The Helena independent., 1894-11-16
AS We SAID BEFORE.
SIX PoPuulsr LEGISLATORS CHOSEN,


County Commissioner Eliyur Beach AR
rived here yesterday morning. Finding
that Commissioner Muth had gone hunt
Ing and thnt Commissioner Horslsy did
not care 10 act, Mr.. Beach. as the law
provides. ip cases OF absentees, called
In County Treasurer Bardcn and Coun-
~ Assessor Beckett 10 act on the can
vasslng board. They worked from II
o'clock In the morning until after six
O'Clock In the evening. AT that time
they had opened and caused 90 be tab
ulnted the figures from an the pre-
cincts OF the county both on the capl-
tai question and on candidates for Of
flee. As II was desired To get an OIL
cial copy Of the Lewis and Clarke coun-
ty vote on the capital question In the
hands OF the secretary OF state without
delay. the board had the figures on
that added up before going to dinner.
The official vote was Helena 5,377. Ana
eonda 2s0, blank thtrty-eight; majority
for Helena b,O53 OF all votes cast
The work Of making an Official can
yass OF a county vote is n big task,
especially where there are so many
candidates being voted for. and so
many precincts to be heard from. There
were sixty-one names on the official
ballot for Lewis and Clarke, not count
ing township officers, the number Of
whom varied In the different town
ships. ranging from four TO eleven. All
these names had to be called for each
OF the thirty-nine precincts OF the coun-
~. Treasurer Barden called the fig
ures out. Deputy Clerk Clyde Tooker
kept one list, which will be the official
one, and Sidney Miller the other which
will be used as a check list. Theo.
Kleinschmldt looked over the poll
books as they were opened and verified
the figures as kept on the judges tally
sheets.
A number OF small differences were
found between the official figures and
those given TO the newspapers as the
returns after election, but they were
mostly of little consequence and did
not effect the result. The nearness of
the official figures and the copies fur
nished the newspapers speak highly OF
the care exercised by those who were
so kind as to send the returns TO the
newspapers. None OF the changes that
hut nl1lIlul ItluInS utftfHlldltu tuuHtu
any change In the list of those The In
dependent figured out elected. Two
mistakes were found in the votes given
for w. B. Thompson. In the first pre-
clnct he x t., less than given him In
the vote already announced, and In the
tenth precinct he got five less. This
made difference Of fifteen more against
Thompson and In favor OF Michael
Corbett, populist, the lowest on the
list OF men elected. and gave Corbett
twenty-nine plurality.
Several OF the candidates who were
running so close that they felt nervous
were present during the canvass
Among them were the three candidates
for county attorney, X. r. Purcell,
democrat. s A. Ballet, republican,
and T. Il. Crutcher, populist. As each
precinct was called OFF the figures on
county attorney We're taken down on
separate list from the official one. At
first one candidate would be ahead and
then another, until Purcell and Bal
liet both got a long lead OF Crutcher.
Then the returns from the populist
stronghold East Helena We're read and
as Crutcher got 1874 there TO Purcells
sixty, and Balliet's fifty-two, the three
were again travelling on nearly even
terms. After that the votes of the sew
eral precincts were small. and at one
time Purcell Id Crttcher Just one
VotA The rer"llrinp precincts increased
this to seventeen, where II remains,
electing Dick Purcell county attorney
for Lewis and Clarke for two years
. m ,isi vary next, Purcell's total was
l 7a5. crutcl ore 1, i7S. Balliet's .'iS.
Two other anxious candidates were
James $. Featherly and Harry Tllton,
who were running on the republican
ticket for auditor and assessor respec-
lively. The footings gave Featherly
III plurality for auditor and gave
Jake Fischer, the democrat candidate,
twenty-one more votes for assessor
'han Fi.ton IN elactlng the former.
As the matter stands II. b. Smith,
popullst candidate for congress, and
w. III. Hunt. republican candidate for
associate Justice OF the supreme court
have carried Lewis and Clarke county.
The men elected 10 the legislature are:
A. j. Craven and John TIorsky, republl-
cans. Joe Oter John n. Shober, John II,
Huseby. Mart Mitchell, G.. X. Brown
and Michael Corbrtt, populists.
The county officers elected are John
s. Tooker, republican, county clerk
and recorder James $. FC0thcrly re-
uhlican, county ~ II ~ \, hcury Jur-
gems. populst. sheriff Eugene ).
French, republican, county treasurer:
Ricl ard z. Pni Ill democrat. county
assessor: Miss Minnie a. Reifenrath,
republican, county superintendent Of
schools: John Workman, populist, pub
lie administrator, DR. w NJ. Bullard,
republican. coroner, Paul S. A, Blckel,
county surveyor
The official figures on the candidates for
office give the following:
CONGRESSMAN.