Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-11-17
Eiection Returns.

On Monday the return judges q the re-
cent election met 10 Port To acco 70 tast W
and make out two certificates OF The votes &C.
eciyed by each candidate. one to he forward
ed ny them to the Governor, aud the other 10
he fled in the clerks Office, which they wsre
prevented frcn doing last week on account Of
Il e poll looks from Middvtosn district BAY
lag inadvertently been locked up in tue ballot
box. Their application made to The couri 70
O en- the ballot box Of the said strict aud
to remove therefrom the Necessary poll books
had been granted by Judge Brooke and an
otter also granted upon application Of Mr
Henry W Burnham, the return judge Of that
district embodying The same request, and
further ordering that the ballots be counted
TO correct certain Irregularities alleged TO ex
lst. The FIRST order was obe! ed but the latter
not, because Of an injunction issued by direc-
tiol # Judge Crane and came over from
calvert county where he was holding court at
the instance of Mr.. Mudd, who came to Port
Tobacco with the latter, and made teturnahle
on Monday, November goth, several days at
ter the expiration of the time fixed by law in
which the return judges we're to complete
their work, and thereby preventing the posi-
bility Of 9 recount of the votes in time tor the
Judges to make up correct certificates. The
task was then begun of casting mp the vote,
but il was soon discovered that in the 9Th
district the vote US ce, tilted to by the Judges
OF election did not correspond with the vote
as entered by the tally clerks on the poll
books and the question arose among the
Judges as to how to arrive at cor
rect result The tally sheet showed that the
Democratic candidates each had received a
much larger vote than the certificates showed
a vote large enough to elect the whole ticket
except the candidate for sheriff, and by an
ANALYSIS of the vote Of the district the tally
sheet returns appeared to be most likely correct.
Before determining, however, what action to
take, and before anything was done, Mr..
Mudd filed petition with Judge Crane, ask
ing for mandamus which was
granted, to compel the judges to make oul
their certificates from the certified vote of each
district as made by the judges of the different
districts. Counsel for the judges demurred
to the petition, but it was as speedily over
ruled as it had been granted and a final order
passed by the said judge directing the Tsturr
Judges to make out their certificates in accord
ance with Mr.. Mudd's ideas as expressed il
his petition. Certificates were then made on
certifying the vote from the certificates of tn
election and as it appeared upon the tall,
sheets-the former showing the election o
four Republicans and two Democrats, and tn
latter one Republican, The candidate 70
sheriff, and Eve Democrats, which were signe'
by eight Of the judges Mr.. George W
Gray. the return judge from the 3rd district
refusing TO sign, one Of which was filed in tn
clerks office and the other forwarded to tn
Goycruor. In the afternoon Judge Crane LET
! town with Mr.. Mudd in til. direction Of Bry
antown aud after twilight the work Of tn
return judges was completed and they re
turned 10 their homes.
On Tuesday the l4tb, the day after, an
the day after the limit Of time allowed b
law in which the return judges must max
Out, their certificates, Mr.. Gray, who tef6ss
to act with his. brothe judges in o. eying u
lsw, came 10 Port Ton4cco, and signed tw
papers prepared by Mr.. $. Henry Cox 4
= ,...s,.,,o,e;s and ,,nrnorting 10 he dictated b