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

On Monday the return judges Of the re-
cent election met in Port Tobacco 10 cast rT
and make oat two certificates Of the votes re-
reiyed by each candidate, one to he forward
I'd by inem 10 the Governor, aud the other to
tie iied in the clerks office, which they wsre
prevented from doing last week on aeeoan, of
tie POLL hooks from Middletown district hay
iag inadvertently been locked up in the ballot
boz. Their application made to the court to
o en- the ballot box Of the said district aud
to remove therefrom the necessary poll books
had been granted by Judge Brooke and an
other 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.
ist. The first order was obel ed but the latter
not, because of IN injunction issued by direc-
tiol OF 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, aud made returnable
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-
biliy of recount of the votes in time fot the
judges to make up correct certificates. The
task was then begun of casting up the sote,
but il was soon discovered that 10 theihtth
district the vote US ee. titled 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 thai 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 bE an
analysis Of the vote of the district hetally
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 mandamns which was
granted, to compel the judges to make out
their certificates Gson 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 6nal order
passed by the said Judge directing the return
judges to make out their ertiicates in accord
ance with Mr.. Mudd's ideas as expressed in
his petition Certificates were then made out
certifying the vote from the certificates Of the
election and as it appeared upon the tally
sheets-the former showing the election Of
four Republicans and two Democrats, and the
latter one Republican, The candidate for
sheriff, and ave Democrats, which were signed
by eight OF the judges MIR. George W
Gray, the return Judge from the 3rd district,
refusing TO sign, one Of which was fled in the
clerks office and the other forwarded to the
Governor. In the afternoon Judge Crane left
town with Mr.. Mudd in ths difectionpof Bry-
antown and after twilight the work of the
return judges was completed and they re-
turned to their homes.
On Tuesday the l4th, the day after, and
the day after the. limit of time allowed by
| law in which the return judges must make
out their certificates, MIR. Gray. who refused
to act with his brothe. judges in oieying the
law, came TO Port Tob4cco, and signed two
papers prepared by Mr. $. Henry Cox as
l. L..