors
lost the whole vote of Doniphan county.
When the counties Of Sedgwick and
Wilson were canvassed similar error
in the reports of the county clerks de-
prived one of the Weaver electors of the
vote intended for him in those counties.
The attorney general adhered to his
ruling in the Doniphan county case.
The result was the election of one Har-
rison elector This will, however, he
contested, and doubtless the board will
declare all the Weaver electors chosen.
Now as to the Haskell county repre-
sentative. Rosenthal was the demo-
cratic nominee and Stubbs the republi-
can. The rumors were that Rosenthal
had been elected. Rosenthal had been
boasting as to his power and how he
would exercise it in the organization of
the house and the election of United
States senator; hence the impression
prevailed that there was no doubt az to
his election.
When the board reached the Haskell
county abstract Secretary Higgins
read, "For representative Rosenthal,
1913; Stubs, 1856" The members of
the board who were comparing the vote
as read with the tabulated returns asked
Higgins to repeat the vote. Higgins
again read, "Rosenthal, 1913; Stubs,
1856" Col. W. G. Jones was sitting
right up against Higgins, watching the
canvass. Briedenthal and other pop
ulists were also around the table. Not
one of them expressed surprise Or said
q word in intimation that there must be
an error in the county clerks returns.
If they had, the result would probably
have been the same, for General Ives
would have held to his ruling, that the
board had ne authority to inquire
whether there was an error in the coun-
ty clerks returns, or to call for an
amended or corrected return.
The declaration of the board was
made and signed by all the members,
including the attorney general.
A careful examination of these re-
turns shows that the republicans had
majority Of from sixty to seventy on
each and every candidate, except on
that Stubs ran few
votes behind, and Rosenthal few votes
ahead of their tickets. If the face of
these returns had shown Rosenthal 156
and Stubs 1913, the presumption would
have been that there was an error in the
returns. But if the board we're indulg-
ing in the luxury Of Prescriptions at
all, in view Of the vote on all these Off
GERS, they could not presume that
Stubs was defeated. A gentleman of
high standing said that while he
did not know whether there was an
error in the county clerks certificate or
not, that if it came to contest
Rosenthal would lose on square, i'm
partial decision of the house; that he |
had openly and brazenly bought enough
votes to change the result, even if the
clerk had made an error
Any honest official would have de-
cided on the county clerks returns in |
preference to Rosenthal and runors.
Mr.. Rosenthal himself declares that !
he does not blame the state canvassing |
board, but he charges that the clerk OF
Haskol1 c0nnfv made a false roDOrt